Nuclear Power
Fukushima fish a dicey diet for U.S. military
Why is the U.S. buying potentially cancer-causing Fukushima fish to serve service members and their families stationed in Japan? This is particularly ironic, given President Biden’s focus on admirable health initiatives that strive to understand and prevent environmental exposures, like the Cancer Moonshot. The United Nations and several scientists have voiced continuing concern about the…
Read MoreStanding room only at Nuclear-Free Future Awards
It was standing room only at the 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards and ‘Hope for the Future’ art exhibition held in New York City on November 28. The joint event, combining the long-standing Awards with an art exhibit focused on work by youth from the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, took place at the…
Read MoreTriple nuclear plan lands with a thud
The Declaration to Triple Global Nuclear Capacity by 2050 made at COP28 has had its balloon further punctured by its post-COP reception. Only 22 countries — and just 17 with existing nuclear power programs as Sharon Squassoni points out in her excellent numbers crunch in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — lined up to…
Read More“The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb,” anti-nuclear teach-ins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 11, 2023
On Monday, September 11, 2023, in conjunction with a visit by Veterans for Peace’s historic anti-nuclear sail boat “The Golden Rule,” a coalition of groups held an all-day long teach-in on nuclear issues in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Entitled “The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb,” the teach-in featured many speakers on nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and radioactive…
Read MorePlutonium time bomb: A shocking exposé on Sellafield
The UK daily newspaper, The Guardian, has been running a year-long investigation into that country’s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing and waste site with some shocking revelations. These include that the facility, home to the largest stockpile of plutonium on Earth, has been hacked by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, something the UK government…
Read MoreBulletin of Atomic Scientists article “COP28 and the nuclear energy numbers racket”
The December 13, 2023 issue of Bulletin of Atomic Scientist’s article by Dr. Sharon Squassoni on the “COP28 and the nuclear energy numbers racket.”
Read MoreWorld Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023
Nuclear industry continues in decline despite hype of a “renaissance” “Truth has rarely been a friend to nuclear power and for that reason it hasn’t always been easy to find accurate information about the industry’s vital signs. This is why the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) is essential reading for anyone trying to understand…
Read MoreEnvironmental Coalition Intervenes Against Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart
[Image above: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] See the December 6, 2023 press release by Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future. See the legal and technical documents submitted to NRC on December 5, 2023, below: PETITION TO INTERVENE AND…
Read MoreThe long struggle for cleanup on Navajo land
A good 12-minute investigative piece by ABC News looks at the toxic legacy of uranium mines on Navajo land, the struggle for cleanup and efforts to ensure no new uranium mines are ever opened there. (Headline photo of Larry King; still from ABC News report.)
Read MoreResisting 20 More Years at Perry
Beyond Nuclear has joined with the Ohio Nuclear-Free Network to challenge Energy Harbor’s (formerly, FirstEnergy Nuclear) application for a 20-year license extension at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, on the Lake Erie shore in Ohio, northeast of Cleveland (pictured above). If approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the 20-year extension would allow Perry…
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