Protect Better Webinar Series: NRC Radiation Comments
Webinar #1 Wednesday, August 12 Time: 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET Webinar #1 Register Here The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken long-standing radiation protection standards in order to accelerate the expansion of nuclear...Climate impacts on nuclear power reliability, safety
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its congressional report on April 2, 2024 titled as a warning, “Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change.” Their report to Congress points to...Opposition Mounting to Deep Fission
Beyond Nuclear is quoted in a July 28, 2026 Wall Street Journal article “An Underground Nuclear Reactor Is Coming to This Kansas Town—and Dividing Locals”, describing California nuclear start-up company Deep Fission’s plans for a 15 megawatt electric micro-reactor...Aleksey Nesterenko: Chornobyl health protector dies at 52
Aleksey Nesterenko, director of the Belrad Independent Institute for Radiation Protection, has passed away at the age of of 52 of cancer. His daughter Darya stated “[t]hroughout his life, he successfully combined science with humanism, putting his brilliant mind to...A Bomb for the Saudis?
Media reports suggest that the Trump administration has agreed not only to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia but to allow the country to enrich its own uranium. This raises two key questions. Why must Iran’s civil nuclear program be bombed into oblivion by the US...
At a book talk at Busboys and Poets in DC, Friends of the Congo’s Maurice Carney, and Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter, laid ...
Webinar 2 – “In the Weeds” What happens when radiation protection standards are weakened to make it easier to expand nuclear power? Wednesday, August ...