Category Archives: *English

Congress torpedoes a Biden nominee and casts doubt on nuclear safety via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2024/02/08 by nfield

By Allison Macfarlane | February 6, 2024 The Biden administration’s recent abandonment of Jeff Baran for another term as member on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) bodes ill for the independence of the agency—and the safety and security of the country. … Continue reading →

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Advocates demand halt to uranium mine near the Grand Canyon via Salon

Posted on 2024/01/31 by nfield

By Matthew Rozsa he Grand Canyon truly lives up to its name, being the largest canyon on Earth and one of the most popular national parks in America. But due to uranium mining in the area, some advocates are warning … Continue reading →

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A million tons of radioactive waste next to the Ottawa River? You Must Be Kidding via Sierra Club Canada

Posted on 2024/01/19 by nfield

By Ole Hendrickson, Chair of Board of the Sierra Club Canada Foundation The Sierra Club Canada Foundation is condemning a Government of Canada decision to allow 80 years’ worth of its accumulated radioactive waste to be put in a gigantic … Continue reading →

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Rokkasho redux: Japan’s never-ending reprocessing saga via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2024/01/04 by nfield

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | December 26, 2023 According to a recent Reuters report, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) still hopes to finish construction of Japan’s long-delayed Rokkasho reprocessing plant in the first half of the 2024 fiscal year (i.e. during April-September 2024). The … Continue reading →

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Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2023/11/25 by nfield

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | September 22, 2023 […] Part of the radioactive substances that contaminate the water is now being removed by multi-nuclide removal equipment called “advanced liquid processing systems” (ALPS)—an unfortunate name given that the Alps mountain range in Europe is … Continue reading →

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Atoms for Peace was never the plan via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/11/06 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter […] After summarily tossing aside the Paley Commission report delivered to his predecessor, President Truman, and which advocated the US choose the solar pathway for energy expansion, Eisenhower embraced a very different report. In 1953, the Atomic Energy … Continue reading →

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The solar world we might have had via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/11/06 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter We needn’t have had Fukushima at all, now 12 years old and still emitting radiation, still not “cleaned up”, still responsible for forbidden zones where no one can live, play, work, grow crops. We needn’t have … Continue reading →

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Activists seek broader compensation for Americans exposed to radiation after decades in limbo via The Hill

Posted on 2023/10/03 by nfield

BY ZACK BUDRYK – 10/03/23 6:00 AM ET … Now, a coalition of activists from St. Louis and New Mexico is working with the support of a bipartisan supermajority of senators to broaden the pool of such Americans who are eligible for federal compensation.  A proposed amendment to the annual Defense … Continue reading →

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A strategy of concealment via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/09/25 by nfield

By Kolin Kobayashi Agencies that promote nuclear power are quietly managing its disaster narrative This year marks the 13th year since the Fukushima accident began, yet the path to a conclusion is by no means clear. The declaration of a … Continue reading →

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The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions via Dianuke

Posted on 2023/09/11 by nfield

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 By Pinar Demircan Underlying the disregard for objections from global civil society and transforming the ocean into a nuclear waste dump lies a bigger goal inspired by capitalist practices that arise from its crisis: to achieve another threshold by … Continue reading →

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