Our Issues
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
We work to oppose our massive nuclear weapons complex. This expensive and dangerous choice is something we can change.
NUCLEAR WASTE
Nuclear waste remains a dangerous legacy of energy and weapons production. We need a responsible nuclear waste disposal strategy.
NUCLEAR ENERGY
The time has come for a carbon-free, nuclear free future. Nuclear Energy is expensive, dirty, and dangerous; We can do better.
Map of ANA Sites Across the U.S.
Map of DOE nuclear facilities which concern the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. This list includes active National Nuclear Security Administration sites (purple) , Environmental Management sites (green), and Legacy Management sites (yellow).
View Department of Energy Nuclear Complex Sites in a larger map ➩CLEANUP SITES ONLY (Map from DOE Environmental Management website)
The map above shows the remaining 15 active EM sites where cleanup work is currently ongoing. Learn more about the 92 completed sites here.
To visit site-specific webpages, please click on the site name in the below table or the location on the map below.
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| EMCBC-New York (formerly DOE SPRU Field Office) |
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| Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) |
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| Hanford Office of River Protection |
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| Hanford Richland Operations Office |
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| Idaho |
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| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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| EM-Los Alamos |
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| Moab |
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| Nevada National Security Site |
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| Oak Ridge |
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| Paducah |
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| Portsmouth |
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| Sandia National Laboratories |
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| Savannah River Site |
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| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) |
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| West Valley Demonstration Project |
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Congressional Views on Nuclear Weapons and Waste
The Congressional Mapping Project
This project tracks the views of key senators and representatives on nuclear weapons and waste. To use this resource, select the state that you wish to view and you will be redirected to a page containing information about that states’ senators and representatives.
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The map above depicts the views of various members of congress on nuclear energy and weapons.
To start viewing, simply click on a state and you will be redirected to a page with information on that states’ congressional representation.
Fairness of the Restoration of Benefits
Arkansas is home to thousands of Marshallese residents who were encouraged to migrate to the United States following 12 years of...
G7 Youth Summit
Marshallese and Japanese peoples have historical and tragic ties. The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targets of atomic...
Seeking Nuclear Justice: Voices from the Marshallese Diaspora in Arkansas
MEI Statement on NVRD, the Compact February 28, 2023
Choosing Hope – Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes
Choosing Hope Hope to me comes from activism of communities affected by nuclear weapons and from conversations at every level. These remarks were delivered by Ivana Nikolić Hughes to close the Choose Hope side event at the 11th Review Conference of the Nuclear...
Don’t let EPA weaken coal ash safeguards
After decades of advocacy, we won strong, health-protective coal ash standards in 2015 and 2024. Now, EPA wants to roll them back. Earlier this year, we asked you to submit comments in defense of federal protections when they proposed a delay of enforcement. EPA’s...
Sample Comment Letter on draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environment Impact Statement – Public Hearing Thursday, May 14th in Santa Fe
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CCNSUpdate050826mc.mp3 Our colleague, Hunter Noffsinger, an organizer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, crafted a three-minute public comment about the draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environmental...
NRC’s “Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission” Rule
On May 4, 2026, Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information Resource Service, et al, filed public comments strongly opposing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “NRC Reviews of Reactor Designs Previously Authorized by U.S. Department...
Plutonium Pit Production Draft PEIS – Recording of Public Hearing North Augusta, South Carolina, Tues May 5, 2026
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Final SRS, Hanford cleanups remain far into future
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Draft PEIS Released! May 7 Comment Training for Livermore Public Hearing
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is coming to Livermore on May 12 to hear oral public comments about its nationwide plutonium pit production plan, in which Livermore Lab will be doing plutonium pit support work. To prepare, we will hold a Virtual...
Tri-Valley CAREs Joins Fellow Plaintiffs to Tour Savannah River Site’s Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Plant
On April 21, Tri-Valley CAREs’ Nuclear Policy Program Director, Tanvi Kardile, accompanied by other plaintiffs Savannah River Site Watch and Nuclear Watch New Mexico, toured the plutonium “pit” bomb core production plant at the National Nuclear Security...
Thousands Rally at Baltimore’s War Memorial Plaza for ‘No Kings’ Day
Chesapeake PSR’s Drs. Terry Fitzgerald and Gwen DuBois in Washington, DC in October 2025 The Greyhound The concerns on display stretched well beyond immigration. Terry Fitzgerald, 77, a Baltimore physician with Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, worked...
GAO Report: Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Better Data and Project Prioritization Vital to Managing Aging Infrastructure and Communicati…
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Proyección De La Película “Half-Life of Memory”
Tri-Valley CAREs presentaProyección Comunitaria: Half Life of Memory Acompáñenos a una película poderosa que invita a la reflexión sobre la memoria y el impacto de la historia nuclear. Miércoles, 20 de mayo🕔 5:00–7:00 PM (película a las 5:30 PM) 🎟️ Entrada gratuita🍿...
Nukes and AI require 1.4 million gallons of water a day at New Mexico lab
By Alicia Inez Guzmán, High Country News | April 30, 2026 hcn.orgHIGH ATOP A PLATEAU IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, Los Alamos National Laboratory is facing its biggest expansion since the World War II-era Manhattan Project, the top-secret government effort to produce the...
Ten reasons to reject nuclear power
In Beyond Nuclear executive director Linda Pentz Gunter’s new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — she delivers a compelling indictment of every aspect of the nuclear power industry and its connections to...
Forestalling Dystopia: Stratagems for Change
“Forestalling Dystopia: Stratagems for Change” on Global Political Economy brought together speakers to discuss climate breakdown, conflict, inequality, and shifting global power. The conversation moved between questions about where current trajectories were heading...
Radioactive waste emptied from aging, leak-prone tank in Eastern WA
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IPPNW Statement to the 11th Review Conference to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Delivered by Magritte GordaneerMay 1, 2026 Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, and Civil Society Colleagues, We are in a crisis — you wouldn’t know that walking into this room. In January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85...
NAPF Statement at the 11th NPT Review Conference – Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes
Not Just an Abstract Moral Appeal: Ending the Nuclear Age Is a Requirement for Survival Humanity faces a choice, whether consciously or not, to continue down a path of conflict that leads toward ultimate destruction or to renounce its old ways and center peace at the...
Remembering Chornobyl at 40; The Harm Continues
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CCNSUpdate050126mc.mp3 Last week’s Nuclear in New Mexico conference in Bernalillo continued the myth that expansion of the nuclear cycle in New Mexico would be welcomed here. Activities such as expanded uranium...
For Public Health and to Save Money, New York Needs Renewable Energy
We need clean, renewable energy to protect our health and to drive down energy costs. As organizations representing public and environmental health as well as frontline healthcare professionals, including the American Lung Association, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy...
Chernobyl at 40: Belarus took the brunt
A report from Olga Karatch, Belarussian founder in exile of Our House: On April 26, it marked 40 years since the largest nuclear technological disaster in history — the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Although the plant is geographically located in...
Speak Out Against New Plutonium Pits
On April 10th, the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Survey (PEIS) from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was released. This survey addresses the environmental impacts of the production of more plutonium pits for nuclear weapons at five sites...
PSR at the United Nations
Opening statements of the 11th NPT review conference delivered by Antonio Gutierrez This week in New York, PSR is at the United Nations for the 11th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This meeting takes place every five years and is a key...
Los opositores a la Producción de Núcleos de Plutonio en el SRS recorren las instalaciones y afirman que esta reiniciaría la carrera armamentista nuclear
TVC in the News / Nuclear Weapons Aiken Standard– Carl Dawson 23 de abril de 2026 AIKEN — Los opositores a la Instalación de Procesamiento de Plutonio de Savannah River, actualmente en construcción en el Sitio de Savannah River, declararon el 22 de abril que dicha...
A new nuclear arms race is accelerating. There’s only one way to stop it
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher. Russia, Israel...
Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945. They Wouldn’t Today Either
The following article was co-authored by Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick, originally published in Al Jazeera (in Arabic) on April 24, 2026. Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945. They Wouldn’t Today Either Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Professor Peter...
Washington senators, Wright spar over impact of Hanford budget cuts
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AI data center with a different mission being considered in Tri-Cities
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Presidents, popes, and peace | Scott Fina
The following article was authored by Scott Fina, NAPF Board Member, and originally published in the Santa Maria Times on April 25, 2026. Presidents, popes, and peace “The war can be waged only as a last resort, with all nonviolent options exhausted…. But now, with...
Class 2 Permit Modification for EMF Concentrate
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Hanford ready for ‘breakout year,’ Walsh tells Senate Armed Services panel
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New Don’t Bank on the Bomb
The new edition of Don’t Bank on the Bomb is out, with more dire news The new Don’t Bank on the Bomb report is out, and the headline is stark: 301 financial institutions have significant financial ties to the nuclear weapons industry between January 2023 and September...
CA nuclear moratorium holds
From Committee to Bridge the Gap, founded by the late Dan Hirsch, special to the Lassen County Times: Excerpt: Committee to Bridge the Gap today welcomed the failure of AB2647, the latest in a series of annual attempts to overturn California’s moratorium on new...
SRS Plutonium Pit Production opponents tour facility, say it would restart nuclear arms race
Aiken Standard– Carl Dawson April 23, 2026 AIKEN — Opponents of the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility under construction at Savannah River Site said April 22 that the facility is unneeded and will be the most expensive building ever constructed in the...
Bye bye nukes, hello solar
Between 2015 and 2025 global solar energy generation grew tenfold, a new study reveals. Fossil fuels fell by 2% while nuclear, which saw a tiny increase (due to China), is also set to be overtaken by renewables this year. Aditya Lolla, managing director of Ember,...
President’s Letter – April 2026
President’s Letter – April 2026 Dear NAPF Community, On April 7, I woke up to the headlines that President Trump had posted that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” To say that this pronouncement was deeply disturbing, despite coming on the heels of all that the...
Refinery Draft EIS
Photo: Paloma Ayala What we learned By: Miles Johnson, Legal Director As you may know, the window to comment on federal review of NEXT’s proposed diesel refinery just ended. Columbia Riverkeeper’s team of attorneys—with help from subject-matter experts, as well as...
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Permit???
The New Mexico Environment Department is issuing a new state permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. https://www.env.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-23-COMMS-NMED-issues-draft-Waste-Isolation-Pilot-Plant-permit-Final.pdf NMED’s goal is to prioritize the...