NNSA cancels public engagement efforts for increased plutonium use at LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Photo by Jude Strzemp) Jude Strzemp at Livermore Vine January 7, 2026 The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration recently retracted its intention to publish a draft environmental report for public...
Killing the American Dream
The major media in the US are killing the American Dream … slowly, by a thousand cuts. A primary murder weapon is Reaganomics. This is visible in a plot of inequality of income1 in Figure 1, which shows the evolution of the shares of post-tax income of the top 3...
Celebrating Five Years of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CCNSUpdate011626mc.mp3 On Thursday, January 22th, the world and New Mexicans will mark five years since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons became international law. Nuclear weapons are now illegal....Sacrifice environment for faster relicensing?
NRC to trade off Environmental Impact Statements for Environmental Assessments? The nuclear energy trade journal Inside NRC (published by Platts/S&P Global) reports that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “staff plans to narrow the focus of subsequent (60...
Department of Energy executes White House Executive Order Radical changes to nuclear safety and security of new reactors withheld from public review In ...
January 22, 2026 marked the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)! On ...
Photo credit: Conrad Gowell How Columbia Riverkeeper brought change to the hydrosystem, and what it meant to salmon. By: Miles Johnson, Legal Director ...
No Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator in history has so brazenly corrupted the agency’s core mission. The EPA’s foremost purpose is to “protect ...
Nos reuniremos virtualmente (a través de Zoom) para diseñar estrategias sobre cómo podemos usar individualmente el poder de nuestras cuentas de redes sociales ...
[Photograph of top-down view of steam generator tubes in a typical pressurized water reactor like Palisades.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release ...
On January 26, 2026, the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) approved Beyond Nuclear’s December 31, 2025 Petition to Intervene. See the IUC’s ruling here ...