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The “Golden Age of Nuclear” is all a veneer

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 2d

You can now pre-order Beyond Nuclear international specialist Linda Pentz Gunter's forthcoming book -- No to Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress & Provokes War. It will be published by Pluto Press in March 2026. www.plutobooks.com/product/no-t...

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 3d

The Golden Age of nuclear is more hyped-up Trumpian rhetoric pandering to international (and mostly US) corporations whilst derailing real #climate progress. It is also, like the reactors it promises, just a piece of paper. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/10/05/t...

A promise sheet from corporations is empty rhetoric and worse

Running on backup power, how long can Ukraine’s biggest nuke survive?

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 6d

All eyes on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, now without offsite power for 10 days. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/10/01/d...

Danger déjà vu

Abstract. The extinction of the dinosaurs and the effects of nuclear conflicts are usually considered separate topics. However, parallels between nuclear w

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 10d

Alan Robock and Brian Toon, the leading scientific experts on nuclear winter, have published a new book, Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter.

Prologue

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 10d

Senator Ed Markey expresses his concern that plans to transfer plutonium to Oklo,Inc. and allowing it to build a reprocessing plant, benefits Department of Energy Secretary Wright and his former company financially, rather than the United States.

Markey Calls Out Energy Secretary’s Conflict of Interest with Oklo and Transfer of Nuclear Materials | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (September 23, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a...

www.markey.senate.gov

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 11d

The Quivira #uranium mine near Church Rock, New Mexico is long overdue for cleanup. But it needs to be done right, with the full consent and understanding of the #Navajo community, writes Kathy Helms beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/09/28/n...

Nuclear waste in a landfill?

Uranium cleanup is needed, but so is environmental justice

Living with the legacy of France's nuclear weapons testing – DW – 09/26/2025

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 13d

"We have been poisoned for the greatness of France, for France to be a state with a nuclear weapon."

France tested nuclear weapons for 30 years in the Pacific. The people of French Polynesia bore the brunt of the testing.

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YouTube video by Project for Peace & Justice by Jeremy Corbyn

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 14d

PEACE, JUSTICE AND NUKES
The climate case

Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter made the case against the US-UK “golden age” of nuclear power con job just signed by the two countries when she spoke at last weekend’s international Peace & Justice Project conference.

Annual Conference 2025

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 14d

“The mystery is why the nuclear industry retains any credibility. Throughout its history...rosy claims...have all gone unfulfilled...Why are people unwilling to consider the reason that nuclear projects fail so often is the technology itself?"

Cato Institute: Nuclear power's hamster wheel - Beyond Nuclear

Accelerating climate change demands a stop to wasting precious little time along with human and financial resources being diverted from real solutions on

‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 15d

For decades, the federal government attempted to compensate workers who had suffered health ailments associated with working at nuclear facilities. All the while, Trump has called for a renewed push to increase nuclear enrichment activity for energy and national security reasons.

As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 15d

EVENT: Register Today! click through at link below

Enhancing Uranium Production as a Domestic Source for Nuclear Energy; Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Fall 2025 Meeting October 8, 2025 | 1:00-5:00 PM ET

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 16d

Over 100 groups nominated radionuclides as Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under an agreement between the U.S. and Canada meant to rid the Great Lakes of persistent toxics. Groups cited concerns about persistence, bioaccumulation, and unique long-term health risks.

Great Lakes: Radionuclides are persistent, toxic - Beyond Nuclear

In 2016 and again in 2022, more than 100 advocacy groups nominated radionuclides for designation as Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under the 2012 Great

Trump’s nuclear ‘renaissance’ rests on risky plan for radioactive waste

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 16d

Zombies Against Palisades! (ZAP!) Halloween Rally, Kal., MI
Halloween, Friday, October 31, 2025
Noon-1:30pm & 4:30-6pm (both Eastern Time)

More details and a flyer here: beyondnuclear.org/zombies-agai...

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 17d

Risky plan for radioactive waste fuels nuclear renaissance. It's in Washington Post so it's paywalled.

The administration goes all-in on recycling spent fuel, despite a history of spectacular mishaps, including an unintentional atom bomb.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 17d

Nuclear power, the gift that keeps on taking. #Fukushima #nuclear beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/09/22/f...

Fukushima recovery plagued with setbacks

Earthquake-prone Japan isn’t ready for a second nuclear nightmare

"Meltdown of Democracy," 7pm EST, 09/23/2025 - Beyond Nuclear

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 18d

JOIN US TOMORROW: “Meltdown of Democracy,” 7pm EST, 09/23/2025

Governor Healey, MA and governors of NY, MI, CA, WI, CT, PA, IL, and MD are rallying around dirty, dangerous, expensive, and authoritarian atomic power at precisely the wrong time. Register and more: beyondnuclear.org/meltdown-of-...

MA Governor Maura Healey has, unwittingly or not, joined with President Trump's authoritarian "Unleashing Nuclear Energy."

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 21d

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"Former U.S. NRC Chairman: U.S.- UK Nuke Deal Is A Stinker
The world needs affordable energy today, not 20 years from now. No amount of handshakes or pledges will change the fundamental challenges of building cost effective, timely nuclear power.”

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 21d

You're Invited to A Night with the Experts

David Kraft, Executive Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service

Speaking on Repealing Nuclear Moratoriums Endangers
A Renewable Energy Future

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 7pm Central Time (8pm ET, 6pm MT, 5pm PT) UTC -5

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SIGN UP TO WATCH "SOS - THE SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME: Nuclear Power's Legacy"

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 21d

Sept. 25 Tran-Atlantic Nuclear Free Alliance Webinar

1) Sign up to receive a private viewing link to watch SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome on your own time from 22 September - 30 September, 2025. 2) On September 25 at 7 PM U.K. / 11 AM US PT use this Zoom...

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Nuclear NOT the Solution to Climate Change: Physicist Ramana

Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 23d

On Nuclear Hotseat: A discussion with renowned physicist M. V. Ramana on his acclaimed new book: Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change. Ramana is professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia.

Physicist M.V. Ramana spells out all the ways that nuclear cannot help mitigate climate change in his new book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION.

www.nuclearhotseat.com

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 24d

Articles on individual nuclear facilities have documented elevated cancer rates in local populations. Current proposals to revivify and expand US nuclear power make it imperative that an objective, current national study of cancer near existing reactors be conducted.

Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power

No national study of the health risks posed by existing US nuclear reactors has been conducted since the late 1980s, despite many reported cases of cancer and other diseases. There will be no safe and...

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 25d

Atomic power is a corporate/military-based technology designed to keep all electric and political power under the firm fascist grip of the likes of Donald Trump and his billionaire beneficiaries. Their mission is to obliterate all renewables, not to co-exist in some “all the above” delusion...

Nuke Power is Trump/Fascist Power…and an Epic Global Failure

Donald Trump has torched atomic power’s last illusion of credible regulation. He’s destroyed the last shreds of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

www.counterpunch.org

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 25d

Inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which were heavily attacked by the US and Israel in June, could resume under a new agreement struck between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

But Iran has also warned that the deal will be limited and may not proceed...

Iran: Limited nuclear inspections to resume? - Beyond Nuclear

Inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which were heavily attacked by the US and Israel in June, could resume under a new agreement struck this week