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2/2: “It All Starts with the Pits—Plutonium, That Is”
By Jane Stoever Our government may return to producing plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear bombs. Peace groups have managed to demand hearings where people can weigh in on whether that’s a good idea. Kansas City, Mo., is one of five locations that will have the...
An old danger returns: The nuclear arms race is revving up
IPPNW leaders at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 1985. Photo: IPPNW Steve Overman, MD MPH and Sean Arent, Washington PSR | Seattle Times Forty years after IPPNW’s Nobel Prize, the world once again needs clear voices willing to speak uncomfortable truths. Nuclear...
Hands off Venezuela!
By Ann Suellentrop About 250 persons gathered at the River Market area in Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3 to demand that the US stop its war on Venezuela. The speeches were about the millions of people in Venezuela who are at risk with “no precision” warfare, totally against...
Hanford contractor works to extend life of underground tanks
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End imperialist war on Venezuela
By Jon Rainwater Note: Jon Rainwater is executive director of Peace Action, of which PeaceWorks KC is an affiliate. Over the last 24 hours, U.S. forces unleashed a full-scale military assault on Caracas, Venezuela, and beyond. Delta Force commandos stormed a safe...
Save the Date! 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future by Richard Falk
Save the date for the 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Falk, who will address the legal, moral, and political...
Palisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor...
Press Statement: Holtec Misses Palisades Restart Deadline; Enviro Lawsuit
[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 release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (240)...
“Deep Fission” launches its mile deep reactor
Much to the surprise of residents in the small rural community of Parsons, Kansas, on December 4, 2025 they discovered that a Berkley, California nuclear startup company, Deep Fission, had selected their town for the fledgling company’s nuclear power plant...
CCNS Nuclear Literacy Program to Educate Nuevomexicano Communities on the LANL Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate010226mc.mp3 For over eighty years, the People of New Mexico have borne the burden of the 1943 establishment of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Through the Congressional continuing resolution...
Cheers to 45 Years, and More to Come — a message from Dr. Jimmy Hara
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Kansas Resident leading Opposition to Parsons, Kansas, Experimental Nuclear Project
By Ann Suellentrop Marjorie Reynolds, a pediatric nurse from the Parsons area, is speaking out about the proposed Deep Fission plan to create a miniature nuclear power plant down a mile-deep bore hole in the Great Plains Industrial Park. See deepfission.com “I grew up...
Oregon leaders oppose transit of Hanford waste
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ICE Activity increases in KC, so do protests!
Protestors demand transparency and accountability, and immigration lawyers question the legality of enforcement tactics including warrantless arrests at a rally on Christmas eve in support of the families of dozens of immigrants arrested at scheduled immigration court...
Save the Date! 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future by Richard Falk
Save the date for the 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Falk, who will address the legal, moral, and political...
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE LIX WORLD DAY OF PEACE
From the Vatican, 8 December 2025, vatican.va“In the relations between citizens and rulers, it could even be considered a fault not to be sufficiently prepared for war, not to react to attacks, and not to return violence for violence. Far beyond the principle of...
Excavation Work Complete on Hanford Landfill Expansion
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Feds award incentive pay of $89M to 5 contractors at WA radioactive waste site
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2025 in review: Hanford finally makes glass; federal brain drain among top stories
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2025 Highlights and What is in Store for 2026
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate122625mc.mp3 Please allow us to state the obvious: 2025 has been a busy year in terms of addressing proposals for MORE to support the growing nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico. From Los Alamos...
2025 Highlights and What is in Store for 2026
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate122625mc.mp3 Please allow us to state the obvious: 2025 has been a busy year in terms of addressing proposals for MORE to support the growing nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico. From Los Alamos...
Building Global Power to End the Plastic Crisis — And Win a Just Future
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Pope Leo’s Comments on current confrontational logic.
“In the relations between citizens and rulers, it could even be considered a fault not to be sufficiently prepared for war, not to react to attacks, and not to return violence for violence. Far beyond the principle of legitimate defense, such confrontational logic now...
TMS: A World in Chaos
The following article was authored by Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and published in Transcend Media Service on December 22, 2025. The Root Causes of Senseless Violence Nuclear disarmament should be the first step in unraveling the chaos. Today, we find ourselves in a...
Catholic bishops remind political leaders that nuclear weapons are immoral
By John Wester | Dec 14, 2025 thebulletin.orgIn August, a group of American Catholic Church leaders—including Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, DC, Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle, and me, the Archbishop of Santa Fe—traveled...
DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors
By Kelly Livingston and Allison Mollenkamp | Dec 15, 2025 rollcall.comCo-locating advanced nuclear reactors with data centers on DOE sites is part of the Trump administration’s bid to accelerate the development of both technologies, sources say, as research efforts...
Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Publi…
News from our friends at Tri-Valley CAREs | Dec 19, 2025 trivalleycares.orgFirst announced In January 2025, the NNSA proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization” at the Livermore Lab was to include a “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement”...
Tu Donación de Fin de Año a Tri-Valley CAREs: ¡Ahora Duplicada!
Nuclear Weapons / Environmental Justice ¡Tri-Valley CAREs tuvo un año 2025 extraordinario! En un momento en que los riesgos que plantean las armas nucleares son cada vez mayores, el trabajo de Tri-Valley CAREs es más importante que nunca. Nuestro personal, junta...
Your Year-End Donation to Tri-Valley CAREs – Now Doubled!
Tri-Valley CAREs had an amazing 2025! In a time when the risks posed by nuclear weapons are growing, Tri-Valley CAREs work is more important than ever. Our staff, board and volunteers have made great strides in 2025 (click here for staff highlights). To read more...
Less Than 50 Days Before New START Treaty Expires! Contact Your Congressional Members to Stop A New U.S. – Russia Arms Race
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate121925mc.mp3 The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or the New START Agreement, is set to expire on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 – in less than 50 days. The New START Agreement is the last remaining...
CISF@SCOTUS: Reply Brief filed by deadline
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the...
2025 Wrap Up: The Year in Nuclear Weapons Abolition at PSR
Throughout 2025, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition program worked in advocacy, education, and global partnership to confront escalating nuclear dangers and advance a health-centered vision for disarmament. As nuclear risks continued to rise — from eroding arms control...
Hanford tank prime H2C invites grout proposals
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Action Needed! National Call-in Day December 17th to Stop New U.S.- Russia Arms Race
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – the New START Agreement – is set to expire on February 5, 2026, a mere 50 days from now! Signed in 2010, the New START Agreement limits the number of strategic (long-range) nuclear...
Most radioactive site in US is moving on from the Manhattan Project
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DNFSB spots possible bottleneck in Hanford’s waste vitrification
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Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Public Input
Tri-Valley CAREs supporter protests at a former National Environmental Policy Act hearing A November notice from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) erases the previously announced public involvement requirement and...
PCB: Un Legado Tóxico y Un Problema Persistente
Los PCB Los PCB, o bifenilos policlorados, son un grupo de sustancias químicas orgánicas fabricadas por el hombre que son tóxicas y peligrosas, y que siguen envenenando los ríos, a los peces y a las personas décadas después de su prohibición. Leer en inglés De acuerdo...
Our Reply to Holtec on CISF SCOTUS Appeal
[Photo of the nine Justices currently comprising the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).] On December 12, 2025, Beyond Nuclear submitted a REPLY BRIEF in response to Holtec’s BRIEF IN OPPOSITION, filed December 4th, regarding our October 31, 2025 Petition for...
PCBs: a Toxic Legacy and Ongoing Problem
About PCBs PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are a group of toxic, human-made, hazardous organic chemicals that, even decades after their ban, continue to impact rivers, fish, and people. Leer en español According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),...
Article in Common Dreams – The Root Causes of Senseless Violence
The following article was authored by Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and published in Common Dreams on December 15, 2025. The Root Causes of Senseless Violence A view from the front of a college classroom amid fresh carnage both near and far. I write this from the front of...
Disappearing Act: Hanford Team Completes Container Relocation Project
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Hanford vitrifies legacy waste
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Deplorable: tribe’s contract for ICE detention centers
By Bree Crawford Prairie Band LLC landed a $30 million contract to vet and design mega detention centers for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in areas probably including Kansas. According to KSNT 27 News from Topeka on Dec. 8, Prairie Band LLC, the...
Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Public Hearing
Photo Credit: Alex Milan Tracy DRAW DOWN TOXIC FUELS AT THE CEI HUB 12/16 RALLY & PUBLIC HEARING What is the CEI Hub and the Policy Project? The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is comprised of 630 fuel storage tanks spread across a six-mile stretch of...
Columbia Students on Dr. Hughes’s Nuclear Disarmament Advocacy
Two recent student-written pieces at Columbia University offer thoughtful perspectives on the work of Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Columbia. In Columbia Sundial, Nikos Mohammadi explores...
Walsh Welcomes Energy Secretary to Hanford
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ANA Fall Meeting: reflections, HOPE!
As our 5 PeaceWorks KC delegates attended the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Fall Meeting, they protested at the entry to the Nevada nuclear test site 11/21. They took hope from companions across the country gathered to oppose nuclear power and nuclear weapons....
Al Jazeera Gaza Op-Ed by Richard Falk, NAPF Senior Vice President
Richard Falk has published a new op-ed in Al Jazeera on what the ongoing tragedy in Gaza reveals about the failures of the current world order and the urgent need for meaningful UN reform. Read the full piece: “Gaza and the unravelling of a world order built on power”...