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

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

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...

We have great news!

A few minutes ago, Kyrgyzstan signed and Ghana ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)! We now have an absolute majority of countries on board the treaty, recognising that their power together can push the nuclear armed states to end the...

Cato Institute: Nuclear power’s hamster wheel

Accelerating climate change demands a stop to wasting  precious little time along with human and financial resources being diverted from real solutions on nuclear power that’s going nowhere. The conservative Cato Institute’s Fall 2025 status report on “The Next...

Aging US ICBM Could Be Extended Until 2050, Air Force Tells GAO

 By Tony Capaccio / September 10, 2025 09:47AM ET / Bloomberg Government Air Force officials have told congressional auditors it’s feasible to extend, until 2050, Boeing Co.’s aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles that have been the ground-based leg of the US-nuclear...