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DOE plans to “modernize” and reduce size of Hanford advisory board
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Appeal to Pope Leo XIV
To Organize a Global Leaders Summit to Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. By Ivana Hughes and Peter Kuznick [Note: If you would like to sign this appeal, please fill out this Google form OR add your name and affiliation, if any, as you would like...
Radiation Limits: Take Action to Keep Current Safety Standards
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a sweeping rewrite of federal radiation protection regulations. The proposal, titled “Reforming and Modernizing the NRC’s Radiation Protection Framework,” would eliminate the use of ALARA throughout NRC regulations...
Hiroshima remembered
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Final Reminder: Submit your Comment and Speak Up Against the Weakening of Radiation Standards
Until the end of August, PSR is asking our members and the public to submit comments to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on the new proposed rule that will weaken limits and protections for communities against harmful radiation. Now is the time to comment...
Oppose Weakening EPA’s Clean Trucks Rule!
The transportation sector emits the most greenhouse gas pollution compared to electricity generation, industry, agriculture and other significant sources. Diesel trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles are major contributors to this carbon pollution among other hazardous...
Hanford Site removes radioactive waste from 24th underground tank, accelerating Cold War cleanup
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Hanford facility returns hundreds of thousands of gallons of tank space
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Hanford safety reports are public again as DOE resumes top-secret reviews
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In 1944, the U.S. began making plutonium for the atomic bomb: 80 years later, taxpayers are still paying for the cleanup
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Nuclear Safety Board to Hold Public Meeting in Livermore on Tues. Sept. 15th Amidst Access and Oversight Challenges
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), an independent nuclear safety oversight board within the federal government, is under fire. Created by Congress in 1988 with the goal of protecting the health and safety of the public and defense nuclear facility...
DOE Again Denies Access to DNFSB at Nuclear Weapons Facilities; Contact Your Elected Officials
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CCNSUpdate082126mc.mp3 Once again, the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration has denied the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board access to nuclear weapons...
My Green Doctor This Month: Wildfire Preparedness & Clinic Resilience
Longer wildfire seasons mean increased risks to clinics, staff, and patients. This month, My Green Doctor’s Green Practice News features useful articles on wildfire preparedness, disaster resilience planning, antibiotic stewardship, and strategic purchasing for...
PSR Resources to Fight Dirty Data Centers
Across the country, we are seeing a massive buildout of AI data centers, and more and more communities are looking for ways to either block construction of data centers in their communities because they are (rightly) concerned about health harms arising from fossil...
August is Make-A-Will Month
No matter your age or stage in life, planning ahead is critical — and thoughtful planning can be transformative for our mission. That’s why we’re participating in National Make-A-Will Month in August to encourage you to consider including PSR in your will or other...
Fighting For Government Transparency And Access To Public Records
The results are in. By: Simone Anter, Senior Attorney & Hanford Program Director In 2024, Columbia Riverkeeper requested documentation about proposals related to the U.S. Dept. of Energy (“Energy”) “Cleanup to Clean Energy Initiative” (“Initiative”) at the Hanford...
Department of Energy announces changes to Hanford Advisory Board
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Hanford land annexation should not hurt nuclear cleanup, Geimer says
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DOE overhauls the longtime Hanford Nuclear Reservation advisory board
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The Small (Modular Reactor) Short
Nuclear investors see “an industry bubble that is already deflating” Guess who’s making money from the alleged small modular reactor boom? Or rather, guess, who’s not making a profit? We’ve been calling the SMR schemes “crypto nukes” for a while, because they seemed...
Opinion | Hanford cleanup at turning point, and we must not lose momentum
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‘Highly disrespectful.’ White House to pick who will advise feds on Hanford
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Congo’s uranium tragedy
At a book talk at Busboys and Poets in DC, Friends of the Congo’s Maurice Carney, and Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter, laid out the uranium story that threads through the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s sad history, including how 70% of Congo uranium was used...
DOE pushes for expanded Hanford grouting, awards $4B in contracts
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Brown joins coalition backing Hanford-linked Supreme Court brief
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Cleanup work progresses with pump removal at Hanford Tank Farms
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US Department of Energy whittles down Hanford board that gives feds, state advice on cleanup
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Protect Better webinar series: Protect our health from radiation
Webinar 2 – “In the Weeds” What happens when radiation protection standards are weakened to make it easier to expand nuclear power? Wednesday, August 19 | 5pm – 7:30pm Pacific 8:00–9:30 PM Eastern REGISTER The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory...
Oregon expert: Trump’s nuclear plan threatens Hanford remediation
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Perma-Fix awarded Hanford nuclear waste subcontract with $4.3B ceiling
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Perma-Fix wins Hanford nuclear waste treatment subcontract
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Hanford Site grouting developments could accelerate cleanup
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Trump administration denies nuclear safety watchdog crucial access
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Public Comments about NRC’s Rollback of Radiation Exposure Standards due on Monday, August 31st
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CCNSUpdate081426mc.mp3 In compliance with the Trump administration Executive Orders 14300 and 14154, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to scrap long-standing radiation exposure standards for...
Connecting the Dots: The AI Data Center Boom
Ten years ago, the majority of our work was around the narrative, “The Thin Green Line,” as Columbia Riverkeeper and partners took on a plethora of companies trying to site the next coal, oil, methanol, and natural gas pipeline in river communities. We fought and won....
A compassionate world without nuclear
Global Read webinar featured two authors, two books and one topic M.V. Ramana and Linda Pentz Gunter were featured together for the August edition of the program Global Read, presented by the Charter for Compassion. Ramana is the author of Nuclear Is Not The Solution....
Deep Fission “approval” is for a drawing, not a “milestone”
Statement by Paul Gunter, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear on Deep Fission’s announcement of approval of a Nuclear Safety Design Agreement under the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Reactor Pilot Project created by a President Trump White...
Hope, action, and a nuclear-free future
Every August, Physicians for Social Responsibility and its chapters across the country commemorate the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings through events that PSR chapters have prepared for all year. Take a look and get inspired by just some of the...
Proyecto Génesis en el LLNL: IA, Armas Nucleares y la Próxima Brecha de Supervisión
Fact Sheets / Green Lab / Nuclear Weapons La nueva misión Genesis del Departamento de Energía se presenta como un importante esfuerzo nacional para utilizar la inteligencia artificial con el fin de acelerar las “labores de seguridad nacional”. La Casa Blanca lanzó...
Julie Lomboy protested waste in Columbia river, by walking over 300 miles from Astoria to Hanford Nuclear site
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Key Hanford nuclear site contractor with $45B contract under new leadership
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Feds file to change way Eastern WA radioactive waste is treated
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Protect Better Webinar Series: NRC Radiation Comments
Webinar #1 Wednesday, August 12 Time: 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET Webinar #1 Register Here The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken long-standing radiation protection standards in order to accelerate the expansion of nuclear...
Are nuclear war and climate catastrophe two separate crises, or one civilizational threat with two faces?
This week, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes joined geopolitical economist Radhika Desai for an in-depth discussion of the nuclear threat and climate change. Dr. Hughes explained how the threats differ in their timelines but intersect in...
Bishop’s 75 hour Vigil in Japan
Please note Pope Leo’s increasingly strong words on nuclear weapon. Bishop Shirahama of Hiroshima is a standing member of the Partnership for a World without Nuclear Weapons, initiated by Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, NM. The Partnership is currently composed of...
Certain Hanford tank waste can be treated as low-level under WIR
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Hanford empties 24th single-shell tank
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Hanford Site faces bad air days, fire risk
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Hanford Site Caused Delivery Driver’s Cancer, Son Claims
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