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Talk World Radio: David Swanson and Ivana Hughes on Nuclear Insanity
“If we’ve survived these dozens of of near misses because of good luck, that doesn’t last forever.” This week, Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes joined David Swanson on Talk World Radio to discuss nuclear insanity. The brief conversation covers the problematic history of...
An Ordinary Insanity: Daniel Ellsberg on the Nuclear Threat
A new short film by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich From the website of the film An Ordinary Insanity: “In this 29-minute documentary, renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg provides a powerful wakeup call about the global threat posed by nuclear weapons and...
Hot time in Hanford this week
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Where There’s Smoke…
by Paige Knappenberger, PSR Environment & Health Director Like many families across the Northeast, ours had our plans upended in July by smoke from wildfires burning nearly 2,000 miles away in Ontario. Instead of spending the weekend outdoors, we kept our kids...
‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies | Space | The Guardian
The thing is, the whole ICBM trajectory only lasts half an hour, and “you’re compressed by detection, communication. So a president would have less than 10 minutes to decide whether to launch ICBMs or to wait it out … the system is built so that question gets asked...
Court says NRC doesn’t have to factor climate extremes into licensing
In a shocking and disappointing decision — and at a time when Texas is flooding, wildfires are making the air unbreathable and New York City is under a tornado warning — a DC court has ruled against an appeal by Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club. The court’s decision...
Pope Leo on Nuclear Disarmament!
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GAO Report: Efforts to Streamline Project Management at National Laboratories and Nuclear Sites
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Hanford begins grout transfer
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Hanford Site cleanup crews lower radiation by 80% in valve pit
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Nuclear Weapons and 250 Years of the United States
By Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick This article first appeared in Al Jazeera (in Arabic) on July 4, 2026. What would it take for humanity, let alone the US, to survive another quarter of a millennium? One of many answers, but arguably the first and foremost...
WA Department of Energy shifts approach to nuclear waste disposal
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Podcast: The US’s historic Hanford site, and accelerated decommissionin
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Hanford’s Grout Gamble Ignites Showdown Over Nuclear Cleanup
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DOE prepares to grout secondary waste byproduct from Hanford EMF
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Save the Date! August 6th Hiroshima Commemoration Event at Livermore Lab Gates
Join us on August 6th at the gates of the Livermore Lab to declare “Nuclear Abolition or Extinction? The Choice is Yours” to commemorate the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. More information coming soon! Click HERE for a printable version of the...
Comments Submitted On Plutonium Pit PEIS – Stay tuned!
The 90 day public comment period on the government’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) officially closed on July 16th. During this comment period Tri-Valley CAREs, the other plaintiff organizations who brought the successful litigation against...
Solidarity for Indigenous Rights
Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 1, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2026, Issue 1, Page 8-9, Solidarity By Simone Anter, Senior Attorney & Clean Up Hanford Program Director Columbia Riverkeeper has partnered with the Confederated...
Hi everyone, Feel free to use any of my comments,
but it’s good to use your own words. You can submit comments as many times as you like. This is our chance to say NO to nuclear tyranny! Ann > > Dear National Nuclear Security Administration, lease feel free to use any of the language below, modified as...
This Weekend: Commemorate the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill and the Trinity Test, Plus Other Upcoming Events
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CCNSUpdate071726mc.mp3 There are two opportunities to commemorate historic events in New Mexico this weekend. On Saturday, July 18th, the Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill begins at 6 am,...
High Voltage, High Risk
Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 1, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2026, Issue 1, Page 14-15, Underwater Fighting the Underwater Power Line. By Teryn Yazdani, Staff Attorney When I joined Columbia Riverkeeper’s staff two years ago,...
TELL NRC: Don’t weaken radiation standards
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission draft proposed rule (PR), allowing more radiation exposure at the industry’s discretion, has been published in the Federal Register. Deadline for comments is August 31, 2026. The PR would allow greater exposures “just to save the...
Willliams’ Pipe Dreams
Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 1, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2026, Issue 1, Page 12-13, Williams Pipeline Washington has some of the nation’s best climate and energy laws—and for good reason. Over 1.2 million people in...
Members Speak
Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 1, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2026, Issue 1, Page 10-11, Why I Give How We Collaborate Community by Community By: Eric Block, Communications & Marketing Director Columbia Riverkeeper is...
Win for Cold Water
Washington Dept. of Ecology tells Army Corps to work harder to find solutions to heat pollution from dams. Thank you, Washington, for still standing up for cold water and salmon! By: Miles Johnson, Legal Director Reservoirs on the Lower Snake and Columbia rivers trap...
PEIS Comments Due Thursday: Stop the Production of New Plutonium Pits!
Photo: Kelly Michals | CC BY-NC 2.0 This Thursday, July 16th, is the deadline for comments on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) — the deadline to stand up against the production of new nuclear weapons, fuelling a dangerous arms race. The...
Radioactive waste grouting in Eastern WA begins. Feds push for more
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Hanford electrician sues, claiming ‘untouchable’ boss sexually harassed and retaliated
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Expanded federal law says these states and parts of others were downwind, but many don’t know they could be compensated
By: Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | July 12, 2026 deseret.comWhen she was 29, Mary Dickson got thyroid cancer and chalked it up to bad luck or bad genes.Her life had been pretty idyllic, despite being raised against the frightening backdrop of the Cold War.She spent...
Oregon officials push back against Hanford liquid waste shipments
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A 300-ton furnace in Washington State runs at 2,100 degrees and can never be switched off — if the glass pool inside ever freeze…
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OR Officials Try To Keep Washington Waste From Being Transported on Oregon Roads
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A rare look at the lab driving Hanford’s cleanup
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DOE pushes dual-path Hanford cleanup plan
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Defending Endangered Species
Legal challenge to protect endangered species’ habitat. By: Miles Johnson, Legal Director Columbia Riverkeeper filed a federal court case challenging the Trump administration’s rules aimed at making it easier to destroy the habitat of threatened and endangered...
No shortage of nuclear weapons
Letter to the Editor, Tracy Press Patricia Howell Editor, I bet you have been checking your budget! Don’t worry! The federal government is on the job! You can cross Bombers, Subs and ICBM’s off your budget list. They’ve increased the Pentagon Budget by 25% for 2027 to...
Taking on Big Tech’s Data Center Building Spree
Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 1, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2026, Issue 1, Page 6-7, Big Tech Data center power demand in [Oregon and Washington]could reach 35 million megawatt hours by 2029—the equivalent energy demand of...
Former worker killed in ‘intense’ wrong-way crash with patrol car on Hanford site
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National Security??
The two greatest threats to US national security: Climate change and nuclear holocaust. Both threats MUST be addressed internationally. The stress put on our common life support system by the two fold doubling of human population in the past 75 years has contributed...
PEIS Lawyer Requests Three Essential Documents and an Extension of Time for Public Review and Comment
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CCNSUpdate071026mc.mp3 On Monday, July 6th, a South Carolina Environmental Law Project lawyer made a needed request for three Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) documents...
PRESS RELEASE: “PROTECT BETTER” CAMPAIGN DEMANDS BETTER RADIATION PROTECTION FOR AMERICANS AS U.S. GOVERNMENT MOVES TO LOOSEN NU…
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate useAs a courtesy to our colleagues, we provide the attached press release announcing the formation of a new national Campaign organized to counter the Trump Administration’s weakening of radiation standards.For the past 14 months the Trump...
Feds push back after WA rejects plan touted for faster Hanford nuclear cleanup
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Hanford shipments to WIPP could start in a year
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Plaintiffs Demand Release of Critical Documents and Extension of Public Comment Period on Expanded Plutonium Bomb Core Production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2026: Plaintiffs Demand Release of Critical Documents and Extension of Public Comment Period on Expanded Plutonium Bomb Core Production Contacts: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org Scott Yundt,...
Trump’s “nuclear socialism” or just more grift?
The libertarian non-profit Cato Institute just posted a stinging critique of the Trump’s White House latest scheme to jump start new exorbitantly expensive and unreliable “advanced” nuclear reactor construction describing it as “nuclear socialism.” Trump just offered...
Mid-Year Impact Report
Originally published in Columbia Riverkeeper “Currents” Issue 1, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper · Currents 2026, Issue 1, Page 4-5, Mid-Year Impact Report Columbia Riverkeeper is powered by more than 25,000 members and supporters who invest in clean water and a healthy...
¡Tri-Valley CAREs Lo Invita a Nuestra FIESTA de Amplificación Mensual!
Nos reuniremos virtualmente (a través de Zoom) para diseñar estrategias sobre cómo podemos usar individualmente el poder de nuestras cuentas de redes sociales (a través de Facebook, X, Threads, Linkedin, etc.) y medios impresos (a través de Cartas al editor, secciones...
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Protected: From the Snake River to the Capitol: Holding Idaho’s Delegation Accountable
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