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Rail routes to CISFs in the Permian Basin
This route map appeared in the license application from Holtec International for its consolidated interim storage facility targeting southeastern New Mexico. An almost identical route map appeared in Interim Storage Partners’ (ISP) license application for its CISF targeting western Texas. The only difference between the two route maps was the CISF destination, and the two…
Read MoreExpert briefing paper on Ukraine dangers
As we mark one year since the deadly war in Ukraine began, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) held an expert panel webinar on February 18 to assess impacts on health, human rights, and the environment from conventional wars, a nuclear power disaster or nuclear war. After the event, the panelists released a…
Read MoreUkraine’s nuclear risks ramp up
Ukraine’s nuclear power plants face daily risk of deadly disaster while war continues. Safe zones can’t prevent inherent dangers of nuclear reactors leading to catastrophe, group warns Beyond Nuclear on Thursday put out a press release on the eve of the one year mark since Russia invaded Ukraine, warning of the increased dangers to Ukraine’s nuclear…
Read MoreDerailed! What if it had been nuclear waste?
On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, near the border with Pennsylvania. About three dozen cars derailed overall, 11 of which were carrying hazardous material. As one resident said, “This is our Chernobyl.” While the materials on board were not radioactive, they still provide evidence that supports concerns about…
Read MoreReckless escalation or emotional own goal?
Putin’s decision to suspend Russia’s participation in disarmament treaty could be as bad for Russia as for the rest of the world In a major state-of-the-union address in Moscow on February 21, Russian president, Vladimir Putin said: “I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.”…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Radioactive Hot Spots map, 2013
See the 2013 map by John Jackson and Anna Tilden, here. Also see the 1990 version, by Irene Kock and David Martin, here.
Read MoreA researcher looks at children, nuclear, cancer
Thyroid cancers among those young at the time of Fukushima are downplayed and denied in Japan According to research of the available studies, Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers and Linda Pentz Gunter, in their published peer-reviewed article in the British Medical Journal Pediatrics Open, noted the disproportionate harm to children as a result of exposure to…
Read MoreMayors for Peace call for end to Ukraine war
As we approach a year since the February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Mayors for Peace has called for an end to the war, especially given the dangers of it escalating into a conflict that includes the use of nuclear weapons. In a statement released this week, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,…
Read MoreDecommissioning does not mean danger has passed
When nuclear power plants close, and the decommissioning process begins, there can be a false sense of security that the radioactive risks have evaporated. But Libbe HaLevy’s guests on this week’s Nuclear Hotseat set the record straight on that score. Cathy Iwane, co-founder of Coalition for Nuclear Safety , talks about the situation at the…
Read MoreDr. Gordon Edwards debunks nuclear myths
Dr. Gordon, Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, is Karl Grossman’s guest on the latest edition of Enviro Close-Up. Dr. Edwards, an expert on nuclear technology, refutes the claims of the nuclear industry as it pushes purportedly “new and improved” nuclear power plants, so-called “advanced” nuclear power plants, and particularly small modular…
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