Rolls-Royce rip-off

Mar 24, 2026

Rolls-Royce, perhaps best known for its luxury cars has a new unaffordable project in the works — small modular reactors (SMR). The company  has entered the commercial nuclear reactor market, proposing its own SMR design — which, at 470 megawatts, isn’t actually very...

Scottish Labour on the nuclear take?

Mar 20, 2026

Rob Edwards, writing in The Ferret, his investigative online news platform, has revealed that the push by the Scottish Labour Party to reverse a ban in Scotland on new nuclear plants, is funded by a PR company heavily invested in the pro-nuclear agenda.  “Scottish...

Deep Fission to get Deep Environmental review?

Mar 11, 2026

Mixing together words “exemptions, exclusions” and “nuclear safety regulations” sends a dire warning.   On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed four Executive Orders relating to sweeping federal policy changes that fast-track new US nuclear power commercial...

NRDC lends its support to restart closed reactor

Mar 5, 2026

Natural Resources Defense Council supports the proposed restart of Iowa’s permanently closed Duane Arnold nuclear power station on assurances of adequate public safety upgrades to a Fukushima-style reactor from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission  In a disappointing...

The never-ending legacy of Fukushima

Mar 5, 2026

Living free from exposure to radiation: a fundamental human right A statement by Akiko Morimatsu In order to avoid exposure to radiation caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident which occurred in 2011, I still continue living in Osaka today, as an “internally...

NRC buckles to White House and licenses dangerous TerraPower reactor

Mar 5, 2026

The following is the press statement released by Beyond Nuclear today on the decision by all five NRC commissioners to accede to pressure from the White House to fast-track reactor designs that have been clearly flagged by scientists as highly dangerous. Nuclear...