September 26 is International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
#wethepeoples2020 is organizing an exciting global civil society event of speakers, video messages, music, workshops and panels lasting over 10 hours.&…
September 26 is International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
#wethepeoples2020 is organizing an exciting global civil society event of speakers, video messages, music, workshops and panels lasting over 10 hours.&…
WCS/ISP DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC
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Continue readingAs announced by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC):
———- Forwarded message ———From: WCS_CISFEIS Resource <WCS_CISFEIS.Resource@nrc.gov>Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:54 PMSubject: Interim Storage Partners: Draft Environmental …
As announced by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC):
———- Forwarded message ———From: WCS_CISFEIS Resource <WCS_CISFEIS.Resource@nrc.gov>Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:54 PMSubject: Interim Storage Partners: Draft Environmental …
Every day is Earth Day, or it should be. The planet, as Karl Grossman says in this talk he gave on September 21 as part of the Long Island Earth Day 2020 program, faces “two gargantuan threats — the climate crisis and nuclear weapons/nuclear power.”
H…
Every day is Earth Day, or it should be. The planet, as Karl Grossman says in this talk he gave on September 21 as part of the Long Island Earth Day 2020 program, faces “two gargantuan threats — the climate crisis and nuclear weapons/nuclear power.”
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Just one day left to submit comments against this monstrous environmental injustice, the world’s largest high-level radioactive waste dump targeting the majority minority (BIPOC — Black, Indigenous, People of Color, especially LatinX) State of New Mex…
Continue readingJust today left to submit comments against this monstrous environmental injustice, the world’s largest high-level radioactive waste dump targeting the majority minority (BIPOC — Black, Indigenous, People of Color, especially LatinX) State of New Mexic…
Continue readingThe UN General Assembly is holding a one-day high-level meeting today from 9am Eastern Time USA (3pm CET) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN. You can watch it on UNTV. The theme of the event is ‘The Future We Want,…
Continue readingThe UN General Assembly is holding a one-day high-level meeting today from 9am Eastern Time USA (3pm CET) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN. You can watch it on UNTV. The theme of the event is ‘The Future We Want,…
Continue readingMalta has become the 45th state party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It deposited its instrument of ratification on 21 September 2020 as world leaders met to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The m…
Continue readingMalta has become the 45th state party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It deposited its instrument of ratification on 21 September 2020 as world leaders met to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The m…
Continue readingHoltec DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC
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Holtec DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC
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We watch this week as Hitachi announces it is abandoning its two reactor project at Wylfa-B in Wales. And Exelon admits to “severe economic challenges” prompting the premature shutdown of its Byron and Dresden nuclear plants in Illinois. Meanwhile, as …
Continue readingWe watch this week as Hitachi announces it is abandoning its two reactor project at Wylfa-B in Wales. And Exelon admits to “severe economic challenges” prompting the premature shutdown of its Byron and Dresden nuclear plants in Illinois. Meanwhile, as …
Continue readingPress release from People Against Wylfa B (PAWB)
PAWB (People Against Wylfa B) welcomes the news that Hitachi is to abandon its plans to build a nuclear power station at Wylfa.
A nuclear power station would have endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond,…
Press release from People Against Wylfa B (PAWB)
PAWB (People Against Wylfa B) welcomes the news that Hitachi is to abandon its plans to build a nuclear power station at Wylfa.
A nuclear power station would have endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond,…
Russians who risk freedom to oppose nuclear sector rewarded
Fedor Maryasov and Andrey Talevlin, four others, win 2020 Nuclear Free Future Award
Munich, Germany, September 8, 2020—Fedor Maryasov and Andrey Talevlin know how risky it is to oppose …
Russians who risk freedom to oppose nuclear sector rewarded
Fedor Maryasov and Andrey Talevlin, four others, win 2020 Nuclear Free Future Award
Munich, Germany, September 8, 2020—Fedor Maryasov and Andrey Talevlin know how risky it is to oppose …
Video presentation recorded on July 8, 2020, published on Sept. 7, 2020, on “The Dangers of Transporting High-Level Radioactive Waste.” Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presents from the beginning to the 22 minute mark …
Continue readingVideo presentation recorded on July 8, 2020, published on Sept. 7, 2020, on “The Dangers of Transporting High-Level Radioactive Waste.” Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presents from the beginning to the 22 minute mark …
Continue readingIan Zabarte speaking at a press conference at a Nuclear Forum event he organized at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2016.More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.
A …
Ian Zabarte speaking at a press conference at a Nuclear Forum event he organized at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2016.More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.
A …
NRC file photo of Duane Arnold atomic reactor.As reported by CBS 2 Iowa.
Duane Arnold, a Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor), had long been scheduled for a “late” 2020 closure, as reported by The Gazette in C…
As reported by CBS 2 Iowa.
Duane Arnold, a Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor), had long been scheduled for a “late” 2020 closure, as reported by The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, IA. More recently, the permanent …
According to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service, dozens of US nuclear power plants “will face growing credit risks” due to their physical vulnerability to the ever-worsening extremes of climate change. Flooding, h…
Continue readingThe Beirut explosion was frightening, and the damage devastating enough, resembling a scaled down atomic blast. But what if radioactive materials had been involved?
That was on the minds of many when bomb disposal teams arrived at &md…
Continue readingA state moratorium banning uranium mining in the Commonwealth of Virginia has stood since 1982. But in 2007, a Canadian company called Virginia Uranium Inc., partnered with a landowner at Coles Hill in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to overturn…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Rad…
Continue readingOp-ed in the Star-Telegram, written by Peggy Hendon and Linda Hanratty.
Peggy Hendon is president of the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County. Linda Hanratty is the group’s environmental chairwoman.
See Beyond Nuclear’s public comments, posted at our Repositories website section.
See the backgrounder, “WIPP History: The Forever WIPP Expansion & the New Shaft Permit Modification,” dated July 20, 2020, posted at the CCNS (Concerned Citizens for …
ComEd customers in Illinois have filed a class action lawsuit to demand at least $150 million compensation
Commonwealth Edison customers have filed a civil racketeering class action lawsuit (RICO) against Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madi…
Ohio’s high-profile bailout of nuclear plants is just one of several questionable schemes between lawmakers and energy companies.
As reported by Akela Lacy at The Intercept.
Ireland, Nigeria and Niue commemorated Hiroshima Day by ratifying the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This means the Treaty needs just 7 more ratifications to reach the necessary 50 to become international law. The Treaty will e…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, B…
This week we mark 75 years since the tragic and unnecessary atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Beyond Nuclear and the Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee are pleased to let you know that you can now see a film free online about the decades-…
Continue readingSee Beyond Nuclear’s Centralized Storage website section, for sample comments you can use to write your own for submission to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the Sept. 22nd (Holtec/ELEA, NM) and Nov. 3rd (ISP/WCS, TX) deadlines.
Holtec …
Tomorrow, August 5th, commemorations of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings by the United States, 75 years ago, will begin in earnest, and will continue through August 9th. Beyond Nuclear has posted a long listing of these events at our NUCL…
Continue readingCriminal nuclear scandals involving financial boons to the economically collapsing nuclear power industry rocked three states last week. Beyond Nuclear reported on the most dramatic of the three — in Ohio — on Beyond Nuclear International. This week,…
Continue readingCorruption scandals in Ohio and Illinois reveal an unsavory underside to the politics of energy.
An opinion column by Justin Gillis in the New York Times, focused on the nuclear bribery/bailout scandals in Ohio and Illinois.
As reported by the Post and Courier.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that David Wright, who presided over the Summer 2 & 3 debacle as president of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, was nonetheless “promoted” by President Trump …
Message from Chuck Woolride, All Souls’ Heiwa Peace Project, Washington, D.C.–
As part of All Souls [Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.] 75th Hiroshima Commemoration, please join us for viewing the film and a discussion at 8 pm.
Here i…
Continue readingAs the Honorable U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis (Democrat-Georgia-5th) was laid to rest in power yesterday, it is fitting to remember his good environmental justice votes against radioactively racist high-level radioactive waste dumps in the pas…
Continue readingLarry Householder, the now former Speaker of the OH House, arrested July 21 for the biggest criminal racketeering scheme in the state’s history, was stripped of the Speakership in a unanimous vote on July 30.
By a 90-vote in the Ohio House, Householder…
Arizona train derailment and fire described as ‘a scene from hell’
as reported by CNN.
Depending on the temperature and duration of a fire, high-level radioactive waste shipping containers could be breached. The design criteria for such containers is f…
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Continue readingNM Gov. Michelle Lujan GrishamOn 7/28, NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (photo, left) wrote the president a strongly worded letter, opposing environmentally unjust high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities targeted at her s…
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