Beyond Nuclear

01/19/2025

So why won't the industry and NRC plan for them when extending reactor licenses, asks Paul Gunter For nuclear power plants, fire is considered a very significant contributor to the overall reactor core damage frequency (CDF), or the risk of a meltdown. Fire at a nuclear power station can be initiated by both external and/or internal events. It can start with the most vulnerable external link to the safe operation of nuclear power plants; the Loss Of Offsite Power (LOOP) from the electric grid....

So why won’t the industry and NRC plan for them when extending reactor licenses, asks Paul Gunter For nuclear power plants, fire is considered a very significant contributor to the overall re…

01/19/2025

An excellent review of Eric Wolfe's documentary "Acres of Clams" by Arnie Alpert on the startup of US anti-nuclear power movement in the 1970s. (Provides the YouTube link for viewing)

The matter that grabbed headlines was the arrest of 1415 people who had peacefully taken over the construction site of a proposed nuclear power plant in Seabrook.

01/17/2025

"CA wildfires: A warning to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Climate Change," lists the US nuclear power plants operating in "high to very high" exposure zones to wildfires according to a US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

[Photo from NOAA weather satellite of the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, 01/13/2025)

https://beyondnuclear.org/ca-wildfires-are-a-warning-to-nrc-on-climate-change/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH3Tp1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW6YQHqUM91EIVtpa8JUaZZbrUfnvldVow3YheFwsden1zilhaXedRNRwQ_aem_h8F6uTwrodLa-jGSg_FZkQ

US Government Accountability Office warnings to Nuclear Regulatory Commission go unheeded

01/16/2025

No surprise. Australia renewables are deploying faster and cheaper.
Same is true in the United States.

Still its being hotly debating with "alternative facts" from the nuclear sector, particularly about the projected cost-of-completion and time-to-completion.

Solar power was deployed 100 times faster than nuclear power around the world in 2024 – and "five times faster than everything else combined," a new report says

01/14/2025

Find out who the 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards laureates are! And, if you are in New York City on March 4th, do join us for the awards reception (6pm) and ceremony (7pm).

The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements

01/13/2025

In their new report, "It is time to expose the Great British Nuclear Fantasy once and for all", Andy Blowers and Stephen Thomas lay out the grand folly of nuclear power plans positioned as climate solutions, given the timelines alone will mean any new nuclear will be obsolete by the time it arrives. In the UK, new projects have barely got off the ground, making any announced completion dates a myth. Meanwhile, Sizewell C and the much vaunted SMRs haven't even started yet. Great British Nuclear, as it turns out, is about as robust as a failed soufflé.
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/01/12/the-great-british-nuke-off/

01/13/2025

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists story on the radioactive fallout from the meltdowns, hydrogen explosions and reactor containment breaches at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that drifted over Tokyo (149 miles away) were concealed from Japanese public awareness.

How a study on Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public for years, despite its implications for public health.

01/12/2025

Financial fantasies fail to rise...

Financial fantasies fail to rise

01/08/2025

"Nuclear you can trust" from a company you can't.

https://enron.com/pages/the-egg?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2Fy9ss92U1Qw9SirWTv3zNpDYXHtfzVRC5rQB8qbtnEDNQdN1kSgwMlUc_aem_BTMWUqaUXB1FxDLfAWObaw

We're back and we have something to say

01/05/2025

Supreme Court will hear consequential nuclear waste case...

Supreme Court will hear consequential nuclear waste case

12/30/2024

A look back on President Jimmy Carter, rest in peace.

He walked into controversy in Manchester, New Hampshire on August 2, 1976 stumping for President for the kick off of a global energy controversy that persists today.

We are now creeping up on the cliff edge nearly 50 years later and the countdown on the climate time bomb is still ticking. No Nukes! It's a dangerously tragic waste of time, money connected to unmanageable nuclear waste and nuclear weapons proliferation.

Go Renewables, Energy Efficiency, Conservation.

[Clip from "The Last Resort," Green Mountain Post Films available for viewing on YouTube]

For more films like this, please go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvn15piCRGjYljSUkZyF3CA?view_as=subscriberIt's August, 1976 and Jimmy Carter comes to...

12/29/2024

Holtec, the company decommissioning the Pilgrim reactor, wants to dump almost 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. But a new report from Woods Hole says the releases would not wash away out to sea as Holtec alleged.

Its radioactive refuse won’t just wash out to sea

12/17/2024

A new International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) report details Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal and the implications for Middle East peace and stability. The introduction begins:

"Israel is one of nine countries that possesses nuclear weapons, with an estimated arsenal of 90 nuclear weapons, which it can launch by missiles and aircraft, and possibly by sea-based missiles.

"Despite widespread acknowledgement by experts and former government officials of their existence, Israel and many Western governments maintain a policy of ambiguity about Israeli nuclear weapons. This pretense cannot continue. Nuclear disarmament is an essential component of a lasting peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, and in the region more broadly. "

Read more on Beyond Nuclear International.

For lasting peace, the pretense cannot continue

12/15/2024

For lasting peace, the pretense cannot continue...

For lasting peace, the pretense cannot continue

12/11/2024

Needful to say... the nuclear accident risk only goes up if they turn back on this dirty, dangerous, expensive dilapidated jalopy and high-level radioactive waste parking lot on the beach of Lake Michigan.

https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/12/10/risky-revival-how-michigans-palisades-nuclear-plant-could-impact-agriculture/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHGkntleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHecukAkDsExgILymJZ26O0rENoriYw9aUf8altdFTz5qx3USyR6J6qbZTg_aem_5EJprDbhcVVY94Ygz1DQwg

COVERT, Michigan — The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, long synonymous with safety lapses and regulatory oversight, is poised for an unprecedented comeback under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to reopen the shuttered plant by 2025 — the first attempt of its kind in U.S. history. H...

12/08/2024

Nuclear weapons are a matter of justice as well as human security...

Nuclear weapons are a matter of justice as well as human security

12/06/2024

Amazing how thoughtless supposed geniuses' are.
Zuckerberg is stubbornly ignorant or completely clueless that the spread of nuclear power technology and its enriched uranium fuel increases the global proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased risk of accidental or deliberate nuclear war.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/meta-nuclear-power?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&ts=1733449433&fbclid=IwY2xjawG_OgZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQNdSQK5imRWPwd3dmOR8NRcccXU3-Y_DYXnsXRcogC3hOsUBJe0vpGEkw_aem_dVRnlmtSegYys60LUEUzd

Environmental advocates express concern over Meta's search for nuclear power developers.

12/04/2024

Nuclear colonialism is ongoing in Canada