Environmental coalition attorney Diane CurranAn environmental coalition of nearly three dozen groups, including Beyond Nuclear, has submitted comments on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) “Nuclear Waste Confidence” Draft Generic Environmen…
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Street theater performers, activist supporters, and members of the news media in front of DOE HQ on Dec. 11, 2009 protesting nuclear loan guarantees in solidarity with an International Climate Day of ActionAs the Vogtle 3 & 4 new reactor constr…
Continue readingMark Cooper of Vermont Law SchoolOn Thurs., Dec. 19th at 11 AM Eastern, Diane Curran and Mark Cooper (photo, left), attorney and expert witness, respectively, representing a coalition of dozens of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, will …
Continue readingVirginia Uranium, the company hoping to mine the Coles Hill site in Virginia, has suspended plans for the project. Despite investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in junkets to France and Canada for Virginia legislators and other lobbying efforts, t…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen “just say NO!” at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment meeting on 11/14 in Rockville, MD. Photo cre…
Continue readingRalph NaderOn Dec. 12th, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps joined with Ralph Nader (photo, left) in an hour-long presentation to the Climate Reality Check Coalition on why nuclear power is a false solution to the climate crisis.
As described in the event an…
Beyond Nuclear is pleased to be associated with Beyond Business as Usual (BBAU), a coalition of environmental groups opposed to dirty energy, such as fossil fuels and nuclear power, and advocates for clean energy (efficiency and renewables). Beyond…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen “just say NO!” at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment meeting on 11/14 in Rockville, MD. Photo credit …
Continue reading“We don’t do nuclear energy” was the categorical pronouncement made this week by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. The World Bank says it will not fund nuclear power instead giving development money to sustainable ene…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is headquartered, appropriately, in the nuclear-free city of Takoma Park. On December 14th, the City of Takoma Park will celebrate 30 years as a nuclear-free zone. We encourage all those within reach of Takoma Park to join us for the eve…
Continue readingA message from Debra Stoleroff of Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance (VYDA):
After more than 40 years, our efforts have paid off and the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is closing in 2014 and will be decommissioned. There are many…
Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy StudiesRobert Alvarez (photo, left), Senior Scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, has prepared a report entitled “The West Lake Landfill: A Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Arms Race.”
In 1973, t…
Arnie GundersenMaggie GundersenThis just out from Fairewinds Energy Education:
“This video is a presentation Arnie and Maggie Gundersen gave at Clarkson University to a Business Ethics course on October 22, 2013. The Gundersens discuss their experien…
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)On Nov. 21st, a group of ten Democratic U.S. Senators wrote U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane regarding their concerns about new agency policies restricting tr…
Continue readingWill the Yucca dump zombie rise again? Nevada says NO! Political cartoon by Jim Day, Las Vegas Review Journal, 2010 (be sure to count the toes!)In 1987, it was “Screw Nevada.” Now, it appears to be “screw the taxpayer,” and “screw future generations.”
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Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (near left) debated Breakthrough Institute’s Michael Shellenberger (far left) in Headline News “The Lion’s Den” November 7, 2013 over Robert Stone’s one-side nuclear power promotional film “Pandora’s Promise.”
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Continue readingRead the oped by Linda Gunter and Kevin Kamps, published by CNN, on why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. The oped was commissioned to rebut CNN’s screening of Pandora’s Promise on November 7th.
Here is the lead, then read more:
The cl…
Reports Deadline Hollywood: “Well, one thing is for sure: Cable news viewers like films about killer whales a lot more than ones about pro-nuclear power. CNN’s airing of the documentary Pandora’s Promise delivered a wet 345,0…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Associates, Inc.Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Associates, Inc. (photo, left), testified before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) on behalf…
Continue readingHelp support a new film – Crying Earth Rise Up! – that tells the story of the struggle of two Lakota Indian women to uncover the human cost of mining uranium on their sacred lands. The women ask questions about the children’s health and safety as they …
Continue readingKevin, Leona, and Yuko prepare for their workshop in between visitors to the Beyond Nuclear info. table at PowerShift 2013. The Japanese banner behind them reads “Stop Plutonium Thermal,” or “Nix MOX.” It was given to Kevin by anti-nuclear activists in…
Continue readingReports Reuters: “Britain signed a deal with France’s EDF to build a 16-billion pound ($26-billion) nuclear plant, becoming the first European country to provide state guarantees to help fund a nuclear project.
The Hinkley Point C project in southwest …
Nuclear power continues its decline worldwide while investements in, and development of, renewables soar. The findings of the newly released 2013 World Nuclear Industry Status Report, prepared by Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt et al., show that …
Continue readingRenowned environmental journalist and Beyond Nuclear Board member, Karl Grossman wrote this report on a Fukushima-focused symposium he attended in New York, posting on the cutting edge anti-nuclear news site, Enformable. Grossman describes t…
Continue readingTHE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT: ONGOING LESSONS FOR BOSTON & NEW YORKFormer Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Former Prime Minister of Japan join panel to discuss the risks of nuclear power at the Indian Point and Pil…
Continue readingHarvey Wasserman (photo, left) at Nukefree.org has posted an article entitled “The Demand for Global Take-Over at Fukushima Has Hit Critical Mass,” and urges folks to sign the petition at MoveOn, “The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima.” The…
Continue readingMI State Rep. Sarah Roberts, and Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood, spoke to local press along the shores of Lake Huron at Macpherson Park in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. Photo credit Kincardine Times.As reported by CTV, Michigan State Senator Hoon-Yung Hopgood a…
Continue readingThe Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump petition now has nearly 35,000 signatures! If you haven’t already signed it yourself, please do. And please continue to circulate it to everyone you know! Beverly Fernandez, spokesperson for Stop the Great Lakes…
Continue readingIPS senior scholar Robert AlvarezIt’s déjà vu all over again! After announcing a public meeting on August 22nd — supposedly intended for technical dialogue — the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) attemped to change the rules, and…
Continue readingU.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)On the eve of a public meeting at the agency’s HQ in Rockville, Maryland, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA, photo left), a long-time congressional watchdog on the nuclear power industry and its supposed regulators at the U.S. N…
Continue readingFor the first time in 14 months, not a single nuclear reactor is operating in Japan. For anti-nuclear activists, it is the development they have been clamoring for.
But those who work in the nuclear industry are far from happy. And then there are en…
Concern is growing internationally not only at the apparently worsening situation at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors — where hundreds of tons of radioactive water pour into the sea daily — but at the Japanese government&rsqu…
Continue readingNRC Chairwoman Allison MacfarlaneU.S. House Environment and the Economy Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and other Republican members of the subcommittee, are likely to grill U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane (phot…
Continue readingCNN WILL AIR PANDORA’S PROMISE PROPAGANDA FILM IN NOVEMBER. SIGN OUR PETITION TODAY TO REQUEST A LIVE AND FACT-BASED DISCUSSION ON CNN.Please sign our petition today to ask CNN for a live discussion with independent, qualified experts after Pandor…
Continue readingWe have revised and updated our pamphlet – Uranium Mining: The impact on people, our health, and the environment. We encourage you to download, reprint and distribute our pamphlets widely. If you would like to order printed copies, please contact us at…
Continue readingThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Nuclear Waste Confidence draft GEIS (Generic Environmental Impact Statement) has been published online. Critics dub it a “Nuke Waste Con Game.” The draft GEIS is nearly 600 pages long.
Once the draft GEIS …
Dr. Edwin Lyman, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned ScientistsAs reported by EcoWatch, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviewed Dr. Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists (photo, left) about the worsening “radioactive s…
Continue readingThis infamous photo of Vermont Yankee’s 2007 cooling tower collapse was sent to media reporters by whistleblowersBob Bady, a founding member of the Safe and Green Campaign, has penned an op-ed at the Vermont Digger entitled “What Killed the Beast?”
He …
As reported by The Guardian, radiation levels leaking from highly radioactive wastewater storage tanks at Fukushima Daiichi have reached deadly new highs. The previous record was 180 Rem/hour. The new record is 220 R/hr. As reported, “An unprotected pe…
Continue readingTo see the full listing of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) public comment meetings on its court-ordered Nuclear Waste Confidence Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), please click this link.
Continue readingKurokawa at a press conference after the release of the Diet report in July, 2012. A medical doctor, Kurokawa is also an Academic Fellow at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and is former President of the National Science Council of J…
Continue readingJapan’s Fukushima reactors continue to leak radioactivity into the Pacific Ocean. The American public deserves to be able to protect itself, particularly susceptible children, against this pollution. Tell the US Food and Drug Administration to …
Continue readingDavid Webb, Chief Executive Officer of Origin Investments AB: This problem with radioactive water was an inevitability. So, this has been known for 2 years. So, I think it does point out that the time had passed to allow the people in government ther…
Continue readingNRC Chairwoman Macfarlane and NRA Chairman Tanaka, Japan, Dec. 2012.As reported by the Washington Post, Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe has pledged a mere $500 million towards stabilizing the leakage of highly radioactive water into the ground and oc…
Continue readingFrom The Guardian, September 1st: “Radiation levels 18 times higher than previously reported have been found near a water storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing fresh concern about the safety of the wrecked facility.
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In a blog special to CNN, Paris-based independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy, Mycle Schneider, calls for an International Task Force Fukushima to provide the Japanese government and nuclear safety regulatory agency with keenl…
Continue readingJapan’s Industry Minister (in red hard hat) points at leaking tank farm for highly radioactive water storageAs reported by CNN, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, has said:
“Countermeasures led by Tepco to stop the con…
Japan’s Industry Minister (in red hard hat) points at leaking tank farm for highly radioactive water storageAs reported by CNN, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, has said:
“Countermeasures led by Tepco to stop the con…
In a victory for the state of Vermont and its people, Entergy will close Vermont Yankee in 2014 and begin decommissioning the reactor. According to the Wall Street Journal, “The station is expected to cease power production after its current fuel cycl…
Continue readingAs reported in last week’s Beyond Nuclear email bulletin, resistance is mounting on both sides of the Great Lakes international border to Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) plan to bury radioactive wastes on the Lake Huron shoreline.
On Aug. 19, Beyond …