Nuclear Power
Webinar: No to Nuclear
NUCLEAR DISCRIMINATION Join Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear in discussion about her newly published book No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War in a webinar hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action on April 14, 7pm Eastern (US) and moderated by Chris Nord, vice-president of the Citizens Awareness Network. Linda’s book…
Read More“No Kings” / “No Nukes” Sat. 03/28/2026
PROTEST! MARCH 28, 2026 IS “NO KINGS DAY” and “NO NUKES” DAY 47 th COMMEMORATION OF THE THREE MILE ISLAND DISASTER The Trump Administration, by decree, is poised to “unleash” a prohibitively expensive, dangerous and expanded nuclear power empire to speed up licensing, construction and deployment by drastically cutting federal safety regulations, security and licensing…
Read MoreThe dark side of reactors on the moon
As Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter warns in her new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — there are lunatic plans afoot to send nuclear-powered rockets to Mars, using the moon as a launching pad. On March 24, NASA announced plans “to launch robotic landers…
Read MoreNo to Nuclear. Get your copy!
New book looks at the human stories along the uranium chain and the true impacts of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and the links between them No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War by Beyond Nuclear’s founder Linda Pentz Gunter (pictured), is now available to order from Pluto Press.…
Read MoreRolls-Royce rip-off
Rolls-Royce, perhaps best known for its luxury cars has a new unaffordable project in the works — small modular reactors (SMR). The company has entered the commercial nuclear reactor market, proposing its own SMR design — which, at 470 megawatts, isn’t actually very small at all. Many of Britain’s old Magnox reactors, now all permanently…
Read MoreScottish Labour on the nuclear take?
Rob Edwards, writing in The Ferret, his investigative online news platform, has revealed that the push by the Scottish Labour Party to reverse a ban in Scotland on new nuclear plants, is funded by a PR company heavily invested in the pro-nuclear agenda. “Scottish Labour accepted a donation from a lobbying firm linked to a…
Read MoreDeep Fission to get Deep Environmental review?
Mixing the words “exemptions, exclusions” and “nuclear safety regulations” sends a dire warning. On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed four Executive Orders relating to sweeping federal policy changes that fast-track new US nuclear power commercial development and deployment nationally and globally. This included the signing of White House Executive Order 14299 “Deploying…
Read MoreNRDC lends its support to restart closed reactor
Natural Resources Defense Council supports the proposed restart of Iowa’s permanently closed Duane Arnold nuclear power station on assurances of adequate public safety upgrades to a Fukushima-style reactor from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission In a disappointing reversal of its previously critical stance toward nuclear power and especially the dangerously flawed 1960s vintage GE Mark…
Read MoreThe never-ending legacy of Fukushima
Living free from exposure to radiation: a fundamental human right A statement by Akiko Morimatsu In order to avoid exposure to radiation caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident which occurred in 2011, I still continue living in Osaka today, as an “internally displaced person*” with my two minor children. Immediately after the accident, we,…
Read MoreNRC buckles to White House and licenses dangerous TerraPower reactor
The following is the press statement released by Beyond Nuclear today on the decision by all five NRC commissioners to accede to pressure from the White House to fast-track reactor designs that have been clearly flagged by scientists as highly dangerous. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license of dangerous new reactor risks lives Beyond Nuclear decries NRC…
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