Nuclear Waters: Did Fukushima Prove that Nuclear Can't Be Safe?

Thom Hartmann hosted Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on his national radio show, to discuss the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan, ten years on.

See the YouTube recording, here.

UN report claiming no connection between thyroid cancer and Fukushima disaster not credible

Beyond Nuclear issued a press release today strongly criticizing the advanced publication of a section of the 2020 United Nations Scientific Committee on Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) report —Sources, effects and risks of ionizing radiation, Scientific Annex B, Advance Copy -- which claims that “a rise in thyroid cancer among children in the last decade was not related to increased radiation,” and instead attributes the increases to more thorough and sophisticated testing.

An increase of 20 times the expected number of thyroid cancers were detected among the exposed children. We can't know the actual number of thyroid cancer cases because we lack information to do a proper calculation, especially for children ages 0 to 4. However, UNSCEAR gives a large collective thyroid dose (44,000 man Gy) that certainly could have resulted in these cancers.

The rush to release just this section of the report just before the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, appears political rather than scientific and mirrors earlier efforts by UNSCEAR to similarly downplay or whitewash the true health effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine.

Read the full press release.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Nearly 'Ended The Japanese State', Radioactive Waste Specialist Explains

Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, was interviewed by Mohamed Elmaaz, as published by Sputnik News.

The Update: Fukushima at 10

The Fukushima anniversary version of The Update.

It is ten years since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and yet the lessons don't seem to have been learned. The current Japanese government, against the advice of former prime ministers, is intent on preserving a nuclear power program. Other countries are also willing to risk their own Fukushimas. Yet the reality is that the radioactive mess cannot be decontaminated quickly, effectively or, in some cases, at all. An no one should be forced on economic grounds, or through stigmatization, to live in areas too radioactive to be safe for human health.

PALISADES DECOMMISSIONING: Comments needed against Holtec takeover!

Palisades atomic reactor, Covert Twp., MI, on Lake Michigan shoreSee our action alert for ideas on what to write and how to submit comments by the Monday, March 8 deadline at 11:59pm Eastern. We have good momentum in opposition to the crooked companies' (Holtec and SNC-Lavalin) takeover from Entergy of the Lake Michigan shoreline reactor, after its planned shutdown for good by May 31, 2022. On February 24, the coalition Beyond Nuclear-Don't Waste Michigan-Michigan Safe Energy Future, represented by legal counsel Terry Lodge, chief researcher Michael Keegan, and expert witness Robert Alvarez, intervened with NRC's ASLB, against the transfer. So too did Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel, and the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Help protect the Great Lakes: submit comments to NRC by March 8th!

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