Here is our article in Counterpunch detailing the Bure raid and the perceived betrayal by alleged one-time environmental activist, Nicolas Hulot, now a government minister. Pictures of Hulot, “before” and “after.”
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On February 22, the French government mounted a military-style assault on a small community of anti-nuclear activists who had been watchdogging, and living on, a site for the country’s proposed high-level radioactive waste dump in the Champagne-A…
Continue readingAn earthquake centered close to the Seabrook nuclear generating station on the New Hampshire sea coast should be a “wake-up call,” Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter told the Boston Herald. Gunter was a founder of the country’s first anti-nuclear…
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The remarkable and moving documentary, Atomic Homefront, just aired on HBO. The network is making it available via streaming at this link for free. In 1942, the U.S. government chose downtown St. Louis as a processing center of uranium for the f…
A Supreme Court decision in Australia today, rejected an appeal against a January 2016 ministerial decision that gave the green light for a Cameco uranium mine at Yeelirrie in Western Australia.
Aboriginal leaders and the Conservation Council of Wester…
Beyond Nuclear and DiaNuke today issued a joint press release condemning a visit by Westinghouse executives to India this week. The bankrupt American company is desperate to retain a place in the collapsing nuclear power market and is taking advantage …
Continue readingJoin us in prayer and meditation as we lift our consciousness up and over the current movement of nuclear waster into thin Chernobyl cans on the beach at San Onofre.Occurred Saturday February 3rdCenter For Spiritual Living1201 Puerta Del SolSan Clement…
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The United States Defence Department (DoD) released the new U.S. Nuclear Posture today, following a review of nuclear doctrine to reflect the new priorities and perspectives of President Trump.The new posture hig…
Beyond Nuclear today issued a press release welcoming a decision by Exelon to again move the shutdown date for its Oyster Creek, NJ reactor sooner, but decrying the absence of safety enforcement that should have seen the plant close as soon as the Fuku…
Continue readingJoin us in prayer and meditation as we lift our consciousness up and over the current movement of nuclear waster into thin Chernobyl cans on the beach at San Onofre.Occurred Saturday February 3rdCenter For Spiritual Living1201 Puerta Del SolSan Clement…
Continue readingGreen Action Japan has started a petition to stop the planned restart of the Ohi nuclear power plant. As the petition states:
“The Japanese national government wants everything “back to normal” by the 2020 Olympics: Fukushima accident evacuees back to …
As reported by the Washington Post.
Culminating a 27-year process, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has agreed to a $237 million partial clean up of the West Lake Landfill radioactive waste dump, rather than a complete clean up estimated to cost $700 mil…
Beyond Nuclear board member Karl Grossman was honored by the Sierra Club Long Island Chapter as “Environmentalist of the Year” for 2017. Karl is widely recognized for his investigative journalism on the real costs and danger of nuclear powe…
Continue readingAs reported on the film’s website, where you can watch the trailer and a few clips.
Watch for screenings at cinemas near you (including Annapolis, MD on 2/11; St. Petersburg, FL on 2/22; and at the Washington, DC Environmental Film Festival sometime be…
This morning, January 25, 2018, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands on its Doomsday Clock closer to midnight: at two minutes to midnight, the clock is set at the closest we have ever been since 1953 when the clock was also moved forwa…
Continue readingFull Body Burden is based on the award winning autobiography of the same name by Kristen Iversen. It tells the horrifying story of the then secret Rocky Flats plutonium pits production facility in Colorado which poisoned workers, residents and the land…
Continue readingA leak of the unclassified version of the Trump Administration’s Draft Report of its “2018 Nuclear Posture Review” reveals this Administration’s plan to build up the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal and expand the circumst…
Continue readingThe 38+ minutes of terror felt by the residents of Hawaii after receiving a text alert about incoming nuclear missiles that proved to be a mistake, was a reminder that so-called civil defense is fundamentally useless. People sheltered in their bathroom…
Continue readingAn op-ed by Joe Cirincione published in Defense One.
Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund and the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late.
On this Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Cirincione reflects…
As reported by Adam Mount in The Atlantic.
The article is sub-titled “A leaked draft of the Trump administration’s nuclear-weapons plan imagines a more dangerous world.”
It begins:
As Americans question whether President Donald Trump has the judg…
As reported by David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle.
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (MFP) and Friends of the Earth have issued statements.
See here for more info. on this historic victory for a genuinely clean energy future, free from dirt…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to rig the nation’s competitive wholesale marketing of electricity with a colossally expensive bailout through rate tariffs for fina…
Continue readingIt was front page news on the conservative Wall Street Journal. The headlines ran: Federal Regulators Rule Against Trump Administration on Power Plants. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rebuffs plan to aid coal-fired and nuclear power plants.” (WSJ…
Continue readingPlutonium was jettisoned into the sea by the stricken Apollo 13 after its aborted moon mission. The ill-fated Challenger had been slated to carry deadly plutonium on a scheduled mission that would have followed the January 1986 launch that ended in tra…
Continue readingTaking action locally to combat climate change The Thomas fire, now the largest in California history, swept through parts of Ventura County leaving fear, destruction, massive loss and plumes of smoke clearly viewable from outer space. The link… Critics Demand … Continue reading
PG&E Disputes ALJ’s Diablo Canyon Recommendation | RTO Insider PG&E says it will challenge a California ALJ’s recommendation that it be granted only $190 million for the retirement of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. The problem with subsidizing nuclear … Continue reading
Georgia Public Service Commission chairman Stan Wise revealed earlier that the political fix was in on the vote to extend the construction of Plant Vogtle Units 3 & 4 telling a local radio station the day before the commission vote that it won…
Continue readingFrom the Japan Times:
Wednesday’s ruling by the Hiroshima High Court halting the planned restart of a nuclear reactor in Ehime Prefecture has cast doubt on the judgment of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority — which had approved…
Continue readingThe grass was already growing long — and over — the Nugen sign at the site of the Cumbria UK proposed new 3-reactor site when the project got kicked a bit further into the long grass.
The original proposal was for three Toshiba-Westinghous…
Two women, spanning generations and cultures, accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, presented by a third woman, Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The prize, which was announced on October 6, went to the Interna…
Continue readingAs reported by Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post.
Mary Papenfuss also reported on this story in Huffington Post, including that a coalition of environmental groups, Native American nations, scientists, and businesses are countering the Trump admin…
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih is extending invitations to the U.S. nuclear industry to launch the Gulf Region’s most ambitious nuclear power program.
The Saudi atomic energy plan is to build as many as 17 nuclear power…
See the letter, sent by 104 mayors and other elected officials throughout the Great Lakes basin, to Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister, Catherine McKenna. Their demand is that she reject Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geologic Rep…
Continue readingIn a November 24 column in Counterpunch, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter reports on the radioactiveplume of ruthenium 106, detected in Europe and seemingly emanating from deep inside Russia, and possibly — or even probably — from the Mayak nuclea…
Continue readingWhat kind of deadly disaster could the Trump administration wreak in space? Beyond Nuclear board member and journalist, Karl Grossman, sounds an ominous warning.
“With Trump as president and green lights given to industry after industry to do or contin…
In Counterpunch today, our article about the lame attempts by nuclear propagandists at the COP23 in Bonn to sell nuclear by dissing bananas. Seriously. Here’s our intro. Then read more.
“We’ve heard this nonsense before, of course — that ba…
November 14 hearings called by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair, Bob Corker (R-TN) around President Trump’s ability to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack, failed to get consensus or a resolution. The hearings were prompted by Senator Ed …
Continue readingAmy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!As reported by Democracy Now!
The Trump administration, which has decided to make the United States the only country in the world to not subscribe to the Paris Climate Agreement, met with fierce and impassioned resist…
In January 2017, the Barnett government in Western Australia approved the Yeelirrie uranium mine against advice from the Environmental Protection Authority and against the wishes of Aboriginal traditional owners. The decision, if the mine goes ahead, w…
Continue readingThe Iran nuclear deal is working and a majority of Americans support it (see diagram above.) In a nutshell, the landmark 2015 framework agreement, forged between Iran and the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, Germany and the European Union, effec…
Continue readingFrench farmer, Jean-Pierre Simon was today handed down a two-month jail sentence for loaning his tractor and other agricultural equipment to a group protesting the proposed high-level radioactive waste dump in Bure, France. Visibly stunned by the verdi…
Continue readingIn 2008, Swiss physician, Dr. Martin Vosseler, walked across the United States to bring attention to global warming and to solar energy. In this inteview, Dr. Vosseler eloquently reminds us why our planet is so precious and the moral imperative to pres…
Continue readingStatement on Nobel Peace Prize 2017
It is a great honour to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 in recognition of our role in achieving the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This historic agreement, adopted on 7 July with the b…
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to ICAN, the International Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons! ICAN, also a laureate of the Nuclear-Free Futures Award, recently succeeded in the passage of a Tre…
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post.
See Peace Action’s alert, for what you can do!
Trump’s DOE seeks to further heavily subsidize new and old atomic reactors, which would put renewables at a massive competitive disadvantage! On the very same day that Energy Secretary Rick Perry offered Southern Co. et al. additional bi…
Continue readingThe Trump administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) has, shockingly, just offered Southern Nuclear and its partners in the construction of the Vogtle 3 & 4 new reactors in Georgia a $3.7 billion (yes, with a B!) federal taxpayer-backed…
Continue readingSometimes the best way to spread the message and communicate the injustice of the nuclear industry is through music. Here are Hatutaki-Wakazi feat and Sophie & the Harmonies on uranium mining plans in Tanzania.
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After declaring bankruptcy, Suniva, Inc. on April 26, 2017 led a petition with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) asking the government to put its thumb on the scale of the U.S. solar market. On May 25, SolarWorld Americas announced it …
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