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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.
| Site Name | Type(s) of Cleanup Work Performed |
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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.
Take Action: Cleaner cars save lives!
The Trump administration recently proposed an illogical rollback of fuel economy standards for new cars. These standards have been regulated by the federal government since 1975 and were most recently updated in 2024. These fuel economy standards have incentivized...
U.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT. TO BEYOND NUCLEAR RE: HOLTEC HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP LICENSE IN NEW MEXICO
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] (*See below the press release, for a note regarding consolidated interim storage facility transport risks, sent to reporters covering Holtec’s Palisades...
Crowd mourns deaths of Renee Good, others
By Ann Suellentrop Opening with prayers by two pastors, the KC MO rally Jan. 10 mourned the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, as well as the deaths of 33 others killed by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the last few years. Indivisible...
U.S. House passes bills funding Hanford cleanup, PNNL, dams
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‘Record funding’ for WA nuclear cleanup passes House. Wins for other projects
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Perma-Fix receives permit tripling liquid waste processing capacity
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House passes major funding package for Central Washington projects
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Seeking New Board Members
Photo Credit: Paloma Ayala Volunteer Applications Now Open for Columbia Riverkeeper’s Board of Directors By: Lauren Goldberg, Executive Director Columbia Riverkeeper’s board of directors oversees the organization’s goals and policies, finances, and public relations....
Hanford WTP filled 26 containers of glass during 2025
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No New Arms Race: Save New START Before it Expires on February 4th – Check Out the Advocacy Toolkit at Defuse Nuclear War.org
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CCNSUpdate010926mc.mp3 The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Wednesday, February 4th. Without this treaty, there will be nothing stopping a new, dangerous and...
USA Today Features Excellent Analysis and Visual Maps on the U.S. Nuclear Sponge
The series of articles from the January 6 USA Today examines the costs – financial and human – of upgrading U.S. land-based nuclear missile silos, of which there are 450 located in the Midwest. The concept of the nuclear sponge is that this leg of the nuclear triad,...
PSR condemns U.S. militarism at home and abroad
In this first week of the new year, we at Physicians for Social Responsibility are outraged at the escalating violence. Bombs and guns do not bring peace and justice, in Latin America or in U.S. cities, and we call for an end to this deadly new wave of U.S....
Victory: Army Corps Permit Required for Refinery’s Levee Impacts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact:Audrey Leonard, Columbia Riverkeeper: 541-399-4775 Victory: Army Corps Requires Permit for Refinery’s Levee Impacts NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc. needs a major federal permit for its proposed impacts to the Port Westward levee January...
Article highlights Tri-Valley CAREs’ concerns about Lab canceling public engagement efforts – Join our 1/15 meeting for more!
In a January 7th article, Livermore Vine reporter Jude Strzemp discussed the National Security Administration’s decision to retract its intention to publish a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for public comment for “Enhanced Plutonium...
12 15 25 Chat
From Kevin Kamps to Everyone: Do AI data centers “justify” zombie reactors & SMR new builds?! January 8, 2025 Do AI data centers “justify” zombie reactors & SMR new builds?! 2025-12-15 19:06:41 From Kevin Kamps to Everyone: In response to Arnie’s mention of...
January 7: Sadako Sasaki and Her Enduring Message
Today, January 7, we honor the birthday of Sadako Sasaki, a hibakusha who died at 12 years old from leukemia caused by radiation exposure after the Hiroshima bombing. Sadako’s story lives on through the 1,000 paper cranes she folded in hope that her wish for peace...
Livermore Lab Uses Trump Executive Order Gutting Environmental Laws to Push Through Enhanced Plutonium Utilization without Publi…
News from our friends at Tri-Valley CAREs | Dec 19, 2025 trivalleycares.orgFirst announced In January 2025, the NNSA proposal for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization” at the Livermore Lab was to include a “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement”...
Time Zero: 05: The Lab (Part 01)
https://964f6bfd-c857-4667-8d59-615efbd0d7c4.libsyn.com/05-the-lab-part-01 ”When the Manhattan Project arrived on the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico, the land was not uninhabited. To establish the highly secretive Site Y, the United States military forcibly...
A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback
By Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian | September 2, 2025 theguardian.comKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests...
Warren, Garamendi Press Energy Secretary on Mismanagement and Taxpayer Waste in Plutonium Pit Production Program
Text of Letter (PDF) Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. John Garamendi | Dec 16, 2025 warren.senate.gov – garamendi.house.govWashington, D.C. — In a new letter, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative John Garamendi (D-Calif.), both members of their...
NEW INTERACTIVE PIECE from USA TODAY: THE NUCLEAR SPONGE — & Much More!
Screenshot from USA Today article January 5, 2026 usatoday.com/graphics/interactives/us-nuclear-weapons-expansion-fallout-map/ By Davis Winkie, Ramon Padilla, Stephen Beard, Karina Zaiets and Carlie Procell, USA TODAY | Jan 5, 2026 usatoday.comU.S. nuclear strategy...
Hanford contractors make progress on infrastructure projects
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Nuclear Expert Speaker Reveals a Deeper Look at Hanford’s Story
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Feds get more time to decide whether to ship liquid radioactive waste from WA
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Hanford Site cleanup progress in Richland, community meeting Jan. 13
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Year End Report: Tri-Valley CAREs Celebrates our 2025 Accomplishments
Take a look at Tri-Valley CAREs’ 2025 accomplishments through our end of the year report! CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS > The post Year End Report: Tri-Valley CAREs Celebrates our 2025 Accomplishments appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.
Nuclear War: A Scenario book club—join now
By Henry Stoever It is not too late to join the PeaceWorks KC book club that begins its zoom sessions at 7 pm on Jan. 7, featuring Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario. You can get the book at the library or order it. About 15 persons are already using the book...
Statement on the Illegal US Attack on Venezuela
1/3/2026 WASHINGTON – Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, issued the following statement: “The United States’ military special forces attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores,...
2/2: “It All Starts with the Pits—Plutonium, That Is”
By Jane Stoever Our government may return to producing plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear bombs. Peace groups have managed to demand hearings where people can weigh in on whether that’s a good idea. Kansas City, Mo., is one of five locations that will have the...
An old danger returns: The nuclear arms race is revving up
IPPNW leaders at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 1985. Photo: IPPNW Steve Overman, MD MPH and Sean Arent, Washington PSR | Seattle Times Forty years after IPPNW’s Nobel Prize, the world once again needs clear voices willing to speak uncomfortable truths. Nuclear...
Hands off Venezuela!
By Ann Suellentrop About 250 persons gathered at the River Market area in Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3 to demand that the US stop its war on Venezuela. The speeches were about the millions of people in Venezuela who are at risk with “no precision” warfare, totally against...
Hanford contractor works to extend life of underground tanks
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End imperialist war on Venezuela
By Jon Rainwater Note: Jon Rainwater is executive director of Peace Action, of which PeaceWorks KC is an affiliate. Over the last 24 hours, U.S. forces unleashed a full-scale military assault on Caracas, Venezuela, and beyond. Delta Force commandos stormed a safe...
Save the Date! 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future by Richard Falk
Save the date for the 21st Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Falk, who will address the legal, moral, and political...
Palisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor...
Press Statement: Holtec Misses Palisades Restart Deadline; Enviro Lawsuit
[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, Michigan, (240)...
“Deep Fission” launches its mile deep reactor
Much to the surprise of residents in the small rural community of Parsons, Kansas, on December 4, 2025 they discovered that a Berkley, California nuclear startup company, Deep Fission, had selected their town for the fledgling company’s nuclear power plant...
CCNS Nuclear Literacy Program to Educate Nuevomexicano Communities on the LANL Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CCNSUpdate010226mc.mp3 For over eighty years, the People of New Mexico have borne the burden of the 1943 establishment of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Through the Congressional continuing resolution...
Cheers to 45 Years, and More to Come — a message from Dr. Jimmy Hara
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