Attorney General: “A Major Victory”
News from Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 21, 2016 New York City Press Office / 212-416-8060Albany Press Office / 518-473-5525nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.govTwitter: @AGSchneiderman STATEMENT FROM A.G. SCHNEIDERMAN ON DECISION BY NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING REVIEW OF INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER FACILITY RELICENSING NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued the following...
Riverkeeper: “A Monumental Day”
A monumental day: NYS Court of Appeals decision effectively stops NRC from re-licensing Indian Point Contact: Cliff Weathers, Director of Communications, (914) 478-4501 ext. 239, cweathers@riverkeeper.org Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay issued this statement regarding today’s NYS Court of Appeals ruling on Indian Point: “This is a monumental day. This decision effectively stops the Nuclear Regulatory...
Thanksgiving Pipeline Solidarity Action
Please join us on Thanksgiving Day at 11am to stand in solidarity with Standing Rock against the North Dakota Access Pipeline, the Spectra AIM Pipeline near Indian Point, and the newly-proposed Pilgrim Pipelines (…2 parallel lines from Albany to NJ). We will gather on the lawn of the Bear Mountain Inn with allies from various...
Plans To Truck Nuclear Waste On The Interstate Sounding Alarms
This Department of Energy photo shows the type of container that would carry liquid nuclear waste across Pennsylvania under a plan environmentalists are trying to stop. “HARRISBURG – Government plans to truck nuclear waste along the interstate in western Pennsylvania and five other states is akin to allowing a series of potential “mobile Chernobyls on...
Taiwan to End Nuclear Power Generation in 2025
Taiwan’s fourth nuclear power plant in New Taipei City in the northern part of the island. Its construction has been suspended due to an anti-nuclear movement that has intensified since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. “A very wise decision, we wish that other governments also would be wise enough to do the same. Congratulations to you...
California Thyroid Cancer Rates Skyrocket Exactly Where Modelling Said Most Cesium From Fukushima Would Land
“A team of UCLA researchers found that there are several parts of California where, in a high percentage of people with thyroid cancer, the disease is already at an advanced stage by the time it is diagnosed. The research was led by Dr. Avital Harari, a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and...
Not willing to Lie, the Chairman of the Fukushima Thyroid Examination Assessment Subcommittee Resigned
“Of course this news was not released in the Japanese national main media nor in the Fukushima local media, it was only released in the Hokkaido Shimbun, a local media from the northern island Hokkaido. Dr. Kazuo Shimizu, Chairman of the Thyroid Examination Assessment Subcommittee and member of the Oversight Committee for the Fukushima Health Management...
Press Conference Oct 27 – Come Stand With Us to Say No to Cuomo’s Nuke Bailout
With the help of the IPSEC community and more than a hundred other organizations, the campaign to block Governor Cuomo’s $7.6 bailout of old, unsafe, inefficient nuclear power plants has quickly grown into a statewide movement. Together, we’ve generated thousands and thousands of phone calls and emails, made our voices heard at the governor’s public...
How a Major Utility Came to See Renewables and Efficiency as a Better Deal Than Nuclear
“Pacific Gas & Electric, California’s biggest utility, made a historic proposal to shut down California’s last nuclear power plant, called Diablo Canyon. PG&E is arguing that replacing Diablo’s output with a mix of energy efficiency and renewables will not only cost less than relicensing Diablo, but will also lead to a more reliable and flexible...
The Nightmarish Alternative To A Just Transition
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7byKByo3U&w=560&h=315] “TEPCO has begun decommissioning the outer protective wall which was erected around the Fukushima No.1 reactor building in 2011 following the massive earthquake and tsunami that sent the power station into meltdown. Industrial cranes started the decommissioning of the exterior walls of the cover, which was installed around Fukushima’s reactor building on Tuesday,...
How Nuclear Power Causes Global Warming
Another good article from Harvey Wasserman “Supporters of nuclear power like to argue that nukes are the key to combatting climate change. Here’s why they are dead wrong. “Every nuclear generating station spews about two-thirds of the energy it burns inside its reactor core into the environment. Only one-third is converted into electricity. Another tenth...
Nuclear’s Last Stand? An Editorial by Harvey Wasserman
“Nuclear’s Last Stand? New York’s Cuomo Rushes in to Save Dying Plants by Harvey Wasserman New York’s “liberal” Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to ram through a complex backdoor bailout package worth up to $11 billion to keep at least four dangerously decrepit nuclear reactors operating. To many proponents of safe energy, the move comes...
