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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Erwin Citizens Awareness Network Questions NFS Nuclear Weapons Project

ERWIN CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK, INC. (ECAN) P.O. Box 1152 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Media Contacts: Linda Cataldo Modica-ECAN President, 423-676-2925 Barbara O’Neal-ECAN Vice President, 423-928-0400 Terry Lodge-ECAN Attorney, 419-205-7084 For Immediate Release: November 7, 2022   Erwin Citizens Awareness Network Questions NFS Nuclear Weapons Project Opposes NRC Licensing of Bomb-grade Uranium Deal at BWXT Subsidiary in…

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Ohio Nuclear-Free Network & Beyond Nuclear v. HALEU

At 10am Eastern Time on October 13, 2022, the Ohio Nuclear-Free Network and Beyond Nuclear had their day in court against HALEU — High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium. Listen to the audio recording of the oral arguments. Our case begins at the 31 minute, 10 second mark of the audio recording, and continues for the better…

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Children exposed. Our in-depth look

A peer-reviewed article by Cindy Folkers and Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, has been published in the British Medical Journal, Pediatrics Open. The article looks at how past and present regulations on radioactivity released from the nuclear power sector have never taken into account those potentially most sensitive—women, pregnant women and especially children. Children…

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Japan regulator OKs water dump

Plan to Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators The discharge could release a number of radioactive isotopes into the Pacific Ocean, critics say By Julia Conley, Common Dreams Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for…

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A 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.…

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