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Protect Better webinar series: Protect our health from radiation
Webinar 2 – “In the Weeds” What happens when radiation protection standards are weakened to make it easier to expand nuclear power? Wednesday, August 19 | 5pm – 7:30pm Pacific 8:00–9:30 PM Eastern REGISTER The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to overhaul long-standing radiation protection standards as part of a broader effort to…
Read MoreA compassionate world without nuclear
Global Read webinar featured two authors, two books and one topic M.V. Ramana and Linda Pentz Gunter were featured together for the August edition of the program Global Read, presented by the Charter for Compassion. Ramana is the author of Nuclear Is Not The Solution. The Folly of Atomic Power In The Age of Climate…
Read MoreDeep Fission “approval” is for a drawing, not a “milestone”
Statement by Paul Gunter, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear on Deep Fission’s announcement of approval of a Nuclear Safety Design Agreement under the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Reactor Pilot Project created by a President Trump White House Executive Order. “Deep Fission, a Berkeley, CA-based reactor startup company attempting to site micro nuclear…
Read MoreProtect Better Webinar Series: NRC Radiation Comments
Webinar #1 Wednesday, August 12 Time: 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET Webinar #1 Register Here The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken long-standing radiation protection standards in order to accelerate the expansion of nuclear reactors, nuclear-powered data centers, and nuclear weapons production. Help stop nuclear powered data centers which are…
Read MoreA Japanese A-bomb? Hibakusha decry misguided turn
Japan’s far right prime minister, Sanae Takaichi (pictured), as well as her defense minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, have been considering a review of Japan’s longstanding disavowal of nuclear weapons, a shift that would seriously undermine the country’s role in the world as a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament. Japan is committed not to possess, produce, or…
Read MoreOpposition Mounting to Deep Fission
Beyond Nuclear is quoted in a July 28, 2026 Wall Street Journal article “An Underground Nuclear Reactor Is Coming to This Kansas Town—and Dividing Locals”, describing California nuclear start-up company Deep Fission’s plans for a 15 megawatt electric micro-reactor modular design to be operated at the bottom of a mile-deep borehole drilled into bedrock. Parsons, KS was…
Read MoreAleksey Nesterenko: Chornobyl health protector dies at 52
Aleksey Nesterenko, director of the Belrad Independent Institute for Radiation Protection, has passed away at the age of of 52 of cancer. His daughter Darya stated “[t]hroughout his life, he successfully combined science with humanism, putting his brilliant mind to work for the most disadvantaged and striving to make the world a better and safer…
Read MoreIn whose interest is the Saudi nuke deal?
Trump, his family and associates are all set to profit even if the promised reactors never complete Last week we noted that Trump’s nuclear deal with the Saudis was a covert means to hand that country the materials, technology and know-how to develop the nuclear bomb. Since then, an even more predictable rationale behind the…
Read MoreA Bomb for the Saudis?
Media reports suggest that the Trump administration has agreed not only to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia but to allow the country to enrich its own uranium. This raises two key questions. Why must Iran’s civil nuclear program be bombed into oblivion by the US and Israel to prevent it developing nuclear weapons, if…
Read MoreTELL NRC: Don’t weaken radiation standards
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission draft proposed rule (PR), allowing more radiation exposure at the industry’s discretion, has been published in the Federal Register. Deadline for comments is August 31, 2026. The PR would allow greater exposures “just to save the nuclear power industry money,” says Ed Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists. But it is…
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