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Householder gets 20 years in nuclear bribery racket
Breaking news from the Columbus Dispatch: “Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a nearly $60 million illegal bribery scheme that fueled his return to political power. “Once one of the most powerful politicians in Ohio, Householder is now a convicted felon, guilty of racketeering conspiracy…
Read More43 Groups to Michigan State Legislators: Oppose $300 Million Bailout to Restart Closed Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor
Organizations Cite Astronomical Expense and Extreme Risk of Unprecedented Scheme See the letter, here. See the press release, here. Also, see a full page paid advertisement by the Alliance to Halt Fermi 3, published in the Lansing State Journal on June 28, 2023.
Read MoreExploring Tritium Dangers
Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides, by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., uses the tritium pollutant, which forms radioactive water, to illustrate the risks of taking any radioisotope into the human body. Tritium easily crosses the placenta (the book makes clear it is not the only radioisotope that does so) and can…
Read MoreNuclear fantasies block climate action
A network of groups across Canada has announced the launch of the SMR Education Task Force to share under-reported facts about small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) with members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We begin with the latest report from Canada Energy Regulator (CER). This federal document, called Canada’s Energy Future, projects that enough new nuclear reactors (SMRs) will…
Read MoreMore trouble at Vogtle
The nuclear drumbeaters ignore stories like this latest setback out of Georgia because the inconvenient truth of nuclear power is that it is NOT reliable, is far too slow and expensive and of course comes with a myriad of safety problems and no solution to the radioactive waste it generates. The only US flagship for…
Read MoreFusion project a hot mess
Billed as a panacea energy source for the world, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a fusion technology first conceived of in the 1980s and formally begun in 2006, is billions of dollars over budget and years behind in construction. How much more it will cost and how long it will take no one is…
Read MoreFight back on nuke propaganda — here’s how
We are facing a saturation propaganda campaign from the pro-nuclear lobby claiming that nuclear power is a climate solution. It’s time for all of us to respond. To make it easier, Beyond Nuclear has provided a series of Talking Points addressing this topic. In addition to demonstrating how continuing with nuclear power impedes climate chaos…
Read More“New” Vogtle reactors already obsolete
From Energy Live News: “In the first months of 2023, the US newly added utility-scale solar and wind energy installations surpassed the capacity of the newly operational Vogtle-3 nuclear reactor, which took nearly 14 years to construct. “That’s according to recent analysis conducted by the SUN DAY Campaign, based on data released by the Federal Energy…
Read MoreJapan tests radioactive water discharge
On June 12, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began testing the discharge system it intends to use to release radioactive water into the Pacific ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site. It used regular, uncontaminated water for the test, which was discharged through an under-sea tunnel system. TEPCO will spend two weeks testing…
Read MoreConsent-based or bribery?
The US Department of Energy on June 9 announced it will direct $26 million to “groups of university, nonprofit, and private-sector partners” who will help communities decide that they want to be the recipients of the country’s irradiated reactor fuel. Having abjectly failed to find any safe, long-term radioactive waste management “solution” — possibly because…
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