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No To Nuclear book tour and webinars
Beyond Nuclear international specialist Linda Pentz Gunter’s new book — No to Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War — available from Pluto Press. Below is a record of prior and upcoming events in person and on line and a listing of media clips. Past Live Events Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh,…
Read MoreRadiation Trainwreck: Is NRC deregulating radiation standards?
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released to the public yesterday its draft proposed rule (PR), allowing more radiation exposure. The PR is not published in the Federal Register (FR) as of this writing (12:15 PM ET), meaning the public must prepare comments now for submission in the future. We will announce when the PR is…
Read MoreNo radioactive communities: Webinar and comment writing workshop
Following Executive Order 14300 in May 2025 directing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken radiation protection standards, our colleagues at Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG) are holding a 90 minute webinar, Tuesday, July 7, 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT on radiation harm that will include time for writing comments. Dr. Amanda M. Nichols, coauthor of…
Read MoreSweden’s nuclear madness: uranium isn’t ‘nuclear’
In keeping with the collective taking leave of all senses that seems to have gripped politicians everywhere when it comes to nuclear power, the Swedish parliament has decided that uranium mines need no longer be described as “a nuclear facility”. This means the radioactivity they release and the waste they create— and mainly leave behind—…
Read MoreDrone strikes Chornobyl waste building
A Russian drone struck and significantly damaged a radioactive waste storage building (pictured before damage) at the closed Chornobyl nuclear power plant site on Sunday, close to where “large amounts of nuclear material” are stored, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ukraine accused Russia of using a Shahed drone, the same kind that in…
Read MoreA Moral Imperative: Adopting the Nuclear Truth Project protocols
Speaking before an international audience of researchers, policymakers, and diplomats, Benetick Kabua Maddison (pictured above accepting the Nuclear Free Future Award), Co-Chair of the Nuclear Truth Project (NTP) and Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, opened not with a plea, but with a demand. He came, he said, “not as a statistic, not as…
Read MorePrivate companies to get weapons plutonium
Dangerous plutonium to be offered to private reactor startup companies in an unprecedented move that crosses a non-proliferation line held for decades In yet another alarming development coming out of the White House, private corporations proposing risky and untested startup reactors are to be given access to plutonium, the trigger component in a nuclear bomb. …
Read MoreUrge Congress to attend!
Please let your members of Congress know about this important briefing by experts on Capitol Hill and urge them to send a staffer to attend and learn more. Call the Congress switchboard to reach your senators and representatives: (202) 224-3121. Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service present an expert briefing on nuclear energy…
Read MoreDrone danger
Drones are everywhere on the modern battlefield, and autonomous armed drones are coming. Some have already struck at nuclear power plant sites in Ukraine, Russia and even the UAE — not technically at war. Missiles have bombarded Iran’s nuclear facilities. All this makes the likelihood of a major nuclear disaster greater, and the outcome infinitely…
Read MoreNukes and cancer: proximity associated with deaths
In the latest study from Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, proximity to nuclear power reactors was associated with elevated mortality from breast, colon, and lung cancers. Examining data from 2000 to 2020, almost 40,000 female deaths and 40,000 male deaths were estimated to be attributable to this proximity. Lung cancer accounted for most…
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