South Carolina electric utilities have scrapped finishing construction for two half-built and unproven Westinghouse reactors admitting that nuclear power is “prohibitively expensive.” The abandonment of the V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 in Jenk…
Continue readingAs a sample for the kind of Yankee activity in the Bay Area in 1852. In this case, Oakland prior to its becoming a town in 1853, one of the more prominent business activities was the killing of waterfowl. Below … Continue reading
Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps appeared on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” to discuss the discovery, 6.5 years later, of melted core at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3, as well as Tokyo Electric Power Company’s threat to simply release 770,000 metric tons (ar…
Continue reading“Why is this not a national story,?” asked New York film director, Rebecca Cammisa, whose new film, Atomic Homefront, will be screened on HBO. That was after she learned about the nuclear weapons waste — the oldest nuclear waste of the Atomic Age — t…
Continue readingPictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard presents the aftermath of the first atomic bomb through the remarkable drawings and stories of surviving Japanese school children who were part of an extraordinary, compassionate exchange with their American c…
Continue readingThe nuclear “football” — always close to the PresidentWriting in The Nation this week, investigative journalist, Mark Hertsgaard, draws chilling attention to a frightening reality. “We need to get Donald Trump’s finger off the nuclear button,” he writ…
Continue readingA Federal judge has thrown out a challenge to the State of Illinois’ legislated bailout of its uneconomical nuclear power plants. The court decision has implications for legal challenges still underway in New York and anticipated in other states …
Continue readingSanta Cruz Big Trees Peculiarities of Their Growth. SPRINGING FROM OLD TRUNKS The Present Giants of the Forest Descendants of Greater Progenitors San Francisco Chronicle – Sunday, June 9, 1889 – Page 2 While wandering through the Big Tree grove … Continue reading
In September, the French nuclear safety authority, ASN, will render its final verdict on whether or not a flawed reactor vessel head, installed in the Flamanville reactor under construction in France, should stay put. ASN already hinted in July that it…
Continue readingBolander warns California of the danger of logging the Redwoods Daily Alta California, Volume 18, Number 5954, 29 June 1866 Front page 2nd column half way down By Professor Henry N. Bolander The Redwood Forest The following extract is from … Continue reading
The following piece is from Jacob Wright Harlan’s diary and book titled California, ’46 to ’88. Chapter 24, pg. 108 Based on his detailed commentary, Jacob probably arrived in the Redwoods in May of 1847, took a month to chopped … Continue reading
For the first time, the French government has put an actual number on planned nuclear reactor closures. It’s 17. The estimation was made by Environment Minister, Nicolas Hulot, a former environmental campaigner. While the reduction would achieve …
Continue readingFor the first time, the French government has put an actual number on planned nuclear reactor closures. It’s 17. The estimation was made by Environment Minister, Nicolas Hulot (pictured), a former environmental campaigner. While the reducti…
Continue readingA coalition of many hundreds of clean energy groups, including Beyond Nuclear, has written a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat-New York), in opposition to Senate Bill…
Continue readingREDWOOD Sequoia Sempervirens “For they sing to my heart, And it sings to them evermore.” —J. P. Lowell Albert Kellogg (1813 – 1887), a physician and botanist, wrote the below essay at the end of his book on the redwoods. … Continue reading
A treaty designed to lead to the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons was endorsed today at the United Nations by 122 countries. Inevitably, none of the nine nuclear weapons states signed the treaty, with, shamefully, the United States as the mo…
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Today at the United Nations, a majority of the world community signed a historic treaty: a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. This historic …
As if the idea of a floating nuclear power plant wasn’t insanity enough — read this week’s news of a possible fire on board a Russian one under construction — there is also a plutonium cargo under sail. Two heavily armed British gunshi…
Continue readingIn the midst of an ominous ICBM missile launch by North Korea, negotiations on a nuclear weapons prohibition treaty are set to conclude this Friday at the UN in New York. They follow a UN resolution adopted in October 2016 and approved by 123…
Continue readingThe Tennessee Valley Authority says it wants to develope the decades-old small modular reactor concept at the Oak Ridge laboratory (pictured). The Southern Alliance of Clean Energy (SACE) is among the groups opposing this. “We are concerned that billio…
Continue readingWrites John Tierney, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, the the defense authorization bill soon under consideration in the U.S. House is a disaster for safety, security and the economy. Worse yet, “The Chairman of the House of…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear joined with a 50-group environmental coalition, spearheaded by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), to urge members of the U.S. House of Represenatives Energy & Commerce Committee to vote against the latest incarnation of the Sc…
Continue readingA Delaware federal judge on Wednesday blocked the $367 million merger of EnergySolutions Inc. and Waste Control Specialists LLC, siding with the U.S. Department of Justice in the government’s bid to enjoin the deal on antitrust grounds. [This …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is asking the U.S. Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC) to verify that a pressure vessel head installed in the now closed Crystal River nuclear reactor in Florida came from the controversial Creusot Forge in France, currently under investi…
Continue readingA former investor in nuclear power plants predicts that every planned new UK nuclear power plant will get canceled except Hinkley C and even that one is hanging by a thread. In a Reuters article that appeared in the New York Times on June 19,…
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Continue readingThe collapse and bankruptcy of the Westinghouse electric company has already thrown its Japanese parent company, Toshiba into a financial downward spriral. Now another Japanese company, Hitachi, is looking to escape the extreme financial commitment to …
Continue readingAs explained in this short video from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the current so-called missile defense program is ineffective, unnecessary and exorbitantly expensive. But with nuclear sabres rattling in North Korea, some M…
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In a submission to the Ontario Energy Board this week, the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) association states that it is now convinced that “OPG’s plan to extend operations at Pickering is not economically feasible and, far fro…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has joined an initiative of the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) to campaign for justice and compensation for the uranium miners at the front end of the nuclear fuel chain. Currently, the 1990 Radiation Exposure and C…
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Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, presented at the 2017 Heartwood “Strong Roots!” forest protection council on Sat., May 27th.
Kevin’s talk was entitled “Head-On Collision: Chevron Deference Meets Mobile Chernobyl on Steroids.” …
Introduction This is the story about one of the most beautiful parks in the Bay Area. Thanks go to a friend (Cecile) who introduced me to the East Bay’s parks. After spending most of the last ten years in bed … Continue reading
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Continue readingThe Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) will honor an impressive line-up of individuals and organizations at its May 23, 2017 awards reception on Capitol Hill. This year’s winners are:
* Representative Ted Lieu — For leadership in in…
Transfer containers used to unload highly radioactive liquid waste from Canada may not provide adequate radiological shielding for workers at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina where the first shipment was recently unloaded. In a press release t…
Continue readingWritten by M.V. Ramana (also a Beyond Nuclear Advisory Board member) and Sajan Saini.
Continue readingOn May 9, Republican Nevada Senator Dean Heller, spoke out agains attempts to revive the canceled Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump in his state. “Yucca Mountain is dead,” he said.
“Last year, Las Vegas welcomed nearly 43 million v…
A tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State collapsed today on top of railcars stored there that contain “mixed” radioactive waste, an accident that local watchdog group, Hanford Challenge, describes as a “crisis.”
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BEYOND NUCLEAR PRESS RELEASE
Efforts to quench on-going fire in Fukushima zone hampered by high radiation levels from 2011 nuclear disaster
Never over nuclear accident continues to spread radiation
TAKOMA PARK, MD, May 2, 2017 –A raging wildfire…
Beyond Nuclear board member, Lucas Hixson, co-founder of the Clean Futures Fund, is working to both study and re-home stray dogs living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The strays are descendants of dogs abandoned by their owners when the Chernobyl nuc…
Continue readingSecret plans to build new nuclear reactors in South Africa that were never subjected to an open, transparent and public process, have been quashed by a judge in Cape Town in a major victory for anti-nuclear and environmental groups there. David Fig, a …
Continue readingMargaret Harrington and co-host Ben Shulman-Reed, researcher with Fairewinds Energy Education, speak with Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog with Beyond Nuclear, about nuclear escalation on “Nuclear Free Future,” an ongoing series on Channel 17/Town…
Continue readingAs reported by investigative journalist and Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, and published at Enformable (founded and run by Beyond Nuclear board member Lucas Hixson):
Despite protests around the world, the Cassini space probe-contai…
Continue readingBe sure to count the toes! This political cartoon, by Jim Day in the Las Vegas Review Journal, marked the 2010 cancellation of the Yucca dump scheme by the Obama administration — 23 years after the “Screw Nevada” bill. The cartoon harkens back to “The…
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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …
As reported by Democracy Now!
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …
As reported by Democracy Now!
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …