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Fukushima disaster not over
A statement from Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Tokyo: On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, occurred off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. This massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami set off a severe accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was rocked…
Read MoreFollow the money
From Libbe HaLevy, host of Nuclear Hotseat (pictured at the 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards by Adam Stoltman): Want to know how to stop nukes? Follow the money – and then take it away from the nuclear industry. This week we talk with Mary Beth Gallagher. She is Director of Engagements for Domini Impact Investments, a…
Read MoreSenate approves RECA extension but will the House?
The U.S. Senate last week voted in favor of expanding coverage included under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in a 69-30 vote after the expanded RECA amendment was first passed under and then stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act last summer by a conference committee of senators and representatives. The RECA expansion act…
Read MoreRemembering Fukushima
This week on Nuclear Hotseat, it’s the annual Fukushima Anniversary Special: VOICES FROM JAPAN. This year, host Libbe HaLevy and her guests consider earthquake dangers to Japan’s nuclear reactors. In addition to an update on Fukushima at 13, the program focuses on the January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake that shook the two Shika nuclear…
Read MoreIAEA fraud in Brussels
On March 21, 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency will host a Nuclear Energy Summit for world leaders and other officials at the expo center (pictured) in Brussels, Belgium. This follows the announcement at the COP28 climate summit last December to triple global nuclear capacity by 2050. This is an absurd fantasy, too late, too expensive,…
Read MorePalisades backgrounders
Kevin Kamps at Beyond Nuclear has prepared three new backgrounders: “A People’s History of the Palisades Atomic Reactor” (13 pages); “Nuclear Nightmares: Palisades’ ‘Zombie’ Reactor Restart and SMR New Build Schemes” (3 pages); “Holtec: Criminality, Corruption, Incompetence, and Inexperience” (2 pages).
Read MoreUPDATE: RECA expansion on Senate floor next week
From the Congressional Record Daily Digest of February 29: “Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act (RECA)–Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, but no later than Friday, March 8, 2024, Senate begin consideration of S. 3853, to extend…
Read MoreThe “rap” on Holtec
(Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, southeastern New Mexico.)
Read MoreSenator promises to attach RECA extension to all bills
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) vows to attach the extension of RECA exposure compensation to all bills moving in the Senate until it passes. RECA reauthorization passed the Senate with strong bi-partisan support. Now Hawley is pushing to pass an amendment reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and expanding its coverage to more states, including…
Read MoreBreakdown of Bailouts at Holtec’s Palisades NPP
[Image: Design by Gene Case, Avenging Angels; the image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power relapse.] [April 10, 2025 update: TRUMP LOVES NUKES. In words & deeds, he and his administration promote the nuclear power industry. President…
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