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Germany’s green goals on track
Despite claims that dependance on Russian gas derails Germany’s energy revolution, the country will instead ramp up renewables While the pro-nuclear lobby crows that Germany must now extend the life of its remaining nuclear power plants and will need to expand its use of coal as access to Russian gas gets cut off, the country…
Read MoreEnergoatom calls on IAEA for help
Energoatom, the Ukrainian nuclear utility, has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to intervene to help safeguard the country’s 15 nuclear reactors as Russian forces advance dangerously close to the sites. “We call on the IAEA to intervene to prevent occupying forces in the 30 kilometre zone around our nuclear power plants,” the company’s CEO, Petro…
Read MoreIAEA must ensure safety
International agency should ensure safe operation at Ukraine’s nuclear facilities now in a war zone Beyond Nuclear joined nine other international civil society groups in signing a letter that urges the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be transparent about the status of Ukraine’s 15 commercial reactors as well as the Chernobyl nuclear site. Although…
Read MoreA plea from Nobel Peace Prize winners
A joint statement from Dmitry Muratov, journalist (2021 Nobel Peace Prize) and Beatrice Fihn on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (2017 Nobel Peace Prize) Right now, we see nuclear tensions heightening to the most threatening levels seen in modern times. Vladimir Putin has made threats to launch nuclear attacks and raised the…
Read MoreDoctors call for international peacekeepers
A group 45 physicians, all of them members of the 1967 class of Harvard Medical School, have called for international peacekeepers to be sent to Ukraine, under a ceasefire, to safeguard the country’s 15 nuclear reactors. The letter was submitted to media outlets. (The letter was released on February 28 but other signatories not noted…
Read MoreNRC rescinds reactor license extensions
A legal appeal filed by Beyond Nuclear to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has yielded a landmark February 24, 2022 decision and agency orders (CLI-22-02, CLI-22-03, CLI-22-04) rescinding the federal agency’s second 20-year operating license renewal of US reactors (60- to 80-year period) without first creating and applying an updated environmental analysis for reactor…
Read MoreRussian military at Chernobyl: (another) ecological catastrophe?
This is a developing story. Associated Press and other sources are reporting that Russian forces have taken over the Chernobyl nuclear site in northern Ukraine, 80 miles north of the capital. Kyiv. According to the Washington Post, a televised statement from Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal “[t]he Chernobyl zone — the exclusion zone — and…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear 2021 Annual Report
Beyond Nuclear has released its AnnualReport_BeyondNuclear2021. The annual report summarizes a snapshot of the highlights of Beyond Nuclear’s activities in 2021.
Read MoreEmergency in Ukraine
Online briefing on the medical implications of war in Ukraine. Would nuclear weapons be used? And are Ukraine’s nuclear power plants vulnerable, including Chernobyl? The medical consequences of any kind of conflict in Ukraine could be dire, whether it remains a conventional war, affects the 15 nuclear reactors there, or, most frighteningly, escalates to the…
Read MoreEvent: A new Nuclear Age?
As the Utah Municipal Power System (UAMPS) prepares to greenlight the first-ever small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) in the U.S. using the NuScale SMR design, a new analysis from the independent and non-partisan Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) takes a deep dive into the financial viability of the project and what it…
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