Tag: nuclear power

Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them

September 12, 2025 Cole Harrison

The Energy Affordability, Independence, and Innovation Act (H.4144) has lots of good things in it. There is at least one big problem with it, though: the bill’s Section 45 would repeal a citizen-initiated ballot measure – without going back to the voters first. It is […]

A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear Plant Reopenings/ Relicensing

February 1, 2025 Grace Cowell

Register to attend. Bring your questions to Professor M.V. Ramana, author of Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (2024) and Paul Gunter, spokesman on nuclear reactor hazards and security concerns for Beyond Nuclear. They will […]

Connecticut River Defenders rally; Dodi Melnicoff at left, Northfield, May 27. MAPA photos/Merri Ansara.

Connecticut River Defenders Rally to Stop Destruction by FirstLight Power

June 24, 2023 Merri Ansara

by Merri Ansara On a beautiful warm and sunny day, May 27, some 90 people gathered at a rally called by the Connecticut River Defenders at the Riverview Picnic Area in Northfield, MA, adjacent to FirstLight Power Corporation’s Pumped Storage Station (NMPS) to learn about […]

Artists Unite Against Nuclear Annihilation

February 22, 2022 Andre de Quadros

by André de Quadros & Kathie Malley-Morrison Artists of all varieties—songwriters and singers, poets, novelists, short story writers, mural painters, performance artists, cartoonists—have long played roles in either promoting or resisting wars. Today, we desperately need artists to work together with progressive activists and commit […]

Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy

August 31, 2021 Patricia Hynes

Tens of years on, the United States, the largest owner of nuclear power plants, still promotes nuclear power as “safe and clean energy.” by H. Patricia Hynes Then In 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated northeast Japan, taking the lives of […]

Clamshell Quilts made by members of "Sisters of Silkwood"

From the Seabrook Occupation to the New Resurgence of Nukes

April 30, 2021 Hayat Imam

by Hayat Imam On April 30, 1977, 44 years ago, 2000 of us sat in to protest the Seabrook, New Hampshire, Nuclear Power Plant construction site. Trained by seasoned veterans of civil disobedience movements, we were organized into dozens of small affinity groups, committed to […]