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JOANNA MACY, PRESENTE!
JOANNA MACY, PRESENTE! Founder of Nuclear Guardianship Project As reported in a New York Times obituary, Joanna Macy has passed on at the age of 96. She has been a giant of the anti-nuclear movement, both in the U.S. and overseas, for many decades. She wrote Despair...
DIABLO ZOMBIES?! NRC rejects emergency petition
[“Diablo Boys” cartoon by Mark Bryan — ArtOfMarkBryan.com] ]On July 23, 2025, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) notified attorneys representing San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP), Friends of the Earth, and Environmental Working Group that their...
Join Us on Saturday, August 9th for Nagasaki Commemoration Events in Los Alamos
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate072525mc.mp3 All are welcome to join peacemakers and activists on Saturday, August 9th at 10 am in Los Alamos to commemorate the 80th year since the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on that day in 1945. At...
Palisades: Statement re: NRC Staff Partial Authorization for Holtec’s Restart of the Closed Atomic Reactor
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová, of participants at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000, at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor. Banner by Laura Bulow of NEIS. The steam from Palisades, and the water of Lake...
LIHEAP Cuts Put Americans in Peril Amidst a Summer of Relentless Heat
It’s been an extremely hot and humid summer for many in the U.S. Extreme heat is particularly challenging for those low-income families and rising energy costs mean that even those households that have air-conditioning often find they can’t afford to keep it running....
Trinity bomb test in 1945 … horrific consequences
By Ann Suellentrop I attended events in New Mexico commemorating the July 16 anniversary of the Trinity bomb explosion in 1945, 80 years ago. The Trinity test paved the way for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A new plaque “honors and acknowledges” the Trinity...
Introducing the Alliance for Heat Resilience and Health
PSR has partnered with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Federation of American Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, and more allied organizations to create a new coalition focused on extreme...
Tell EPA: Protect health, regulate hazardous air pollution!
EPA needs to hear from health professionals as they attempt to repeal consequential emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. In another dangerous move from this administration, EPA seeks to expose millions of Americans to mercury, arsenic,...
Environmentalists Protest NRC Cover-Up
[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 releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216,...
PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – RESTART INSPECTION REPORT 05000255/2025003
from: nrc_mail_r3 resource <nrc_mail_r3.resource@nrc.gov> to: Kevin Kamps <kevin@beyondnuclear.org> date: Jul 18, 2025, 10:15 PM subject: PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – RESTART INSPECTION REPORT 05000255/2025003 SUBJECT: PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – RESTART...
Palisades Steam Generators: Enviro Coalition Reply to NRC & Holtec Answers
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] On July 18, 2025, the environmental coalition resisting the unprecedented restart of the closed Palisades reactor, filed its REPLY with the U.S....
Mothballed nuclear plant on brink of revival
Michigan’s Palisades plant is planning to turn on again this fall after Democrats and Republicans got behind the project — but it’s not free from controversy. As reported at E&E News. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a Palisades watchdog...
Who Pays the Price for Nuclear’s Clean Energy Promise?
Nuclear has been promoted as a climate solution for an energy-hungry society looking to wean itself from oil and gas. But is it as clean as advocates say? Article published by ATMOS on 7/9/25. Words by Yessenia Funes Luminograms by Marton Perlaki (The unprecedented...
UPDATE: COMMENT BY JULY 25 — STOP radiation health menace
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model for...
Beyond Nuclear appealing en banc at D.C. Circuit Court against Holtec’s CISF license
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES). The design incorporates the shape of the state of New Mexico, its turquoise and gold colors, as well as the Zia Pueblo sun symbol, which also appears on the state flag.] On...
46th Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration on Saturday, July 19th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate071825mc.mp3 The Red Water Pond Road Community Association and the Pipeline Road Community invite you to attend the historic 46th commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill on Saturday, July...
BOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague
BOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague Michael Slater, a former co-worker of Bob Alvarez on the staff of U.S. Senator John Glenn, has published an appreciation in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, after Bob’s death on July 1st. Slater...
ZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts On July 15, our environmental coalition appealed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners regarding the NRC Atomic Safety...
TRINITY, 80 YEARS ON
TRINITY, 80 YEARS ON Nuclear perils remain, resistance persists On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project secretly tested a plutonium bomb, code-named “Trinity,” in southern New Mexico (pictured). As they do annually, New Mexicans commemorated the fallout,...
COMMENTS STILL ACCEPTED: STOP radiation health menace
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model for...
Learn more about anti-nuke work in New Mexico!
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES). The design incorporates the shape of the state, its turqoise and gold colors, as well as the Zia Pueblo sun symbol, which also appears on the state flag.] On July 16, 2025 —...
Trump DOGE to NRC: “rubber stamp” nuclear power
On July 14, 2025, E&ENews by Politico featured a news story with the headline “DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear.” The Politico article explains that President Trump implanted a representative from the White House executive branch of his US Department...
KC delegates report on DC Days
By Kristin Scheer About 20 people trickled into All Souls’ Conover Hall on Wed., July 9. They heard from delegates PeaceWorks KC sent to Washington, DC, for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) DC Days lobbying event. Ann Suellentrop, of the boards of...
80th Anniversary of Trinity –July 16
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Official Release Party for “We have to talk opera”
You are cordially invited to a hybrid Official Release Party for the Baily & Graves 5:22 m:ss “We have to talk opera” video. July 20, 2-4 PM Central. Lucile H. Bluford branch library, 3050 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, Missouri. Snacks, soft drinks, viewing the video...
UPDATE: STOP EO radiation health menace
Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), at their public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, that science demonstrates radiation exposure is always harmful. Registration required. The NRC is taking comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which...
Tell DOE No to Expanded Plutonium Pit Production at LANL and Savannah River Site – Comments due Monday, July 14th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate071125mc1.mp3 As you may know, the recent federal reconciliation bill increased the budget for expanded plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site, located in South Carolina, by one billion...
PeaceWorks Kansas City needs a Social Guru
PeaceWorks Kansas City needs a social media guru who can help reduce the risk of a nuclear war by helping PeaceWorks supporters make better use of noncommercial social media to drive anti-nuke action. In particular, PeaceWorks hopes to increase its effectiveness...
SMOKING GUN: 3 Years Since Holtec Con Job
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beginning in 2020, Holtec perpetrated a bait and switch trick at Palisades on Lake Michigan. Promising to decommission the half-century old,...
PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS BY JULY 14, 2025 ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF NEW PLUTONIUM BOMB FACTORIES
PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS BY JULY 14, 2025ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF NEW PLUTONIUM BOMB FACTORIES Below are some draft comments, with a link to a Word version, to be submitted by July 14 to the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to help set the...
Amber Alvarez Torgerson, on her dad, Bob Alvarez’s, passing (Facebook post)
It’s with a sad heart I have to report my dad’s passing, July 1, 2025. My dad was born into a Spanish immigrant family. His dad, Florindo (Floyd) arrived in the US at age 13 from Galicia, Spain, while his mother Angelina (also Americanized to Angela) was born in the...
Protect Carbon emissions standards! Submit a comment to EPA
In 2023, EPA proposed a rule to begin regulating carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants that have negatively impacted our environment, climate, and health for over 150 years. With your help, we submitted hundreds of comments to make these carbon pollution...
The Deadly, Dangerous Bill: Physicians for Social Responsibility Responds to Budget Reconciliation Passage
PSR condemns Congress for passing the vile and dangerous budget reconciliation bill — advancing it to inevitable passage by the President. This bill will harm the health of every American — but especially our most vulnerable. The federal government is stealing...
WORT: Updates on Radioactive Waste & Palisades
Jan Miyasaki, host of 8 O’Clock Buzz on WORT/89.9 FM community radio in Madison, Wisconsin, interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on July 2, 2025. Here is the write up: Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear gives an update on two issues...
Beyond Nuclear press release: Coalition Objects to Holtec’s Alleged Abuse of Palisades Decommissioning Trust Fund
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, kevin@beyondnuclear.org Michael Keegan, co-chairman, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, mkeeganj@comcast.net Coalition...
Coming Next Week: Nuclear Weapons Educational Events
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate-070425mc.mp3 In anticipation of the 80th anniversaries of the 1945 atomic bombings in the USA and Japan, a number of hybrid educational events will be held next week. On Thursday, July 10th from 10:30 am...
Bob Alvarez, Presente!
Email message from Dee D’Arrigo at NIRS, sent at 3:32am ET, Thursday, July 3, 2025: Dear friends Our ally, expert and friend, Bob Alvarez died yesterday July 1, 2025. He just wrote and shared on Facebook another of his brilliant vignettes a couple weeks ago. His...
DC Days wrap-up 7/9 tracks 80 years of nuclear age
By Ann Suellentrop Note: Ann Suellentrop here summarizes the 2025 DC Days in preparation for the July 9 event Stop the New Nuclear Arms Race! On Sunday, June 8, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) held its yearly training for its members to prepare for its...
Event 7/9 will tackle DC lobbying & writing NNSA
After an intense day of training in alerting senators and representatives about dangers of nuclear weapons and power plants, five persons from PeaceWorks-KC went to congressional and administrative offices during “DC Days.” The June 8-13 experience in the nation’s...
STOP EO radiation health menace
Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), at their public meeting on July 16, 1-5 PM ET, that science demonstrates radiation exposure is always harmful. Registration required. The NRC is taking comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which...
State of Michigan Renews Palisades’ NPDES Permit
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] EMAIL WITH ATTACHMENTS FROM MI EGLE TO PUBLIC COMMENTERS ON PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR NPDES PERMIT: From: “McKay, Betsy (EGLE)”...
Coalition objects to Holtec’s alleged abuse of Palisades DTF
[“Burning Money” image, by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power relapse then being attempted.] In a letter, an...
COMMENT: Canada and US FAIL on radionuclides
TELL CANADIAN AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT RADIONUCLIDES SHOULD BE DESIGNATED AS A CHEMICAL OF MUTUAL CONCERN UNDER THE GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY AGREEMENT Seeking Your Voice and Participation on Monday July 14, 2025 (10 AM Eastern/9 AM Central): Dear...
The Senate failed us. We have ONE LAST CHANCE to stop this deadly bill
Senate Republicans made history today and it is likely that we’ll look back on this action in the future as one of the most significant government failures to date. Through their passage of HR 1 the Senate has set up the House and President to enact legislation that...
Yet another Palisades ASLB forms
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Our environmental coalition continues challenging LARs (License Amendment Requests) associated with restarting the closed Palisades “zombie”...
Nuclear Hotseat: CISFs@SCOTUS
On Nuclear Hotseat Episode #730, host Libbe HaLevy interviews Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on June 18, 2025 regarding consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) for highly...
Update from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability 2025 DC Days
Members of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and Nuclear Free Colorado Coalition recently returned from a week of Congressional advocacy in Washington D.C. with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is a...
Hochul’s choice: Bought by the nuclear industry?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is either in the pocket of the nuclear power industry or woefully ignorant about the technology itself. We suspect the former since there is ample empirical data to show that the choice she has made — to build a new nuclear power plant...
UK buys nuclear-capable fighter jets from Trump
From Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: The announcement by the British government from the NATO summit that it will be purchasing 12 nuclear capable F35A fighter jets is yet another disastrous decision by the Starmer government, that makes the world more dangerous and...
Plans to Commemorate Two New Mexico Atomic Events – Trinity and Church Rock
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CCNSUpdate062725mc.mp3 In this week’s Update CCNS provides information about the upcoming commemorations of two harmful atomic events that both occurred in New Mexico on July 16th. The first is the 80th commemoration...