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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...
Sign Electronic Petition to Halt LANL Plans to Vent Radioactive Tritium in Early June
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate050925mc.mp3 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to vent large quantities of radioactive tritium into the air beginning on or after June 2nd, 2025. Tritium is a form of hydrogen that forms...
TAKE ACTION Sign petition on tritium
Sign the petition to stop The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from large releases of radioactive tritium gas. LANL plans to release the tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The only roadblock to the Lab’s plans is that it needs a “Temporary Authorization”...
News Flash! Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production by DOE’s NNSA, May 9, 2025 Federal Register
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy,
Don’t nuke Mother Earth
The Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) makes or procures some 80% of the electronic and mechanical parts for US nuclear weapons. The plant provides the triggering system, the guidance system, and operating parts for nukes. These are weapons of mass...
Tell Congress to Support a Safer Future and Back H. Res. 317 to End the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
At this time of crisis, now with an escalating conflict ongoing in the Kashmir region, involving India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states, our work to advance a world without these weapons is more critical than ever. We know that even a limited nuclear war between...
ANA DC DAYS: June 8-11, then Spring Meeting
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has held DC Days annually for nearly four decades. All-day training will be Sunday, June 8. Meetings with congressional and executive branch offices will be from Monday to Wednesday, June 9 to 11. Monday evening will feature a...
Holtec’s Palisades SMR-300s: Reference reactors for global buildout
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] HOLTEC “SMR”-300s Targeting Utah as Mountain West base As reported by Power Engineering, Holtec has announced development of a manufacturing...
A tar pit awaits Santee Cooper’s RFP applicants
The South Carolina Public Service Authority, also known as Santee Cooper electric, has announced that it has closed its January 22, 2025 “Request For Proposals” (RFP) to gauge the potential interest of any new buyers to resume the financing and construction of the...
The India-Pakistan conflict and nuclear risks
What follows is a statement on the situation from ICAN, of which Beyond Nuclear in a member: “ICAN is gravely concerned at the escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan, particularly since last night’s missile strikes by India on Pakistan-administered Kashmir...
Talk on SRS, the Nuclear Arms Race & Upcoming Meetings on Plutonium “Pit” Production – May 10, Columbia, SC & livestreamed
Exposing the “Conspiracy Reality” of On-Going Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War Presentation by Tom Clements,
Artillery made in Midwest is used for genocide in Gaza
By Christopher Overfelt Note: This is Issue 3 in the Midwest Weapons Report, by Christopher Overfelt. He calls the Midwest the backbone of weapons manufacturing and storage for the American Empire. He concludes: “Those who determine American foreign policy have chosen...
Trump’s 2026 Budget Request Will Harm Health of Americans
For Immediate Release Contact: Paige Knappenberger, pknappenberger@psr.org WASHINGTON – The President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request is an assault on health and equity. Many of these cuts are blatant attacks that target the most vulnerable among us, namely people...
RADIATION MEETING May 15-16
The Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies is hosting its 46th Meeting on May 15 & 16. Among the topics are advancements and limitations in low dose research, implications of attacks on commercial nuclear reactors, and development of a...
LANL Plans to Begin Venting Large Quantities of Radioactive Tritium On or After June 2nd
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate050225mc.mp3 During the early days of the pandemic, on March 10, 2020, LANL mailed a notice to people on the facility mailing list about the proposed venting of radioactive tritium into the air from four...
NUKE WASTE DUMP: Ojibwe Country once again targeted
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented “Water Is Life, Nuclear Waste Is Toxic” at the annual meeting of Environment North, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Superior, April 23, 2025. Environment North is the...