ZOMBIE NUKES?! Duane Arnold restart risks

Oct 8, 2025

ZOMBIE NUKES?! Duane Arnold restart risks On September 29, Iowa’s Sierra Club Chapter hosted a press conference to address NextEra’s proposal to restart Duane Arnold, which has been in decommissioning status since August 2020, when a derecho led to a close call with...

Palisades: Enviros Object to Yet More Safety Shortcuts

Oct 8, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216,...

More (nuclear) fool’s gold

Oct 6, 2025

Yet another “golden” nuclear con job has been announced, this time in the UK. During Trump’s recent state visit to Britain the UK government announced its “Golden Age of Nuclear” deal between the two countries. But it is anything but. Laden with hyped-up Trumpian...

Renewed risks at Zaporizhzhia

Oct 2, 2025

For the 10th time since Russian forces occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on March 4, 2022, the site has lost offsite power. Workers are using backup diesel generators to pump vital cooling water into the six reactors. Although all are in cold shutdown, the...

U.S. to gift Pu-239 to private nuclear industry

Oct 2, 2025

Trump Administration’s give away of 20 MT of US plutonium weapons stockpile to private companies threatens nuclear proliferation  According to previously unreleased government documents obtained and reviewed by Politico and addressed in a letter from three Democrat...

Uranium mine cleanup must be done right

Sep 29, 2025

A plan to bury low-level radioactive waste in the Red Rock (solid waste) Landfill needs to be fully explained to Navajo elders, argues Judy Platero, a representative of the affected nearbyThoreau Navajo community. “There’s no understanding of this because all of this...