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Worrisome radioactive waste gets a new dry home at Hanford
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40+ workers laid off immediately at Hanford nuclear site
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Hanford site contractor lays off 40 workers effective immediately
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Hanford site contractor lays off 40 workers effective immediately
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Apply now for the PSR National Emerging Leaders Program!
We are excited to announce that applications are once again open to join PSR National’s Emerging Leaders program! Specifically designed for health professional students and early-career health professionals under the age of 35, the program will engage the Emerging...
Parsons, KS, board gets questions re nuclear reactor plans
Leah Conner, standing, asks the board if they understand that earth moves and is subject to earthquakes, sometimes caused by bore holes, and asks how the board can know if the water in the area will be safe from radioactive contamination. She asks how they can know if...
Tell EPA to protect our health from dirty coal ash
In the Trump administration’s latest attempt to revive the coal industry, EPA wants to delay closure deadlines for coal ash ponds. The same facilities creating the coal ash are also being granted the opportunity to continue operating past their planned retirement...
Breaking News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts:Simone Anter, Columbia Riverkeeper, (541) 399-5312, simone@columbiariverkeeper.orgSarah Dyrdahl, American Rivers, (503) 277-3223, sdyrdahl@americanrivers.org FERC Issues Decision to Permanently Destroy Sacred Tribal Cultural Properties...
A Grave Problem with South Carolina’s New Nuclear Warhead
By Taylor Barnes | January 22, 2026 inkstickmedia.comOn a crisp evening last October, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), a federal contractor that hopes to manufacture thousands of cores for new nuclear warheads at a Cold War-era weapons plant in rural South...
Partnership for a World without Nuclear Weapons: Statement on the Fifth Anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear …
ALBUQUERQUE—Wednesday, January 21, 2026—The Partnership for a World without Nuclear Weapons released a statement in recognition of the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons:We hope for its further expansion...
Radioactive animals don’t glow — but do show the power of radiation
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Hanford Site completes first transfer of radioactive capsules to long-term storage
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First transfer of radioactive capsules complete at Hanford Site
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Cutting lethal radioactive leak risks in Eastern WA takes major step
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‘They poisoned us’: grappling with deadly impact of nuclear testing
The following article was originally published in France24 on January 22, 2026. ‘They poisoned us’: grappling with deadly impact of nuclear testing Geneva (AFP) – Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million...
We are sleepwalking into nuclear catastrophe
The following article was authored by Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Prof. Peter Kuznick, published in Responsible Statecraft on January 20, 2026. We are sleepwalking into nuclear catastrophe As Trump’s invasion of Venezuela shows, the premier non-proliferation treaty...
Trump offers states a deal to take nuclear waste
By Sophia Cai, E&E News by POLITICO | January 21, 2026 eenews.netThe Trump administration wants to quadruple America’s production of nuclear power over the next 25 years and is hoping to entice states to take the nuclear waste those plants produce by dangling the...
Americans Across Party Lines Want the U.S. to Keep Nuclear Limits with Russia, New Poll Finds
Nuclear Threat Initiative | January 21, 2026 nti.orgThe poll of 1,000 registered voters also finds that the vast majority of Americans—including 85 percent of those who voted for President Trump—believe the president should agree to Russia’s proposal to continue...
PNNL, Hanford contractors earn millions in incentive pay
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Hanford nuclear cleanup gets federal budget bump
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New Hanford Water Treatment Facility Operational
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Artists Rising Against the Bomb Art Contest
Artists Rising Against the Bomb Art Contest Contest Purpose To raise awareness (among young artists and the public) about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, nuclear war, and/or nuclear weapons threat, including nuclear weapons production and testing...
Save New START Before it Expires on February 4th – Check Out the Advocacy Toolkit at Defuse Nuclear War.org
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CCNSUpdate012326mc.mp3 The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Wednesday, February 4th. Without this treaty, there will be nothing stopping a new, dangerous and...
The Plan To Kill Humanity: Total Extermination Is REAL | Ivana Hughes & Steven Starr
Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Director of Columbia University’s Frontiers of Science program and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and Steven Starr, former Director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, discuss the reality of...
Protect Better: ORGANIZE AND PUSH BACK
Protect Better: YES to healthy babies, a healthy future. NO to increased radiation from nuclear sites JOIN US: Online INFO / ORGANIZING meetings: January — February 2026 The May 2025 White House Executive Order 14300 has told NRC to allow more radiation exposure of...
La NNSA Cancela las Actividades de Participación Pública Relacionadas con el Aumento del Uso de Plutonio en el LLNL
TVC in the News Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Foto de Jude Strzemp) Jude Strzemp en Livermore Vine, 7 de enero de 2026 La Administración Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear del Departamento de Energía retiró recientemente su intención de publicar un borrador de...
En conmemoración del Día de Martin Luther King Jr.: Un Llamamiento al Liderazgo Moral en materia de armas nucleares.
El personal, la junta directiva y los miembros de Tri-Valley CAREs honran la vida del Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. en el aniversario de su nacimiento, el 15 de enero. Y celebramos su día festivo el tercer lunes de enero de cada año. Igualmente importante, nos...
Remembering Ron Faust’s ‘life of justice and peace’
By Jane Stoever “We remember Ron’s trademark beret,” says Charles Carney. “He wore it in defiance of pastors who wanted him to remove it” … he opposed “vacuous traditions.”–Photo by Kriss Avery The Rev. Dr. Ron Faust, a former PeaceWorks KC Board member, died Nov. 20,...
Review of Martyrs to the Unspeakable by James Douglass
A new book details the tragedies of and the connections between the devastating assassinations of America’s foremost 1960s leaders. On December 8, 1999, in what should have been “the trial of the century,” a jury of 12 convicted Lloyd Jowers, alongside the United...
Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later
[U.S. Navy photo] Dr. Michael E. Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, has authored “Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later.” See his English language version here. An Andalusian...
Watch BOMBSHELL on PBS American Experience — streaming across all PBS-branded platforms, including YouTube, PBS.org and the PBS …
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Hanford Site receives record $3.2 billion for cleanup efforts
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Hanford cleanup gets record $3.2 billion budget
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U.S. Senate passes funding bills for Hanford, PNNL
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$5B in federal funds for WA would stop layoffs at Tri-Cities’ biggest employer
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Hanford cleanup office given until mid-March to address DNFSB inquiry
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$5B in federal funds for WA would stop layoffs at Tri-Cities’ biggest employer
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Hanford cleanup office given until mid-March to address DNFSB inquiry
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Are Governments Playing Roulette with Nuclear Weapons?
In January 2026, Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a senior lecturer in chemistry at Columbia University, joined the Emory Pharma Speaker Series about the risks of nuclear weapons and the long-term impacts of radioactive...
Hanford 2025 Recap
Hanford Nuclear Site: 2025 in Review Columbia Riverkeeper’s very condensed timeline of the Hanford Nuclear Site in 2025 By: Simone Anter, Senior Attorney & Hanford Program Director This last year proved to be tumultuous and pivotal at the Hanford Nuclear Site,...
Science, Stars, and Songs
Standing Up to Fallout in Nevada By: Dan Serres, Advocacy Director In November 2025, Columbia Riverkeeper sent me as an emissary to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the fall meeting of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), which coincided with the International...
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...
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...
In Honor of MLK Jr. Day: A Call for Moral Leadership on Nuclear Weapons
Tri-Valley CAREs’ staff, board and members honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday, January 15. And, we celebrate his holiday on the third Monday of January each year. Equally important, we strive to carry on his work every day. Dr. King spoke...
DOGE cuts starve US defense against ICBMs
As reported in an exclusive by USA Today. Fort Greely, Alaska’s role in U.S. defenses — or lack thereof — against adversarial attack by Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), including nuclear-tipped ones, plays a central role in the blockbuster film “House of...
Fukushima Coverup, 15 Years On
An article by Arnie Gundersen, published at CounterPunch. Gundersen serves as Beyond Nuclear and our environmental coalition’s expert witness in opposition to Holtec’s unprecedented restart of the Palisades atomic reactor in Michigan.
Tri-Valley CAREs 2026 Youth Environmental Photo Contest
Before entering, make sure you meet all the requirements for the contest! All entries that meet the requirements are automatically entered into a pool of consideration for the prizes: The winner receives $750, the runner-up gets $250. Additionally, applicants from...