Renewed risks at Zaporizhzhia

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

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...

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...

“Meltdown of Democracy,” 7pm EST, 09/23/2025

MA Governor Maura Healey has, unwittingly or not, joined with President Trump’s authoritarian “Unleashing Nuclear Energy.”  “Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them”  Massachusetts Peace Action’s Zoom Webinar , 7 pm ET, Tuesday,...

Great Lakes: Radionuclides are persistent, toxic

In 2016 and again in 2022, more than 100 advocacy groups nominated radionuclides for designation as Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA). The GLWQA is a joint agreement between the U.S. and Canada, which border...