Nuclear Power
Risks around Ukraine’s nukes grow
Just this week, we learn of yet more shelling all too close to the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, caught up in the most extensive fighting taking place in the southeast region of the country. As we approach one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, the risks to Ukraine’s 15…
Read MorePress Release: Environmental Coalition to Energy Secretary Granholm: Again Reject Massive Bailout Scheme at Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Daisee Francour, Communications Director, Indigenous Environmental Network, [email protected], (415) 312-5958; Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216; Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441; Diane D’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, [email protected], (301) 270-6477 ext. 3. Environmental Coalition…
Read MoreGot war? Buy more nuclear power plants!
The Ukraine energy ministry (pictured in a recent meeting) has announced, as war has thrust its nuclear power plants into the jaws of radiological disaster, that it has ordered two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors for the Khmelnytskyi nuclear site. The announcement absurdly suggested that the reactors could be completed and running by 2030-2032 and would…
Read MoreEnvironmental Coalition to Energy Secretary Granholm: Again Reject Massive Bailout Scheme at Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor
Restarting Dangerously Age-Degraded Nuke Would Risk Health, Safety, Security, and Environment, Watch-Dogs Warn See the letter, endorsed by 115 organizations (31 in Michigan) and 179 individuals (including 49 Michiganders), here. (A PDF of the letter can be emailed to you as well — simply send request to [email protected].) See our press release, here.
Read MoreU.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denies Beyond Nuclear/Ohio Nuclear-Free Network en banc appeal against HALEU
On January 17, 2023, the 11 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit published an ORDER denying Beyond Nuclear and Ohio Nuclear-Free Network’s appeal en banc (to the full membership of the Circuit Court) in their National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lawsuit against rushed generation of HALEU at the…
Read MoreNot so good vibrations
The two reactors under construction at the Vogtle nuclear power plant site in Georgia are already years behind. Originally expected to cost $14 billion with the first unit, Vogtle 3, anticipated to come on line in 2016, neither are finished. The cost is now likely to exceed $30 billion. Over the years there have been…
Read MoreFossil to fission? The latest step backward on climate
This week on Beyond Nuclear International, we look at the latest bad scheme from the US Department of Energy — and one that we, the taxpayers will have to pay for. It’s called Coal to Nuclear — or C2N — and aims to convert closed coal power plants into “new” nuclear power plants (most likely…
Read MoreNRC closes door on Comanche public meetings
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: Aging nuclear reactors become increasingly dangerous and prone to breakdowns and radiation releases. Comanche Peak nuclear power plant’s two nuclear reactors in Somervell County, Texas, should be retired, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering letting them run for 20 additional years, until 2050. Heading the fight to stop…
Read MoreNuclear felon to be sentenced, Feb. 22 – in charge of construction of VC Summer nuclear reactor debacle
Message sent by Tom Clements of Savannah River Site Watch: Nuclear felon in charge of construction of VC Summer nuclear reactor debacle to be sentenced, Feb. 22, 2023 If you’re interested in what happens to the felons who perpetrated fraud in the failed project to construct two AP1000 nuclear reactors in South Carolina, a…
Read MoreCelebrating “Unsung Heroes,” the winners of Beyond Nuclear’s Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud Award
[Portrait of Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud, by Robert Del Tredichi, from his 1980 book The People of Three Mile Island.] Judith Johnsrud (1931-2014) was a founding board member of Beyond Nuclear. She also co-founded Nuclear Information and Resource Service, as well as the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power. One of her many claims to fame…
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