Candles and paper lanterns float on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome at the Peace Memorial Park, in memory of the victims of the bomb on the 63rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 2008 in Hiroshima, Japan.Commemorations …
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After nearly 40 years, EPA is considering updating its radiation exposure standards for regularly operating nuclear facilities. Human health, not the financial health of the nuclear industry, should drive any changes that EPA makes. These…
Entergy Nuclear’s “dirty dozen” atomic reactors across the U.S.As reported by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, for the second year in a row, Entergy has announced major job cuts across its nuclear fleet of a “dirty dozen” atomic reactors nationwide. The…
Continue readingThe following letter to the editor has just appeared in the New York Times:
To the Editor:
“Hearings on Water Permits for Indian Pt.” (news article, July 23) includes a suggestion that the Indian Point nuclear facility is critical to kee…
Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps appeared on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” television program on Thursday, July 31st. Thom asked Kevin about a recent scientific study documenting radioactive cesium contamination of the muscle tissue of monkeys who inha…
Continue readingAlthough atomic reactors and their transmission lines are inextricably interconnected, NRC failed to include them in its Fermi 3 FEISAn environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, has warned for two and a half years, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory …
Continue readingAn NRC inspector visually examines severe cracking in the Davis-Besse Shield Building, Oct., 2011In a ruling on July 25th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel at Davis-Besse, OH rejected an envi…
Continue readingWhile Beyond Nuclear continues its review and analysis of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released report on the “Lessons Learned From The Fukushima Nuclear Accident For Improving Safety Of U.S. Nuclear Plants” it must be no…
Continue readingDr. Helen Caldicott, Beyond Nuclear’s Founding PresidentTeaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Helen Caldicott, editor of the new book,
Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear …
NRC Commissioner William Magwood IVThe environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, also requests a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation of Commissioner William Magwood IV’s (photo, left) …
Continue reading35 years ago on July 16, likely the worst and certainly most forgotten U.S. nuclear accident happened.
On July 16, 1979, just 14 weeks after the Three Mile Island reactor accident, and just 34 years to the day after the Trinity atomic test, the smal…
NRC Commissioner William Magwood IVIn response to a demand made last month by attorneys Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein on behalf of 34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner (NRC) William Magwood IV (photo, left) has r…
Continue readingPhoto by Beth KemlerBeyond Nuclear staff attended the rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday, July 13th against the Cove Point LNG (liquefied natural gas) expansion proposal, alongside organizing groups such as CCAN (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) and …
Continue readingA 6.8 M earthquake was registered at 4:22 Japan Standard Time, 84 miles off the coast of the shutdown Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power station (not to be confused with the wrecked and melted Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor site.) Fortunately the Dai-Ni reacto…
Continue readingAn Eastern Fox Snake, a threatened indigenous constrictor, but one of numerous endangered or threatened species that could well inhabit Fermi 3’s proposed transmission line corridor.In a ruling issued on July 7th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
Continue readingAs reported by Reuters, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have seized 88 pounds of nuclear material from a university in Mosul, Iraq. The Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations has reported the theft to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, …
Continue readingFrom left to right, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps, VYDA’s Chris Williams, and VYDA’s Jeanette Baer “frog marched” into a waiting “Paddy wagon” by Windham County Sheriff’s deputies for the ride to Brattleboro City Jail, March 22, 2012.The following annou…
Continue readingU.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center map showing projected path of Super Typhoon NeoguriAs reported by Mother Jones, a “once in decades storm” packing winds stronger than 150 miles per hour, Super Typhoon Neoguri, is taking direct aim at some of Japa…
Continue readingAs reported by the Kalamazoo Gazette and Michigan Radio, three security guard force whistleblowers spoke out an a Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meeting last night, alleging that they were terminated from Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor becaus…
Continue readingIn an article entitled “Great Lakes Communities Struggle Against Proposed Nuclear Waste Facility,” reporter Katie Rucke of MintPress News provides an update on the 13-year-long resistance to what Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps has described as a “declara…
Continue readingAs reported by the Macomb Daily Tribune, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin (both Democrats from Michigan) have again written U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, urging that the Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission be activated, to stud…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (back to camera), NIRS executive director Tim Judson (seated), and Nukewatch Wisconsin’s John LaForge present at the annual “Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer” workshop session at the MREA Fair. Photo by Dave Kraft, NEIS exec…
Continue readingThe upload as it appears in Safecast’s new web map.Beyond Nuclear is pleased to have been selected for the first ever “Upload of the Month” by Safecast, for our bGeigie Nano radiation monitor readings taken at the Van Buren State Park in Michigan, imme…
Continue readingNRC Commissioner William Magwood IVAs explained in a press release, 34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, have urged U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner William Magwood IV (photo, left) to resign immediately, due to his apparent and ac…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Palisades, and the Great Lake and countryside it puts at risk.On June 11, 2014, a group of five concerned local residents and environmental group representatives, including Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps, toured Entergy Nuclear’s proble…
Continue readingToday, the State of Michigan’s Senate unanimously passed a bill and resolutions package sponsored by sponsored by State Senator Phil Pavlov and co-sponsored by State Senators John Proos, Jack Brandenburg, Michael Green, Tonya Schuitmaker, Hoon-Yung H…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s Pilgrim GE BWR Mark I on Cape Cod Bay in Plymouth, MABeyond Nuclear has signed onto an effort spearheaded by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, and endorsed by two dozen local groups, to urge the State of Massachusetts to…
Continue readingU.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)A new GAO report, requested by U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass., photo left) and U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), finds that the shuttered U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC) facility received hundreds of millions…
Continue readingNEIS Board Member Linda Lewison in discussion with Environmental Law Policy Center’s Barry Matchett in Springfield, IL. Photo courtesy of NEIS.As related in a Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) press release, an Illinois State House of Rep…
Continue readingThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission snuck out a major decision on the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend. Its generic study of whether or not to require the expedited transfer of “spent nuclear fuel” (irradiated nuclear fuel rods, highly radioac…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition attorney Terry LodgeAn environmental coalition, represented by attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo (photo, left), has filed a defense of its contention alleging that FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company’s (FENOC) Davis-Besse atomic …
Continue readingArnie GundersenAs posted on the Fairewinds Energy Education website:
CNN called Arnie Gundersen to learn about the use of kitty litter at the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Project facility in New Mexico, which is being blamed for radiation leaks….
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works CommitteeU.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA, photo at left), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Senato…
Continue readingAt the urging of environmental allies in southeast Michigan, Beyond Nuclear in March 2012 prepared a backgrounder on reactor, radioactive waste, and other nuclear risks in the region. The backgrounder has been updated for use at a presentation by Beyon…
Continue readingLooking at the overlap of U.S. nuclear reactors (both power and research facilities) and earthquake zones is pretty alarming.In a press release entitled “NRC Prioritizes Detailed Earthquake Risk Analysis For Central and Eastern U.S. Reactors,” the U.S…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor, as well as the Great Lake and surrounding countryside it puts at riskDespite the industry’s claim that nuclear power is “clean energy,” Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor has just spilled “approxima…
Continue readingA novel by Darragh McKeon, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, has been published in the U.S. by Harper Collins and will be featured at a Beyond Nuclear special book event on Monday, May 19th at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.
A theater…
John LaForge of Nukewatch in Luck, WIJohn LaForge of Nukewatch Wisconsin has published an article at CounterPunch entitled “A Rhetorical Outburst: Canadian ‘Experts’ Comfy with Radioactive Pollution of Great Lakes.”
It is John’s response t…
As reported by KNDO, a whistleblower at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has revealed that a pipe explosion occurred at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) two weeks ago, but was not publicly reported. The PFP played a role in fabricating the weapons-gr…
Continue readingU.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman, Environment and Public Works CommitteeFive Democratic U.S. Senators have written U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane, uring that NRC’s rubberstamp of exemptions from emergency p…
Continue readingThe Brothers Reuther. From left to right, Roy, Walter, Victor. Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.It is fitting, on International Workers’ Day, to pay tribute to Walter Reuther.
Reuther’s biographer, Nelson Lichtenstein (The…
The UN IAEA’s official radioactivity hazard warning signNIRS has published a press release entitled “NRC Fails to Document Claim Made in Denial of NIRS’ Emergency Planning Petition that ‘Majority’ of Nuclear Emergency Drills Include Natural Disaster…
Continue readingDavid Kraft, Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) of ILThe Chicago Tribune reports that Exelon CEO Chris Crane denies the largest nuclear utility in the U.S. is seeking a bailout from the State of Illinois in order to stabilize its flagg…
Continue readingStatement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy ProgramApril 30, 2014Contact: Tyson Slocum (202) 454-5191Karilyn Gower (202) 588-7779″Today’s announcement of a debt-laden acquisition of D.C.-based Potomac Electric Power Co (PEP…
Continue readingKen Bossong, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign, published a press release on April 29th entitled “EIA PROJECTS RENEWABLES TO BE 16-27% OF U.S. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BY 2040: LOW END DOES NOT PASS THE LAUGH TEST; UPPER BOUND PROBABLY STILL TOO …
Continue readingThe infamous 2007 age-related degradation cooling tower collapse at Vermont YankeeReuters reports:
“Lower natural gas prices and stagnant growth in electric demand will lead to the loss of 10,800 megawatts of U.S. nuclear generation, or around 10 per…
The New York Times Retro Report has published a 13 minute video about the Three Mile Island disaster. Unfortunately, it repeats the myth that “no one died at TMI.” Beyond Nuclear debunked that falsehood in its recent Thunderbird newsletter, Three Mile …
Continue readingPhotograph by William DanielsThe New York Times has published an extended article, returning to the scene of the “Huge Dirty Bomb” that exploded 28 years ago this week, resulting in 1,000 square miles of radioactively contaminated “Dead Zone” in Ukrain…
Continue readingThe insignia of the U.S. nuclear missileers Stahl interviewed in this reportCBS 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl reports on the status of U.S. nuclear-tipped missiles at silos located across five states on the Great Plains. This includes antiquated communicati…
Continue readingAs reported by Martin Fackler of the New York Times, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese national government under Prime Minister Abe’s pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) administration are pressuring nuclear evacuees from aro…
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