Beyond Nuclear testifies before Congress against Mobile Chernobyl, Yucca, and parking lot dumps

Detailed maps showing DOE's proposed Yucca dump bound high-level radioactive waste rail shipping routes in downtown Chicago.Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, was invited as a witness at a hearing on "Transporting Nuclear Materials," held by the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee, Environment and the Economy Subcommittee on Oct. 1st. See the hearing description, with links to the witnesses' written testimony, as well as a video recording of the hearing, here.

Learn more about the hearing, including links to Kevin's introductory remarks and full written testimony, at Beyond Nuclear's Radioactive Waste website section. You can also see a backgrounder, prepared by Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Energy Information Service of IL, about DOE's plans to ship high-level radioactive waste by rail into the heart of downtown Chicago (see map, left). And last but not least, learn what you can do to help stop the Mobile Chernobyl, by taking action action NRC's attempt to revive the cancelled Yucca dump. More.

Enformable's report from visit to Chernobyl

Lucas Hixson, the website Enformable's creator and Beyond Nuclear Board Member, recently returned from a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine. Here is Enformable's first in a series of editorials the website is posting as we approach the 30th commemoration of the nuclear catastrophe that has had global impact beyond the radioactively contaminated reactor site.

FirstEnergy to file License Amendment Request on Davis-Besse Shield Building severe, and worsening, cracking; opponents vow legal action

A 38-year old atomic reactor, that has had more close calls with catastrophe than any other in the U.S., that can't compete, with a concrete containment that is literally at risk of falling apart, wants a multi-billion dollar ratepayer bailout, in order to keep operating for 22 more years?! More.

Beyond Nuclear on "The Big Picture": Radioactive flood waters, seafood contamination, growth of Japanese anti-nuke movement

Radio and t.v. news anchor Thom HartmannTelevision news host Thom Hartmann of "The Big Picture" on RT (photo, left) interviewed Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste watchdog Kevin Kamps on the latest from Fukushima Daiichi: historic floods after Typhoon Etau washing entire radioactively contaminated landscapes downstream, to contaminate new areas, or even to re-contaminate previously de-contaminated areas; the chronic release of radioactive groundwater into the ocean, bio-accumulating in the seafood chain; and the successes of the Japanese anti-nuclear power movement, including one of its newest members, former Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi.

Beyond Nuclear on RT: Resettlement near Fukushima Daiichi a radioactive "illusion of normality"

RT hosted Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, who described the Japanese government's attempt to resettle nuclear evacuees in radioactively contaminated towns like Naraha as a futile effort to create the "illusion of normality." The segment comes on the heels of a study published by two University of Southern California professors, which argues that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe was inevitable, given Tokyo Electric Power Company's denial of obvious earthquake and tsunami risks at the northeastern Japan seaside location. One of the authors is also interviewed.