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Groups condemn green light for new nuke
The UK government has granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for EDF’s proposed two-reactor project at Sizewell on the eroding Suffolk coastline, a project that has been widely opposed by locals, scientists, and wildlife organizations. This is the press release from Together Against Sizewell C in response to the decision: After eighteen months of careful…
Read MoreUnited front against nuclear in Wales
Beyond Nuclear is a partner in and a speaker at the forthcoming conference to oppose nuclear power in Wales to be held July 23 in the historic castle town of Caernarfon. The conference has been convened to coordinate opposition to recent British and Welsh Government pronouncements supporting new nuclear power stations at Wylfa in Anglesey and…
Read MoreNew radiation levels at Chornobyl?
Greenpeace International Press Release Near the ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, an international team of radiation experts led by Greenpeace Germany is examining abandoned Russian positions for radioactive contamination. Trenches and dugouts were built by Russian soldiers during their occupation of the Chornobyl site in March. About 600 soldiers were deployed there. The…
Read More“Strike first”. Daniel Ellsberg recalls
Defuse Nuclear War has released two short video podcasts with Daniel Ellsberg, directed by Oscar-nominee Judith Ehrlich. Ellsberg is well-known for leaking the Pentagon Papers. But before that, he was a high-level nuclear war planner. Ellsberg has spent the last 50 years truth-telling about the threat of nuclear conflict. Watch below.
Read MoreGov. Lujan Grisham statement on Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision to approve Holtec project
See the media statement by New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (pictured above) here.
Read MorePress Release: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to Hold 13th Annual Candlelight Vigil
See the TBDC press release here:
Read MoreMajia Nadesan talks “Radiophobia” on Nuclear Hotseat
“Radiophobia”: Prof. Majia Nadesan (pictured) rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including governmentality, biopolitics, and risk…
Read MoreTepco executives must pay
From The Japan Times: “In a historic first, the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay ¥13.32 trillion ($97 billion) to the company for damage caused by the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, which…
Read MoreHow nuclear got in the EU Taxonomy
An update from Günter Wippel, uranium-network.org The EU Taxonomy is a classification scheme created by the European Union to label certain activities and investments in those activities as ‘sustainable’. The attempt of the European Commission to put nuclear power generation as well as (fossil) gas into the category of ‘sustainable’ investments was extremely controversial within…
Read More‘Significant harm’
Nuclear power can’t avoid harm to environment despite inclusion under ‘Taxonomy’ The European Parliament has chosen to include nuclear power and gas under the European Commission’s Taxonomy Delegated Act. This effectively — and absurdly — classifies nuclear power and gas as environmentally sustainable economic activities. Inclusion in the Taxonomy theoretically allows nuclear and gas access…
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