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Disappearing Act: Hanford Team Completes Container Relocation Project
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Hanford vitrifies legacy waste
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Deplorable: tribe’s contract for ICE detention centers
By Bree Crawford Prairie Band LLC landed a $30 million contract to vet and design mega detention centers for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in areas probably including Kansas. According to KSNT 27 News from Topeka on Dec. 8, Prairie Band LLC, the...
Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Public Hearing
Photo Credit: Alex Milan Tracy DRAW DOWN TOXIC FUELS AT THE CEI HUB 12/16 RALLY & PUBLIC HEARING What is the CEI Hub and the Policy Project? The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is comprised of 630 fuel storage tanks spread across a six-mile stretch of...
Columbia Students on Dr. Hughes’s Nuclear Disarmament Advocacy
Two recent student-written pieces at Columbia University offer thoughtful perspectives on the work of Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Columbia. In Columbia Sundial, Nikos Mohammadi explores...
Walsh Welcomes Energy Secretary to Hanford
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ANA Fall Meeting: reflections, HOPE!
As our 5 PeaceWorks KC delegates attended the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Fall Meeting, they protested at the entry to the Nevada nuclear test site 11/21. They took hope from companions across the country gathered to oppose nuclear power and nuclear weapons....
Al Jazeera Gaza Op-Ed by Richard Falk, NAPF Senior Vice President
Richard Falk has published a new op-ed in Al Jazeera on what the ongoing tragedy in Gaza reveals about the failures of the current world order and the urgent need for meaningful UN reform. Read the full piece: “Gaza and the unravelling of a world order built on power”...
Russia says it awaits an answer from the US on New START as nuclear treaty ticks down
Russia says it awaits an answer from the US on New START as nuclear treaty ticks downBy Guy Faulconbridge and Lucy PapachristouDecember 10, 20253:26 AM EST Updated 3 hours agoItem 2 of 2 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu...
Putin Proposed to Extend New START Treaty for One Year; Trump Has Not Formerly Responded
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate121225mc.mp3 The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, is set to expire on Thursday, February 5th, 2026. In late September, President Putin proposed to extend the treaty for one year. ...
RFK Jr. must be impeached
Enough is enough. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should have never become the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. His decisions in this position have been misinformed at best and outright deadly at worst. If he continues his tenure, it will come at the...
Vit plant produces 20 containers of vitrified glass
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Bidders sought for $4B of work to treat radioactive waste in Eastern WA
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Heart-breaking but heartening: ANA fall meeting
By Kristin Scheer On a cold November morning, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) and representatives from its member groups joined Ian Zabarte and other Shoshone people at the Peace Camp on sacred Shoshone land, where nuclear bombs were detonated at the...
Strategies for Pushing Back in 2026
Photo Credit: Alex Milan Tracy Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 2, 2025 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2025, Issue 1, pages 6-7 Powering Victories We all have different expertise, and we all have a stake and a voice in protecting the...
New Air Force Chief Boosts Nuclear Buildup, Moving Away From Deterrence, Experts Warn
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Federal official says further testing needed to determine LANL’s chromium plume migration
By Clara Bates cbates@sfnewmexican.com | Dec 9, 2025 santafenewmexican.com(Feed generated with FetchRSS)
Federal official says further testing needed to determine LANL’s chromium plume migration
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Cleanup Updates: WESF
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Cleanup Updates: WESF
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Nuclear waste company with 400 Tri-Cities workers earns longer contract
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Nuclear waste company with 400 Tri-Cities workers earns longer contract
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President’s Letter – New Learning Hub, 2026, and Much More!
President’s Letter – December 2025 Dear NAPF Community, It has been a busy fall at NAPF, with worldwide advocacy, United Nations (UN) activities, and interviews across the political spectrum to promote peace and disarmament. Please take a moment to check out some of...
Energy Secretary sees ‘scientific marvel’ of Hanford nuclear site for 1st time
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Plutonium pit: reviving a dangerous, unnecessary nuclear pipeline
By Kimmy Igla For decades, since the closure of the notorious Rocky Flats plant for environmental crimes, the United States has not produced new plutonium pits—the radioactive cores of nuclear warheads. Now, a dangerous and costly plan is underway to restart and...
Tribes and Fish Advocates Win Legal Case Against Salmon Trucking
Oregon Court of Appeals sides with Tribes and fish advocates, restores protections for salmon Salem, Ore. (December 8, 2025)—Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals overturned a December 2022 rule by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Oregon Department of...
Director’s Letter (For the River)
Photo Credit: Paloma Ayala Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 2, 2025 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2025, Issue 1, pages 2-3 Director's Letter For the River This year marks 25 years of incredible victories powered by work in solidarity...
Tell Congress: We need a sound permitting process
If we want to increase the number of renewable energy projects, get them hooked up to the grid, and end our reliance on fossil fuels, we need to reform our process of evaluation and permitting. Generally, the goal of permitting reform is to make the process of siting...
Britain’s “borrowed bombs” and bombers
A new report reveals that the UK government’s purchase of American nuclear-capable F-35A planes and the atomic bombs they would drop, are a colossal waste of money, unneeded and incapable of serving any useful or timely strategic purpose. “Smoke and Mirrors” from...
The sacrificial victims of radiation exposure
Ignoring radiation risks and promoting nuclear power as beneficial to communities instead of protecting them, is one of the many negative outcomes of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb oversight by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. By discarding the Linear...
“It’s All About the Bomb”
NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION THE PEACEFUL ATOM GOES TO WAR ECO-LOGIC Weds., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. [ET], radio & internet [See the poster advertising this particular episode of the show! And see Alfred Meyer’s November 2022 The Progressive article, “It’s All About the...
BAS exposés on Holtec
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] Investigative journalist Matt Smith has published two articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in the past couple weeks regarding Holtec...
Chornobyl dome is leaking, IAEA confirms
The protective dome — known as the “new, safe confinement” –built over the original Chornobyl Unit 4 reactor sarcophagus cost $1.75 billion. It was constructed and partially funded by a European collaborative and completed in 2019. But it took just one cheap Russian...
Energy Secretary praises hydropower, slams environmental agenda ‘climate craziness’
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Stop the slaughter! Pray, protest at Offutt Air Force Base 12/26-27
By Brian TerrellTo commemorate “Holy Innocents’ Day,” when many Christians remember the children of Bethlehem slaughtered by King Herod who perceived the birth of Jesus as a security threat, there will be a nonviolent, prayerful witness at Offutt Air Force Base at...
Coming to KS: nuclear reactor 1 mile deep
The Lawrence Times reported Dec. 4 that the California-based company Deep Fission plans to begin planting a nuclear energy reactor a mile deep near Parsons, KS. The aim: 3 such nuclear reactors in operation in the US by July 4, 2026. Just around the corner. The story:...
Hanford begins turning nuclear waste into glass more than 60 years after pioneering the process
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Hanford begins turning nuclear waste into glass more than 60 years after pioneering the process
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Resumption of Nuclear-Explosive Testing: A Dangerous Path – An Editorial by Dr. John Burroughs of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate120525mc.mp3 SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Dec 2 2025 (IPS-Inter Press Service News Agency) – In a Truth Social post that reverberated around the world, on October 29 President Donald Trump wrote: “Because of other...
NM-MI-UT Amici Brief to SCOTUS, in support of Beyond Nuclear’s Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On December 4, 2025, the States of New Mexico, Michigan, and Utah submitted an Amici Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), in...
Cleanup Updates: Tank Waste
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New U.S. Energy secretary to visit Tri-Cities this week. He’ll be busy
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Press Statement re: $400 Million DOE Bailout for “SMRs” at Palisades
[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)...
NYU Event: Establishing a Middle East Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone
On November 19, 2025, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and its youth initiative Reverse the Trend, the International Relations Society at NYU, and NYU SPS co-hosted a timely discussion on Establishing a Middle East Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction...
Take Action to prevent energy efficiency rollbacks
Congress knows a thing or two about inefficiency, particularly this session on the heels of the country’s longest government shutdown. In addition to the 43-day shutdown, the House took an even longer recess and didn’t vote for 54 days. Now they’re back and attacking...
New Learning Hub
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is launching a new learning hub to spread the word about nuclear weapons. We know that nuclear disarmament can be a complicated subject. NAPF is dedicated to educating for peace and bringing you the resources to be the best advocate...
Most Democrats and one-third of Republicans think it’s likely the U.S. will get into a nuclear war in the next decade
By: Jamie Ballard| November 26, 2025 today.yougov.com46% of Americans think it’s likely the U.S. will get into a nuclear war within the next 10 years; 37% think this is not very or not at all likely. 57% of Democrats and 37% of Republicans think this is likely. (Feed...
Trump talk on nuke testing turns focus to New Mexico’s role in decades of blasts
By Alaina Mencinger amencinger@sfnewmexican.com | November 30, 2025 santafenewmexican.com(Feed generated with FetchRSS)
What might Project 2025 mean for N.M.? Non-nuclear cuts at national labs (Updated Dec 1, 2025)
By Gabrielle Porter and Alaina Mencinger gporter@sfnewmexican.com amencinger@sfnewmexican.com | Oct 26, 2024, Updated Dec 1, 2025 santafenewmexican.com(Feed generated with FetchRSS)
A walk for peace morphs into a search for Hanford’s nuclear truths
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