Nuclear Power
Private companies to get weapons plutonium
Dangerous plutonium to be offered to private reactor startup companies in an unprecedented move that crosses a non-proliferation line held for decades In yet another alarming development coming out of the White House, private corporations proposing risky and untested startup reactors are to be given access to plutonium, the trigger component in a nuclear bomb. …
Read MoreUrge Congress to attend!
Please let your members of Congress know about this important briefing by experts on Capitol Hill and urge them to send a staffer to attend and learn more. Call the Congress switchboard to reach your senators and representatives: (202) 224-3121. Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service present an expert briefing on nuclear energy…
Read MoreDrone danger
Drones are everywhere on the modern battlefield, and autonomous armed drones are coming. Some have already struck at nuclear power plant sites in Ukraine, Russia and even the UAE — not technically at war. Missiles have bombarded Iran’s nuclear facilities. All this makes the likelihood of a major nuclear disaster greater, and the outcome infinitely…
Read MoreNukes and cancer: proximity associated with deaths
In the latest study from Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, proximity to nuclear power reactors was associated with elevated mortality from breast, colon, and lung cancers. Examining data from 2000 to 2020, almost 40,000 female deaths and 40,000 male deaths were estimated to be attributable to this proximity. Lung cancer accounted for most…
Read MoreWebinars upcoming on No To Nuclear
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE Transatlantic Dialogue is an initiative that joins activists primarily from North America and the United Kingdom in discussion about nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Join the conversation on Tuesday, May 26 when Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explores the stories in her book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives,…
Read MoreCorporate greenwashing is rampant
This week on Beyond Nuclear International, we republish a searing article by UK climate campaigner and longtime thought leader in this space, Jonathon Porritt. If we are to truly get ‘beyond nuclear’, dispensing once and for all with nuclear power and fossil fuels, we must avoid a corporate green new deal. What’s in the way…
Read MoreThe nuclear Labubu? Every governor’s got to have one
Why are US governors across the country chasing after new reactors as if they are the latest fad toy, a kind of nuclear Labubu? They are falling all over each other to get them like obsessive parents outside a toy store at dawn. New reactors will be over-priced, a longtime coming, and fizzle out quickly.…
Read MoreNew nuclear renaissance? Same as the old nuclear renaissance but not an actual renaissance
The promise of a new nuclear renaissance is about the same as the promise of the last one. Big on aspiration, low on likely delivery, Watch our video. (Headline photo of Botticelli painting republished under a CC BY 2.0 licence)
Read MoreAre Trump’s nuclear plans illegal?
13 organizations, including Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information & Resource Service, have filed comments to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, suggesting Trump’s nuclear “orders” may violate long-standing legislation The so-called “Rubber-Stamp Rule”, an effort by the Trump administration to “Make America Nuclear Again”, violates key components of the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) and Energy Reorganization…
Read MoreTen reasons to reject nuclear power
In Beyond Nuclear executive director Linda Pentz Gunter’s new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — she delivers a compelling indictment of every aspect of the nuclear power industry and its connections to nuclear weapons. In the book’s appendix, you will find a more succinct list…
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