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New PSR Training: Confronting the Health Risks of Radiation and Nuclear Weapons
PSR is excited to invite you to register for our new eleven-week synchronous online course, Radiation and Nuclear Weapons: Health Risks and Advocacy Training. This timely, in-depth program designed for health professionals and advocates committed to protecting people...
U.S. Agency That Protects Nuclear Arsenal to Furlough Workers
By Tim Balk | October 17, 2025 nytimes.comThe National Nuclear Security Administration said 1,400 workers would be affected by Monday.(Feed generated with FetchRSS)
Ban Uranium Weapons Activist Damacio Lopez Receives Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CCNSUpdate101725mc.mp3 This month, the International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin honored uranium weapons expert and activist Damacio A. Lopez with the festival’s Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award. For over...
Radiant booted from WY Heads to TN
On October 13, 2025, the El Segundo, California-based nuclear startup company, Radiant Industries, abruptly announced a change of project plans from what had quickly became unpopular to build the nation’s first mass production assembly line in Wyoming for its new...
NEIS IL ACTION ALERT
[Beyond Nuclear is posting this NEIS action alert as a courtesy to our tireless allies on the ground in Illinois. If you reside in IL, please take direct action below, and spread the word to everyone you know. If you don’t live in IL, please alert everyone you know...
Celebrate life of anti-racist expert Lenny Zeskind
Come celebrate the life and legacy of Leonard (Lenny) Zeskind Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 8-9. He died at home in Kansas City, MO, at age 75 on April 15. An international expert on the threat of white nationalism to democracy, Zeskind was hailed by the New York Times as...
Bring signs, spirit to No Kings rallies Saturday
Around the country, citizens frustrated and furious about a president who acts like a king are taking action. This Saturday, Oct. 18, the No Kings rallies need you! It’ll be the second set of massive gatherings around the country to object to a president who tramples...
KCMO-TV shares PeaceWorks leaders’ views on Mideast
KCMO-TV, Channel 5, has twice within a week asked PeaceWorks leaders for their views about forging peace in the Mideast. Today marked the beginning of the 20-step peace process, including the release of the last 20 hostages from Gaza and the arrival of humanitarian...
Let Lance Live!
Lance Shockley, 48, is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, Oct. 14, at 6pm at the Bonne Terre, Mo., Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center. Gove. Mike Kehoe has denied clemency to Shockley. Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty urges people to...
Celebrating Major EJ Victory: Holtec-ELEA’s Cancellation of NM Nuke Dump!
[Artist’s rendition, above, of the Holtec CISF in New Mexico. Thankfully, that is where the dangerous dump scheme will remain — the realm of fiction!] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, October 13, 2025 — Indigenous Peoples DayContact: Kevin Kamps,...
Solar for none?
Trump’s EPA criminally cancelled Solar For All grants, an excellent climate solution and employment driver. A coalition of 14 Native American tribal governments were poised to deploy $100 million in solar infrastructure to more than 3,500 tribal homes, while training...
Nuclear storage project in New Mexico terminated
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] As reported by the Carlsbad Current-Argus in southeastern New Mexico. Beyond Nuclear has fought against Holtec’s consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) since the get-go on...
Keeping Idaho’s Radioactivism Alive
Hannah Smay, Board President Over the last 18 months, the Snake River Alliance board and our wider community of supporters have undertaken a transformative process of renewal. We embarked on this intensive journey with the intention to reimagine, retool, and renew the...
Residents of NY & IL, take direct action, and spread the word!
If you live in IL or NY, please take direct action, and spread the word. For IL, see the NEIS action alert (#1, below). For NY, see the United for Clean Energy action alert, (#2) further below. If you do not live in IL or NY, please spread the word to everyone you...
The Hill publishes Beyond Nuclear op-ed
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies, protesting Holtec’s scheme to open the world’s largest highly radioactive waste dump in southeastern New Mexico.] An op-ed authored by Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste...
New Article about “Participatory Democracy in Action” Describes WIPP Permit Negotiations
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CCNSUpdate101025mc.mp3 In an essay for NYU’s Democracy Project, David F. Levi, a former federal judge and director emeritus of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law, reflected on the negotiations he facilitated in...
1/2 of world’s countries ratify or sign TPNW
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons sent this letter to ICAN members Sept. 26, congratulating all of us around the world for pressing countries and cities to adopt the TPNW, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Any effort anywhere to...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! ACRS ignores Palisades’ restart risks
ZOMBIE NUKES?! ACRS ignores Palisades’ restart risks The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has written to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chairman, capitulating to Holtec and NRC staff, on recently expressed concerns by at least one ACRS member,...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Duane Arnold restart risks
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Duane Arnold restart risks On September 29, Iowa’s Sierra Club Chapter hosted a press conference to address NextEra’s proposal to restart Duane Arnold, which has been in decommissioning status since August 2020, when a derecho led to a close call with...
Palisades: Enviros Object to Yet More Safety Shortcuts
[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, MI, (240) 462-3216,...
Ann in Japan: peace journey
Arriving in the Tokyo airport, en route to Nagasaki, Ann Suellentrop took this photo of the huge dragon on the airport ceiling. Alive with energy! By Jane Stoever Since Sept. 30, Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, has been travelling to or joining in the IPPNW (International...
‘Mind-blowing’ conference, Ann reports
By Kristin Scheer “I now have a comprehensive worldview of the deadly forever-dangerous nuclear chain,” Ann Suellentrop, vice-chair of PeaceWorks KC and member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says before she returns home from the IPPNW World Congress in...
More (nuclear) fool’s gold
Yet another “golden” nuclear con job has been announced, this time in the UK. During Trump’s recent state visit to Britain the UK government announced its “Golden Age of Nuclear” deal between the two countries. But it is anything but. Laden with hyped-up Trumpian...
Holtec relief requests submitted to NRC
[Holtec’s Palisades atomic reactor, located in Covert Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.] Links to the Documentation about the Various Relief Requests (1.) ML25212A024 ...
NO KINGS DAY – October 18th 2025
It’s time for those of us who love peace to push back – hard. Just last week, the president signed a sweeping memorandum that labels broad political beliefs like “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “hostility towards traditional American values” as fueling...
Renewed risks at Zaporizhzhia
For the 10th time since Russian forces occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on March 4, 2022, the site has lost offsite power. Workers are using backup diesel generators to pump vital cooling water into the six reactors. Although all are in cold shutdown, the...
U.S. to gift Pu-239 to private nuclear industry
Trump Administration’s give away of 20 MT of US plutonium weapons stockpile to private companies threatens nuclear proliferation According to previously unreleased government documents obtained and reviewed by Politico and addressed in a letter from three Democrat...
Global Majority of State Parties Now Signed onto the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CCNSUpdate100325mc.mp3 On September 26th, 2025, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the Republic of Ghana ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and the Country of...
Deep Analysis of Need for update nuclear Arms Treaties!”
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/nuclear-negotiations-russia The post Deep Analysis of Need for update nuclear Arms Treaties!” appeared first on The Colorado Coalition.
PSR Welcomes New Director of Philanthropy & Development, Maggie Ardiente
PSR is pleased to welcome our new Director of Philanthropy & Development, Maggie Ardiente. Maggie will be supporting PSR’s mission by collaborating with funders, donors, and the board of directors to build philanthropic and grassroots support. A lifelong advocate...
Upcoming Film: A House of Dynamite
Recently at the Venice Film Festival, a new nuclear-use scenario thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, A House of Dynamite, premiered. The film dramatizes the fallout from a nuclear strike and the cascade of political, social, and personal consequences that follow. ...
IPPNW Congress in Nagasaki and PSR Leaders Speak Out
PSR is excited to be joining the IPPNW World Congress in Nagasaki this week! Make sure you follow us on social media to see any updates on how the congress goes. Our PSR representatives and members will sit in on congress meetings, engage in thoughtful panels, and...
NWA News: New START and UNGA
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New START Treaty in April 2010 Nuclear weapons have in the news, with significant developments highlighting both opportunities and ongoing challenges for arms control. With the New START...
PSR attends NYC Climate Week
Every year in late September, nearly 100,000 descend upon New York City for NYC Climate Week to network, learn, and present their latest work in the climate space. PSR attended this year’s NYC Climate Week and was able to support many of our partner organizations and...
PSR on Podcasts: A Thousand Natural Shocks
Our Associate Director of Environment & Health, Zach Williams, was asked to be a guest on the podcast A Thousand Natural Shocks: A Bad With Money Podcast this past month. With host Gabe Dunn, the two chatted about climate change, our current moment in American...
Uranium mine cleanup must be done right
A plan to bury low-level radioactive waste in the Red Rock (solid waste) Landfill needs to be fully explained to Navajo elders, argues Judy Platero, a representative of the affected nearbyThoreau Navajo community. “There’s no understanding of this because all of this...
Majority of the world now signed on to TPNW
With the ratification on Friday by Ghana and the signature of Kyrgyzstan, a majority of the world’s countries are now in support of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Membership of the TPNW has now reached 74 States Parties, plus a further 25...
We have great news!
A few minutes ago, Kyrgyzstan signed and Ghana ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)! We now have an absolute majority of countries on board the treaty, recognising that their power together can push the nuclear armed states to end the...
An Open Letter to Bonnie Raitt from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center 9/25/2025
September 25th, 2025 Dear Bonnie, Over the decades, we at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) have been deeply grateful...
Call to Action: Short Time for U.S. Senate to Protect the DNFSB; Contact Your Senators Today
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CCNSUpdate092625mc.mp3 The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is a small, independent federal agency that serves as a watchdog for the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex. It is supposed to have five...
Utility bills are increasing across the country
Has your electric bill gone up in recent months? On his first day in office, Trump declared a National Energy Emergency and then proceeded with policies that have increased costs, worsened reliability, and harmed our climate. We’ve seen renewable energy projects...
A Disappointing End to the 2025 Legislative Session
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Cato Institute: Nuclear power’s hamster wheel
Accelerating climate change demands a stop to wasting precious little time along with human and financial resources being diverted from real solutions on nuclear power that’s going nowhere. The conservative Cato Institute’s Fall 2025 status report on “The Next...
Worry? Yes, Worry!
If you chose to not to grind through the entire article , it points to about 170 nuclear weapons that Pakistan has pointed at India. India has a bunch pointed back at Pakistan. Neither has a NO FIRST USE POLICY. The two countries are in chronic scraps that could erupt...
Ignores Public Input, Alternatives Statement by Dr. Dylan Spaulding, Union of Concerned Scientists
Published Sep 9, 2025 https://www.ucs.org/about/news/rushed-tritium-venting-ignores-public-input Yesterday, the New Mexico Environment Department approved Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the National Nuclear Security Administration to release gas from...
Aging US ICBM Could Be Extended Until 2050, Air Force Tells GAO
By Tony Capaccio / September 10, 2025 09:47AM ET / Bloomberg Government Air Force officials have told congressional auditors it’s feasible to extend, until 2050, Boeing Co.’s aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles that have been the ground-based leg of the US-nuclear...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Help Protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board!
Congress must act to keep the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) from losing its quorum on October 18. We need YOUR help to get them to take action in the pending Continuing Resolution to keep the government running! The Defense Nuclear Facilities...
Ann S to Japan with IPPNW
Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, vice chair of PeaceWorks KC and a past chair of the national Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, is going to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima soon. Yes, an international peace ambassador! She’s travelling with the IPPNW, International Physicians...
No Kings Day 2.0 rallies 10/18
Leaders of the No Kings rallies have set the date for a second set of massive rallies: Oct. 18. The Aug. 9 No Kings protests brought thousands to the streets in major US cities. Indivisible Kansas City will gather for No Kings Day 2.0 at Mill Creek Park in KC MO, 2-4...