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Trump Fires NRC Commissioner Who Chaired Agency Under Biden
[Photo of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.] The dismissal came after President Trump signed several executive orders aimed at cutting safety regulations for nuclear power plants. As reported by the New York Times. That said,...
PSR Statement on Israel and Iran Conflict
Physicians for Social Responsibility condemns the recent Israeli military attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. These escalatory actions increase the risk of wider regional instability, endanger civilian lives, and undermine the critical need for diplomacy to advance...
New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Kenney Pauses Proposed Tritium Venting by LANL for Now
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) planned to vent 30,000 curies of radioactive tritium into the air during several weekends this summer but it must have approval from the New Mexico Environment Department. James Kenney, Environment Department Secretary, citing...
Trump EPA proposes repeal of key clean air regulations, endangering health
Contact: Miah Hornyak, mhornyak@psr.org Today’s repeal of power plant emissions standards for carbon and Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) is shortsighted and ill-intentioned. With this action, the Trump administration is trading the lives of the most vulnerable Americans...
FL nuke threatens Miami drinking water supply
Florida’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 3 and 4 are back in the news with “Miami’s Drinking Water Is Threatened by a Florida Nuclear Plant,” Bloomberg News, June 6, 2025 but behind the paywall. It’s about the billions of gallons of water required to...
US intelligence chief recounts Hiroshima visit, warns of ‘nuclear annihilation’
By Ann Suellentrop US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has warned that the world is “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” and called for rejection of the “path to a nuclear war.” Her comments came after a visit to the...
DC Days activists lobby to halt nuclear weapon buildup
By Ann Suellentrop PeaceWorks members are attending the annual DC Days lobbying effort of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability June 6-13. Go, peace peeps! I and four persons from the KC area in their 20s are holding meetings with other ANA members at congressional...
Golden Dome spells doom for US taxpayers and world peace
The Golden Dome for America, announced with much grandiosity by the Trump White House and price tag $175 billion in taxpayer money, is just another reboot of a longstanding and failed missile defense program. Far from keeping Americans safe, it threatens to trigger...
No Tritium Venting from LANL this Week
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CCNSUpdate-060625mc.mp3 It has been raining in Northern New Mexico this week, providing many blessings of moisture and delaying the proposed venting of radioactive tritium from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),...
KC youth delegation heads to DC Days
By Ann Suellentrop PeaceWorks KC is sending a delegation of five activists to Washington, DC, for DC Days, June 8-13. Our group will join advocates from across the country who belong to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) (see www.ananuclear.org). ANA will...
ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized its Environmental...
The Heart of a New Military Paradigm: Anduril’s AI Drone Warfare and a Worsening Nuclear Waste Catastrophe
Message from Patricia Marida of Ohio Nuclear-Free Network: The Heart of a New Military Paradigm: Anduril’s AI Drone Warfare and a Worsening Nuclear Waste Catastrophe 1 hour 40 minutes on YouTube. Many kudos to Jason and Terry for their excellent analyses. Kudos...
The St. Louis atomic bomb waste dump still sickens
It’s been 83 years and “We still don’t know what to do with the first cupful.” On June 2, 2025, WBUR Boston and National Public Radio (NPR) aired the “On Point” podcast regarding a decades old environmental justice struggle, “The long-term effects of nuclear waste in...
Reactor radiation harms: Trump’s EO will make this worse
It’s time to set the record straight on radiation and the damage it causes, particularly to pregnancy, children and women. Contrary to what Trump’s recent EO claims, abundant and largely officially ignored, scientific evidence demonstrates that childhood cancers...
Zaporizhzhia restart? Greenpeace warns of perils
Russia could be preparing to reconnect Ukraine’s closed Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the grid, a facility occupied by Russia since March 4, 2022. According to a report from Greenpeace Ukraine, satellite imagery shows Russia repairing a transmission line with...
Should US Expand Pit Production??
COMMENT TODAY – LET’S PACK THESE HEARINGS! Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic EIS “Scoping” Comments Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, Nuclear Watch NM, Savannah River Site Watch and Tri-Valley CAREs successfully sued the National Nuclear Security...
Kansas City sending delegation to ANA DC Days
Following its recent protest of the new generation of nuclear weapons on Monday, May 19, at the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), PeaceWorks KC will be sending a delegation of five activists to Washington DC June 8 to 13. The group will join fellow...
New Union of Concerned Scientists Report – Plutonium Pit Production: The Risks and Costs of U.S. Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate053025mc.mp3 Dylan K. Spaulding, author of the new report, is a senior scientist in the Union of Concerned Scientists Global Security Program. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Brown...
Ensuring a meltdown: Trump’s reckless nuclear orders
On March 23, President Trump signed five executive orders that threaten to roll back US nuclear energy policy at least 50 years. The orders are: Restoring Gold Standard Science; Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Reinvigorating the Nuclear...
FINAL ACTION ALERT ON ILLINOIS NUCLEAR MORATORIUM — SESSION ENDS MAY 31
NEIS ACTION ALERT – FINAL WEEK OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION! NEIS CONTINUES THE FIGHT AGAINST NEW ILLINOIS REACTORS! Urge elected officials to oppose SB1527, SB1538, HB3604, HB3603, which would repeal our remaining nuclear construction moratorium Greetings All – They’re...
US oil firms pumping secret chemicals into ground and not fully reporting it
The Guardian “We thought that the Colorado law was going to break through the culture of secrecy that surrounds the use of potentially toxic chemicals in oil and gas production,” said Dusty Horwitt, an attorney and researcher who was lead author on the analysis, which...
Say NO to plutonium pit production!
By Willow Silverayne This is a call to action! Look, I have no interest to “crawl out through the fallout, baby,” and—unless you have a death wish, or happen to be one of the few who profit off of war—then it’s safe to assume that neither do you. In this article, I...
Submit written comments opposing more nukes
Thanks to a lawsuit by Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch, and Tri-Valley CAREs,1 the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the US Department of Energy is organizing virtual public hearings May 27, 5-7:30 PM Eastern2 and May 28, 7-9:30 PM...
Statement on killing of Israeli Diplomatic Staff
Everyone Deserves to Live in Safety and in Peace. Peace Action strongly condemns the murders of Israeli diplomatic staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. last night. We hope that the memories of Yaron and Sarah will be...
Teaching Patients Climate Resilience
from My Green Doctor New research shows that healthcare professionals have a unique opportunity to teach their patients about individual and community climate resilience. My Green Doctor’s latest newsletter explores the benefits of waiting room teaching resources for...
Statement on killling of Israeli Diplomatic Staff
Everyone Deserves to Live in Safety and in Peace. Peace Action strongly condemns the murders of Israeli diplomatic staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. last night. We hope that the memories of Yaron and Sarah will be...
TODAY! Virtual Workshop about DOE’s Plans for Expanded Plutonium Pit Production at LANL for the Next 50 Years, Public Meetings Next Week
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate052325mc.mp3 Just a few days ago, on May 9th, the Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Nuclear Security Administration announced that virtual public “scoping” meetings would be held next week about...
Protests in Kansas City Demanding a Halt to Nuclear Weapons Production and the U.S. Arms Race
By Ann Suellentrop, MSRN On May 19, 2025 six resisters to nuclear weapons production in Kansas City crossed the purple property line at the National Security Campus. This was to protest the plant’s doubling in size to accommodate the new U.S. arms race beginning with...
Young Health Professionals and Students Engage in Nuclear Weapons Abolition
This May, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program has been busy engaging young health professionals and students around the work of nuclear disarmament. From campus socials to national webinars, we’re building momentum through creative outreach and meaningful...
No More Fracking Secrets in Colorado
This month, PSR and the PSR Colorado chapter took a big jump forward in our years-long campaign to protect Coloradoans from one of the many troubling health harms of fracking–the secret, noxious chemicals the industry uses to pump oil and gas out of the ground. In a...
April Fundraising Drive a Huge Success!
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Soup Kitchen Volunteers in Action
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Dawn’s Story
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ZOMBIE NUKES?! Palisades Precedent, Three Years On
On May 20, 2022, then owner of Palisades atomic reactor in southwest Michigan, Entergy, closed it for good. Holtec took over, supposedly to decommission it, on June 28, 2022. But decommissioning was a lie. By July 5, 2022, Holtec applied to the U.S. Department of...
NEIS alert against new reactors in IL–take action ASAP!
If you live in Illinois, please take direct action as soon as possible! If you do not, please spread word about this alert to everyone you know who does reside in Illinois! NEIS is sending a delegation to the IL state capital, in Springfield, to speak out against the...
Nuke Watch NM virtual workshop, On the nationwide programmatic Environmental impact statement on the expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores
JOIN US TOMORROW! Virtual Workshop On the nationwide programmatic Environmental impact statement on the expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores Learn How to Make Effective Comments at the Upcoming Public Hearings… Why: Speak your mind at an upcoming hearing...
Coalition appeals against Palisades zombie reactor restart before NRC Commissioners
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Notice of Appeal of ASLB Decision LBP-25-04, by Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, Michigan Clean Energy Future, Three Mile Island Alert...
Nuke protest pics … let’s reverse nuclear arms race
Leading up to civil resistance, PeaceWorks KC and friends held signs for employees to see as they came to work May 19 to make parts for nuclear weapons in KC MO. Our signs tell our story, “Stop escalating nuclear war.” Below are pictures from photographer Jim Hannah....
KKFI asks: ‘Why are you protesting nukes?’
PeaceWorks KC held a protest May 19 at the vast plant in KC MO that is more than doubling in size to make electronic and mechanical parts for nuclear weapons. Reporter Liz Wade of “Jaws of Justice” on KKFI Community Radio, 90.1 FM, asked line-crossers and some...
Budget Reconciliation: Where things stand and how you can help
You may have heard of the “Big Beautiful Bill” making its way through Congress right now, but for our climate and health, this bill is anything but. With a House floor vote on budget reconciliation expected as early as this week, we must work to stop this bill in its...
‘No new nukes!’ say resisters at KC nuke plant
By Jane Stoever Twenty-three peacemakers resisted nuclear weapons at dawn May 19. Our signs, made May 18, declared, “No new nukes!” and “Stop escalating nuclear War!” Why hold signs at dawn? That’s when workers come to make 80% of the electrical and mechanical parts...
Deterrence without threat
Every individual and group has a right and an obligation to defend itself. Unfortunately, when most humans1 think of defense, they think of violent responses to provocations. They fail to understand that (a) most uses of violence are counterproductive, and (b) there...
Workshop on Plutonium Pit Production PEIS & New Nuclear Weapons: May 22, 2025
Workshop by SRS Watch & other groups – how to comment on the Programmatic EIS on plutonium pit-production at the Savannah River Site & Los Alamos –
There’s Still Time to Act: Sign Petition to Stop LANL Plans to Vent Radioactive Tritium
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate051625mc.mp3 If you haven’t already signed the electronic petition to STOP Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to vent large quantities of radioactive tritium into the air beginning on or after June...
You’re Invited! Honoring the Elders
Join the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center on Saturday May 17th from 2:00 - 4:30 PM for an afternoon to celebrate and honor the...
A Celebration of Life to Honor Our Beloved Friend Judith Mohling
Dearest friends and family of Judith Mohling, please join a memorial service to honor Judith and celebrate her life. Judith's light...
Redressing Misconceptions About Palestine
Join Longmont for Palestine for a lecture series contextualizing the conflict between Israel and Palestine. These talks cover the history...
We can’t have both healthier children and nukes
According to The New York Times, a new Trump Administration Executive Order (EO) urges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “to reconsider its safety limits for radiation exposure, saying that current limits are too strict and go beyond what is needed to protect...
Defending Lake Michigan against radioactive risks!
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Press advisory by Michael Keegan of Don’t Waste Michigan: Thursday – Please drop in for Listen Only on Palisades Oral Arguments at 10:00am ET...
President Trump to unleash atomic power
On May 14, 2025, E&ENews updated reports on President Donald Trump’s four “pre-decisional” White House Executive Orders to radically alter the historic role of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) to oversee the performance of reactor design safety...