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PRESS RELEASE: “NUCLEAR AMATEUR HOUR” RESULTS IN TRIFECTA OF PROBLEMS AT CONTROVERSIAL NUCLEAR PLANT RESTART
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Independent nuclear safety agency says it’s being stonewalled by Department of Energy
By Nicholas Gilmore ngilmore@sfnewmexican.com Santa Fe New Mexican | September 23, 2026 santafenewmexican.comOfficials from the U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board have raised alarm over what they’ve called “stonewalling” by the U.S. Department of Energy of...
Value safety over speed when handling nukes
OUR VIEW Santa Fe New Mexican | September 24, 2026 santafenewmexican.comThe Trump administration and the Department of Energy apparently feel the need. The need for speed. Even in a situation where extreme caution should be a top priority.A particularly troubling...
The Human and Moral Costs of the New Nuclear Arms Race
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Golden Dome Is Technologically and Financially Infeasible
By: Frederick Lamb and Laura Grego, WAR ON THE ROCKS | October 15, 2026 warontherocks.comFor as long as nuclear-armed, intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles have existed, strategists and engineers have pursued a seductive idea:...
DOE Conceals Cost of SRS Plutonium Pit Plant – SRS Watch news, Oct. 19, 2026
For Release October 19, 2026 – Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch), Columbia, SC, www.srswatch.orgContact: Tom Clements, Director, cell 803-240-7268, tomclements329@cs.comNew release posted on SRS Watch website:...
Trump’s Threats to Annihilate Iran | in Al Jazeera
The following article by NAPF President Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick was published in Al Jazeera (in Arabic) on October 16, 2026. By Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick It is not possible to excuse, justify, or condone this kind of rhetoric. The only...
Fusion company inks deal with Hanford area economic development group
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Concerned about Project Ranger? Join State Emergency Response Commission Virtual Meeting on Thursday, October 22nd
https://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CCNSUpdate101626mc.mp3 Did you know that this week Tessa Snyder, the Hazardous Materials Coordinator, confirmed in writing that she recently met privately with Castelion Corporation about their Project Ranger, a...
Update on Holtec’s botched Palisades refueling
Holtec Palisades, LLC, the would-be new power reactor operator of Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power station has ominously botched the first attempt at the unprecedented refueling of what was certified to be a “decommissioning” nuclear power plant. We’re familiar with...
Washington state extends Hanford’s sitewide comments until January
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Take Action to Support Nuclear Safety
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) needs your help! This independent federal agency provides expert oversight capacity to sites with significant quantities of radioactive material like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). DNFSB reviews...
Hanford Advisory Board lineup remains in limbo
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Hanford Site marks 250,000 gallons of tank waste solidified as vitrification operations get up to speed
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1 year later, Eastern WA plant ramps up radioactive waste treatment
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Hanford vitrification hits another milestone
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Hanford grout’s clay-like appearance draws scrutiny
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Cleanup Without an End Date: What LLNL’s 2025 Groundwater Report Leaves Unanswered
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s 1104-page Site 2025 Annual Groundwater Report documents a large and technically complex groundwater cleanup. But containment is not cleanup, and the report does not answer the question most important to the public: When will...
Beyond the Fence: Join Tri-Valley CAREs for a Walking Tour of Livermore Lab’s Off-Site Contamination and Cleanup
Join Tri-Valley CAREs on Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. for a neighborhood walking tour exploring the history of groundwater contamination and cleanup near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We will meet at the Susan Lane cul-de-sac in...
NAPF Annual Report 2025–2026
A year of work for nuclear disarmament and justice, from the United Nations to our local communities.The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2025–2026 Annual Report is now available. Read about our work to eliminate nuclear weapons and support communities affected by their...
The Plutonium Circus Comes to Town
By: Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle | October 20, 1995 austinchronicle.comGeorge Whittenburg Ratliff is not the kind of guy you would peg for one of the most talented filmmakers around these days. Tall and lanky, with an unruly shock of dirty-blond hair and large...
Hanford 222-S lab final RFP could be out soon; 26 attended industry day
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DOE employee faces prosecution for helping terror group; Hanford not targeted
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Trump administration is shortchanging Hanford cleanup
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WTP Class 3 CommentsTank Farms Class 2 Comments
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Your Gift Helps Protect Our Communities From Nuclear Harm
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs supporter, Let me offer my deepest appreciation for your participation and support for our collective work to change nuclear and environmental policy locally, nationally and globally. Today, I invite you to help us achieve success on all three...
Tri-Valley CAREs Action Plan for Congress to Support the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is an independent source of technical oversight of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) defense nuclear facilities. Tri-Valley CAREs has previously reported on the struggles that DNFSB is currently facing, including...
Ivana Nikolić Hughes on AI and the New Nuclear Arms Race | With Glenn Diesen
NAPF’s president speaks with Glenn Diesen about artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons.In this interview with Glenn Diesen, Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes discusses AI and the new nuclear arms race. Hughes is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a Senior...
Navy Ordered 444 Missiles, 80% of Work to be Done in Rio Rancho, Including Static Weapons Testing
https://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CCNSUpdate100926mc.mp3 The U.S. Navy has ordered 444 fully functional Blackbeard hypersonic missiles from Castelion Corporation. The government has assigned 80% of the contract work to be done in Rio Rancho, New...
‘Endangered’ listing proposed for WA burrowing owls. Most nest by Tri-Cities
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A Real Climate Time Bomb: The Pacific’s Nuclear “Tomb” Is Beginning to Crack, Raising Alarm
Runit Dome, a remnant of U.S. nuclear testing, shows worrying signs of deterioration as sea levels rise, raising fears of radioactive contamination.A report in Science & Vie examines cracks in Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands and the risks posed by rising seas....
From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference
IAEA’s 70th General Conference highlights growing strains on safeguards and nuclear security as attention shifts to the first review of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.Katsuhiro Asagiri’s article for Inter Press Service examines nuclear governance ahead of the first...
Ivana Hughes’s Remarks at the 2026 Women Waging Peace Luncheon
Honoring Katrina vanden Heuvel, Annie Jacobsen, and the women who have raised their voices for a world in which all children can go to bed without fear of bombs.Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, delivered these opening remarks at...
Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Women Waging Peace Award
It has never been more urgent to revive the idea of peace, not as a slogan, but as the only serious, respectable, responsible, reasonable, humane position.On September 30, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation honored Katrina vanden Heuvel and Annie Jacobsen with its 2026...
Richland to consider power agreement key to $3B nuclear fuel plant
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Hanford’s old water treatment plant officially retired
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Dual Path Reproach email
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Nonprofits Ask Gov. Kotek to Immediately Withdraw Support for Controversial Diesel Refinery
Photo by Paloma Ayala FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact:Audrey Leonard, Columbia Riverkeeper: 541-399-4775Miles Johnson, Columbia Riverkeeper: 971-515-7996 Nonprofits Ask Gov. Kotek to Immediately Withdraw Support for Controversial Diesel Refinery New info shows...
WIR, state comment period address some of grout issues at Hanford
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FBI arrests Energy Department employee accused of attempting to support Houthis
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FBI accuses Eastern WA man of providing help to foreign terrorist organization
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Radioactive waste tank being emptied at Hanford. It will be the last for years
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‘Pristine but deadly’: Visiting the most contaminated place in America
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Give!Guide Partners
2026 Give!Guide Business Partners By: Alex Smith, Development Manager We are honored to be participating in this year’s Willamette Week Give!Guide. This is an annual campaign to raise funds for and draw attention to the extraordinary work of local nonprofits. This...
NO to Nuclear AUDIOBOOK! Help us raise the funds
Beyond Nuclear has been given the opportunity to have a professional audiobook made of Linda Pentz Gunter’s new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War. An audio version has been a not infrequent request as we...
Cleanup Updates – RIP HAB. Honoring 32 years of magic.
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Peace Week: Outer Space as a Global Commons
https://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CCNSUpdate100226mc.mp3 From Saturday, October 3rd through Saturday, October 10th, people around the world are organizing local events to bring outer space to greater public attention by proclaiming “Keep Space for...
“No Nukes” greets NE Governors “Go Nukes”
On September 30, 2026 at the invitation of Massachusetts Democrat Governor Maura Healey representatives and researchers from all six New England Governors (MA, NH, VT, ME, CT, RI) convened at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for the “New England Regional Nuclear...
Palisades investigation indefinitely halts refueling
On September 26, 2026, the Detroit Free Press headlined its news story “Nuclear regulators probe fuel assembly installation mishap at Palisades”. The article regards the occurrence of a nuclear fuel handling mishap at the very end of August 2026 involving the...
¡Tri-Valley CAREs Lo Invita a Nuestra FIESTA de Amplificación Mensual!
Nos reuniremos virtualmente (a través de Zoom) para diseñar estrategias sobre cómo podemos usar individualmente el poder de nuestras cuentas de redes sociales (a través de Facebook, X, Threads, Linkedin, etc.) y medios impresos (a través de Cartas al editor, secciones...