From The Asahi Shimbun: A British scientist who studied the health effects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster panned a United Nations report that virtually dismissed the possibility of higher cancer rates caused by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear…
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Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, Citizens’ Resistance at Fermi 2 (CRAFT), and Citizens Environmental Alliance of Southwestern Ontario argued before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in Monroe Michigan on November 20, that the aging Fermi …
Continue readingKaren Silkwood, Feb. 19, 1946 to Nov. 13, 1974. Nov. 13, 2014 marks the 40th year since her death.Thursday, November 13th marks the 40th year since the tragic, suspicious death of Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower. The Christic Institute Archives o…
Continue readingAn environmental coalition embroiled in numerous old, degraded reactor license extension — as well as proposed new reactor construction and operation license — proceedings has filed its “CONSOLIDATED REPLY TO ANSWERS TO PETITIONS TO SUSPEND FINAL REA…
Continue readingThe governor of the Kagoshima prefecture in Japan, in approving the restart of the two Sendai reactors, has failed to understand the lessons of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and is ignoring science, safety and public opinion, Green Action stated today…
Continue readingNRC HQ, Rockville, MD. One White Flint is pictured. Two White Flint is to the right, outside the frame.The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLB) overseeing FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company’s (F…
Continue readingSticker designed by Yuko Tonohira of S.A.N.S., as is the Nov. 16th event flier
URANIUM? LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND!-A Film Screening & Discussion About Uranium Mining-
Sunday November 167:00PM-9:00PM@ Busboys & Poets (5th & K)1025 5th St. NW W…
NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane just announced her resignationBeyond Nuclear has issued the following statement regarding NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane’s announced resignation, just a year and a half into her current five-year term:
“Chairman Macfarl…
The Nuclear Free Future Award 2014 hosted in Munich goes to five outstanding individuals dedicated to preserve the planet and future generations from nuclear madness. Since 1998, the central message of the foundation is “Leave the uranium …
Continue readingEcoWatch has featured Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” t.v. show, speaking about Woods Hole’s Dr. Ken Buesseler’s detection of Fukushima radioactive contamination in the open ocean off the w…
Continue readingPolitical cartoon by Jim Day of the Las Vegas Review Journal (be sure to count the toes!)Despite hoots and hollers from nuclear industry lobbyists and their friends in Congress, the publication of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Yucca Mounta…
Continue readingMedia outlets publish cookie-cutter op-eds under different by-lines with the same false information
TAKOMA PARK, MD, October 9, 2014 — Over the past three weeks, news outlets around the country have published op-eds and letters to the editor with iden…
Sticker designed by Yuko Tonohira of S.A.N.S., as is the Nov. 16th event flier
URANIUM? LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND!-A Film Screening & Discussion About Uranium Mining-
Sunday November 167:00PM-9:00PM@ Busboys & Poets (5th & K)1025 5th St. NW W…
This announcement was circulated by Mary Olson of NIRS:
Please come to our Second Nuclear Free Campaign Summit and Strategy Session
This event is for activists working for a Nuclear-Free Future! Here are the event details:
WHO: Sierra Club Nuclear…
It could be described the precedent for a new age of “robber barons.” The European Commission announced that it has approved United Kingdom public subsidies to support the French government utility EDF to construct two European Pressu…
Continue readingAs referenced on our Just the Facts page, a series of articles using in some cases identical, and often near-identical, message points have appeared in publications across the country. Clearly pulled from a nuclear industry handout, we’re calling them …
Continue readingAn article in the MIT Technology Review, asserted that a new, improved reactor fuel (pictured) might be able to off-set the obvious expense of nuclear energy which is also too slow to address climate change. The author’s lead — “slowing climate change…
Continue readingAtomic reactors and their electrical transmission lines are inextricably interlinked, yet NRC staff has failed to undertake a NEPA review of the proposed new Fermi 3 transmission line corridor’s environmental impacts.The environmental coalition interve…
Continue readingHarvey Wasserman, author of “Solartopia”Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers and Kevin Kamps, along with David Kraft of Nuclear Energy Information Service in Chicago, appeared on Harvey Wasserman’s (photo, left) “Green Power and Wellness” radio program on Se…
Continue readingChris Williams speaking at Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent of the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept. 21stChris Williams (photo, left), the chairman of the board of directors of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), and a…
Continue readingDiane CurranAs reported by a coalition press release, 17 groups engaged in interventions against 23 old and new reactors have filed new contentions with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panels. The conte…
Continue readingOntario Power Generation proposes to bury “low” and “intermediate” level radioactive wastes from 20 reactors across the province at its Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the Lake Huron shore. The Great Lakes comprise 95% of North America’s surface fr…
Continue readingReports Reuters: “Japan will not restart closed-down nuclear plants “unless safety is restored 100 percent,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday.” But what will this really mean and how will 100% safety be guaranteed, a virtually impossible standa…
Continue readingBetween 300,000 and 400,000 people marched in New York City on September 21 in the largest climate rally in history. The Peoples Climate March included a contingent that specifically drew attention to why nuclear power cannot address climate change. Th…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (wearing yellow “Nuclear Power? No Thanks! flag) and PSR national board member Alfred Meyer. Photo by Harvey Wasserman.Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, took part in the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Con…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2Beyond Nuclear, Citizens Environment Alliance of Southwestern Ontario, and Don’t Waste Michigan, in coalition opposing Detroit Edison’s application for a 20-year license extension at Fermi 2 on the Lake Erie shore in southeast …
Continue readingAs reported by the Associated Press, on the very day that the Canadian federal Environmental Assessment Joint Review Panel hearings ended, a U.S. Senate resolution was introduced in opposition to the proposed Ontario Power Generation Great Lakes shor…
Continue readingWorld leaders are coming to New York City next week for a UN summit on the climate crisis. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution.
With …
Writing this week in The Ecologist, Ralph Nader points out that “nuclear power exists for one reason only — government support.
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Here is an excerpt:
“So if you go to work at the NEI and you read about the absence of any permanent…
The UN is looking to include nuclear energy as part of its Sustainable Development Goals. Jeffrey Sachs, who leads the science panel for UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, has presented a report this month to the General Assembly of the UN, whic…
The Davis-Besse Shield Building exterior whitewashing of August to October, 2012, applied 40 years too lateOn September 8, 2014, environmental coalition attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo filed a supplement/amendment to a contention regarding FirstEnergy N…
Continue reading“A group of parents and children who were residing in Fukushima Prefecture when the nuclear disaster unfolded in March 2011 is suing the central and prefectural governments for failing to take sufficient steps to protect children from radiation e…
Continue readingThe radioactive waste dump would be located less than a mile from the Lake Huron shore, surrounded by the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, one of the biggest nuclear power plants in the worldThe group Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump has run a pow…
Continue readingAn NRC inspector examines severe cracking in the Davis-Besse Shield Building shortly ater they were first revealed on Oct. 11, 2011. NRC file photo.Terry Lodge, Toledo-based attorney for an environmental coalition (including Beyond Nuclear) resisti…
Continue readingPediatrician Dr. Alex Rosen”Nuclear bomb tests contaminate soils, while nuclear accidents and X-rays are a direct threat to our health. At a world summit this week, doctors called for more protection and awareness…
“It was a central theme at this…
A warning by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s top on-site safety inspector at California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant concealed within NRC for more than a year has gone public. In July 2013, Michael Peck, the agency’s …
Continue readingU.S. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI)As reported by the Macomb Daily:
“On a ship moored along the banks of the Saginaw River, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee will reveal a major plan to protect the Great Lakes from a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Canadian shores…
TEPCO has been ordered to pay Mikio Watanabe (pictured) nearly 500,000 US dollars in compensation for the suicide of his wife, Hamako (58 years), after they were forced to leave their home and livelihoods in Kawamata town (40 km from the reactors) d…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman (photo, left) has published an article at Enformable about a “Differing Professional Opinion” filed by Dr. Michael Peck, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top on-site inspector at Pacific Gas & Electric’s twi…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman (photo, left) has published an article at Enformable about a “Differing Professional Opinion” filed by Dr. Michael Peck, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top on-site inspector at Pacific Gas & Electric’s twi…
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 11/14/13 in Rockville, MD. Photo credit …
Continue readingDon’t Waste Michigan board members Michael Keegan, Alice Hirt, and Kevin Kamps call for Palisades’ permanent shutdown at the 2000 Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, on the Lake Michigan beach at Van Buren State Park, with the atomic reactor’s co…
Continue readingNRC Commissioner William Magwood IV34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, have written a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Chairman, Allison Macfarlane, as well as NRC Commissioners Christine Svinicki and William Ostendorff, urging them …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2Multiple environmental groups have met an arbitrarily short, 11:59pm Eastern deadline, and officially intervened against the application by DTE (Detroit Edison) to extend the operating license at its Fermi 2 atomic reactor (pho…
Continue reading“Nuclear Illinois” map produced by NEISAs reported by the Chicago Tribune:
“Exelon has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to change its proposed emissions rules to ensure that all of its nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities across t…
Aerial image of Vogtle nuclear power plant in GA, showing the operational Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for the proposed Units 3 and 4. Photo credit: High Flyer.We told them so. As the environmental movement warned 14 years ago, w…
Continue readingAlthough atomic reactors and their transmission lines are inextricably interconnected, NRC staff failed to include them in its FEIS for the proposed new Fermi 3 reactor, a violation of NEPAOn Aug. 7th, Terry Lodge, Toledo-based attorney for the environ…
Continue readingAs reported in Beyond Nuclear’s weekly email bulletin on June 5th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled President Obama’s proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis. Most unfortunately, the Obama administrat…
Continue readingThe solar-powered Rosetta space probe made a successful rendezvous this week with a comet more than 300 million miles from the Sun — a distance at which nuclear-proponents have for decades insisted solar energy would never work; that nuclear power was…
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