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Russian soldiers who invaded Ukraine in 2022 and occupied Chornobyl’s radioactive zone are dying
April 26, 2024. Thousands of Russian soldiers in the initial invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 who were intent on taking Kyiv by force and occupation, only made it as close as the intensely radioactive zone of the April 26, 1986 Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe. They set up their camps and entrenched into the radioactive…
Read MoreNational security risks grow with new nuclear energy
“Proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, sabotage, coercion and military operations – these [national security] risks associated with nuclear energy can all be expected to grow as countries seek to implement their new nuclear energy objectives, according to a new report [“New Nuclear Energy: Assessing the National Security Risks,”] published today by George Washington University’s…
Read MoreMedia statement: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Holtec/Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Public Meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan
{Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shutdown Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear re: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC)…
Read MoreThe government is spending billions to restart Michigan’s Palisades reactor. Why?
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] An op-ed published on April 16, 2024 in the Detroit Free Press, written by Roger Rapoport. Rapoport hosted a recently published, four-part podcast interview with Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a 32-year watchdog on the Palisades…
Read MoreEmergency Enforcement Petition at Palisades
{“Burning Money” image design by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article about the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney so-called nuclear power “renaissance” (more truthfully, a relapse!) at that time.} [Update: Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future made an audio recording of the one hour…
Read MoreNCAC to host IUFF in Vegas!
Ian Zabarte, Secretary of Native Community Action Council, has issued a press release about hosting the International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 30 to May 1, 2024.
Read MoreSystemic cover-up: New book profiles radiation risks and scientists
The Scientists Who Alerted us to Radiation’s Dangers by Ian Fairlie, PhD and Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers, MS, has just been published by The Ethics Press. The book profiles 23 radiation scientists over the previous half-century or so, who revealed that radiation risks were higher than thought, but who were victimized by governments and the…
Read MoreWebinar: Harms from uranium mining
WEBINAR: URANIUM MINING Harm to Indigenous communities Beyond Nuclear and the UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, will co-host a webinar on April 11, from 1:30pm-2:30pm Eastern US time on the harm to communities — most often Indigenous — from uranium mining. Carletta Tilousi, from the Havasupai Tribal Council —Guardians of the Grand Canyon will talk…
Read MoreOutrageous Nuclear Bailouts
Nuclear Hotseat #667: Outrageous Nuclear Bailouts — $14+ Billion of YOUR Tax Dollars & Counting! – Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Specialist Kevin Kamps [The featured interview begins just after the 22 minute mark of the audio recording.] {Image credit: Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an…
Read MoreGAO excoriates NRC for abandonment of climate crisis licensing and oversight at US reactors
On April 2, 2024, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released an extensive report, “NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change” (GAO-24-106326). U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), both devout supporters of nuclear power expansion, asked GAO to review US energy infrastructure…
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