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New Talking Points: SMRs
Beyond Nuclear has now published its 6th in the series of Talking Points: Unfounded Promises. Small Modular Reactors solve none of the challenges of nuclear power and make climate change and proliferation worse. A tsunami of license applications for new small modular (mirage) reactors is about to be unleashed in the US. But none remotely…
Read MoreAn update on baby teeth and radiation
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: Writes podcast host, Libbe HaLevy: “Strontium 90 in baby teeth helped convince U.S. President Kennedy and Russian Premiere Khrushchev to sign the limited test ban treaty in 1963, which prohibited nuclear weapons tests or other nuclear explosions under water, in the atmosphere, or in outer space. “Joseph Mangano is a…
Read MoreOnline radiation course: U.S. radiation exposure standards!
SIGN UP FOR OUR DECEMBER COURSE! Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) have set out to teach about radiation. One more class is slated for 2022: UNDERSTANDING THE HOW AND WHY OF U.S. RADIATION EXPOSURE STANDARDS December 6, 7 and 8 noon, ET In this third class hosted by…
Read MoreMore Ukraine reactors lose power
Military action around both the Rivne and Khmelnytskyy nuclear power plants — not previously embroiled in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — caused both plants to lose access to offsite power supplies earlier this week as Russian missile attacks continued to target power lines and other key infrastructure in Ukraine. Beyond Nuclear has been warning since…
Read MoreDrowning in double-talk as Arctic ice melts
From this week’s Nuclear Hotseat: Writes host, Libbe HaLevy: “Given the pro-nuclear double-talk at COP 27, which is drowning out the voices of actual informed activists, it’s important for us to understand the consequences of the climate catastrophe already in evidence around the world – and how much of it is created by nuclear contamination…
Read MoreCOP27 “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…
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