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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...
PSR-LA on U.S. Strikes in Iran: No Country Should Have Nuclear Weapons
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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...
PSR-LA on I.C.E. Raids: Standing with Los Angeles. Standing with Democracy.
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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...
Nuclear neutralization or regime change?
What is the real agenda behind theUS/Israel attacks on Iran and its nuclear facilities? There has been considerable debate about whether — or how much of — Iran’s nuclear facilities were destroyed during the recent US bombing raid and prior attacks by Israel, whether...
US Mayors urge US to reverse nuclear arms race
At the close of its 93rd Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, on June 22, 2025, the final business plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a timely new resolution, “Urging the United States to Lead the World Back From the Brink of...
Video + updated fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport
Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called...
‘All modern war is a war crime’ and other 6/23 rally highlights
At a 6/23 rally in KC MO, Ann Suellentrop reflected, “All modern war is a war crime, because more than half of the victims are defenseless women and children, the elderly, and those in hospitals and nursing homes.” Ann, the vice chair of PeaceWorks KC, shared her...
‘The war machine is clearly seen’ begins Bryan Lamble
Bryan Lamble read this “rhyming prose” of his at the June 23 “Stop the War on Iran!” rally led by the Kansas City area Party for Socialism and Liberation. The war machine is clearly seen,Its gears turning into blood.It will not cease, we'll have no peace, While the...
“Extreme Weather People’s Hearing” held in Asheville, NC
On June 18, PSR National and PSR’s Western North Carolina Chapter co-sponsored an “Extreme Weather People’s Hearing” in Asheville, together with local and national partners. PSR Executive Director Brian Campbell and several local health professionals testified about...
Dangerous Extreme Heat Event Rattles Half of the Continental United States
A crushing early-season heat wave is currently impacting 174 million people in the United States, from the Great Plains to much of the East Coast. As human-caused climate change continues to get worse, these dangerous extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and...
Trump illegally, unconstitutionally initiated war on Iran
Attend the rally “Stop the War on Iran! Trump Is a War Criminal!” tomorrow, June 23, at 6 pm at Mill Creek Park, near the fountain at Main & Cleaver Blvd., KC MO. PeaceWorks KC’s Vice Chair Ann Suellentrop will speak at the rally, with speakers from groups such as...
Trump replaces law with abusive power in strikes on Iran
By Christopher Overfelt The Citizens United ruling by the US Supreme Court in 2010 marked the formal acknowledgement of what most in the US already knew, that the United States government’s policies and programs are up for the highest bidder. What we have witnessed in...
Palisades: ASLB rejects new/amended environmental contentions
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] On June 20, 2025, the three administrative law judge panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board...
Defend DNFSB in writing feds re plutonium pit cores
Are you on acronym overload? Well, no matter … here’s another to add to your set: DNFSB, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. You may already know we’re encouraged to write the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) to say we don’t want our taxes...
At No Kings Rallies, Millions Protest Authoritarianism
PSR was proud to co-sponsor the nationwide No Kings day of action and mass mobilization on June 14. In over 2,000 local events, from big cities to small towns, protesters spoke out against the Trump administration’s cruelty, corruption, authoritarianism, and...
Take Action
Take Action!! The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has recently issued a proposal to increase plutonium pit production (the sphere of plutonium that initiates the nuclear explosion) to 80 pits per year by 2030. Plutonium pit production poses significant...
2025 Clean Buildings, Healthy Communities convening in New Orleans
This month, PSR joined organizers, activists and advocates from around the country in New Orleans for three days of inspiring conversations on the work the building electrification movement is doing to make people’s homes and communities safer and healthier. The first...
“Gross mismanagement”: Plan to release tritium is halted
New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has temporarily paused a plan to vent 30,000 curies of radioactive tritium into the air this summer. NMED, citing significant public interest, is requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to perform four additional steps...
Attack on Iran? Nuclear fears mount
As fears mount that the US could help Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, critics are calling out ‘nuclear hypocrisy’. Speaking at a hastily called rally in London over concerns of possible UK engagement against Iran, Iranian-born trade union leader Maryam...
Trump’s “Unleashing Atomic Power” is Unhinged
Without explanation, on June 16, 2025, President Trump unceremoniously fired Democrat Commissioner Christopher Hanson from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as the first senior manager causality initiating a slash and burn attack on commercial nuclear power...
State Attorneys General Push Back on Trump’s Attempts to Gut Environmental Justice
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CCNSUpdate062025mc.mp3 This week, a coalition of 13 attorneys general issued Multistate Guidance affirming the necessity and legality of environmental justice initiatives to ensure a healthy environment for all...
Coalition Intervenes against BAND-AID Steam Generator Fixes at Palisades “Zombie” Reactor
[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)...
After SCOTUS CISF Ruling, We’ll Pursue Appeal at D.C. Circuit Court!
[Image credit: No Nuclear Waste Aqui, Karen Hadden/SEED Coalition, and Diane D’Arrigo/NIRS; Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017, NRC environmental scoping public comment meetings on WCS/ISP’s CISF scheme.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Diane Curran,...
Trump Fires NRC Commissioner Who Chaired Agency Under Biden
[Photo of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.] The dismissal came after President Trump signed several executive orders aimed at cutting safety regulations for nuclear power plants. As reported by the New York Times. That said,...
PSR Statement on Israel and Iran Conflict
Physicians for Social Responsibility condemns the recent Israeli military attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. These escalatory actions increase the risk of wider regional instability, endanger civilian lives, and undermine the critical need for diplomacy to advance...
New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Kenney Pauses Proposed Tritium Venting by LANL for Now
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) planned to vent 30,000 curies of radioactive tritium into the air during several weekends this summer but it must have approval from the New Mexico Environment Department. James Kenney, Environment Department Secretary, citing...
Trump EPA proposes repeal of key clean air regulations, endangering health
Contact: Miah Hornyak, mhornyak@psr.org Today’s repeal of power plant emissions standards for carbon and Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) is shortsighted and ill-intentioned. With this action, the Trump administration is trading the lives of the most vulnerable Americans...
FL nuke threatens Miami drinking water supply
Florida’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 3 and 4 are back in the news with “Miami’s Drinking Water Is Threatened by a Florida Nuclear Plant,” Bloomberg News, June 6, 2025 but behind the paywall. It’s about the billions of gallons of water required to...