Nuclear Power
Webinar: 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…
Read MoreContamiNATION: New report examines the unevenness of U.S. radiation compensation regime
Dave Lochbaum, former Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and a nuclear engineer by training, has published a new paper ContamiNATION: How the US Nuclear Weapons Program Harmed Thousands of Americans and Why Those Americans Had to Fight for Decades to Receive Compensation for that Undue Harm, examining…
Read MoreBiden approves extension of Price-Anderson Act
Congress demonstrates no confidence in new reactor design claims of “inherent safety” with PAA 40-year expansion to 2065 According to the nuclear industry and it champions, atomic power has suddenly changed its spots, at least on paper, to become “inherently safe.” We recognize it as part of a larger orchestrated illusion to rebrand a new,…
Read MorePress Release–THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {As of mid-May, 2024, two more podcast episodes have been added, in addition to the ones discussed below. The two newest episodes include an interviewed conducted by Roger Rapoport with Stanford U. professor Mark Jacobson, and another…
Read MoreTHE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: A Podcast about Palisades, Featuring Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps
See the press release here. The first six episdoes of the podcast, as of mid-May 2024, can be accessed at the following three sites: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door-series/id1745885298 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/cc12cc90-0d2d-4bce-8a82-96b43ee7f2b7/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades A Podcast…
Read MoreFinancial world rejects nuclear
Despite all the fanfare and hot air at the heavily promoted March 21 Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, representatives from the 30 countries in attendance, along with their host, the International Atomic Energy Agency, got an abrupt wake-up call from a panel of financial representatives who told them nuclear was their “last” choice and the…
Read MoreBelgian waffle
The IAEA and 30 countries that met in Brussels on March 21, spun false nuclear fairy tales, then issued a suitably “solemn pledge” to expand nuclear power, effectively announcing their own funeral. Many European groups protested in Brussels at the expo center where the summit was held (see headline photo). Press release from US groups:…
Read MoreNuclear boosterism has gotten reckless
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse at the time.] Today’s misguided focus on nuclear power is diverting us from renewables, storage and efficiency, hobbling us in our race against…
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