Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps was hosted on Turkish Radio and Television’s (TRT) program “The Newsmakers.” He squared off against attorney Elina Teplinsky, a parnter at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Pillsbury, which serves as legal counsel to th…
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Aileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director, Green Action KyodoAs explained in a YouTube video by Green Action Kyodo’s Executive Director, Aileen Mioko Smith (photo, left), amidst a celebration parade, Japan’s anti-nuclear movement has scored another unprec…
Continue readingSept. 17, 2015 PowerDC rally against Exelon takeover of Pepco, before marching to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office to deliver the hand-signed banner.As reported by the Washington Post, Chicago-based Exelon Nuclear and Mid-Atlantic utility Pepco have f…
Continue readingTAKOMA PARK, MD, March 7, 2016 — A Florida nuclear power plant that sucked a scuba diver through its unprotected cooling intake pipe, is in ongoing violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Beyond Nuclear and the Rachel Carson Council have charge…
Continue readingProject Mercury Astronauts (Source: Wikipedia)The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has posted commentary by its Nuclear Safety Project Director, David Lochbaum, on the 2.206 (emergency enforcement) petition submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulator…
Continue readingA study examining thyroid cancer among children 18 years and younger when the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe began, found an increase in thyroid cancers, as predicted by World Health Organization (WHO) initial dose assessments.
However, lead researcher…
Beyond Nuclear is honored to co-host the 2015 Nuclear-Free Future Award which will be held in on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 28th. You are invited to attend!
The prestigious Nuclear-Free Future Award honors those who have worked to …
The Mobile Chernobyl mock nuke waste cask, a full size replica of a truck shipping container, shown in front of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, MO during a cross-country educational tourNIRS has announced:
STOP FUKUSHIMA FREEWAYS: K…
This is Part 2 from Lucas Hixson, Enformable creator and Beyond Nuclear board member, on his first hand experience at the Chernobyl decommissioning site in northern Ukraine. April 26, 2016 marks the three decades since the nuclear disaster …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, was invited as a witness at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee, Environment and the Economy Subcommittee on Oct. 1st. See the hearing description, wit…
Continue readingLucas Hixson, the website Enformable’s creator and Beyond Nuclear Board Member, recently returned from a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine. Here is Enformable’s first in a series of editorials the website is posting as we approach…
Continue readingThe Davis-Besse “White Wash of 2012,” applied 40 years too late, backfired by locking water in the walls, which now worsens the Shield Building cracking every time it freezes!
A 38-year old atomic reactor, that has had more close calls with catast…
Radio and t.v. news anchor Thom HartmannTelevision news host Thom Hartmann of “The Big Picture” on RT (photo, left) interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog Kevin Kamps on the latest from Fukushima Daiichi: historic floods after Typhoo…
Continue readingRT hosted Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, who described the Japanese government’s attempt to resettle nuclear evacuees in radioactively contaminated towns like Naraha as a futile effort to create the “illusion of normality.” T…
Continue readingParticipants in the PowerDC rally against Exelon’s takeover of Pepco took a group photo before marching to DC Mayor Muriel Bowwer’s officeBeyond Nuclear staff joined with allies in the PowerDC coalition at the Wilson Building — housing the Executi…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear decries misleading reports about decontamination in press release today:
TAKOMA PARK, MD, September 14, 2015 — Reports in the press today that “formerly contaminated” groundwater has been dumped from the stricken Fukush…
Beyond Nuclear today released a statement denouncing the NRC’s willingness to squander money on white elephants and protracted licensing proceedings while canceling a vital cancer study around nuclear facilitiies:
TAKOMA PARK, MD, September 11, 2015 &m…
As reported by the Guardian:
The heavy rain, which is expected to spread north on Friday, has also caused additional leaks of radioactive water at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Powe…
Continue reading“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the ‘Linear No-Threshold’ (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theor…
Continue readingAs reported by Politico:
Senate Democrats on Thursday successfully blocked a measure meant to kill President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, dealing a decisive defeat to Republicans’ attempts to derail the controversial agreement and en…
The Ecologist leads, “The well-founded idea that nuclear radiation is dangerous even at the lowest levels is under attack, writes Karl Grossman. Three determined nuclear enthusiasts have filed petitions to the NRC calling on it to apply the doctrine of…
Continue readingEntergy’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor (NRC file photo).The subject line above is Scott Stapf of the Hasting Group’s Tweet pointing to an article at Syracuse.com. The dirty, age-degraded, dangerous, expensive, uncompetitive Fukushima Daiichi twin design …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear today decried the outrageous decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to cancel a study that would have examined cancer incidence and mortalities and the connection to U.S. nuclear facilities.
“Study after study in …
As reported by AP:
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s counter-intelligence agency says the number of Russian spies remains high and they are particularly interested in the country’s nuclear program.
The agency, also known as BIS, says in …
A FirstEnergy ratepayer (Shutterstock). In fact, AARP has spoken out forcefully against the FirstEnergy bailout, as at PUCO public comment hearings in Akron, OH — FirstEnergy’s hometown — in Jan. 2015.Should we laugh or cry? David Roberts…
Continue readingAs reported by Christine Legere at the Cape Cod Times, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ranked Entergy’s Pilgrim atomic reactor in Plymouth, MA near Boston as tied for the worst performing in the country.
It is tied for worst p…
A Beyond Nuclear letter to the editor just published at the Cleveland Plain Dealer begins:
To his credit, PUCO chair Andre Porter prioritized safety, in addition to reliability and cost, when it comes to Ohio’s electricity supply (“PUCO Chair Andre…
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) became the 34th senator to support the Iran nuclear agreement, which means President Obama has the votes to sustain his promised veto of any legislation that would attempt to scuttle the deal. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)As r…
Continue readingOPG wants to dump Ontario’s radioactive wastes less than a mile from the shore of Lake Huron!Beyond Nuclear has submitted yet another round of public comments to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and Can…
Continue readingAs reported by the Chicago Tribune, Illinois-based Exelon Nuclear has warned its employees that layoffs may lie ahead, as five atomic reactors in the state continue to hemorrhage money.
Exelon has been buffeted recently. The Washington, D.C. Public …
Photo compliments of Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear-Free CommitteeJim Provance, Columbus Bureau Chief for the Toledo Blade, has reported on “Protests greet FirstEnergy rate request hearings.”
The protest took place at the HQ of PUCO, the Public Utilities Co…
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Exelon must decide by the end of September whether or not Quad Cities’ two reactors will continue operating past May 2017 — the current cut off for their electricity generation capacity commitments. The dirty, d…
Continue readingWith gun violence proliferating at an alarming rate across the United States, federal authorities with Nuclear Regulatory Commission are now investigating a security breach at Exelon’s LaSalle nuclear power plant involving the theft of two handgu…
Continue readingLogo courtesy of Public Citizen’s Energy and Climate ProgramThe Washington, D.C. Public Service Commission has voted unanimously to reject Exelon Nuclear’s attempted takeover of the Mid-Atlantic electric utility Pepco. This blocks the acquisition…
Continue reading“Japan’s weather agency on Saturday told thousands of residents near a southern city to prepare for a possible evacuation as it upgraded a volcanic eruption warning.” As if nature itself was snubbing nuclear power, seismic activity around the…
Continue readingMargaret Harrington, host of “Nuclear-Free Future Conversation” on Channel 17/Town Hall Meeting Televsion in Burlington, VT, interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on the Iran Nuclear Deal announced on July 14th, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bo…
Continue readingIn an op-ed published in the Miami Herald, the Executive Directors of Greenpeace U.S.A. and Sierra Club (Annie Leonard and Michael Brune, respectively), and the President of Friends of the Earth U.S.A. (Erich Pica), have listed the many reasons why nuc…
Continue readingDr. Gordon Edwards, President, CCNRDr. Gordon Edwards, President of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (photo, left), has prepared the following backgrounder in response to the Reuters article, reprinted at Voice of America, about th…
Continue readingAs reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ameren Corp. has officially cancelled its proposed new reactor, Callaway 2, by withdrawing its license application from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ameren has previously suspended the project in M…
Continue readingTsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of Tepco at the time of the accident. Credit Franck Robichon/European Pressphoto Agency As reported by Jonathon Soble in the New York Times, a review panel of private citzens has — for the second time — overruled …
Continue readingAs reported by Eric Marx and ClimateWire/E&E, reprinted in Scientific American:
“France, one of the world’s leaders in nuclear energy production, plans to draw down nuclear’s share of electricity generation from 75 to 50 percent by…
Beyond Nuclear has filed multiple appeals at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia — the second highest court in the land — in opposition to Detroit Edison’s proposed new Fermi 3 atomic reactor, and the construction/opera…
Continue readingNRC file photo of two-reactor Quad Cities nuclear power plant in ILScott Stapf of the Hastings Group’s tweet put it well: Nuclear blackmail: Exelon threatens to kill Quad Cities plant if IL lawmakers don’t hand over loot.
As reported by Crain’s Chicago…
As reported by Scott DiSavino in Reuters, a new “capacity factor” subsidy, at ratepayer expense, is being offered by the Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland (PJM) grid operator to Exelon Nuclear, to help prop up several uncompetitive atomic reactors in Il…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear released a press statement today welcoming the advent of Rhode Island’s Deepwater Wind Block Island Wind Farm but pointing out the missed opportunities for major offshore wind production off the U.S. coastline.
TAKOMA PARK, MD, July 29, …
“Burning money” graphic by Gene Case, Avenging AngelsRebecca Smith has reported in the Wall Street Journal that the “[m]odular method has run into costly delays and concerns about who will bear the brunt of the expense.”
The Vogtle 3 & 4, GA, and …
Kosei Mito, showing Elisabeth Fernandes Osaka and her niece his research on nuclear power. They are on the banks of the Motoyasu River, in front of the Atom Dome. Mr. Mito’s guide badge, with an anti-nuclear weapons symbol, reads “IN-UTERO SU…
Continue readingAs reported by World Nuclear News, Unistar (wholly owned by Electricité de France) has requested, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed, to withdraw the COLA (combined Construction and Operating License Application) for the Calve…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has posted a blog entitled “Downstream,” about the radioactive risks to the Great Lakes from dozens of atomic reactors located on their shorelines, in both the U.S. and Canada.
Gundersen h…
DO sign the petition at, and the spread the word about, http://www.stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.com/August 16th, 1PM at Pinegrove Park in Port Huron, Michigan (1PM – 4PM) to rally to stop a deep underground nuclear dump, proposed for the shores of…
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