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Depleted uranium danger in Ukraine
On the current Nuclear Hotseat, depleted uranium expert, academic and activist Damacio Lopez (pictured left with International Uranium Film Festival founder, Norbert Suchanek) explains how DU weapons were developed only two miles from his childhood home in Socorro, New Mexico; his trips to Iraq to measure radiation from DU weapons; and his drive to contact Ukraine’s President…
Read MoreFusion project a hot mess
Billed as a panacea energy source for the world, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a fusion technology first conceived of in the 1980s and formally begun in 2006, is billions of dollars over budget and years behind in construction. How much more it will cost and how long it will take no one is…
Read MoreFight back on nuke propaganda — here’s how
We are facing a saturation propaganda campaign from the pro-nuclear lobby claiming that nuclear power is a climate solution. It’s time for all of us to respond. To make it easier, Beyond Nuclear has provided a series of Talking Points addressing this topic. In addition to demonstrating how continuing with nuclear power impedes climate chaos…
Read MoreJapan tests radioactive water discharge
On June 12, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began testing the discharge system it intends to use to release radioactive water into the Pacific ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site. It used regular, uncontaminated water for the test, which was discharged through an under-sea tunnel system. TEPCO will spend two weeks testing…
Read MoreConsent-based or bribery?
The US Department of Energy on June 9 announced it will direct $26 million to “groups of university, nonprofit, and private-sector partners” who will help communities decide that they want to be the recipients of the country’s irradiated reactor fuel. Having abjectly failed to find any safe, long-term radioactive waste management “solution” — possibly because…
Read MoreThis is why nuclear power is irrelevant
According to Construction News: “There is an increasing chance that the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project could take longer and cost more to complete than planned, it has emerged. In a presentation to investors to coincide with its first-quarter results, client EDF said: ‘The risk of additional delays and budget overruns is increasing.’” This simply serves to further…
Read MoreExperts say nuclear power bad for climate crisis
A panel of leading independent experts concluded in a Congressional briefing (video) June 2, that attempts to use nuclear power to help curtail the climate crisis has failed, and current nuclear subsidies should, instead, go to renewables. In fact, continuing nuclear steals resources from real climate solutions. Further, shutting down current dangerous reactors doesn’t mean…
Read MoreFukushima dumping threat makes U.S. groups ask FDA for tighter food standards
As Japan prepares to release 1.3 million tons of Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an increasing number of countries continue to voice strong opposition. A report released Monday by Fukushima operator, TEPCO, showed that fish caught off the harbor at Fukushima contained 180 times the level allowed in Japan of radioactive…
Read MoreFukushima fish too radioactive for human consumption
According to a report issued on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the catastrophically ruined Fukushima nuclear reactors, “fish caught in the harbor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan far exceed safety levels for human consumption.” The content of cesium 137, a radioactive isotope that is a common byproduct…
Read MoreDestruction of Nova Kakhovka dam jeopardizes Zaporizhzhia NPP cooling
June 9, 2023 , UPDATE: Ukrainian operators at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station (still under Russian military occupation) warn that the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir behind the breached Nova Kakhovka Dam has dropped below 42 feet and that the nuclear reactor’s cooling water pumping station is no longer capable of pumping water up…
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