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COP27 “awash” in big polluters
The COP27 climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, is reportedly “awash” in fossil fuel representatives, according to the Washington Post, and there appears to be an equal rash of nuclear propagandists there, lead by representatives of the US government along with the inevitable nuclear power-promoting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The US has already…
Read MoreAn update on TMI decommissioning
Eric Epstein, chairman of Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA), provides an update on the seemingly endless decommissioning process at Three Mile Island as this week’s guest on Nuclear Hotseat. TMIA is a safe energy organization based in Harrisburg, PA that monitors the Peach Bottom, Susquehanna, and Three Mile Island nuclear generating stations. For more than 35…
Read MoreAustria holds the anti-nuclear line
Austria, described as “Europe’s most fervent anti-nuclear country,” is now planning protests and blockades in opposition to major nuclear build-out plans in neighboring Czech Republic that would threaten the health and safety of Austrian citizens. Austria is a nuclear-free country and is currently suing the European Commission for including nuclear power under its so-called “green”…
Read MoreA legend in her lifetime
This week’s Nuclear Hotseat with Libbe HaLevy features an extended interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott. Writes HaLevy: “Dr. Helen Caldicott has probably done more to make the public around the world aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear war, nuclear reactors and the entire nuclear fuel chain than any other individual in history. During…
Read MoreMajority of countries want a nuclear ban
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, with its attendant nuclear risks, a majority of the world’s countries have reaffirmed their support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), writes the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The TPNW entered into force last year and makes nuclear weapons illegal under international…
Read MoreDirty bombs and Ukraine’s reactors
Beyond Nuclear today issued a press release as a reminder to media that nuclear power plants are inherently dangerous pre-deployed nuclear weapons. The possibility that nuclear reactor sites in Ukraine — and specifically the radioactive dry storage casks — might be used as “dirty bombs”, sends a clear message that nuclear power is a far…
Read MoreSchool contaminated by atomic bomb waste
Jana Elementary in the suburbs of St. Louis, is a majority minority school. It is also contaminated by radionuclides left over from a nearby WWII atomic weapons facility operated by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. The school sits in the floodplain of Coldwater Creek, which itself was contaminated. Samples collected just outside and inside the school found…
Read MoreEver worse at Zaporizhzhia
The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since March 4, is now within the regions “annexed” by Russia and under martial law. An already perilous situation is now even worse. Surrounding countries are taking this seriously. We’ve been warning of this danger since before the Russian invasion. And yet, insanely, “new” nuclear…
Read MoreOnly a ban can save us
Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Hotseat is revisiting an interview recorded at that time with Ray Acheson, an organizer, activist, writer and Director of…
Read MoreNATO nuclear drill is further provocation
From the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: “The annual NATO nuclear weapons use exercise called Steadfast Noon is set to go ahead, starting Monday 17 October. In any regular year these annual nuclear exercises are essentially drills on the logistics of the mass murder of civilians, but in the current context, they are outright…
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