If you live in the Washington, DC or New York metro area, please consider attending the International Uranium FIlm Festival. It comes to DC February 10, 11 and 12 and to Brooklyn, NY February 14-19. The DC festival, at the Goethe-Institut, opens with T…
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Harvey Wasserman edits www.nukefree.org, and wrote Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth. Harvey has published the first of a two part series at EcoWatch, entitled “50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima.”
Part Two will be on how Fukushi…
American folk icon Pete Seeger passed away on January 27, 2014 at 94 years old.
Pete was more than America’s beloved folklorist and singer, he was a nonviolent troubadour waging world peace and justice, a balladeer to save the environment for fut…
Dr. Jeffrey PattersonIt is with heavy heart, deep sadness and sense of loss, that Beyond Nuclear pays tribute to Dr. Jeffrey Patterson at the time of his unexpected death due to a heart attack on the night of January 23. Dr. Patterson had long served -…
Continue readingDr. Jeff Patterson, President, PSRDr. Jeffrey Patterson (photo, left), President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), will present on “Nuclear Power: What You Need to Know about Price, Pollution and Proliferation” at several stops across sout…
Continue readingYard signs created by Michigan Safe Energy Future–Kalamazoo Chapter
Entergy Nuclear: Resisting a Rogue Corporation and its Radioactive Risks
A presentation by Chris Williams of Vermont Citizens Action Network as well as Vermont Yankee Decommissioning …
On Thursday evening, Jan. 2nd, Thom Hartmann hosted Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on his television program, in a segment entitled “Military poisoned by Fukushima radiation,” to discuss the apparent radiation sickness and maladies suffered by sailors wh…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingLeRoy Moore, Ph.D. of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, has written the following memorial:
“Remembering Ken Gordon: Wins acquittal in court for those resisting Rocky Flats On Sunday, December 28, former Colorado Senate Majority Leader Ken …
Beyond Nuclear board member Kay Drey, long-time anti-nuclear watchdog, including on the West Lake Landfill’s radioactive wastesThe Wall Street Journal has reported (“Neighbors Fume at Radioactive Dump: Legacy of Atomic-Era Weapons Work in St. Louis Su…
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 Da…
Continue readingEnvironmental 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…
Continue readingStreet 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…
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