Beyond Nuclear
Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 07, 2019 Beyond Nuclear Vows to Fight on Against Illegal High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump Targeted at New Mexico In an astounding ruling today, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) acknowledged that an application by Holtec International/Eddy-Lea [Counties] Energy Alliance to store 173,600 metric tons of highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel in... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, March 07, 2019 Eight Years after Triple Meltdowns and Explosions at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, Major Problems Remain and Many Impacts are Yet to Manifest The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster will continue indefinitely, creating long-term problems for human health, radioactive waste management and the environment: Around 1.09 million tons of radioactively contaminated water — used to cool the destroyed reactor cores as well as groundwater... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Beyond Nuclear Opposes Second License Extension for Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant Relicensing Could See Aging PA Reactors Run for 80 Years With Deteriorating Safety Scientific knowledge gaps in the management of reactor safety issues caused by aging, and acknowledged by the nuclear industry, have prompted Beyond Nuclear to challenge an application to extend the operating license for two nuclear reactors in Pennsylvania. Beyond Nuclear, an environmental... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 03, 2018 Trump's EPA Set to Harm Women and Children by Allowing More Radiation Exposure Research continues to show that radiation at low doses casues harm. Women, children and pregnancy are particularly at risk. This increased risk also shows up in nuclear workers , even at low doses. For decades, federal agencies, including the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have advocated... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, August 03, 2018 Great Lakes Groups Question Newly Discovered Radioactive Waste Shipments from Illinois through Great Lakes Region Groups concerned about the Great Lakes are asking “Why is irradiated nuclear fuel being moved? Where is it going? What happens at the destination?” They are calling for answers after a highway transport route for high-level radioactive waste from the LaSalle nuclear power reactors in Illinois to... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 16, 2018 2018 Nuclear-Free Future Award Winners Announced The five winners of the 2018 Nuclear-Free Future Award, representing often unsung grassroots activists and innovators who oppose all aspects of nuclear power and nuclear weapons, and who have found alternative paths forward, were announced today. The Nuclear-Free Future Award offers three cash... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Environmental Coalition Demands Expedited Release of Documents regarding Public and Nonpublic Meetings Between NRC and FERC A coalition of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, Public Citizen, and the Sierra Club, have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), seeking documents related to its public meeting, as well as its... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, May 14, 2018 US Campaign to Support UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Launched in New York Fifty campaigners from across the US joined together yesterday in Brooklyn to launch a national campaign in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This Treaty, which prohibits the development, testing, production, deployment, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons, and... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 17, 2018 U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Beyond Nuclear v. NRC Appeal on Fermi 3 The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Beyond Nuclear’s appeal against the proposed new Fermi 3 atomic reactor. Despite this, the environmental coalition has vowed to continue its resistance. The appeal focused on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) exclusion of the transmission line... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 05, 2018 Groups Condemn French-India Nuclear Deal To Be Signed On Fukushima Anniversary French president, Emmanuel Macron, should not be imposing the untested, expensive and technically troubled French EPR reactor on India, say two international groups opposed to nuclear power in India and across the world. Macron will visit India on March 11, 2018 , seven years to the day since the... Read more |