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The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation
By Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Read MoreEU et al.: Joint Statement dated 12 August 2022 on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
The European Union and others, including the United States of America, have issued a joint statement urging the Russian military to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
Read MoreZelensky vows Ukraine will seek out Russian troops who target nuclear plant
Updates on the dire situation at and around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, as reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreHow Safe Are Nuclear Power Plants?
A new history reveals that federal regulators consistently assured Americans that the risks of a massive accident were “vanishingly small”—even when they knew they had insufficient evidence to prove it. By Daniel Ford, former executive director of Union of Concerned Scientists, published in The New Yorker. (The photo above shows the corrosion hole in the…
Read MoreA disaster is looming at a huge Ukrainian nuclear power plant
Washington Post Editorial Board opinion.
Read MoreShelling at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Is Raising Fears of an Accident. Here’s a Look at the Risks.
Repeated shelling inside the plant’s complex over the past seven days has stirred new concerns of a nuclear accident. As reported by the New York Times.
Read More“War Proves Nuclear is always a Weapon”
Beyond Nuclear appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Thom wrote “Does the Ukraine Nuclear Plant Under fire Show Off the Dangers of Nuclear Power? – Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist – Beyond Nuclear.” Thom interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, about the repeated military attacks on the Zaporizhzhia…
Read MoreUN nuclear watchdog warns of ‘grave hour’ amid fresh shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant
Agency chief calls for immediate end to military activity around plant, saying further ‘deeply worrying’ incidents could lead to disaster. As reported by The Guardian.
Read MoreStatement of the G7 Foreign Ministers in support of the IAEA´s efforts to promote Nuclear Safety and Security at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
As communicated via the G7 press release.
Read MoreUpdate 89 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
As reported by a United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency press release dated August 9, 2022.
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