Millions of people worked towards this day for years. People who protestedagainst reprocessing plants, nuclear waste transport, unsafe nuclear wastestorage facilities and the construction of new nuclear power plants. Those decades of resistance were worth it. The German nuclear phase-out is avictory of reason over the lust for profit; over powerful corporations andtheir client politicians.…
Protest rally against Kiev’s cluster mines, Donetsk August 2022 Undermining Ukraine. April 16, 2023, By Dimaq https://1489.is/undermining-ukraine/ the BBC's James Waterhouse reports from Balakliya: "It’s hard to describe this as anything other than.. random. This is a patch of land, in the middle of Balakliya, it’s not a place - unlike other areas - that was…
Stars and StripesApril 11, 2023 The northernmost US military base now has a Greenlandic name The U.S. military’s Thule Air Base in Greenland is no more. By that name, anyway. Pituffik…is a nod to the original inhabitants, who were forced to relocate when construction of the base began in 1951. Melting sea ice is […]…
The Hill, BY ZACK BUDRYK - 04/14/23 Virginia’s Democratic-controlled Senate rejected an amendment to an energy bill this week that would have allowed nuclear and hydrogen power to qualify as renewables. In a 22-18 party line vote on Wednesday, the Senate rejected several amendments offered by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to state legislation that would qualify certain biomass facilities…