Jul 30, 2025
Annie Caputo, one of three currently seated commissioners (two Democrats and one Republican) of the five seats on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has announced her resignation in an email sent on July 29, 2025 to NRC staff. Republican Commissioner Caputo...
Jul 18, 2025
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model for...
Jul 16, 2025
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model for...
Jun 19, 2025
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...
Jun 12, 2025
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...
Jun 5, 2025
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...