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Briefs Filed in Federal Appeal against NRC Licensing of Interim Storage Partners Radioactive Waste Dump in Texas
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Mindy Goldstein, attorney for Beyond Nuclear, director, Emory University’s Turner Environmental Law Clinic, [email protected], (404) 727-3432 Michael Keegan, co-chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 Terry Lodge, attorney for Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., [email protected], (419)…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC: More join opposition to proposed waste dumps
On March 25, Natural Resource Defense Council and the City of Fort Worth filed Amicus briefs with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. They support legal challenges brought against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of Interim Storage Partners’ consolidated interim storage facility in West Texas. NRDC focused on the ISP…
Read MoreHow Three Mile Island birthed eco-feminism
Nuclear disaster motivated and mobilized women’s movement One of the perhaps lesser-known outcomes of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, marking it 43rd commemoration today, is that it inspired the popularization of what is now known as “eco-feminism.” Writes Grace Rivers, a sophomore at Georgetown University, in The Hoya: “Emerging in the 1970s and 80s with…
Read MoreSay ‘no’ to nuclear war
Add your voice! Join Nobel laureates to say no to nuclear war Sign the petition! The risk that nuclear weapons are used in Eastern Europe grows more acute as the violence in Ukraine descends into greater levels of despair, depravity, and uncertainty. Mobilizing public opinion – engaging everyday citizens who until now may not have worried…
Read MoreChornobyl satellite town under siege
The State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone management is reporting that the Chornobyl nuclear power plant satellite city of Slavutych is under attack. “Right now the enemy is trying to take the city of Slavutych by storm. Blockbuster shelling is underway,” says the agency’s Facebook page. Checkpoints are under heavy artillery fire. The State…
Read MoreUnexploded “Smerch” rocket threatens Ukrainian nuclear facility
Combat operations continue in the area of the NSI “Neutron Source” facility. Upon examination of the facility in Kharkiv, personnel found what looks like an unexploded rocket of the multiple launch rocket system 9K58 “Smerch”. The presence of this ordnance poses danger of a new explosion in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear installation. Work…
Read MoreThe Chernobyl tinder box: War increases fire risks
Forest fires have again erupted around the defunct and radioactively-contaminated Chernobyl nuclear power facility. Fires reloft and redistribute radionuclides trapped in soil and the forest litter, which is taking much longer to decay than it should, providing further fuel for fires. When one reactor core of the 4-reactor Chernobyl complex melted down and exploded in…
Read MoreThe current situation at Zaporizhzhia
While the situation at Chornobyl remains precarious, given the absence of shift changes and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine’s (SNRIU) total loss of contact with the staff there, the situation at Zaporizhzhia seems a little more transparent, although fraught with risk. As the SNRIU points out, the presence of ROSATOM personnel there is…
Read MoreThe current situation at Chornobyl
March 16 update from The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine The SNRIU continues informing on the state of the Chornobyl NPP. Until now, all Chornobyl NPP facilities, and facilities located in the Exclusion Zone are under the control of the aggressor country’s military. At present, the regulatory control over the state of nuclear and…
Read MoreAttack on Zaporizhzhia was far closer to disaster
A video analysis of unfolding events at the Zaporizhzhia reactors in Ukraine show disaster was much closer than had been originally reported. NPR reviewed over four hours of video footage along with photographs, which revealed Russian troops repeatedly fired heavy weapons in the direction of the massive reactor buildings, shredding the administrative building. A shell…
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