New radiation levels at Chornobyl?

Greenpeace International Press Release Near the ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, an international team of radiation experts led by Greenpeace Germany is examining abandoned Russian positions for radioactive contamination. Trenches and dugouts were built by Russian soldiers during their occupation of the Chornobyl site in March. About 600 soldiers were deployed there. The…

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Tepco executives must pay

From The Japan Times: “In a historic first, the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay ¥13.32 trillion ($97 billion) to the company for damage caused by the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, which…

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How nuclear got in the EU Taxonomy

An update from Günter Wippel, uranium-network.org The EU Taxonomy is a classification scheme created by the European Union to label certain activities and investments in those activities as ‘sustainable’. The attempt of the European Commission to put nuclear power generation as well as (fossil) gas into the category of ‘sustainable’ investments was extremely controversial within…

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‘Significant harm’

Nuclear power can’t avoid harm to environment despite inclusion under ‘Taxonomy’ The European Parliament has chosen to include nuclear power and gas under the European Commission’s Taxonomy Delegated Act. This effectively — and absurdly — classifies nuclear power and gas as environmentally sustainable economic activities. Inclusion in the Taxonomy theoretically allows nuclear and gas access…

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2016 report by Bob Alvarez, addressing cost impacts of pre-disposal for large — and potentially even larger — inventory of spent nuclear fuel at Diablo Canyon nuclear station

From an email sent by Bob Alvarez on July 7, 2022: Dear All– [Below] is a report I wrote for FOE in 2016 addressing the cost impacts of pre-disposal for the large and potentially even larger inventory of spent nuclear fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear station. According to the study’s summary: “Spent nuclear fuel…

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Public Stonewalled in Holtec Takeover of Palisades and Big Rock Point Atomic Reactor Sites: Entergy Confirms License Transfer; No NRC Public Hearings Held

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Terry Lodge, legal counsel, Toledo, OH, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Takoma Park, MD, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Bette Pierman, President, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Benton Harbor, MI, (269) 369-3993, [email protected] Iris…

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