West Lake LandfillAs reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and St. Louis Public Radio, the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has concluded that “radiological contamination in and aroun…
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“Space is a warfighting domain,” said the White House statement this week. It came as the Trump administration once again proclaimed that it plans to create a “Space Force”.
Last time the Trump White House tried this, Pentagon officia…
On September 13, 1987, Brazilian scrap metal dealer, Devair Ferreira, unwittingly opened Pandora’s box. Out spilled a bright blue crystalline powder that fell glowing to the floor. Fascinated by the magical iridescence, Ferreira invited family me…
Continue readingAccidents Can Happen: Voices of women from Three Mile Island is a film about about the silenced story of the women from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
This is the tale of the mothers — Linda, Joyce, Beth and Paula &mdash…
Long Island Power Authority ratepayers—including those in Suffolk County—will be and already are paying a disproportionate share of the $7.6 billion bailout of four upstate nuclear power plants pushed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, writ…
Continue readingThis breaking news is reported by Utility Dive. It comes on the heels of a scoop by Bloomberg that “Trump Prepared Lifeline for Money-Losing Coal [and Nuclear] Power Plants.”
If enacted, this bailout of some 80 coal and nuclear power plants in a 13-sta…
Wind turbine in downtown Cleveland. Ohio’s Lake Erie shoreline has some of the best wind power potential in the U.S.As Dick Munson of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has blogged, a new report shows how Ohio can “net more than 20,000 jobs and $25 …
Continue readingA group of Japanese mothers and their children recently participated in a speaking tour in France and one mother, Akiko Morimatsu, (pictured above with her son) testified before the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. The mothers urged Japan to co…
Continue readingOcean groups around the world have long protested pollution. Now they are turning their sights to the renewed dumping of radioactive waste.
More than a dozen environmental and ocean protection groups, coordinated by the Turtle Island Restora…
Massachusetts Senator, Democrat Ed Markey, is a long-time ally of the anti-nuclear movement. On May 22 he received an award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. During remarks at the event, he reminded a packed audience just how dire the nucle…
Continue readingOn May 24, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Annie Caputo (pictured) and David Wright as commissioners to serve five-year terms on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Beyond Nuclear had advocated against seating the two Republicans. As do…
Continue readingThe City of Takoma Park was presented with a Certificate of Compliance with the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, awarded by the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winners, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Paul Gunter of th…
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The Alliance for Nuclear Acccountability held its 30th Anniversary Congressional Awards gala on May 22, during it annual lobbying effort on Capitol Hill known as DC Days. In front of a packed room in the Rayburn House Office Building, awards wer…
It would be tempting to say that the current battle over resumption of uranium mining at the sacred Mount Taylor, which sits atop one of the richest known uranium ore reserves in the country, is just the latest in this long and shameful saga. But it is…
Continue readingVirginia Uranium, the Canadian company that wants to extract uranium from a deposit in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, has tried for years to argue its case on merit. And failed. That’s because there are no environmental, health or, at present, ev…
Continue readingBerkeley has become the second city in the US to proclaim itself ‘in compliance’ with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, following Takoma Park, Maryland, who made a similar declaration last month. Takoma Park received their &…
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May 18, 1979: A jury in a federal court in Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee established a company’s responsibilty for damage to the health of a worker in the nuclear industry. [More.]
The US Department of Energy has told Congress it plans to cancel an unfinished plutonium fuel fabrication plant in South Carolina that has already cost $7.6 billion and would have cost $50 billion more to complete. That’s the good news. The bad n…
Continue readingOur continued possession of nuclear weapons; production of radioactive waste due to our use of nuclear power; and our inadequate action on climate change are crimes against future generations, write Andreas Nidecker, Emilie Gaillard and Alyn Ware. Read…
Continue readingBritish CND campaigner, Rae Street, vows she will never “shut up” as long as nuclear weapons exist in the world. She has campaigned resolutely to get rid of them for 40 years. Now 80, she just helped mark CND’s 60th anniversary. Here is her story.
Continue readingA 15-year old boy lost everything he loved when he was forced to evacuate from his Fukushima home. Bullied at his new school and, because he came from a radioactive area, called a “germ,” there were moments when he wanted to die. Instead, he bravely te…
Continue readingOne of the six toes, on one of the feet, of the Yucca Dump Mutant Zombie (see image, left), twitched yesterday. By a lopsided vote of 340 to 72, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of “Screw Nevada 2.0,” a reprise of the 1987 “Screw…
Continue readingThe Trump White House, predictably, and against advice from Germany, France and the UK, has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal. This effectively reimposes economic sanctions on Iran and pressures other partners in the deal not to do business there. S…
Continue readingJust over 30 years ago — on April 10, 1988 — seven indigenous activists from different parts of the world set out on a three-week public awareness tour through Germany. They called their tour “Leave Uranium in the Ground.” Its p…
Continue readingLiz McDaid of SAFCEI (above left) and Makoma Lekalakala of Earthlife Africa (above right) helped lead a legal fight that sent Rosatom packing. Thier victory was a win last year in the South African High Court which ruled that a secret nuclear powe…
Continue readingThe US government exploded 67 atomic bombs on what is now the Republic of the Marshall Islands. These so-called “tests” — which were also radiation experiments on human beings –have left a terrible legacy of health effects and contamination. They des…
Continue readingRussia has launched the first in a series of at least seven small-sized floating nuclear power stations largely to power its Gazprom’s massive expansion of offshore oil and gas extraction in the Arctic Ocean. The floating atomic power plants are …
Continue readingIn our new pamphlet, we lay out the arguments about why nuclear deterrence is a myth used to justify the continued possession — and threatened use — of nuclear weapons. In the current controversy over the Iran nuclear deal, it has become ever more im…
Continue readingFrom IPPNW report, Health Effects of Chernobyl 25 years after the reactor catastrophe:
Note on the unreliability of official data published by WHO and IAEA
At the “Chernobyl Forum of the United Nations” organised in September 200…
Members of the public nationwide can submit verbal comments at the following U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) public meeting re: environmental scoping for the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea [Counties] Energy Alliance, NM highly radioactive was…
Continue readingSuper good news and well deserved — the announcement that two women activists from South Africa, Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid (pictured), who relentlessly pursued and uncovered an illegal Russian nuclear power deal with their homeland South Africa…
Continue readingWhen the Chernobyl disaster struck, Belarus, just across the border from the Ukraine Chernobyl site, was the hardest hit. Children, especially, were seriously affected and continue to be. When Adi Roche set up her organization, Chernobyl Children …
Continue readingWhen the Chernobyl zone was evacuated, people left with what they could carry. As with Fukushima, many thought they would quickly return. The dogs left behind have proliferated, but at a terrible price. Many suffer from malnutrition and disease and are…
Continue readingMany myths abound about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Even now, 32 years later, the so-called “facts” are usually focused on how few people immediately died, a completely misleading statistic since nuclear power plant disasters do not usually kill pe…
Continue readingFirst Nations chiefs and other indigenous and non-indigenous activists came together at the UN in New York on April 23 to hold a special event — “Radioactive Waste and Canada’s First Nations”. They were there to denounce the fai…
Continue readingMessage from Dr. Gordon Edwards of CCNR (Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility):
The following is a link to the United Nations archived webcast of a special event, “Radioactive Waste and Canada’s First Nations”, held on …
Beyond Nuclear, Greenpeace Canada, and The Alliance to Halt Fermi 3, are calling for US citizens to receive the same protections against nuclear disaster as their neighbors in Canada. The American Thyroid Association has also come out in favor of harmo…
Continue readingSee Beyond Nuclear’s Centralized Storage website section, for sample comments (prepared by Beyond Nuclear, and other groups, such as Nuclear Watch New Mexico) you can use to prepare your own for submission to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC…
Continue readingThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2015 identified the need to “harvest” components for examination from closed reactors. Since then, nothing has happened. At a meeting tonight (April 10)in New Jersey, Beyond Nuclear will be asking the NRC why not…
Continue readingSeven Catholic plowshares activists calling themselves Kings Bay Plowshares, were detained in the early hours of April 5 at the Kings Bay Naval Base St. Mary’s Georgia. They entered on Wednesday night April 4 on the anniversar…
Continue readingFirstEnergy, the Ohio-based utility that just announced premature closures of four of its nuclear reactors, has spent $2 million a year on lobbying over the past seven years. On April 4, the company’s chief lobbyist reportedly dined with Presiden…
Continue readingThe City Council of Takoma Park, Maryland, last night (March 14th) voted unanimously on a resolution that reaffirms the city’s support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or ‘Nuclear Ban Treaty.&r…
Continue readingAmerican sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan were exposed to radiation from Fukushima. Many are sick. Some have died. Why can’t they get justice? Our latest article, on Counterpunch and on Beyond Nuclear International, looks at the two class action…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is expanding! We are excited to introduce our new initiative, Beyond Nuclear International.
We created Beyond Nuclear International, a dynamic new web platform, in order to tell the anti-nuclear story from the humanitarian perspective a…
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Groups condemn French-India nuclear deal to be signed on Fukushima anniversary
French president, Emmanuel Macron, should not be imposing the untested, expensive and technically troubled French EPR reactor …
Caroline Lucas, Britain’s only Green Party member of parliament, decried this weekend’s meeting with Saudia Arabia in London. “Today the British Government is rolling out the red carpet to a leader of a murderous regime, accused of co…
Continue readingPhoto showing cooling towers and electricity transmission lines at Fermi 2. Exclusion of Fermi 3’s transmission lines from NRC’s EIS forms the basis of Beyond Nuclear’s NEPA appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.Environmental Coalition’s Decade-Lo…
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Here is our article in Counterpunch detailing the Bure raid and the perceived betrayal by alleged one-time environmental activist, Nicolas Hulot, now a government minister. Pictures of Hulot, “before” and “after.”
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