Beyond Nuclear welcomes two new board members

Beyond Nuclear is honored to welcome two new board members -- Anna Rondon (left) and Kurumi Sugita (above). (See their full bios on our About page.)

Anna Rondon (Diné) is a lifelong activist for the rights of Indigenous peoples and, in particular, members of the Navajo Nation who have suffered as a result of uranium minining and its deadly legacy.She is the Executive Director of the New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute, which works to end the health disparities resulting from decades of environmental degradation by the uranium mining industry, institutional racism directed at Indigenous communities, and multi-generational trauma.

Kurumi Sugita founded the NGO Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11 (Our Distant Neighbors 3.11) in France in 2013. She established a study of 70 Fukushima victims who were outside of the mandatory evacuation zones at the time of the nuclear disaster and has worked extensively with Fukushima accident victims, coordinating conferences and speaking tours for them in France and beyond. 

As New Report Warns of Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism, What About the Nuclear Risks?

As reported by the New York Times: President Biden requested the intelligence community complete the assessment shortly after taking office, and his administration has made fighting domestic terrorism a priority.

University of Chicago Professor Kathleen Belew has warned, on C-SPAN's "Q&A," that far right, white supremacist extremists and Neo-Nazis have threatened in the recent past to attack nuclear power plants in order to unleash catastrophic mass casualty events. See the C-SPAN "Q&A" interview with Belew, here.

Belew is referring to the domestic terrorist group, Atomwaffen Division. Atomwaffen means nuclear weapons in German. See the PBS Frontline special "Documenting Hate: New American Nazis," that aired on Nov. 20, 2018. It documents an apparently disrupted Atomwaffen Division plot to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power plant in southern Florida.

Germany’s Greens look to be kingmakers in a post-Merkel era

As reported by the Washington Post, Germany's anti-nuclear Green Party is vying for political power at not just the regional level, but perhaps even the national level, in Europe's single largest national economy.

Haaland confirmed by Senate as first Native American to lead Interior

As reported by the Washington Post.

Deb Haaland, who has served as a Democratic U.S. Rep. from northern New Mexico since Jan., 2019 (one of two Native American women elected that congressional cycle, the first in U.S. history), has been outspoken against the Holtec International high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility targeted at southeastern New Mexico. She is from Laguna Pueblo, in northwest New Mexico, site of the world's largest open pit uranium mine (till recently surpassed in size by Olympic Dam, Australia, located on Aboriginal land), with significant health impacts on her community for the past many decades. Read our earlier feature about Haaland on Beyond Nuclear International. (Photo: Moms Clean Air Force)

The New York Times has also reported on this story.

Update on March 17, 2021 by admin

See Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman's March 3rd article in Truthout, about other Biden Cabinet members' unfortunate and inappropriate pro-nuclear advocacy.

From Clamshell Alliance to Beyond Nuclear

An interview with Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear on Enviro Close-up hosted by Karl Grossman.