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A revered elder of the American anti-war movement was sentenced on Monday, June 8 to time served for her part with six other Catholic peace activists in the April 4, 2018 Kings Bay Plowshares nonviolent direct action for nucl…
Appeal to 2nd highest court against NM dump
Today, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA, initiated a lawsuit at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (logo, ab…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear…
Continue reading →Beyond Nuclear today published its newest handbook — The U.S. Space Force and the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear was in space — the latest in its series, The Case Against Nuclear Power: Facts and Arguments from A-Z.
Beyond Nuclear als…
Updated – Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Independent – New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife – Chris Baynes
As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects’ “What’s News” website page.
Continue reading →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 Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nu…
Continue reading →Paul Gunter and Linda Pentz Gunter authored an oped published by the Philadelphia Inquirer today which takes the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to task for, on the one hand, allowing nuclear plant owners to avoid essential safety checks, to extend …
Continue reading →About 100 people at the construction site of a controversial nuclear power plant in Belarus have become infected with the coronavirus, the head of Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear corporation, has said in a new video address to the company’s em…
Continue reading →As reported by the Washington Post.
The Nevada Nuclear Security Site, formerly called the Nevada Test Site, is just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It is located on Western Shoshone Indian land, as affirmed by the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863, as sig…
Beyond Nuclear today issued a press release calling on the NRC and FEMA to fulfill their emergency preparedness obligations pertaining to evacuations due to a nuclear accident during a pandemic. Beyond Nuclear also reiterated its demand that potassium …
Continue reading →President Trump’s decision, the third major retreat from arms control agreements, will be viewed as evidence that he also plans an exit from the last major weapons treaty with Russia: New START.
As reported by the New York Times.
The Washingt…
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 Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nu…
Continue reading →Apocalypse will be highly likely. Artificial intelligence is not going to save us. These weapons need to be outlawed, not produced and purchased en masse.
As reported by Karl Grossman, and published in Nation of Change.
Karl Grossman is a Beyond N…
The Japanese government intends to release 1.2 million cubic meters of water contaminated with radioiodine, radiocesium, radiostrontium and tritium into the ocean. This water, which exceeds emission concentration standards, has been accumulating since …
Continue reading →Karl GrossmanKarl Grossman, Beyond Nuclear board of directors member and investigative journalist, has appeared on “Rising Up with Sonali,” the widely aired radio and TV program.
Continue reading →NRC file photo of the Fermi 2 atomic reactor, on the Lake Erie shore in Frenchtown Township, Monroe County, MichiganAs reported by Tom Henry in the the Toledo Blade.
The article quotes David Lochbaum, who currently serves Beyond Nuclear as an expert wi…
S. David Freeman, a fierce and tireless advocate for clean air, renewable energy, and public power, passed away of a heart attack on May 12. He was 94.
Freeman, son of an umbrella repairman, obtained degrees in engineering and law, eventually becoming …
A scoop by reporter Dave Battagello, published in the Windsor Star in Ontario, Canada.
As the article reports:
Fermi 2 sits across Lake Erie about 10 km [6.2 miles] away from Amherstburg which would be impacted should any incident occur, along with ar…
In this edition of The Update, we remember those who suffered due to atomic testing around the world, and focus on a new 22-minute documentary — The Atomic Soldiers — featuring interviews with US military personnel forced to witness the atomic blasts…
Continue reading →“Nuclear-Free Future” host Margaret HarringtonA “Nuclear-Free Future” interview by host Margaret Harrington (photo, left) at Channel 17/Town Meeting TV in Burlington, VT, with Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps. (Recorded on May …
Continue reading →Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, (pictured above during the podcast) was a special guest this week on Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Hotseat podcast. Listen here. And here is what the show says about this week’s guest:
Nuclear Baloney – that&…
Continue reading →As reported by E&E News.
Continue reading →In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear, to talk about the Trump administration’s new attempts to deregulate uranium mining amid the pa…
Continue reading →The Japanese government intends to release 1.2 million cubic meters of water contaminated with radioiodine, radiocesium, radiostrontium and tritium into the ocean. This water, which exceeds emission concentration standards, has been accumulating s…
Continue reading →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 Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nucle…
Continue reading →See a sample script for contacting your Members of Congress, to urge they demand public comment meetings in your state/congressional district (once safe to do so, post-pandemic), re: the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact S…
Continue reading →The Republican-controlled Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced that it will move forward with temporary high-level nuclear waste storage in New Mexico, despite hazards of transportation and failure to have a long-term solution. Kevin Kamps fr…
Continue reading →The White House is using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to propose relaxing environmental safeguards on uranium mining, which could open a mine near the Grand Canyon.
See the NRDC Action Fund blog.
Cook nuclear power plant, Bridgman, MI, Lake Michigan shore. NRC file photo.[Cook Unit 2 in Bridgman, MI, on the Lake Michigan shore, went from 100% power level to 0% power level within just several hours, due to this occurrence/event.]
See Michael K…
As reported by E&E News.
Continue reading →As reported by Tom Henry at the Toledo Blade.
Continue reading →If a severe nuclear power plant accident happens during a viral pandemic, already scare emergency supplies would not be available to health workers. Worse still, evacuation might be impractical. Are we even ready? At the very least, everyone living and…
Continue reading →As reported by WTNH.
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April 27, 2020
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Vermont Public Service Department Announces May 4, 2020 Meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens…
As reported by AP, and published in the New York Times. Note the important paragraph at the end of the article:
“[A] recent study by the Oakland, California-based Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy found that renewable energy goal…
As reported by the Albuquerque Journal:
Deadline for public comment on nuke waste site extended
By Theresa Davis / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 at 10:52pm
Updated: Monday, April …
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was hosted by Libbe HaLevy for an extended interview on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s sudden, astonishing rejection of appeals opposing the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea [Counties] …
Continue reading →In the first of a series of video reports, we’ll be letting you know what we’re working on and address breaking news and other developments as we continue our campaign to abolish nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
Continue reading →As reported by Thomas C. Zambito in the Rockland/Westchester Journal News.
Continue reading →Beyond Nuclear issued a press release today urging against the granting of license extensions to Duke Energy’s 11 reactors –which could see them operating as long as 80 years. At least five –Catawba 1 & 2 (SC), Shearon Harris (NC) and McGuire 1 &…
Continue reading →Beyond Nuclear issued a press release on April 28, 2020 commenting on what now should happen to the Indian Point Unit 2 reactor after it closes on April 30. Some excerpts:
Beyond Nuclear argues that, with the Indian Point Unit 2 nuclear reactor in New …
The Indian Point Unit 2 nuclear reactor in New York closes down permanently on April 30. Unit 3 will close a year from now. The closure this week is a moment replete with good news and golden opportunities that should not be wasted.
While other reactor…
Column by Cliff Weathers, Riverkeeper’s communications director, published in LoHud.
Continue reading →Shared by our friend and colleague Nancy Vann, who lives just over a mile away from the Indian Point nuclear power plant. The song is sung to the melody of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the closing of the plantWe s…
As reported by the Albuquerque Journal:
Deadline for public comment on nuke waste site extended
By Theresa Davis / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 at 10:52pm
Updated: Monday, April …
In violation of Nuclear Waste Policy Act, license applicant Holtec International contemplates federal ownership of 173,000 metric tons of highly radioactive spent reactor fuel to be stored at New Mexico site
Beyond Nuclear vows to challenge NRC a…
“Everything is free” in the hopes of luring people back. But many just stop over, or leave again. There is nowhere to play, yet money is being spent on useless infrastructure. “Everyone thinks that Fukushima has recovered now. And people want to forget…
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