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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...
US intelligence chief recounts Hiroshima visit, warns of ‘nuclear annihilation’
By Ann Suellentrop US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has warned that the world is “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” and called for rejection of the “path to a nuclear war.” Her comments came after a visit to the...
DC Days activists lobby to halt nuclear weapon buildup
By Ann Suellentrop PeaceWorks members are attending the annual DC Days lobbying effort of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability June 6-13. Go, peace peeps! I and four persons from the KC area in their 20s are holding meetings with other ANA members at congressional...
Golden Dome spells doom for US taxpayers and world peace
The Golden Dome for America, announced with much grandiosity by the Trump White House and price tag $175 billion in taxpayer money, is just another reboot of a longstanding and failed missile defense program. Far from keeping Americans safe, it threatens to trigger...
No Tritium Venting from LANL this Week
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CCNSUpdate-060625mc.mp3 It has been raining in Northern New Mexico this week, providing many blessings of moisture and delaying the proposed venting of radioactive tritium from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),...
KC youth delegation heads to DC Days
By Ann Suellentrop PeaceWorks KC is sending a delegation of five activists to Washington, DC, for DC Days, June 8-13. Our group will join advocates from across the country who belong to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) (see www.ananuclear.org). ANA will...
ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized its Environmental...
The Heart of a New Military Paradigm: Anduril’s AI Drone Warfare and a Worsening Nuclear Waste Catastrophe
Message from Patricia Marida of Ohio Nuclear-Free Network: The Heart of a New Military Paradigm: Anduril’s AI Drone Warfare and a Worsening Nuclear Waste Catastrophe 1 hour 40 minutes on YouTube. Many kudos to Jason and Terry for their excellent analyses. Kudos...
The St. Louis atomic bomb waste dump still sickens
It’s been 83 years and “We still don’t know what to do with the first cupful.” On June 2, 2025, WBUR Boston and National Public Radio (NPR) aired the “On Point” podcast regarding a decades old environmental justice struggle, “The long-term effects of nuclear waste in...
Reactor radiation harms: Trump’s EO will make this worse
It’s time to set the record straight on radiation and the damage it causes, particularly to pregnancy, children and women. Contrary to what Trump’s recent EO claims, abundant and largely officially ignored, scientific evidence demonstrates that childhood cancers...
Zaporizhzhia restart? Greenpeace warns of perils
Russia could be preparing to reconnect Ukraine’s closed Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the grid, a facility occupied by Russia since March 4, 2022. According to a report from Greenpeace Ukraine, satellite imagery shows Russia repairing a transmission line with...
Should US Expand Pit Production??
COMMENT TODAY – LET’S PACK THESE HEARINGS! Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic EIS “Scoping” Comments Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, Nuclear Watch NM, Savannah River Site Watch and Tri-Valley CAREs successfully sued the National Nuclear Security...
Kansas City sending delegation to ANA DC Days
Following its recent protest of the new generation of nuclear weapons on Monday, May 19, at the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), PeaceWorks KC will be sending a delegation of five activists to Washington DC June 8 to 13. The group will join fellow...
New Union of Concerned Scientists Report – Plutonium Pit Production: The Risks and Costs of U.S. Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate053025mc.mp3 Dylan K. Spaulding, author of the new report, is a senior scientist in the Union of Concerned Scientists Global Security Program. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Brown...
Ensuring a meltdown: Trump’s reckless nuclear orders
On March 23, President Trump signed five executive orders that threaten to roll back US nuclear energy policy at least 50 years. The orders are: Restoring Gold Standard Science; Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Reinvigorating the Nuclear...
FINAL ACTION ALERT ON ILLINOIS NUCLEAR MORATORIUM — SESSION ENDS MAY 31
NEIS ACTION ALERT – FINAL WEEK OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION! NEIS CONTINUES THE FIGHT AGAINST NEW ILLINOIS REACTORS! Urge elected officials to oppose SB1527, SB1538, HB3604, HB3603, which would repeal our remaining nuclear construction moratorium Greetings All – They’re...
US oil firms pumping secret chemicals into ground and not fully reporting it
The Guardian “We thought that the Colorado law was going to break through the culture of secrecy that surrounds the use of potentially toxic chemicals in oil and gas production,” said Dusty Horwitt, an attorney and researcher who was lead author on the analysis, which...
Say NO to plutonium pit production!
By Willow Silverayne This is a call to action! Look, I have no interest to “crawl out through the fallout, baby,” and—unless you have a death wish, or happen to be one of the few who profit off of war—then it’s safe to assume that neither do you. In this article, I...
Submit written comments opposing more nukes
Thanks to a lawsuit by Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch, and Tri-Valley CAREs,1 the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the US Department of Energy is organizing virtual public hearings May 27, 5-7:30 PM Eastern2 and May 28, 7-9:30 PM...
Statement on killing of Israeli Diplomatic Staff
Everyone Deserves to Live in Safety and in Peace. Peace Action strongly condemns the murders of Israeli diplomatic staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. last night. We hope that the memories of Yaron and Sarah will be...
Teaching Patients Climate Resilience
from My Green Doctor New research shows that healthcare professionals have a unique opportunity to teach their patients about individual and community climate resilience. My Green Doctor’s latest newsletter explores the benefits of waiting room teaching resources for...
Statement on killling of Israeli Diplomatic Staff
Everyone Deserves to Live in Safety and in Peace. Peace Action strongly condemns the murders of Israeli diplomatic staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. last night. We hope that the memories of Yaron and Sarah will be...
TODAY! Virtual Workshop about DOE’s Plans for Expanded Plutonium Pit Production at LANL for the Next 50 Years, Public Meetings Next Week
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate052325mc.mp3 Just a few days ago, on May 9th, the Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Nuclear Security Administration announced that virtual public “scoping” meetings would be held next week about...
Protests in Kansas City Demanding a Halt to Nuclear Weapons Production and the U.S. Arms Race
By Ann Suellentrop, MSRN On May 19, 2025 six resisters to nuclear weapons production in Kansas City crossed the purple property line at the National Security Campus. This was to protest the plant’s doubling in size to accommodate the new U.S. arms race beginning with...
Young Health Professionals and Students Engage in Nuclear Weapons Abolition
This May, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program has been busy engaging young health professionals and students around the work of nuclear disarmament. From campus socials to national webinars, we’re building momentum through creative outreach and meaningful...
No More Fracking Secrets in Colorado
This month, PSR and the PSR Colorado chapter took a big jump forward in our years-long campaign to protect Coloradoans from one of the many troubling health harms of fracking–the secret, noxious chemicals the industry uses to pump oil and gas out of the ground. In a...