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Michigan LARA FOIA response re: Holtec/Palisades
LARA FOIA response (total of 967 pages): A. Pages 1 to 110 [Pages 1 to 110 in MI LARA’s FOIA response, as delivered]; B. Pages 1 to 110 [Pages 111 to 220 in MI LARA’s FOIA response, as delivered]; C. Pages 1 to 111 [Pages 221 to 331 in MI LARA’s FOIA response, as delivered];…
Read MoreBrittle Diablo: NRC Commissioners punt to staff
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and Friends of the Earth — long-time watch-dogs on the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on central California’s Pacific coast (pictured) — responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioners’ ruling on the environmental coalition’s demand Unit 1 be immediately shut down. The groups are urging the reactor pressure vessel’s…
Read MoreHoltec launches Palisades restart process
On October 3, Holtec met with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff for the fourth time in six months (view recording), regarding the unprecedented, controversial, expensive, and risky restart of its closed Palisades atomic reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore in Covert, Michigan (pictured). Representatives from an environmental coalition that included Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, MSEF, NEIS,…
Read MoreYou can help radiation survivors!
Hope exists for those exposed to fallout and other radiation survivors who were ignored. For nearly two decades, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) has pushed to amend The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include Trinity downwinders. The U.S. Senate as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has not only added Trinity downwinders,…
Read MoreMEET THE WINNERS: Nuclear-Free Future Award event
In 2022, three extraordinary activists were honored with the Nuclear-Free Future Award. However, at the end of 2022, the Award transited out of its former home at the Munich-based Nuclear Free Future Foundation and there was no official ceremony. Until now! Beyond Nuclear invites you to meet the 2022 winners at a special online awards…
Read MoreFilms highlight resistance to nuclear industry
S.O.S. — The San Onofre Syndrome, a film more than a decade in the making, will have its world premiere at Regal L.A. Live Theater in downtown Los Angeles on October 8, followed on October 13 by a virtual viewing option. Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island, will screen October 4 in Pleasantville, New…
Read MoreAnti-nuclear contingents march for climate
A “Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free” bloc marched in a major climate protest on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, last Sunday in New York City. Taking their name from the title of Dr. Arjun Makhijani of IEER’s 2007 book, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, this is at least their third climate…
Read MoreRadiation persists in wild boars
Some radionuclides persist in the environment once released, contaminating the food chain, creating widespread long-term risk of radiation exposure. Radiocesium, which has been released from civilian reactor meltdowns like Chornobyl and Fukushima, but also from worldwide atomic testing, is one such radionuclide. New research demonstrates that wild boars in Bavaria are not only contaminated by…
Read MoreCity of Fort Worth, TX submits amicus brief opposing Holtec CISF in NM
On September 8, 2023, the City of Fort Worth, Texas submitted an amicus curiae brief opposing Holtec International’s consolidated interim storage facility targeting southeastern New Mexico. Ft. Worth’s concern has especially to do with the large number of high-risk shipments of high-level radioactive waste on city railways, over decades, while traveling en route to Holtec’s…
Read MoreDU in Ukraine
The United States plans to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) munitions as part of a US aid package. DU is also used in tank armor. The U.S. contends that there is no health threat even though DU is both a toxic heavy metal and radioactive, could pose a threat to troops from both Ukraine…
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