Nuclear Power
IAEA fairy tales exposed in Brussels
More than 600 organizations from around the world signed a declaration condemning the IAEA and its Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, and 40 organizations were represented at a counter demonstration there to expose the fairy tales being spun inside the conference. Counterpunch also featured a Beyond Nuclear oped and Beyond Nuclear handed out a nuclear…
Read MoreNew Backgrounders about Palisades & Big Rock Point!
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published three new backgrounders about the closed for good Palisades atomic reactor (Covert Township, near South Haven), and its sibling closed reactor site, the decommissioned Big Rock Point (Hayes Township,…
Read MoreNRC Cites Holtec for Improper Use of Decommissioning Trust Funds
Holtec Decommissioning International has misspent money from the decommissioning trust funds at all four nuclear plants it owns, using it to pay for activities like parades and softball games when federal regulations restrict the use to decommissioning of the reactors and cleaning up the contaminated sites. As reported by Christine Legere in the Provincetown Independent…
Read MoreFukushima disaster not over
A statement from Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Tokyo: On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, occurred off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. This massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami set off a severe accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was rocked…
Read MoreFollow the money
From Libbe HaLevy, host of Nuclear Hotseat (pictured at the 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards by Adam Stoltman): Want to know how to stop nukes? Follow the money – and then take it away from the nuclear industry. This week we talk with Mary Beth Gallagher. She is Director of Engagements for Domini Impact Investments, a…
Read MoreSenate approves RECA extension but will the House?
The U.S. Senate last week voted in favor of expanding coverage included under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in a 69-30 vote after the expanded RECA amendment was first passed under and then stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act last summer by a conference committee of senators and representatives. The RECA expansion act…
Read MoreRemembering Fukushima
This week on Nuclear Hotseat, it’s the annual Fukushima Anniversary Special: VOICES FROM JAPAN. This year, host Libbe HaLevy and her guests consider earthquake dangers to Japan’s nuclear reactors. In addition to an update on Fukushima at 13, the program focuses on the January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake that shook the two Shika nuclear…
Read MoreShould Palisades Nuclear Plant Be Brought Back to Life?
Sierra Club Michigan Chapter blog. It is the largest environmental organization in Michigan, with 150,000 members.
Read MoreIAEA fraud in Brussels
On March 21, 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency will host a Nuclear Energy Summit for world leaders and other officials at the expo center (pictured) in Brussels, Belgium. This follows the announcement at the COP28 climate summit last December to triple global nuclear capacity by 2050. This is an absurd fantasy, too late, too expensive,…
Read MorePrice-Anderson Act renewal hidden from public
ADVANCE Nuclear Act of 2023 (HR6544) with Price-Anderson renewal for 40 years passes US House floor vote Bipartisan support to extend severe accident liability protection to “inherently safe” new reactors? The “Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act”, also known as the “Price-Anderson Act” (PAA), is moving for renewal by Congress. The federal law to shield the…
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