Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2024

Posted: 4th March 2024

Castle Bravo decimated Bikini atoll and the lives of Marshall Islanders. Joseph Gerson reflects on the legacy of that March 1, 1954 atrocity. And yet another fusion nanosecond was hailed as a major breakthrough for energy. It is nothing of the kind, says Linda Pentz Gunter.

Events held in Japan each year to mark the anniversary of the destruction of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the US hydrogen bomb, Castle Bravo, provide lessons going forward, writes Joseph Gerson. Survivors’ stories, including the crews of Japanese fishing boats irradiated by Bravo and the Hibakusha of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, helped lead to the creation of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. MORE

Madness abounds

It was another mad week as the latest fusion hype was hailed as a breakthrough, even though the 69 megajoules achieved by the JET Tokomak reactor was a miniscule amount of heat and no electricity. That news was followed by more hype about small modular reactors, from scandal-ridden Westinghouse no less. And the Michigan governor wants to pour yet more taxpayer dollars into the country’s most decrepit - and already closed reactor. MORE

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