Yucca Mountain
“To Use A Mountain” (Yucca/NTS doc film)
[Yucca Mountain and the Nevada (Nuclear Weapons) Test Site, renamed the Nevada National Security Site, are located on Western Shoshone land, as acknowledged by the 1863 “peace and friendship” Treaty of Ruby Valley, aigned by the Western Shoshone Nation and U.S. government.] News Media Contact: Media Release Brian Terrell April 10, 2025 773-853-1886…
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…
Read MoreNuclear Power 2.0: When will we learn?
[Long Island, New York-based hosts Doug and Patti Wood interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on their radio show/podcast, Green Street. The audio recording is already posted on Green Street’s website (Kevin’s segment begins at the 8 minute 40 second mark, after news headlines, and continues till the end of the show). The…
Read MoreJIMMY CARTER: Commemorations by nuke watchdogs
[White House Oval Office photograph, signed by President Carter (October 1, 1924 — December 29, 2024), showing him with S. David Freeman (January 14, 1926 – May 12, 2020). Thank you to Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South coordinator, for sharing the photo.] Given his very extensive involvement in key nuclear issues, president Jimmy Carter’s death,…
Read MoreBONNIE RAITT: Kennedy Center Honoree, Lifelong Activist
Bonnie Raitt (pictured) received a moving Kennedy Center Honor, broadcast on CBS December 22, 2024. Fellow musicians honoring her included Jackson Browne, Brandi Carlisle, Sheryl Crow, Keb’ Mo’, Susan Tedeschi, James Taylor, and others. Comedian and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus introduced Bonnie Raitt. As the Kennedy Center wrote: “…As known for her lifelong commitment to social…
Read MoreUS CISF overview, for NDI/Japan
On September 27, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was honored and privileged to present on a panel hosted by the New Diplomacy Initiative (NDI) in Tokyo, Japan. Kevin provided an overview of the resistance to highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities in the U.S. See Kevin’s slideshow, with Japanese translation of…
Read MoreISP and DOJ/NRC appeal to SCOTUS on TX CISF
On June 13, 2024, Interim Storage Partners, LLC (ISP) today appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) regarding its highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF). ISP faced a 90-day deadline to appeal to SCOTUS, in response to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (New Orleans) ruling last March that…
Read MoreEnviro Close-Up: The New Nuclear Push, Part 2
Enviro Close-Up is hosted by author, investigative journalist, nuclear watchdog, and founding Beyond Nuclear board of directors member, Karl Grossman. Here is the write up for “The New Nuclear Push, Part 2” (see Part 1, here): Enviro Close-Up #690, The New Nuclear Push with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Part 2: The program starts off…
Read MoreVideo/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…
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