US to push failed nukes at climate meeting
Beyond Nuclear Bulletin
November 16, 2023
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US NUCLEAR MISSION TO COP28
Triple global nuclear capacity
John Kerry, now Special Presidential Climate Envoy to the 28th Conference of Parties in Dubai, will be lobbying to triplethe world’s installed nuclear generating capacity by 2050. Kerry is to be joined by the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Finland and South Korea in declaring that the World Bank and other international financial institutions add nuclear power to their lending practices. Kerry’s request constitutes a reversal of World Bank lending policy for the past 64 years. The last nuke loan by the Bank was in 1959, $40 million for Italy’s first atomic reactor. “We don’t do nuclear energy” the Bank proclaimed in 2013 and to date still directs energy development resources to the global installation of efficiency and renewable energy.
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ILLINOIS EMBRACES SMRs
Legislature partially repeals moratorium
Thank you to everyone who took action, as we forwarded alerts from Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago (NEIS) over the past many weeks. Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, on November 10 the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s many decades-old new nuclear reactor construction moratorium. Ironically enough, the state legislature’s unwise and reckless move came at the very same time as the lead Small Modular Reactor (SMR) development project in the U.S., NuScale’s targeting Idaho, was cancelled due to skyrocketing costs. See the NEIS statement prepared by its director, Dave Kraft -- who has led moratorium defense efforts for years -- in response to the partial repeal of the moratorium, at the link below.
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RESISTING CISFs!
Incidents across U.S. raise concerns
On November 8, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake epicentered in west Texas led to an alert declaration at a gaseous centrifuge uranium enrichment facility in Eunice, New Mexico. Despite no reported hazardous or radioactive releases, the tremor raised concerns regarding two high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities proposed in the area: one co-located at the so-called “low-level" radioactive waste dump, planned by Interim Storage Partners for Andrews County, TX, near Eunice; and Holtec's about 35 miles from Eunice in NM. Fasken/Permian Basin Land & Royalty Owners continue their years-long battle against licenses for both CISFs, including defending a ruling in August nullifying ISP's license. Meanwhile, Holtec was fined by NRC for shipping excessively radioactive decommissioning equipment from MA to NY.
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NUCLEAR MADNESS
Let’s stop it
Nuclear madness is everywhere. Our government is determined to promote new reactors and the continued use of dangerous old ones, as long as we pay for them. Executives and politicians have even been convicted of crimes to ensure this happens. The media laps up the rhetoric and parrots the lie that nuclear power is “carbon-free”. Yet, spending those same dollars on renewables would get us more carbon reductions faster and without all the deadly risks of nuclear power.
That’s why we need your support now more than ever to block these dangerous proposals at every step including through legal action. If you agree that nuclear power is NOT the answer to the climate crisis, please donate to Beyond Nuclear today.
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Submitted by admin on Fri, 11/17/2023 - 10:52
