Opposition needed to HB 104, the "ANTHEM Act," as Ohio Senate Energy and...
Here is the link to the Nov. 29, 2020, 56-organization coalition letter of opposition. Patricia Marida of the Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Committee has also prepared a concise Opponents' Analysis of...
View ArticleSellafield nuclear waste site (in U.K.) to close due to coronavirus
Magnox reprocessing plant will begin controlled shutdown after 8% of staff self-isolate As reported by The Guardian.
View ArticleHouse NDAA Blocks DOE From Reclassifying High-Level Waste in Wash. State
As reported by the ExchangeMonitor. NDAA is short for National Defense Authorization Act. The high-level radioactive waste that the U.S. Department of Energy would like to now call "low-level" is an...
View ArticleCentralized interim storage of irradiated nuclear fuel at Eddy-Lea Energy...
As reported by the Los Angeles Times: Holtec officials say that WCS’ problems haven’t deterred their plans for an underground storage site, saying interim storage could save the federal government...
View ArticleFederal judge greenlights unprecedented, high-risk, highly radioactive liquid...
Political cartoon by Adam Zyglis, the Buffalo News[Please note: this scheme is at its core a pro-reprocessing effort by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). DOE's last reprocessing capability is at the...
View ArticleWashington Congressional Delegation Urges President-Elect Trump to Prioritize...
“This work is essential to protecting the health and safety of the Tri-Cities community, the Columbia River, Washington state and our nation.” As posted on the website of the U.S. Senate Energy and...
View ArticleSRS Watch: Internal DOE Documents Reveal Details of Highly Unusual Canadian...
[Please note that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) and Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Labs are also proposing truck shipment of highly radioactive liquid waste from a...
View ArticleDOE's SRS returning H-Canyon reprocessing facilities to full operability
As reported by World Nuclear News, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) is returning its H-Canyon reprocessing facilities to full operability. This comes as DOE, along with...
View ArticleEnvironmental coalition speaks out against unprecedented, risky, liquid...
Peace Bridge between Fort Niagara, ON and Buffalo, NY is one of numerous border crossings where unprecedented liquid HLRW shipments could travel.A coalition of environmental groups has submitted...
View Article"Measured Progress on Nuclear Security," or a "World Awash in Nuclear...
The Nuclear Genie, as depicted in Walt Disney's 1950s pro-nuclear propaganda book "Our Friend the Atom"The New York Times editorial board has cited "Measured Progress on Nuclear Security," given...
View ArticleBeyond Nuclear meets NRC's "Nuke Waste Con Game" DGEIS public comment deadline
Environmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen "just say NO!" at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment...
View ArticleEnvironmental coalition meets NRC's "Nuclear Waste Confidence" DGEIS public...
Environmental coalition attorney Diane Curran (During the NRC Nuke Waste Con Game DGEIS public comment period, a number of persons advocated reprocessing as a possible answer for the radioactive waste...
View ArticleNRC nuke waste con game: final written public comment submissions re: DGEIS...
Environmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen "just say NO!" at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment...
View ArticleSenate Mobile Chernobyl/Parking Lot Dump bill delayed, but vigilance still...
The Mobile Chernobyl mock nuke waste cask, a full size replica of a truck shipping container, shown in front of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, MO during a cross-country educational tourAs...
View ArticleOne oral comment opportunity (call-in only) left on NRC's nuke waste con game...
Environmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen "just say NO!" at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment...
View ArticleBeyond Nuclear debates "thorium power" proponent at Sierra Club meeting
On October 10th, Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps debated Timothy Maloney, a proponent of so-called "thorium (nuclear) power," at a meeting of the Nepessing Group of the Sierra Club's Michigan Chapter, at...
View ArticleGovernment Memo Slams Bechtel for Malfeasance, Safety Violations at Hanford...
Hanford tanks under constructionHanford Challenge has made public a scathing U.S. Department of Energy internal memo detailing Bechtel's long history of incompetence, misleading the government,...
View ArticleDr. Judith H. Johnsrud receives national Sierra Club Award
This quilt Judy is admiring was created by textile artist Margaret Gregg of Virginia, and was given to her on May 4th by the Sierra Club "No Nukes Activist Team" in honor of her 50 years of...
View ArticleEU directive on "deep geologic disposal" still contains loophole for...
Reuters has reported that the European Union has set a deadline of 2015 for its 14 member states with nuclear power industries -- comprising a total of 143 atomic reactors -- to come up with plans for...
View ArticleAs Yucca gives up the ghost, specter of reprocessing rears its ugly head
While the court ruling on July 1st against the Yucca dump is a major environmental justice victory for the Western Shoshone Indian Nation, President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission for America's Nuclear...
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