Centralized Storage
Trump Fires NRC Commissioner Who Chaired Agency Under Biden
[Photo of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.] The dismissal came after President Trump signed several executive orders aimed at cutting safety regulations for nuclear power plants. As reported by the New York Times. That said, NRC Commissioner Hanson consistently voted against the public interest, including against health, safety, and environmental…
Read MoreThe Heart of a New Military Paradigm: Anduril’s AI Drone Warfare and a Worsening Nuclear Waste Catastrophe
Message from Patricia Marida of Ohio Nuclear-Free Network: The Heart of a New Military Paradigm: Anduril’s AI Drone Warfare and a Worsening Nuclear Waste Catastrophe 1 hour 40 minutes on YouTube. Many kudos to Jason and Terry for their excellent analyses. Kudos also to Kat Finneran from the Buckeye Environmental Network who organized and facilitated…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKES?! Palisades Precedent, Three Years On
On May 20, 2022, then owner of Palisades atomic reactor in southwest Michigan, Entergy, closed it for good. Holtec took over, supposedly to decommission it, on June 28, 2022. But decommissioning was a lie. By July 5, 2022, Holtec applied to the U.S. Department of Energy for many billions of dollars in bailouts, to restart…
Read MoreTRUMP v. EARTH: EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?!
TRUMP v. EARTH EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?! President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on April 8th, overriding state laws that oppose nuclear facilities such as radioactive waste dumps, atomic reactors, uranium mines, mills, enrichment, etc. For example, Texas and New Mexico have very hard-won state laws prohibiting highly radioactive waste Consolidated Interim…
Read MoreDEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps!
DEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps! Thanks to very generous donors, we have raised $3,500 in matching funds for legal work to block two high-level radioactive waste dumps in the Southwest, Interim Storage Partners’ in Texas, and Holtec’s in New Mexico. Please donate today and your gift will be doubled. Since February, we have…
Read MoreCISFs@SCOTUS: Arguments Over “Nuking” Permian
[The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) as composed June 30, 2022 to present. Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett,…
Read MoreListen live, Wed., March 5, 10am ET: CISFs@SCOTUS!
[Protestors speak out against Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission environmental scoping public comment hearings in Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], 240-462-3216 Stephen Kent, media consultant, [email protected], 914-589-5988 Source: Beyond…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear annual report
The Beyond Nuclear Annual Report for 2024, a brief overview of some of the highlights of our work last year, is now available for download here. The annual report focuses on our work to stop extreme reactor license renewals; to draw attention to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s reckless decision to ignore the likely impacts of…
Read MoreAmicus Briefs opposing CISFs filed at SCOTUS
[Photo of NRC environmental scoping public comment meeting in Andrews, TX in Feb. 2017, re: Waste Control Specialists’ (later renamed Interim Storage Partners) CISF license application, compliments of No Nuclear Waste Aqui and SEED Coalition.] Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 was the deadline for opponents of so-called “Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities” (CISFs) to submit Friend of…
Read MoreCISFs@SCOTUS: Fasken, Texas Submit Briefs
[Photo from NRC’s Feb. 2017 environmental scoping meeting in Andrews, TX for the ISP CISF, compliments of No Nuclear Waste Aqui.] Fasken Land & Minerals filed its Brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), by the Jan. 15 deadline. So too did the State of Texas. Our strange bedfellow allies, a fossil…
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