The Update: Why the Fukushima radioactive water dump must be stopped

5/27/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik Radio's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording, here.

Why so many nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles?

Apocalypse will be highly likely. Artificial intelligence is not going to save us. These weapons need to be outlawed, not produced and purchased en masse.

As reported by Karl Grossman, and published in Nation of Change.

Karl Grossman is a Beyond Nuclear board member, investigative journalist, and long-time watch-dog on nuclear power and nukes/weapons in space.

Trump Touts Space Force As Tens Of Thousands Die Of Covid

Karl Grossman. Photo compliments of Libbe HaLevy, Nuclear Hotseat podcast.Karl Grossman, Beyond Nuclear board of directors member and investigative journalist, has appeared on "Rising Up with Sonali," the widely aired radio and TV program.

Refueling outage at Fermi 2 complicated, delayed due to coronavirus cases among workers

NRC file photo of the Fermi 2 atomic reactor, on the Lake Erie shore in Frenchtown Township, Monroe County, MichiganAs reported by Tom Henry in the the Toledo Blade.

The article quotes David Lochbaum, who currently serves Beyond Nuclear as an expert witness, and has served as a technical advisor to Don't Waste Michigan in a recent emergency enforcement petition to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding Fermi 2:

David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety consultant who previously spent years with the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Scientists as a nuclear safety engineer, said the NRC stated in an August, 2000 report that “risk spikes” during outages at boiling-water reactors like Fermi 2 “are primarily the result of human errors during these processes.”

Mr. Lochbaum, who lives in Tennessee and also worked in the nuclear industry for 14 years, said the NRC “knows that risks during BWR refueling outages can spike to levels higher than during reactor operation.”

“The NRC knows that the risk spikes are due primarily to human error,” he said. “The NRC knows that long hours degrade human performance. The NRC knows that it relaxed the limits established to guard against worker fatigue. The NRC is not clueless about risk during refueling. The NRC is spineless about properly managing that risk.”

The article also quotes Terry Lodge, an attorney in Toledo, Ohio who has served Beyond Nuclear as legal counsel numerous times in reactor and radioactive waste legal interventions:

Terry Lodge, a Toledo-based nuclear activist and lawyer, said he wonders “how much hemorrhaging of their work plan took place before they suspended most operations.”