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Press Release: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to Hold 13th Annual Candlelight Vigil
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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…
Read MoreJuly 16 – 43rd Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration, Churchrock, New Mexico
Prohibition of federal funds for private interim storage of spent nuclear fuel
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (Democrat-Texas) introduced an amendment at the House Appropriations Committee markup hearing and vote on Fiscal Year 2023 Energy & Water Development funding that would have prohibited any federal spending on privately-owned consolidated interim storage facilities for highly radioactive waste. See the Cuellar amendment here: Rep. Cuellar did offer his amendment, but…
Read MoreBRIEF FOR AMICUS CURIAE NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC. IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS AND AFFIRMANCE
On June 13, 2022, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) — the nuclear power industry’s lobbying and public relations HQ in Washington, D.C. — filed a Friend of the Court Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Don’t Waste Michigan v. NRC case: NEI’s Friend of the Court…
Read MoreINITIAL BRIEF OF INTERVENOR INTERIM STORAGE PARTNERS, LLC
Interim Storage Partners, LLC filed its Initial Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on June 21, 2022. See ISP’s Initial Brief here: Petitioners (parties opposed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of ISP’s construction and operating license on September 13, 2021) include Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan…
Read MoreTritium dump dangers
The planned radioactive water releases at Fukushima in Japan and Pilgrim nuclear reactor at Cape Cod in Massachusetts are the subjects of this week’s Nuclear Hotseat interview by host Libbe HaLevy (right) with Dr. Ian Fairlie. Fairlie is a London-based radiation biologist and independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment. After receiving a degree in radiation…
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