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Palisades restart: Gundersen invokes Space Shuttle disaster 40 years ago as cautionary tale
[Photograph of top-down view of steam generator tubes in a typical pressurized water reactor like Palisades.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216,...
Duane Arnold: IUC approves our Petition to Intervene against restart
On January 26, 2026, the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) approved Beyond Nuclear’s December 31, 2025 Petition to Intervene. See the IUC’s ruling here. Beyond Nuclear is intervening, on behalf of its members and supporters in Iowa, due to the safety and environmental...
2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement: 85 Seconds to Midnight
January 27, 2026 Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to global catastrophe. This marks a four-second shift from 2025, when the Clock stood at 89 seconds to midnight—an...
World Peace Leaders — Photograph Exhibit by Rick Carter
The World Peace Leaders Exhibition by Rick Carter presents a powerful photographic record of global figures who have shaped movements for peace, justice, and human dignity. Through intimate and iconic portraits, longtime NAPF photographer Rick Carter captures the...
Rocky Flats Warning Signage Approved – Press Release 1/27/2026
for immediate release, Tuesday, January 27, 2026 BOULDER COUNTY AND WESTMINSTER POSTING WARNING SIGNS AT BORDERS OF ROCKY FLATS WILDLIFE REFUGE ALERTING PUBLIC TO “ POTENTIAL RISKS OF USING TRAILS ”FROM RADIOACTIVE, HAZARDOUS WASTE AT EX-NUCLEAR BOMB SITE Responding...
Anti-nuclear activism by Ann … to the max!
By Ann Suellentrop Here’s the talk Ann Suellentrrop gave 1/26/26 on the national zoom program by Physicians for Social Responsibility, for which she serves on the Board of Directors. She is also vice chair for the PeaceWorks KC Board. A little about my background ...
85 Seconds to Midnight
In the run-up to the 2026 announcement, Bulletin experts noted the move of the clock to 89 seconds to midnight last year and said, “In every area, we have failed to take steps to reduce risks.” In the world of nuclear weapons (the clock considers nuclear weapons,...
It is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight: 2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Credit: Jamie Christiaini Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its “Doomsday Clock” to the closest to midnight it has ever been. Due to the increased likelihood that humanity will suffer a global catastrophe, we are...
Doomsday Clock 2026: 85 Seconds to Midnight
Photo: Jamie Christiaini On January 27th, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced the 2026 time of their Doomsday Clock. It is now 85 seconds to midnight, four seconds closer than in 2025. Once again, this setting of the clock is the closest we’ve ever been to...
First transfer of radioactive capsules complete at Hanford site
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Poison in the well
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Accountability for Big Tech
Photo Credit: Paloma Ayala It’s time to take action protect our climate, water, and communities from data centers in Washington By: Kelly Campbell, Policy Director The Washington Legislature is considering two bills that would start to put the brakes on Big Tech’s...
Nuclear Hotseat: SCOTUS refusal to review Holtec CISF
Libbe HaLevy interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps on January 16, 2026, regarding the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denial of a writ of certiorari for Beyond Nuclear to challenge adverse rulings by the U.S. Court of...
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...
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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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