Publications
Carbon-14: Another underestimated danger from nuclear power reactors
There are a number of radionuclides released from nuclear energy facilities. This paper highlights carbon-14 for a number of reasons: Carbon-14 is radioactive and is released into air as methane and carbon dioxide. Before 2010, carbon-14 releases from nuclear reactors were virtually ignored in the United States. Today only estimates are required and only under…
Read MoreA map of our nuclear nightmare
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are inextricably linked, and that link began when the first gram of uranium ore was removed from the earth. Contrary to Indigenous beliefs, which insist that uranium ore must be left in the ground, the very people who cautioned against digging it up were forced to do this very work.…
Read MoreThe false promise of small modular reactors
Download and reprint the Beyond Nuclear pamphlet on why small modular reactors are too expensive, too small, too late, technically unproven, proliferation friendly, and irrelevant for climate change. Graphic: U.S. Government Accountability Office from Washington, DC, United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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