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Endorse Nuclear Abolition Day 9/26
PeaceWorks KC has already endorsed Nuclear Abolition Day, Sept. 26, a day celebrated around the world. Now YOU can endorse the day individually. At https://www.nuclearabolitionday.org/, click on the button “Endorse the Appeal” to add your name to the appeal the UN...
“Meltdown of Democracy,” 7pm EST, 09/23/2025
MA Governor Maura Healey has, unwittingly or not, joined with President Trump’s authoritarian “Unleashing Nuclear Energy.” “Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them” Massachusetts Peace Action’s Zoom Webinar , 7 pm ET, Tuesday,...
New Mexicans Can Save the DNFSB; Contact Our Senators Today
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CCNSUpdate091925mc.mp3 The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has been dwindling from a five-member board to one member and may disappear if we, the People, do not raise our voices to support its...
Great Lakes: Radionuclides are persistent, toxic
In 2016 and again in 2022, more than 100 advocacy groups nominated radionuclides for designation as Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA). The GLWQA is a joint agreement between the U.S. and Canada, which border...
Beyond Nuclear info. tables at Bonnie Raitt concert!
[From right to left: Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps; environmental coalition co-counsel Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio; and Don’t Waste Michigan chairman Michael Keegan of Monroe, Michigan. In the background can be seen the CRAFT info. table as...
Zombies Against Palisades! (ZAP!) Halloween Rally, Kal., MI
Restart the Closed Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor? Now That’s SCARY! What’d Somebody EAT YOUR BRAIN?! See the front side of the flier, here. See the back side of the flier, here. The Devilish Details: Halloween, Friday, October 31, 2025 Noon-1:30pm &...
Iran: Limited nuclear inspections to resume?
Inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which were heavily attacked by the US and Israel in June, could resume under a new agreement struck this week between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But Iran has also warned that the deal is...
Uranium Contamination: Restoring health, trust, and accountability
You can watch a live stream public conversation about the legacy and future of uranium contamination in the Southwest U.S. Sunday, September 21, 3:30-5:30 PM MT, at Northern Arizona University (NAU). The Uranium Science and Community Health Forum event will bring...
Come to International Day of Peace Festival … whoop it up!
The Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council (GKCIC) has seen fit to listen up—a reason to celebrate is here. Months ago, the UN announced the International Day of Peace: Sept. 21, Sunday. The GKCIC jumped into action. Ira Harritt, chair of the GKCIC planning committee...
SPECIAL NOTICE: LANL VENTING OF RADIOACTIVE TRITIUM MUST NOT BEGIN ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025
NO VENTING SHOULD OCCUR THIS WEEKEND BECAUSE THE NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT (NMED) HAS REQUIRED DOE/NNSA/Triad/EMLA/N3B/LANL TO PROVIDE “WITHIN 15 MINUTES” PUBLIC NOTICE OF “ANY PROBLEMS DURING THE TREATMENT PROCESS THAT RESULT IN AN UNANTICIPATED RELEASE OF...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Holtec schemes from MI to NY
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Our environmental coalition has appealed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners (NRC) against adverse rulings by the agency’s Atomic...
Friday, September 26th is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CCNSUpdate091225mc.mp3 Following the 80th year since the bombings of Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, did you know that 2025 is also the 80th year since the formation of the United Nations? The General Assembly’s...
Radiation Harm from EO
This week, Libbe HaLevy of Nuclear Hotseat interviews Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Cindy breaks down what’s wrong with recent nuclear Executive Order (EO) 14300, which asks NRC to recognize a safe radiation dose, and gives...
Gundersen warns of yet more cracking at Palisades
[Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, our environmental coalition’s expert witness opposing Holtec’s extremely risky Palisades restart scheme.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo,...
Add your name as a health expert: Protect the Endangerment Finding
Thank you to so many of you who have already submitted your comment to EPA to defend the Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases. In order to really drive home our stance and bring attention to this awful proposal, we’ve decided to partner with our friends at the...
Tell World Bank no nuclear financing
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are international financial institutions funded by governments to support economic development, poverty reduction, and infrastructure. Until now, both institutions have avoided supporting nuclear power projects for...
Midwest Weapons Report, Issue 4, excerpts
By Christopher Overfelt Excerpts from the 4th issue of the Midwest Weapons Report (MWR) follow. Email midwestweaponsreport@proton.me to request an email with the full report. Bureaucratic mechanisms of US weapons transfers–excerpts The weapon systems covered in MWR...
Shrimp recall widens: Sign petitions on radioactive food
The FDA continues to widened a recall of shrimp packages contaminated with radioactive cesium 137. Various theories abound regarding the exact source of the contamination. As of September 2, the recall encompasses grocery stores, distributors, and wholesalers across...
Spreading the Word about WIPP at the 115th Annual Bean Day in Wagon Mound
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CCNSUpdate090525mc.mp3 On Saturday, August 30th, after a beautiful drive across the plains of Northeastern New Mexico, members of the Stop Forever WIPP Coalition arrived in the Village of Wagon Mound....
Palisades steam generator appeal lodged at NRC Commission
[A photo of steam generator tubes in a pressurized water reactor, looking from the top down.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, kevin@beyondnuclear.org...
Watch the Nuclear-Free Future Awards
The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards were held on March 4, 2025 at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City. Each year the Awards offer cash prizes to unsung heroes of the anti-nuclear movement in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The Awards...
NMED Must Reject LANL’s Request for Temporary Authorization to Vent Tritium
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CCNSUpdate-082925mc.mp3 Given the recent data dumps by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) about its proposed venting of large quantities of radioactive tritium from four Flanged Tritium Waste Containers, the New...
Trump’s DC takeover: blueprint for authoritarian rule
By Christopher Overfelt The inevitable result of extreme wealth inequality is always violent abusive power in the form of fascism. Fascism can take many forms, but it is always a tool of violence wielded by the wealthy in order to protect their own greed. The fascism...
Solar keeps growing
The following is information provided by the Sun Day Campaign. A review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals thatsolar provided almost 9% of total U.S. electrical generation in the first half of this...
Response to Holtec/Palisades’ claim of operational status
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, kevin@beyondnuclear.org Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear re: Holtec’s announcement that...
‘Beginner’s Guide to Nuclear Weapons’
The extraordinarily devastating force and deadly toxicity of nuclear weapons sets them apart from all other weapons. The detonation of a single nuclear bomb can kill hundreds of thousands and cause injury and illness for many more. A limited nuclear war can kill up to...
World Congress in Nagasaki
From October 2nd to 4th, PSR leaders will join colleagues from around the globe in Nagasaki for the 24th World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This gathering, taking place in one of the two cities devastated by nuclear...
80th Anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This August, PSR joined communities across the United States and around the world to commemorate the 80th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through our national calendar of events, PSR tracked dozens of vigils, memorials, and educational...
LANL Silences Public and Tribal Voices While Pushing Radioactive Tritium Venting
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CCNSUpdate082225mc.mp3 This week’s so-called public meeting about the proposed venting of radioactive tritium into the air from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) showed once again how LANL silences communities...
Tell EPA: We need the endangerment finding!
Right now, one of the most important foundations of U.S. climate policy—the Endangerment Finding—is under threat. This critical ruling, first issued by the EPA in 2009, established that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. It has served as the legal...
A.I. Criticism of Holtec’s Palisades Reactor Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; kevin@beyondnuclear.org Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t...
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen to testify at NRC ACRS mtg. on 8/21 re: Holtec’s Palisades steam generator tube degradation
[Photo of a typical steam generator in a pressurized water reactor like Palisades. The exceedingly thin-walled tubes are shown, looking from the top down.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond...
Nuclear imperialism and KC’s role ramping up for World War III
By Kristin Scheer On a hot Saturday afternoon, on the Aug. 9 anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, about 45 people packed a community room at the Bluford Library in Kansas City, Mo. We gathered for a panel and discussion of the history of nuclear weapons,...
DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on
DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on By the mid-1980s, Dr. Mary Sinclair (pictured), co-founder of Don’t Waste Michigan, had helped lead the movement to victory, against Consumers Power’s Midland nuclear power plant, blocking the partially-built Nuclear...
FEMA@PALISADES
FEMA@PALISADES Rushed Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) The Federal Emergency Management Agency held a public meeting in southwest Michigan about re-establishing emergency preparedness/evacuation planning (EP) at the long closed Palisades atomic reactor on...
Is Holtec pulling out of New Mexico?
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES).] August 14, 2025 article by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad Current-Argus. The article reports on a recent letter from Holtec International to its southeastern New Mexico...
Block the Bombs to Israel – Sign Today
Suffering in Gaza has only intensified under the disastrous Netanyahu-Trump ethnic cleansing plan disguised as aid delivery under the misnamed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” opposed by every reputable humanitarian aid organization. The assault on the human rights and...
DOE and NNSA Declare No Significant Impact from the Proposed LANL Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade Project
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CCNSUpdate081525mc.mp3 Over 24,000 people provided public comments to the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in opposition to the proposed Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade...
Radioactive Wasps Still Buzzing at SRS: FOIA Filed as to Radiation Origin
The report of radioactive wasps at the Savannah River Site is a story that still has wings. Buzz! Buzz! SRS Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for more information about the source of the contamination and SRS is now processing the request:...
Calling out ‘Christian’ nationalism
By Jim Hannah “Christian nationalism is not Christian.” This assertion by Pastor Donna Simon opened a gathering Aug. 5 at St. Mark Hope & Peace Church, Kansas City, MO, to explore the growing influence of “Christian”* nationalism in US politics and policies....
The Plutonium Pit Problem” video shown at Nobel Peace Conference, August 6, Oslo
From Nuclear Watch New Mexico on our video linked below: “Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs, SRS Watch and the South Carolina Environmental Law Project were asked to provide a video to the Nobel Peace Conference –
We Cannot Stop Future Hiroshimas if We’ve Allowed Today’s Gazas to Burn
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CCNSUpdateEXTENDED080825mc.mp3 Dr. Ghasson Shahrour, a medical expert and a Campaigner with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, wrote the following piece. “Every August 6, the world is asked to...
Nuclear-Free Anishinaabe Aki Rally Sets Stage for Intensifying Opposition to Nuclear Waste
[Thank you — Miigwetch — to We the Nuclear-Free North, in whose e-newsletter this article and photo appeared. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, had the honor and privilege of meeting Fort William First Nation officials and members while in...
Court rejects our appeals against Holtec CISF
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] On August 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Beyond Nuclear’s appeal for a rehearing, either en banc (before all the judges of the...
ASLB rejects our Palisades SG tube intervention
[Photo of typical steam generator (SG) tubes, looking from the top downward.] On August 5, 2025, a three-administrative judge (or hearing examiner) panel of the Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) ruled against our environmental coalition’s intervention...
Why Health Care Still Matters in the Face of Humanity’s End
Ethics Talk (AMA Journal of Ethics Podcast) Podcast interview with Joseph G. Hodgkin, MD, PSR Board Member and Co-Chair of Greater Boston PSR. Listen here The post Why Health Care Still Matters in the Face of Humanity’s End first appeared on Physicians for Social...
Why and How Should Physicians Mitigate Threats of Nuclear War?
Joseph G. Hodgkin, MD, PSR Board Member, et al | AMA Journal of Ethics Subsequent advocacy by the US organization Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the findings from the St Louis Baby Tooth Survey, which revealed excessive amounts of radioactive...
After Eighty Years, Nuclear Threat Remains Grave
Ira Helfand, MD, PSR Past President | The Progressive A nuclear war would be catastrophic. We must eliminate nuclear weapons to ensure events like the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happen again. Read more The post After Eighty Years, Nuclear Threat...
We Cannot Stop Future Hiroshimas if We’ve Allowed Today’s Gazas to Burn
This Hiroshima Day, as we recommit ourselves to peace, we’d like to share reflections from Dr. Ghassan Shahrour—a medical doctor, civil society activist, and writer. Every August 6, the world is asked to pause—for memory, for reflection, for conscience. We remember...
Message from Pope Leo XIV for the eightieth anniversary of the atomic bombings
Verbally delivered by Francesco Escalante Molia, Apostolic Nuncio to Japan Mass for World Peace-August 5th, 2025 – 16:00 HIROSHIMA MEMORIAL CATHEDRAL FOR WORLD PEACE I offer cordial greeting to all gathered to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the atomic...