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Beyond Nuclear has added a new division -- Beyond Nuclear International. Articles covering international nuclear news -- on nuclear power, nuclear weapons and every aspect of the uranium fuel chain -- can now mainly be found on that site. However, we will continue to provide some breaking news on these pages as it arises.

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Thursday

Jan212021

LAKE HURON NUKE DUMP: Property Values, Other Economic Effects

Lake Huron's shorelineLast year, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) officially cancelled its plans to build a "Deep Geologic Repository" (DGR) for 20 provincial reactors' so-called "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive wastes, less than a mile from Lake Huron (photo, left), at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine. This came after a two-decade struggle, culminating with the Saugeen Ojibwe Nation's veto, an 86% to 14% tribal referendum opposed. However, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), dominated by OPG, is now targeting South Bruce, Ontario, just 25 miles inland, for a national Canadian high-level rad. waste dump. Northwatch and Protect Our Waterways invited Beyond Nuclear to present on radioactive stigma impacts on property values and other economic sectors, as local resistance mounts.

See the recording of the one and a half hour Zoom event, here.

January 21, 2021 |

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Wednesday

Dec232020

A QUIET HERO OF OUR TIME: COVID takes life of young Russian anti-nuker

Photo of Rashid Alimov, taken from his own Facebook Page.Rashid Alimov, a 40-year old Greenpeace Russia campaigner and journalist, has died due to covid-19, shocking and saddening the Russian anti-nuclear movement and colleagues across the world.

Alimov had faced arrests and harassment while protesting in St. Petersburg and against nuclear waste transports from Germany, and was an inveterate champion for the victims of the Mayak disaster. When authorities planned to fuel floating reactors at a port close to the 5 million living in St. Petersburg, it was Alimov’s efforts that got the operation moved to Murmansk. “It’s not often that an entire Russian region owes a debt of gratitude to a single reporter, but in Rashid’s case, it’s true”, wrote Bellona’s Charles Digges in a tribute.