Waste Transportation
Video/fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport
Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called consolidated interim storage facilities), as well as such EJ communities also burdened by highly radioactive waste’s transportation along the…
Read MoreNevadan Republican U.S. Senate candidate has supported high-level radioactive waste dumping, and even reprocessing, at Yucca Mountain
[Aerial photo of Yucca Mountain, Nevada in Newe Sogobia, the Western Shoshone homeland.] As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Sam Brown advocated for disposing of irradiated nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as well as reprocessing it there. The article includes an audio recording of Brown’s 2022 comments. He is the likely Republican nominee…
Read MoreOral Arguments, Beyond Nuclear v. NRC: Report Back
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, southeastern New Mexico. The design features New Mexico’s state colors of gold and turqoise, the Zia Pueblo Sun symbol, and the shape of the state.] On March 5th, opponents appealing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of Holtec International’s license application for highly…
Read More10 years since “impossible” WIPP leak
[Image of smoke billowing from the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a repository for nuclear weapons complex transuranic waste) underground in February 2014. This industrial fire — caused by an unmaintained vehicle in the underground — led to a mass evacuation of underground WIPP workers. Around two-dozen were hospitalized due to smoke inhalation, including one…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC: our day in court against Holtec’s CISF in NM!
[Tee shirt design, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES), southeastern New Mexico.] After many long, hard-fought years, Beyond Nuclear will finally get its day in court against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of the construction and operation license for the single largest high-level radioactive waste dump on Earth…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC
[Tee shirt design, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico.] On January 22, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA, filed our PETITIONER BEYOND NUCLEAR’S FINAL OPENING BRIEF, and REPLY BRIEF, in our federal appeal against the U.S.…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC, Deferred Joint Appendix published
[Tee shirt graphic design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico] CISF UPDATE Second Highest Court in the Land Our federal appeal against Holtec’s high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) targeting New Mexico is coming to a head, after many long years. On January 16, the…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC, Initial Replies opposing Holtec’s CISF in NM
[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, southeastern New Mexico] On December 22, 2023, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel, Diane Curran in Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein in Atlanta, GA, submitted our Initial Reply Brief in the case Beyond Nuclear versus U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The federal appeal is before the D.C.…
Read More“The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb,” anti-nuclear teach-ins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 11, 2023
On Monday, September 11, 2023, in conjunction with a visit by Veterans for Peace’s historic anti-nuclear sail boat “The Golden Rule,” a coalition of groups held an all-day long teach-in on nuclear issues in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Entitled “The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb,” the teach-in featured many speakers on nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and radioactive…
Read MoreState of Texas v. ISP CISF
On December 15, 2023, the State of Texas filed its RESPONSE TO PETITIONS FOR REHEARING EN BANC, opposing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Justice Department, and Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s appeal on banc to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana. NRC, DOJ, and ISP appealed en banc (that…
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