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PNNL wins innovation award for Hanford waste glass work
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Nuclear shadow from World War II hangs over salmon returns in the Columbia River
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Lawsuit by Livermore Non-Profit Results in Government Public Hearing about New Nuclear Weapons Production and the Dangers Involved
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Public Hearing tomorrow 5/12 on Plutonium Bomb Core Production Plan, and Livermore Lab’s Role Lawsuit by Livermore Non-Profit Results in Government Public Hearing about New Nuclear Weapons Production and the Dangers Involved Livermore – The...
Local nuclear weapons activities
Tracy Press– Patricia Howell May 8, 2026 Editor, Public hearing on nuclear weapons in our back yard! I am a director for Tri Valley Community Against Radioactive Environment (CARES). It is a citizen group that keeps watch on the activities of Lawrence Livermore...
Plutonium Hearing
Pleasanton Weekly Letters to the Editor– Marylia Kelley May 8, 2026 Tri-Valley residents have a rare opportunity to stem plutonium increases locally and impact nuclear weapons policy nationally at an upcoming public hearing. The National Nuclear Security...
Are Trump’s nuclear plans illegal?
13 organizations, including Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information & Resource Service, have filed comments to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, suggesting Trump’s nuclear “orders” may violate long-standing legislation The so-called “Rubber-Stamp Rule”, an...
Draft PEIS Released! Livermore Public Hearing May 12
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is coming to Livermore on May 12 to hear oral public comments about its nationwide plutonium pit production plan, in which Livermore Lab will be doing plutonium pit support work. To prepare, we held a Virtual Comment...
Tri-Valley CAREs Heads to DC! Help Support Our Team!
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs member, We are organizing locally for the Livermore public hearing on plutonium pit production while also preparing to go to Washington, DC for this year’s Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s (ANA) DC Days! We need your support! The President...
COMMENT TRAINING for the Plutonium Pit Production Draft PEIS – Recording of Kansas City-Focused Training May 6, 2026
Learn more about the government’s plan to mass produce new plutonium pits for nuclear weapons, Kansas City’s role in this program, and how to give a well-informed and impactful testimony at the public comment hearing in Kansas City on May 7 or submit written comments...
Murray warns proposed cuts could impact Hanford, rural healthcare
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Murray, union leaders warn of layoffs under Trump proposed Hanford budget
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LLNL’S Priority is Nuclear Weapons
The Independent– Tanvi Kardile April 23, 2026 The administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been released, and it is staggering. The one-year funding request for $3,202,772,000 is the highest ever for LLNL....
Public Hearing about Lab’s Plutonium Bomb Core Work!
The Independent– Scott Yundt April 30, 2026 The government is restarting the production of Plutonium Pits (nuclear bomb cores) for the first time since 1989. A public hearing is scheduled in Livermore because of Livermore Lab’s (LLNL) involvement—which includes...
Plutonium Bomb Cores
The Independent– Marylia Kelley May 7, 2026 It’s May. Spring is in the air. Breathe deeply. But more plutonium too? The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to produce 80 or more plutonium bomb cores, called pits, each year to place inside new...
US continues to fall short on the Compact
Statement on the Compact of Free Association Benetick Kabua Maddison, ED/CEO, Marshallese Educational Initiative 10/19/2023 A renewed...
What “Nuclear Justice” Means
Benetick Kabua Maddison Executive Director, Marshallese Educational Initiative Op-Ed published in the Marshall Islands Journal, May 26,...
Fairness of the Restoration of Benefits
Arkansas is home to thousands of Marshallese residents who were encouraged to migrate to the United States following 12 years of...
G7 Youth Summit
Marshallese and Japanese peoples have historical and tragic ties. The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targets of atomic...
Seeking Nuclear Justice: Voices from the Marshallese Diaspora in Arkansas
MEI Statement on NVRD, the Compact February 28, 2023
US continues to fall short on the Compact
Statement on the Compact of Free Association Benetick Kabua Maddison, ED/CEO, Marshallese Educational Initiative 10/19/2023 A renewed...
What “Nuclear Justice” Means
Benetick Kabua Maddison Executive Director, Marshallese Educational Initiative Op-Ed published in the Marshall Islands Journal, May 26,...
Fairness of the Restoration of Benefits
Arkansas is home to thousands of Marshallese residents who were encouraged to migrate to the United States following 12 years of...
G7 Youth Summit
Marshallese and Japanese peoples have historical and tragic ties. The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targets of atomic...
Seeking Nuclear Justice: Voices from the Marshallese Diaspora in Arkansas
MEI Statement on NVRD, the Compact February 28, 2023
Choosing Hope – Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes
Choosing Hope Hope to me comes from activism of communities affected by nuclear weapons and from conversations at every level. These remarks were delivered by Ivana Nikolić Hughes to close the Choose Hope side event at the 11th Review Conference of the Nuclear...
Don’t let EPA weaken coal ash safeguards
After decades of advocacy, we won strong, health-protective coal ash standards in 2015 and 2024. Now, EPA wants to roll them back. Earlier this year, we asked you to submit comments in defense of federal protections when they proposed a delay of enforcement. EPA’s...
Sample Comment Letter on draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environment Impact Statement – Public Hearing Thursday, May 14th in Santa Fe
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CCNSUpdate050826mc.mp3 Our colleague, Hunter Noffsinger, an organizer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, crafted a three-minute public comment about the draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environmental...
NRC’s “Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission” Rule
On May 4, 2026, Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information Resource Service, et al, filed public comments strongly opposing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “NRC Reviews of Reactor Designs Previously Authorized by U.S. Department...
Plutonium Pit Production Draft PEIS – Recording of Public Hearing North Augusta, South Carolina, Tues May 5, 2026
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Final SRS, Hanford cleanups remain far into future
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Draft PEIS Released! May 7 Comment Training for Livermore Public Hearing
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is coming to Livermore on May 12 to hear oral public comments about its nationwide plutonium pit production plan, in which Livermore Lab will be doing plutonium pit support work. To prepare, we will hold a Virtual...
Tri-Valley CAREs Joins Fellow Plaintiffs to Tour Savannah River Site’s Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Plant
On April 21, Tri-Valley CAREs’ Nuclear Policy Program Director, Tanvi Kardile, accompanied by other plaintiffs Savannah River Site Watch and Nuclear Watch New Mexico, toured the plutonium “pit” bomb core production plant at the National Nuclear Security...
Thousands Rally at Baltimore’s War Memorial Plaza for ‘No Kings’ Day
Chesapeake PSR’s Drs. Terry Fitzgerald and Gwen DuBois in Washington, DC in October 2025 The Greyhound The concerns on display stretched well beyond immigration. Terry Fitzgerald, 77, a Baltimore physician with Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, worked...
GAO Report: Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Better Data and Project Prioritization Vital to Managing Aging Infrastructure and Communicati…
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Proyección De La Película “Half-Life of Memory”
Tri-Valley CAREs presentaProyección Comunitaria: Half Life of Memory Acompáñenos a una película poderosa que invita a la reflexión sobre la memoria y el impacto de la historia nuclear. Miércoles, 20 de mayo🕔 5:00–7:00 PM (película a las 5:30 PM) 🎟️ Entrada gratuita🍿...
Nukes and AI require 1.4 million gallons of water a day at New Mexico lab
By Alicia Inez Guzmán, High Country News | April 30, 2026 hcn.orgHIGH ATOP A PLATEAU IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, Los Alamos National Laboratory is facing its biggest expansion since the World War II-era Manhattan Project, the top-secret government effort to produce the...
Ten reasons to reject nuclear power
In Beyond Nuclear executive director Linda Pentz Gunter’s new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — she delivers a compelling indictment of every aspect of the nuclear power industry and its connections to...
Forestalling Dystopia: Stratagems for Change
“Forestalling Dystopia: Stratagems for Change” on Global Political Economy brought together speakers to discuss climate breakdown, conflict, inequality, and shifting global power. The conversation moved between questions about where current trajectories were heading...
Radioactive waste emptied from aging, leak-prone tank in Eastern WA
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IPPNW Statement to the 11th Review Conference to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Delivered by Magritte GordaneerMay 1, 2026 Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, and Civil Society Colleagues, We are in a crisis — you wouldn’t know that walking into this room. In January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85...
NAPF Statement at the 11th NPT Review Conference – Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes
Not Just an Abstract Moral Appeal: Ending the Nuclear Age Is a Requirement for Survival Humanity faces a choice, whether consciously or not, to continue down a path of conflict that leads toward ultimate destruction or to renounce its old ways and center peace at the...
Remembering Chornobyl at 40; The Harm Continues
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CCNSUpdate050126mc.mp3 Last week’s Nuclear in New Mexico conference in Bernalillo continued the myth that expansion of the nuclear cycle in New Mexico would be welcomed here. Activities such as expanded uranium...
For Public Health and to Save Money, New York Needs Renewable Energy
We need clean, renewable energy to protect our health and to drive down energy costs. As organizations representing public and environmental health as well as frontline healthcare professionals, including the American Lung Association, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy...
Chernobyl at 40: Belarus took the brunt
A report from Olga Karatch, Belarussian founder in exile of Our House: On April 26, it marked 40 years since the largest nuclear technological disaster in history — the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Although the plant is geographically located in...
Speak Out Against New Plutonium Pits
On April 10th, the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Survey (PEIS) from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was released. This survey addresses the environmental impacts of the production of more plutonium pits for nuclear weapons at five sites...
PSR at the United Nations
Opening statements of the 11th NPT review conference delivered by Antonio Gutierrez This week in New York, PSR is at the United Nations for the 11th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This meeting takes place every five years and is a key...
Los opositores a la Producción de Núcleos de Plutonio en el SRS recorren las instalaciones y afirman que esta reiniciaría la carrera armamentista nuclear
TVC in the News / Nuclear Weapons Aiken Standard– Carl Dawson 23 de abril de 2026 AIKEN — Los opositores a la Instalación de Procesamiento de Plutonio de Savannah River, actualmente en construcción en el Sitio de Savannah River, declararon el 22 de abril que dicha...
A new nuclear arms race is accelerating. There’s only one way to stop it
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher. Russia, Israel...
Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945. They Wouldn’t Today Either
The following article was co-authored by Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick, originally published in Al Jazeera (in Arabic) on April 24, 2026. Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945. They Wouldn’t Today Either Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Professor Peter...