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First reported 31 mins ago - Updated 31 mins ago - 1 reports

Republicans threaten Reid with radioactive waste dump if he uses "nuclear option" to do away with U.S. Senate filibuster

JESSICA EBELHAR/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL FILES Members of the U.S. House energy and commerce subcommittee on environment and economy tour the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository April 26, 2011 -- ironically enough, the 25th anniversary of the beginning ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - 31 mins ago]

Entities: Harry Reid, Yucca, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, US Senate

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc

Experts Explain Effects of Radioactive Water at Fukushima

Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura In a post at his website , Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura (photo, left) has written an introduction to essays by Dr. Gordon Edwards (President of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility), and Dr. Helen Caldicott ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, Fukushima (Japan), James Yun, Tritium

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Exelon Corporation

Wind outcompetes nuclear at Exelon's LaSalle, IL & Limerick, PA reactors

As reported by Hannah Northey at Greenwire , Exelon Nuclear has blamed low wind power prices for its decision to cancel power uprates at its LaSalle, IL and Limerick, PA atomic power plants. The American Wind Energy Association kicked Exelon out of ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Exelon Corporation, LaSalle (automobile), Reactor, Nuclear, American Wind Energy Association

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Radiation Expert Exposes Danger to Ohioans from Fracking Waste

Dr. Marvin Resnikoff of Radioactive Waste Management Associates has authored a report, Hydraulic Fracturing Radiological Concerns for Ohio , on behalf of the FreshWater Accountability Project Ohio. FWAPOH also put out a press release, "Radiation Expert ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Hydraulic Fracturing, Radiation, Water Treatment, Landfill, Environment

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Entergy Corporation

Will the State of Vermont Public Service Board deny Entergy Vermont Yankee a Certificate of Public Good?

Entergy's Vermont Yankee atomic reactor, a GE BWR Mark I located on the Connecticut River border with NH at Vernon, VT, 8 miles upstream from MADebra Stoleroff of the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance has put out the following announcement:"The ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee LLC, Entergy Corporation, General Electric Company

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

45-year-old construction error revealed in leaking tank at Entergy's Palisades atomic reactor

Entergy and NRC have just discovered that, at Palisades, plant diagrams are not accurate depictions of "as-built" reality As reported by Andrew Lersten at the St. Joe Herald-Palladium , a 45-year-old construction error has been discovered at Entergy ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Entergy Corporation, Nuclear Reactor, Construction, Entergy Nuclear

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Environmental Law and Policy Center

San Onofre 2 & 3's closure raises doubts about nuclear power's future

Image by J. DeStefano, 2012 As reported by Bloomberg , " Edison International (EIX) ’s decision to abandon its San Onofre nuclear plant in California is the latest blow for an industry already facing questions about its long-term survival." The article, ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: San Onofre, Nuclear, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Travis Miller

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

NEIS: "SoCal Edison Pulls the Plug on Two Nuke Reactors -- Could Have Serious Implications for Illinois"

The 32-year old watchdog group Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) of Illinois, which hosted the Dec. 2012 "Mountain of Radioactive Waste 70 Years High" conference co-sponsored by Beyond Nuclear and Friends of the Earth, has published a press release ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Reactor, Zion (Illinois, United States), High-Level Radioactive Waste

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Prohibitively expensive cost of safety repairs leads nuclear utilities to instead permanently close age-degraded atomic reactors

"Burning money" image by Gene Case, Avenging Angels2013's 4 atomic reactor closures are the most of any single year in U.S. history. Bloomberg has reported : "The last wave of U.S. [atomic] plant closures was in the late 1990s, when falling gas prices ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear, Kewaunee (United States)

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Davis-Besse's "San Onofre-like" shortcuts on safety with steam generator replacement focus of NRC public meeting

Terry Lodge speaks out against Davis-Besse in August 2012 at an NRC public meeting held at Oak Harbor High SchoolBeyond Nuclear set up an info. table at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) "annual performance review" public meeting in Carroll ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear, Nuclear Reactor, Roberta (United States), Edison International

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

New, smaller file size of Pandora's False Promise now available

Please download and distribute P andora's False Promises: busting the pro-nuclear propaganda , in a new, smaller file size version that is quicker and easier to open and download. This is a soup-to-nuts primer that busts the lies and propaganda generally ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Propaganda, Pro-nuclear

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Palisades action needed

U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie StabenowBeyond Nuclear urges Michigan residents to contact U.S. Senators Stabenow and Levin (photo, left) to call for the Palisades atomic reactor's shutdown, before it melts down. Urge both Sens. to launch a General ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Carl Levin, Agriculture, Government Accountability Office, Radioactivity, Reactor

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...Helen points out that, "[b]ecause it is tasteless, odorless and invisible, [tritium] will inevitably be ingested in food, including seafood, over many decades. It combines in the DNA molecule – the gene – where it can induce mutations that later lead to cancer. It causes brain tumors, birth deformities, and cancers of many organs." In fact, the contamination of the seafood chain bio-concentrates the radioactivity, so that those at the top of the food chain -- humans -- get the worst...

Experts Explain Effects of Radioactive Water at Fukushima [Published Beyond Nuclear - 1 hour ago]

As reported by Agence France Presse , "Subsoil water usually flows out to sea, meaning these two substances could normally make their way into the ocean, possibly affecting marine life and ultimately impacting humans who eat sea creatures."

Radioactivity levels soar in Fukushima Daiichi groundwater, flowing into ocean [Published Beyond Nuclear - 2 hours ago]

"The PSB hearings are public — if you are able, consider attending. "

Will the State of Vermont Public Service Board deny Entergy Vermont Yankee a Certificate of Publi ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013]

...which delivers pretreated water to the Warren public water treatment plant, is likely sending radium-laden water into the Mahoning River watershed. "On a daily basis, Patriot does not test for gamma emitting radionuclides and for radium-226" he observed.

Radiation Expert Exposes Danger to Ohioans from Fracking Waste [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013]

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Palisades springs yet another leak into the con... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 09 2013]
Dr. Gordon Edwards on the in's and out's of rad... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 09 2013]
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Great Lakes Region Nuclear Hotspots Map [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 03 2013]
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Landfill fire near radioactive waste dump raise... [Published Beyond Nuclear - May 31 2013]
USA, an energy innovator, launches first floati... [Published Beyond Nuclear - May 30 2013]
Risk of "dirty shutdown" at Paducah gaseous dif... [Published Beyond Nuclear - May 30 2013]
Environmental coalition "speaks for the snakes"... [Published Beyond Nuclear - May 28 2013]
Sen. Boxer wants Justice Dept. to investigate a... [Published Beyond Nuclear - May 28 2013]
Beyond Nuclear's responses, and additional thou... [Published Beyond Nuclear - May 25 2013]
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Republicans threaten Reid with radioactive wast... [Published Beyond Nuclear - 31 mins ago] JESSICA EBELHAR/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL FILES Members of the U.S. House energy and commerce subcommittee on environment and economy tour the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository April 26, 2011 -- ironically enough, the 25th anniversary of the beginning ...
Experts Explain Effects of Radioactive Water at... [Published Beyond Nuclear - 1 hour ago] Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura In a post at his website , Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura (photo, left) has written an introduction to essays by Dr. Gordon Edwards (President of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility), and Dr. Helen Caldicott ...
Radioactivity levels soar in Fukushima Daiichi ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - 2 hours ago] As reported by Common Dreams , Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has admitted that strontium-90 levels exceed legal limits by 33 times, and tritium levels by 8 times, in groundwater less than a hundred feet from the Pacific Ocean. "That is very high," ...
Wind outcompetes nuclear at Exelon's LaSalle, I... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013] As reported by Hannah Northey at Greenwire , Exelon Nuclear has blamed low wind power prices for its decision to cancel power uprates at its LaSalle, IL and Limerick, PA atomic power plants. The American Wind Energy Association kicked Exelon out of ...
Will the State of Vermont Public Service Board ... [Published Beyond Nuclear - Jun 14 2013] Entergy's Vermont Yankee atomic reactor, a GE BWR Mark I located on the Connecticut River border with NH at Vernon, VT, 8 miles upstream from MADebra Stoleroff of the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance has put out the following announcement:"The ...