Logo courtesy of Public Citizen Energy ProgramAs reported by UtilityDIVE and Argus Media, the Maryland Public Service Commission (MD PSC) has given itself till May 8th to decide whether or not to approve the proposed $6.8 billion merger between Exel…
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Tim Judson, Executive Director of NIRS. Photo courtesy of NIRS.As just announced by the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) David A. Clarke School of Law, two panels of experts will examine the question of whether or not the proposed purch…
Continue readingU.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of NevadaU.S. Senator Harry Reid (Democrat from Nevada, photo left) has announced he won’t seek re-election, and will retire 22 months from now. Reid, who has long served as either the U.S. Senate Majority or Mi…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert, MIAs reported by a press release, a coalition of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, today testified before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com…
Continue readingSmith amidst the 2012 “Occupy METI” (Ministry for Economy, Trade, and Industry) anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo in 2012Heidi Hutner, Director of the Stony Brook University Sustainability Program, has honored Aileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director of Gre…
Continue readingNRC file photo of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, on the Pacific Coast near San Luis Obispo, CAAs reported by David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert, MIAs reported by a press release, a coalition of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, today testified before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commi…
Continue readingAn infrared photo showing the thermal heat of a German CASTOR cask filled with irradiated nuclear fuel being transported by rail to Gorleben. The high-level radioactivity, not the thermal heat, is the hazard to human health, safety, and the env…
Continue readingInvestigative journalist and Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl GrossmanMatt Wald, the New York Times’ decades-long nuclear power reporter, recently retired from the newspaper. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the nuclear power industry’s lobbying an…
Continue readingEntergy’s problem-plagued Palisades atomic reactor in Covert, MI, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.A U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) will hold an oral argument pre-hearing on Wednesday, March 25th beginni…
Continue readingLogo compliments of Public Citizen’s Energy ProgramThe two counties comprising Pepco’s residential customer base in Maryland — Montgomery and Prince George’s — have just agreed to the merger of the electric utilities Exelon and Pepco, according…
Continue readingDOE imageAs by reported by Joby Warrick in the Washington Post, the first such study by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in seven years predicts that easily a third of U.S. energy needs could be supplied by wind power by 2050.
The DOE report is e…
Thom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture”On March 12, Thom Hartmann hosted Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, on “The Big Picture” to discuss a massive leak of 750 tons (200,000 gallons) of highly radioactive rainwater at Fukushim…
Continue readingChiho Kaneko, Fairewinds Energy Education board member, along with Alfred Meyer of PSR’s national board, and Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps, in the Carbon-Free/Nuclear-Free contingent at the People’s Climate March in New York City, Sept. 2014.On March 12…
Continue readingLetters were hand-delivered to Japanese embassies and consulates around the world on March 11, 2015, marking the fourth anniversary of the start of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Beyond Nuclear participated in these actions by hand-delivering a letter…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, was interviewed by Bill Moore, founder of EV WORLD: WORLD OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES on his inFOCUS video program. Their 30-minute dialogue covered a lot of ground, focusing on the latest news from Ja…
Continue readingMrs. Sachiko Sato (background) and her daughter Mina (age 13), speaking in New York City in September 2011. AP photo.In September 2011, about six months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe began, Beyond Nuclear had the honor and privilege…
Continue readingWhat is new at the stricken Fukushima nuclear site since the March 11, 2011 nuclear disaster there began? What really happened? And what are the health implications, both in Japan and for the U.S. if a similar nuclear disaster happened here? The newly …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has released a press release, looking to tomorrow’s fourth anniversary since the Fukushima, Japan nuclear disater began.
Headlined: “Higher radiation doses could be ruled “acceptable” after nuclear disaster: “Fukushima” in the U.S. an ev…
Entergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor, located 4 miles south of South Haven, in Covert, MI on the Lake Michigan shoreline.An environmental coalition, represented by Toledo-based attorney Terry Lodge, as well as expert witness Arnie Gundersen (Chie…
Continue readingThe Vogtle Unit 3 reactor pressure vessel, parked in front the Vogtle Unit 4 containment vessell bottom head, May 2013. Photo credit: Georgia Power.As reported by Matt Kempner in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the two new atomic reactors unde…
Continue readingAs reported by David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Pacific Gas and Electric Co. replaced $842 million of equipment at the heart of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant without first making sure the new gear could pass a vital seismic safety…
Continue readingThe French-owned AREVA nuclear corporation has requested that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission suspend indefinitely its design certification review of the US Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR). The February 25, 2015 letter to the NRC was followed by …
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Margene Bullcreek. Photo by Gabriela Bulisova.It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news that Margene Bullcreek passed on, on Sunday, March 1st, 2015. An In Memoriam has been issued by her colleague Ian Zabarte of the Native Community Action C…
Continue readingIn a press release, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) of Chicago has warned the energy future of IL is at stake, as Exelon Nuclear lobbyists have unveiled their wish list bill seeking $580 million from state legislators, at ratepayers’ expe…
Continue readingPortrait of the current NRC Commission. Pictured from left to right: Commissioner Jeff Baran, Commissioner Kristine L. Svinicki, Chairman Stephan (sic) Burns and Commissioner William C. Ostendorff. (Please note, Chairman Burns’ first named is correctly…
Continue readingSuccessul resistance to TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands crude oil pipeline must now shift to fend off the dumping of TransCanada’s radioactive wastes on the Great Lakes shore!
As reported by the Associated Press, on Feb. 24th, President Obam…
NRC file photo of Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwest Michigan.As reported by Jim Hayden at the Holland Sentinel, nearly two dozen security guards and security department supervisors at the Palisades atomic re…
Continue readingPG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, near San Luis Obispo, CAAs reported by a Friends of the Earth news release, subtitled “Friends of the Earth [FOE] petition says NRC illegally let PG&E alter nuclear plant’s license,” a 9th Circuit feder…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor in Plymouth, MA on Cape Cod Bay, south of BostonAs reported by Peter J. Brown at Wicked Local Wellfleet, concerns continue to simmer downwind of Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor (photo,…
Continue readingNRC file photo of VY, located across the Connecticut River from New Hampshire, in Vernon, VT, just 8 miles upstream of the Massachusetts state line.As reported by Robert Audette of the Associated Press, the State of Vermont Department of Public Ser…
Continue readingVT Gov. Peter Shumlin, who also serves as the chairman of the Democratic Governors AssociationAs reported by the Mountain Times of Killington, VT, Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT) is calling on the State of Vermont Legislature to join him in passing maj…
Continue readingEntergy’s Palisades atomic reactor, on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert, MI, has the worst embrittled RPV in the U.S., vulnerable to catastrophic failure due to PTS.As revealed in a new report from Greenpeace Belgium, micro-cracking in Belgian atomic …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Exelon’s Ginna atomic reactor on the shore of Lake Ontario, in Ontario, NY, 20 miles northeast of Rochester.As reported by Barry Cassell at PowerEngineering, Exelon Nuclear is seeking approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissi…
Continue readingNRC file photo of North Anna Units 1 and 2, located on the shore of Lake Anna in Mineral, VAAs reported by the Augusta Free Press (of Waynesboro, VA), a coalition of 15 groups (including the People’s Alliance for Clean Energy, and the Sierra Club VA Ch…
Continue readingIn this Feb. 6, 2014 aerial photo is a view of Lake Huron looking south towards Port Huron, Mich., right, and Sarnia, Ont., left. Waukegan and Lake County are protesting a plan to store nuclear waste in Lake Huron. (Carlos Osorio, AP)As reported by the…
Continue readingFirstEnergy’s dirty, dangerous, and uncompetitive Davis-Besse atomic reactor, with Lake Erie in the backgroundHarvey Wasserman, author of Solartopia, asks this question in an article posted at EcoWatch.
Continue readingDr. Ernest Sternglass, 91, Emeritus Professor of Radiological Physics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, passed away in Ithaca, NY on February 12, 2015. He was a prominent, published scientist and anti-nuclear activist, whose early w…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2 on the Lake Erie shore. Fermi 3 would be built immediately adjacent to Fermi 2 — ironically enough, on the very spot where Fermi 1 had a partial core meltdown in 1966!U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rulings regar…
Continue readingForbes magazine’s February 11, 1985 cover story headlined “Nuclear Follies.” The business investment journal wrote “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a d…
Continue readingAn aerial view of the known extent of the tritium contamination in soil and groundwater at the VY site, on the banks of the Connecticut River in southeastern Vermont.Entergy Nuclear is infamous for its arrogance. Now, reports the Associated Press…
Continue readingOPG’s proposed so-called Deep Geologic Repository for radioactive waste burial would be located less than a mile from the Great Lakes shoreline.Today, DuPage County, the second most populous in Illinois, announced the passage of a resolution in opposit…
Continue readingFirstEnergy’s dirty, dangerous, and uncompetitive Davis-Besse atomic reactor, with Lake Erie in the background.Harvey Wasserman explores this question on his “Solartopia, Green Power, and Wellness Hour” radio show of Feb. 10th. Here is his summary of t…
Continue readingPhoto credit: http://www.csisun.com/solar-installations/As reported by the The Joplin Globe, solar PV advocates including Renew Missouri (the Earth Island Institute) and the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, and the Missouri Coalition for the E…
Continue readingAs shown on this graphic chart, Sr-90 seeks human bone tissue. Credit: Russell Hoffman.As reported by Susan Smallheer at the Rutland Herald, the State of Vermont has detected radioactive, hazardous Strontium-90 in groundwater monitoring wells at Enterg…
Continue readingThom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture”Thom Hartmann (photo, left) invited Beyond Nuclear onto his television program “The Big Picture” to discuss the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) impending decision to rubberstamp the proposed new Fermi …
Continue readingAs shown in Jim Day’s political cartoon (be sure to count the toes) in the Las Vegas Review Journal, the President Obama zeroed out funding, and ordered his DOE to withdraw the license application, in 2010.U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) Communication…
Continue readingAs revealed by a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “Event Notification Report” on Feb. 6th, Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor on Cape Cod Bay south of Boston, MA suffered “a major loss of emergency assessment capability,” during the sever…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Exelon’s Ginna atomic reactor on the Lake Ontario shore of upstate NY near RochesterAs reported by the Democrat and Chronicle, Exelon Nuclear’s Ginna atomic reactor — one of the oldest in the U.S. — is at risk of near-term shutdown….
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