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Fukushima damage could spell disaster
The nuclear plant’s operator said that damage to the reactor is “spread across large areas.” From Jake Johnson at Common Dreams: Images released Tuesday by the operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant showed significant damage on the inside of one of the facility’s three melted reactors, heightening fears that another earthquake in the region…
Read MoreSmall modular reactors will worsen climate change
“There’s no such thing as safe nuclear power,” said physicist and professor, M.V. Ramana, as he ran down a compelling and comprehensive list of reasons why still theoretical small modular reactors (SMRs) cannot address climate change. During an online presentation for Nuclear Energy Information Service, now available on YouTube, Ramana showed how “every dollar we…
Read MoreSave the ban on new nukes!
Illinois is the latest state to introduce a bill that would repeal a moratorium on new nuclear plant construction. The bill passed the Senate and returns to the House after April 18. If you live in Illinois, you can help stop it. Click here to find and contact your state representative and here to download…
Read MoreWomen relate their Three Mile Island ordeal
On this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, host Libbe HaLevy interviews Heidi Hutner, director of the new documentary film, Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island. The film tells the story of the 1979 accident and how it affected four mothers from the community. Writes HaLevy: “It includes scientific information but the emphasis is on the human…
Read MoreChornobyl dogs studied
First step in probing radiation “red flags” In order to understand the impact of radioactive contamination on the genome, and what it means for continuing exposures into the future, researchers have studied the underlying genetic qualities of dogs in and around the ruined Chornobyl Nuclear Facility in Ukraine. Dogs have lived in the area since…
Read MoreGrowing Coalition Urges Energy Secretary to Again Deny Palisades “Zombie” Reactor Massive Bailout for Operational Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Terry Lodge, legal counsel, [email protected], (419) 205-7084 Environmental Coalition to Energy Secretary Granholm: Yet Again Reject Massive Bailout Scheme at Palisades Atomic Reactor Restarting Dangerously Age-Degraded Nuke Would Violate Law, and Risk Health, Safety, Environment, and Pocketbooks, Watchdogs Warn COVERT…
Read MoreHow dangerous is tritium?
Beyond Nuclear is preparing a two-part (online) conference to examine the many aspects of tritium — how it is made, how it gets into the environment and why it is harmful. From proposed liquid releases from decommissioning nuclear plants in Massachusetts (Pilgrim) and New York (Indian Point)]; to the massive tritiated water release that Tepco…
Read MoreDepleted uranium weapons to Ukraine
From Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: The UK government is sending depleted uranium shells for use in the Challenger 2 tanks gifted to Ukraine, a move the longtime British peace and disarmament organization, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has condemned as an additional environmental and health disaster for those living through the conflict. Defence Minister Baroness…
Read MoreMary Oscko in memoriam
Mary Oscko was a North St. Louis activist in the campaign to clean up Coldwater Creek from WWII Manhattan Project radiation contamination. She passed away on February 20, 2023 from stage 4 lung cancer despite never having smoked cigarettes. She was interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat host, Libbe Halevy, on February 20, 2016, at the Atoms Next Door…
Read MoreVoices from Japan
On this week’s edition of Nuclear Hotseat, Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” report on the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Beverly lived in Yokohama, Japan, for 20 years until March 2011. She worked at Yokohama National University and The Japan Times. Beverly…
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