Attorneys General Oppose NRC voiding NEPA law

Sep 3, 2026

Prompted by several Trump White House Executive Orders (E.O. 14154, E.O. 14270 and E.O. 14300) issued in 2025 to “unleash” dirty, dangerous and expensive atomic energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s  (NRC) filed a July 7, 2026 proposed rulemaking that would...

Same old NuScale?

Sep 2, 2026

In 2023, a plan to develop the United States’s flagship small modular reactor, collapsed under the weight of its own abysmal finances. NuScale had offered 12 50MW SMRs, then downgraded to 6 77MW reactors. But over the course of 18 years it hemorrhaged $800 million —...

COUNTDOWN: Radiation Comments Deadline Today!

Aug 31, 2026

We are grateful to everyone who has already submitted their comments to NRC to demand stronger radiation protections. If you haven’t, it’s not too late to submit your comments TODAY! The comment deadline to oppose the NRC’s radiation regulation rollbacks is TODAY,...

The Small (Modular Reactor) Short

Aug 18, 2026

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...

Congo’s uranium tragedy

Aug 17, 2026

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...