US to “buy and own” new domestic reactors

Nov 19, 2025

On November 19, 2025, Bloomberg news reported that the United States government will “buy and own” as many as ten new, large (1000 MWe and bigger) commercial nuclear reactors. The new nuclear power deal emerged out of President Trump’s October meeting with Japan’s...

Trump’s radiation EO will harm women and girls more

Nov 19, 2025

Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal officials warning of public health consequences of a series of executive orders by President Trump which direct the NRC...

“Make Atoms Great Again?”

Nov 13, 2025

President Trump has set a course to “Make Atoms Great Again” as part of his White House “call to action” for an extremely risky and fool hearty national energy policy shift. In October 2025, news outlets reported on the President Trump’s plan to finance a government...

Nuclear Engineers Question Holtec Palisades Steam Generators’ Safety

Nov 12, 2025

[Photo of tubes in a typical Pressurized Water Reactor steam generator (not Palisades), shown from the top looking downwards.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240)...

And then there were five

Nov 10, 2025

President Trump has nominated a candidate to occupy the still vacant fifth seat on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a move that now locks in a Republican majority. Trump had already played dirty by firing Democratic commissioner Christopher Hanson earlier this...