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Article highlights Tri-Valley CAREs’ concerns about Lab canceling public engagement efforts – Join our 1/15 meeting for more!
In a January 7th article, Livermore Vine reporter Jude Strzemp discussed the National Security Administration’s decision to retract its intention to publish a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for public comment for “Enhanced Plutonium...
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From Kevin Kamps to Everyone: Do AI data centers “justify” zombie reactors & SMR new builds?! January 8, 2025 Do AI data centers “justify” zombie reactors & SMR new builds?! 2025-12-15 19:06:41 From Kevin Kamps to Everyone: In response to Arnie’s mention of...
January 7: Sadako Sasaki and Her Enduring Message
Today, January 7, we honor the birthday of Sadako Sasaki, a hibakusha who died at 12 years old from leukemia caused by radiation exposure after the Hiroshima bombing. Sadako’s story lives on through the 1,000 paper cranes she folded in hope that her wish for peace...
Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Publi…
News from our friends at Tri-Valley CAREs | Dec 19, 2025 trivalleycares.orgFirst announced In January 2025, the NNSA proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization” at the Livermore Lab was to include a “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement”...
Time Zero: 05: The Lab (Part 01)
https://964f6bfd-c857-4667-8d59-615efbd0d7c4.libsyn.com/05-the-lab-part-01 ”When the Manhattan Project arrived on the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico, the land was not uninhabited. To establish the highly secretive Site Y, the United States military forcibly...
A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback
By Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian | September 2, 2025 theguardian.comKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests...
Warren, Garamendi Press Energy Secretary on Mismanagement and Taxpayer Waste in Plutonium Pit Production Program
Text of Letter (PDF) Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. John Garamendi | Dec 16, 2025 warren.senate.gov – garamendi.house.govWashington, D.C. — In a new letter, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative John Garamendi (D-Calif.), both members of their...
NEW INTERACTIVE PIECE from USA TODAY: THE NUCLEAR SPONGE — & Much More!
Screenshot from USA Today article January 5, 2026 usatoday.com/graphics/interactives/us-nuclear-weapons-expansion-fallout-map/ By Davis Winkie, Ramon Padilla, Stephen Beard, Karina Zaiets and Carlie Procell, USA TODAY | Jan 5, 2026 usatoday.comU.S. nuclear strategy...
Hanford contractors make progress on infrastructure projects
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Nuclear Expert Speaker Reveals a Deeper Look at Hanford’s Story
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Feds get more time to decide whether to ship liquid radioactive waste from WA
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Hanford Site cleanup progress in Richland, community meeting Jan. 13
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Year End Report: Tri-Valley CAREs Celebrates our 2025 Accomplishments
Take a look at Tri-Valley CAREs’ 2025 accomplishments through our end of the year report! CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS > The post Year End Report: Tri-Valley CAREs Celebrates our 2025 Accomplishments appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.
Nuclear War: A Scenario book club—join now
By Henry Stoever It is not too late to join the PeaceWorks KC book club that begins its zoom sessions at 7 pm on Jan. 7, featuring Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario. You can get the book at the library or order it. About 15 persons are already using the book...
Statement on the Illegal US Attack on Venezuela
1/3/2026 WASHINGTON – Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, issued the following statement: “The United States’ military special forces attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores,...
2/2: “It All Starts with the Pits—Plutonium, That Is”
By Jane Stoever Our government may return to producing plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear bombs. Peace groups have managed to demand hearings where people can weigh in on whether that’s a good idea. Kansas City, Mo., is one of five locations that will have the...
An old danger returns: The nuclear arms race is revving up
IPPNW leaders at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 1985. Photo: IPPNW Steve Overman, MD MPH and Sean Arent, Washington PSR | Seattle Times Forty years after IPPNW’s Nobel Prize, the world once again needs clear voices willing to speak uncomfortable truths. Nuclear...
Hands off Venezuela!
By Ann Suellentrop About 250 persons gathered at the River Market area in Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3 to demand that the US stop its war on Venezuela. The speeches were about the millions of people in Venezuela who are at risk with “no precision” warfare, totally against...
Hanford contractor works to extend life of underground tanks
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End imperialist war on Venezuela
By Jon Rainwater Note: Jon Rainwater is executive director of Peace Action, of which PeaceWorks KC is an affiliate. Over the last 24 hours, U.S. forces unleashed a full-scale military assault on Caracas, Venezuela, and beyond. Delta Force commandos stormed a safe...
Save the Date! 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future by Richard Falk
Save the date for the 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Falk, who will address the legal, moral, and political...
Palisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor...
Press Statement: Holtec Misses Palisades Restart Deadline; Enviro Lawsuit
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (240)...
“Deep Fission” launches its mile deep reactor
Much to the surprise of residents in the small rural community of Parsons, Kansas, on December 4, 2025 they discovered that a Berkley, California nuclear startup company, Deep Fission, had selected their town for the fledgling company’s nuclear power plant...
CCNS Nuclear Literacy Program to Educate Nuevomexicano Communities on the LANL Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate010226mc.mp3 For over eighty years, the People of New Mexico have borne the burden of the 1943 establishment of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Through the Congressional continuing resolution...
Cheers to 45 Years, and More to Come — a message from Dr. Jimmy Hara
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Kansas Resident leading Opposition to Parsons, Kansas, Experimental Nuclear Project
By Ann Suellentrop Marjorie Reynolds, a pediatric nurse from the Parsons area, is speaking out about the proposed Deep Fission plan to create a miniature nuclear power plant down a mile-deep bore hole in the Great Plains Industrial Park. See deepfission.com “I grew up...
Oregon leaders oppose transit of Hanford waste
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ICE Activity increases in KC, so do protests!
Protestors demand transparency and accountability, and immigration lawyers question the legality of enforcement tactics including warrantless arrests at a rally on Christmas eve in support of the families of dozens of immigrants arrested at scheduled immigration court...
Save the Date! 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future by Richard Falk
Save the date for the 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Falk, who will address the legal, moral, and political...
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE LIX WORLD DAY OF PEACE
From the Vatican, 8 December 2025, vatican.va“In the relations between citizens and rulers, it could even be considered a fault not to be sufficiently prepared for war, not to react to attacks, and not to return violence for violence. Far beyond the principle of...
Excavation Work Complete on Hanford Landfill Expansion
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Feds award incentive pay of $89M to 5 contractors at WA radioactive waste site
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2025 in review: Hanford finally makes glass; federal brain drain among top stories
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2025 Highlights and What is in Store for 2026
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate122625mc.mp3 Please allow us to state the obvious: 2025 has been a busy year in terms of addressing proposals for MORE to support the growing nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico. From Los Alamos...
2025 Highlights and What is in Store for 2026
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate122625mc.mp3 Please allow us to state the obvious: 2025 has been a busy year in terms of addressing proposals for MORE to support the growing nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico. From Los Alamos...
Building Global Power to End the Plastic Crisis — And Win a Just Future
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Pope Leo’s Comments on current confrontational logic.
“In the relations between citizens and rulers, it could even be considered a fault not to be sufficiently prepared for war, not to react to attacks, and not to return violence for violence. Far beyond the principle of legitimate defense, such confrontational logic now...
TMS: A World in Chaos
The following article was authored by Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and published in Transcend Media Service on December 22, 2025. The Root Causes of Senseless Violence Nuclear disarmament should be the first step in unraveling the chaos. Today, we find ourselves in a...
Catholic bishops remind political leaders that nuclear weapons are immoral
By John Wester | Dec 14, 2025 thebulletin.orgIn August, a group of American Catholic Church leaders—including Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, DC, Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle, and me, the Archbishop of Santa Fe—traveled...
DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors
By Kelly Livingston and Allison Mollenkamp | Dec 15, 2025 rollcall.comCo-locating advanced nuclear reactors with data centers on DOE sites is part of the Trump administration’s bid to accelerate the development of both technologies, sources say, as research efforts...
Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Publi…
News from our friends at Tri-Valley CAREs | Dec 19, 2025 trivalleycares.orgFirst announced In January 2025, the NNSA proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization” at the Livermore Lab was to include a “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement”...
Tu Donación de Fin de Año a Tri-Valley CAREs: ¡Ahora Duplicada!
Nuclear Weapons / Environmental Justice ¡Tri-Valley CAREs tuvo un año 2025 extraordinario! En un momento en que los riesgos que plantean las armas nucleares son cada vez mayores, el trabajo de Tri-Valley CAREs es más importante que nunca. Nuestro personal, junta...
Your Year-End Donation to Tri-Valley CAREs – Now Doubled!
Tri-Valley CAREs had an amazing 2025! In a time when the risks posed by nuclear weapons are growing, Tri-Valley CAREs work is more important than ever. Our staff, board and volunteers have made great strides in 2025 (click here for staff highlights). To read more...
Less Than 50 Days Before New START Treaty Expires! Contact Your Congressional Members to Stop A New U.S. – Russia Arms Race
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate121925mc.mp3 The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or the New START Agreement, is set to expire on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 – in less than 50 days. The New START Agreement is the last remaining...
CISF@SCOTUS: Reply Brief filed by deadline
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the...
2025 Wrap Up: The Year in Nuclear Weapons Abolition at PSR
Throughout 2025, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition program worked in advocacy, education, and global partnership to confront escalating nuclear dangers and advance a health-centered vision for disarmament. As nuclear risks continued to rise — from eroding arms control...
Hanford tank prime H2C invites grout proposals
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Action Needed! National Call-in Day December 17th to Stop New U.S.- Russia Arms Race
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – the New START Agreement – is set to expire on February 5, 2026, a mere 50 days from now! Signed in 2010, the New START Agreement limits the number of strategic (long-range) nuclear...