Neo-Nazi previously implicated in plot to attack nuclear plants now arrested for planning grid sabotage around Baltimore

As reported by the Washington Post, in an article entitled “Duo accused of neo-Nazi plot to target Maryland power stations: Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel allegedly sought to attack substations around Baltimore,” white supremacists are again implicated in playing with radioactive fire. The article reports: Russell, a former Florida National Guard member, is…

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Time to embrace nuclear prohibition goals

With the growing risk that the war in Ukraine could involve the use of nuclear weapons, Beyond Nuclear has signed a letter of support for H. Res. 77, introduced by US Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). The resolution calls on the United States to embrace the goals and provisions of the…

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Risks around Ukraine’s nukes grow

Just this week, we learn of yet more shelling all too close to the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, caught up in the most extensive fighting taking place in the southeast region of the country. As we approach one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, the risks to Ukraine’s 15…

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Got war? Buy more nuclear power plants!

The Ukraine energy ministry (pictured in a recent meeting) has announced, as war has thrust its nuclear power plants into the jaws of radiological disaster, that it has ordered two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors for the Khmelnytskyi nuclear site. The announcement absurdly suggested that the reactors could be completed and running by 2030-2032 and would…

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It’s 90 seconds to midnight. Doomsday Clock moves closer

Today, the scientists at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous Doomsday Clock the closest to midnight the clock has ever been. Responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the less-than-veiled threats by Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to use nuclear weapons, the hands of the clock were moved to 90…

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Downwind and dosed

Half the cast and crew involved with the John Wayne film, The Conqueror, shot in 1954 and released two years later, died of cancer. They were the most high-profile victims of the fallout from atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site, which contaminated land, water and people. Although the film location site, in St. George,…

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Not so good vibrations

The two reactors under construction at the Vogtle nuclear power plant site in Georgia are already years behind. Originally expected to cost $14 billion with the first unit, Vogtle 3, anticipated to come on line in 2016, neither are finished. The cost is now likely to exceed $30 billion.  Over the years there have been…

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Sign-on letter for organizations and individuals, to Energy Secretary Granholm, in opposition to Holtec’s scheme to re-apply for a billion dollar, or more, Civil Nuclear Credit program bailout for Palisades zombie reactor restart in Michigan (deadline Sunday, January 22, 2023)

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Despite being refused a $1 Billion+ bailout of Federal dollars to bring Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Plant back to life in November, Holtec International is going back to the Department of Energy trough for a second try. Palisades was closed forever — or so we thought — last May. And for good…

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NRC closes door on Comanche public meetings

This week on Nuclear Hotseat: Aging nuclear reactors become increasingly dangerous and prone to breakdowns and radiation releases. Comanche Peak nuclear power plant’s two nuclear reactors in Somervell County, Texas, should be retired, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering letting them run for 20 additional years, until 2050. Heading the fight to stop…

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