Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation, Feb. 28, 11am ET

Announcement from Susan Schuurman, Communications Manager, New Mexico Environmental Law Center: IACHR to Host Hearing on Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation–Feb. 28th at 11am EST/9am MST IACHR GRANTS THEMATIC HEARING ON IMPACTS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’  HUMAN RIGHTS FROM URANIUM EXPLOITATION Historic Hearing to be Held in Washington, D.C. Weds, Feb. 28th…

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NUKESPEAK: “Clean” hydrogen from nuclear?!

[Image: Front cover of the 1983 book NUKESPEAK, republished with a new introduction post-Fukushima.] Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave, he could be hooked up to a turbo-generator and qualify for clean energy production tax credits (a paraphrase of a 2006 joke by then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Ed Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts), about DOE nuclear…

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DU in Ukraine

The United States plans to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) munitions as part of a US aid package. DU is also used in tank armor. The U.S. contends that there is no health threat even though DU is both a toxic heavy metal and radioactive, could pose a threat to troops from both Ukraine…

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Marine expert disses dumping

According to marine expert Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Japan and TEPCO have “been only partially successful and only partially transparent” as they begin dumping some 350 million gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. The water was contaminated by direct contact with the melted radioactive cores of the ruined…

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The sordid history of Trinity’s uranium fuel

In addition to the impact the first atomic explosion, Trinity, had on communities near where the bomb was detonated, it also had impact on the uranium mining communities where its fuel came from, including the Congo in Africa. Two-thirds of the uranium for Trinity came from a 24-story deep mine in Katanga, called Shinkolobwe. The…

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65 groups resist DOE’s HALEU availability program

65 organizations, including Beyond Nuclear, commented on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) program. They expressed deep concerns about: environmental contamination of already heavily-contaminated low-income communities, as in and around Portsmouth, Ohio; nuclear weapons proliferation risks; etc. See the coalition comment letter, here. The letter was spearheaded by attorney Terry Lodge,…

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New Mexico: Radioactive catastrophe commemorations

Beyond Nuclear was honored to participate in both the Church Rock uranium spill (July 16, 1979) and Trinity atomic bomb blast (July 16, 1945) commemorations last weekend in New Mexico. At the Red Water Pond Road Community on the Church Rock Chapter of the Navajo/Diné Nation, Beyond Nuclear joined many other groups in co-sponsoring, and…

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Federal court panel rejects HALEU appeal, but another opening remains

On November 15, 2022, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected an appeal brought by Beyond Nuclear and the Ohio Nuclear-Free Network challenging the production of High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Portsmouth, Ohio site. HALEU would, supposedly, fuel “advanced” reactor…

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