As reported by Gloria Galloway at the Globe and Mail, an anonymous letter written by Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) staffers alleges that the agency staff has kept the CNSC Commissioners, and the CNSC President, in the dark about signi…
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As reported by Cody Comb’s of WWMT-TV 3’s I-Team, who originally broke the story of fire risk violations at Entergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor earlier this month, based on whistle-blower revelations, additional whistle-blowers have revealed the…
Continue readingEntergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor, located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert, MIForty-one years after a catastrophic fire at Browns Ferry, Alabama nearly caused a reactor core meltdown, and two years after Entergy was busted for fire wa…
Continue readingNuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) has issued an action alert, calling for folks to join the March for a Clean Energy Revolution in Philadelphia, PA on Sunday, July 24th, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. See the beginnin…
Continue readingNASA Juno Spacecraft graphic, showing the three large solar panels providing it power, with Jupiter pictured in the backgroundInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman has been watch-dogging nukes in space since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 19…
Continue readingNASA Juno Spacecraft graphic, showing the three large solar panels providing it power, with Jupiter pictured in the backgroundInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman has been watch-dogging nukes in space since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 19…
Continue readingU.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary aerial photo of oil sheen on Lake Ontario caused by Entergy Nuclear’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor, visible in backgroundNuclear power is not “emissions-free,” as its proponents so often claim. In fact, sometimes it cau…
Continue readingThe Chicago-based nuclear giant, Exelon Generation Corporpation, formally notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that it will permanently close its Quad Cities Units 1 & 2 and Clinton nuclear generating stations in Illinois. Th…
Continue readingIn a historic agreement announced June 21, 2016 between environmental groups led by Friends of the Earth, labor unions and the California electric utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PGE), the Diablo Canyon nuclear generating station in San Luis Obis…
Continue readingThe Board of the Omaha Public Power District confirmed the promised closure of its Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant in a unanimous vote today. Ft. Calhoun will close by the end of the year. OPPD President and Chief Executive, Tim Burke, articulated what…
Continue readingAs reported by USA Today, the perpetrator of the massacre in Orlando, Florida — Omar Mateen — had been employed by G4S since 2007.
G4S is connected to nuclear weapons and nuclear power security in the U.S., including at the Department of Energ…
The Nuclear Energy Institute has admitted that 10-20 U.S. reactors are at risk of near-term closure, absent massive ratepayer subsidies to prop them up. Failure by numerous atomic reactors, across multiple states, to clear PJM’s recent capacity market …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has responded to last week’s ruling, by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, against a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Nuclear Waste Confidence policy, re…
Continue readingThe EPA has issued recommendations for levels of radioactive contamination in drinking water. EPA suggests these levels be used by states in the event of a catastrophic release of radioactivity such as from a nuclear power…
Continue readingMedia Statement by Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, in Response to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Panel Ruling in New York v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission II,
the Nuclear Waste Confidence Law…
Just before President Obama’s historic May 27th visit to Hiroshima, we asked why an apology would be out of the question? Could Obama not apologize on humanitarian grounds for the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while saving fa…
Continue readingAs anticipated by WTTW, and now confirmed with Exelon Nuclear filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
These three just announced reactor closures now join another already announced reactor closure by Exelon — Oyster Creek, NJ in 2019…
Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter is in Boston today to challenge the Department of Energy’s latest attempt to get New Englanders to “consent” to a radioactive waste dump in the region. Boston is the sixth of the DOE’s series of “consent-based siting” …
Continue readingEntergy’s fleet of operating reactors (see map, right) is dwindling. Shutdowns have been announced for FitzPatrick, NY in early 2017, and Pilgrim, MA in mid-2019, in addition to Vermont Yankee’s permanent closure in late 2014. The three worst performin…
Continue readingGrassroots environmental opponents to Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) scheme to dump radioactive waste on the Great Lakes shore at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station (the world’s largest nuclear power plant, with eight operable reactors) in Kincardine, …
Continue readingAs reported by Science Magazine, a study by Princeton University researchers has revealed that U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) estimates of the catastrophic consequences of a high-level radioactive waste storage pool fire in the U.S. are …
Continue readingThe U.S. Senate has voted 90 to 8 to appropriate $30 million for the high-risk transport of irradiated nuclear fuel from atomic reactors targeted at so-called “consolidated interim storage” (CIS) sites that will likely become de fac…
Continue readingTributes have been flowing in recognition of the immense contribution to our movement made by Michael Mariotte, who died on May 16 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. The Executive Director and then President of Nuclear Information…
Continue readingPetitions from Japan. Please sign!
Hibakusha (survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings) have launched a petition campaign, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons (with Obama’s May 27thvisit to Hiroshima j…
The Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska nuclear power plant must close by the end of the year, says Omaha Public Power District’s chief executive, Tim Burke, who says the plant is just too expensive to run. Ft. Calhoun has been plagued with problems incl…
Continue readingThis photo of Dan Berrigan (smiling, center) shows his apprehension after many months living underground, evading arrest. Despite being on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list, Dan Berrigan continued to speak and preach against the Vietnam War, once na…
Continue readingThom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture”Thom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture,” interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on recent — and historical — liquid high-level radioactive waste leaks at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) military pluton…
Continue readingWrites Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter in The Ecologist:
“From the moment I was informed – by telephone, at five o’clock in the morning on that fateful April 26, 1986 – that fire had broken out in Block Four of the Chernobyl nuclear power pla…
A 2016 update of the 2006 TORCH (The Other Report on Chernobyl) report finds that the deadly health legacy from the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is far from over, says its author, Dr. Ian Fairlie. The report was commissioned by GLOBAL 2000…
Continue readingAs featured on TRT World’s “The Newsmakers”: Thirty years since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, The Newsmakers asks Kevin Kamps [of Beyond Nuclear in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.] and Jonathan Cobb [of the World Nuclear Association in London, U.K.] what l…
Continue readingWrites Linda Pentz Gunter in The Ecologist: “Dr Timothy Mousseau has published more than90 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals, related to the effects of radiation in natural populations (and more than 200 publications in total…
Continue readingThis 30-minute interview has just been published and broadcast in New York City, and is also available for viewing online: Alfred C. Meyer, Board Member of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) & Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Be…
Continue readingWriting today in Counterpunch, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter explores how the April 26, 1969 Chernobyl nuclear disaster led to a nuclear-free Austria. An excerpt:
Nuclear power plants are banned in Austria under the country’s constitu…
At the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s (ANA) annual D.C. Days, Beyond Nuclear presented its 2016 Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud “Unsung Hero” Award to Kay Cumbow of Michigan, for her more than three decades of grassroots anti-nuclear activism.
Continue readingMarylia Kellley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs in California, an ANA member groupAs reported by Amy Goodman at Demoracy Now!:
On Monday, John Kerry became the first secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city destroyed by a U.S….
This still images comes from a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission video. The yellow arrow shows a sub-surface crack in Davis-Besse’s concrete containment Shield Building wall. The cracking was revealed during an October 2011 reactor lid replacement…
Continue reading“Burning money” graphic art by Gene Case, Avenging AngelsFrom FirstEnergy’s problem-plagued Davis-Besse in OH, to Dominion’s Millstone twin unit power plant in CT, nuclear utilities are seeking many billions of dollars in public subsidies to prop up …
Continue readingIn an article for World Financial Review, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter writes that nuclear is on the wane.
“While nuclear energy continues to play a role in political discussion and decision-making circles, the financial realities indicate …
We should close them all. Now.
So begins an article by investigative journalist Karl Grossman published at CommonDreams.
Karl, a Beylnd Nuclear board member, reports on the March 31-April 1 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C. in light of the sh…
RT has interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, about the March 31-April 1 so-called “Nuclear Security Summit” convened by President Obama. Kevin discusses what is not being discussed, for the most part: both global nuclear…
Continue readingInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman, a Beyond Nuclear board memberRT has interviewed investigative journalist Karl Grossman (photo left) on the risks of age-degraded nuclear power plants like Indian Point near New York City, where rusted and even mi…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor in upstate NYEntergy Nuclear, in an official regulatory communication with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has committed to permanently shut down its James A. FitzPatrick atomic react…
Continue readingThe Tihange nuclear facility last week.Credit Julien Warnand/European Pressphoto AgencyAs reported by Agence France-Presse:
Brussels (AFP) – Belgium security forces tightened security at nuclear plants across the country after deadly attacks in t…
As reported by Agence France-Presse:
Brussels (AFP) – Belgium security forces tightened security at nuclear plants across the country after deadly attacks in the capital city of Brussels, the Belga news agency said.
“Surveillance is stepped up wit…
Continue readingAppeals court judge Merrick Garland is nominated for Supreme Court justice at the Rose Garden on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As reported by Nina Totenberg on National Public Radio, President Obama has nominated U.S. Court of Appeals f…
Continue readingAs reported at Countercurrents.org by Kumar Sundaram, senior researcher with Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) and Editor of DiaNUke.or, a “small Loss-of-Coolant Accident (LOCA)” may be underway at the Kakrapar Nuclear Power Station (p…
Continue readingCanadian television channel CTV interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, regarding the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, including what it means for the Pacific coastline of North America. Every day, 300 tons (300,000 …
Continue readingThom Hartmann, The Big PictureThom Hartmann (photo, left) hosted Beyond Nuclear’s Reactor Oversight Project Director, Paul Gunter, and Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, for an installment of “Conversations with Great Minds” on his “The Big Pictu…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear, in a press release today, decried the absence of reasonable plans to prevent and protect against a nuclear disaster in the U.S., five years after the March 11, 2011 triple meltdowns began at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear …
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