Climate Crisis
New cancer study goes where NRC refused
Shows increase in cancer deaths near reactors The Lost Opportunity: NRC’s Canceled Study In the early 2010s, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) tasked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with conducting a groundbreaking study on childhood cancer risks near nuclear facilities. This study was designed to address shortcomings in the NRC’s existing 1990 health…
Read MoreSacrifice environment for faster relicensing?
NRC to trade off legally required Environmental Impact Statements for lesser Environmental Assessments? The nuclear energy trade journal Inside NRC (published by Platts/S&P Global) reports that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “staff plans to narrow the focus of subsequent (60 to 80 years) operating license renewal safety and environmental reviews to speed their completion…
Read MoreEVENT: RETURN TO FUKUSHIMA Living in an ongoing catastrophe
NEIS Night with the Experts hosts Thomas Bass — writer, professor of English and journalism, and author of the book Return to Fukushima — Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm CT. Registration is required. Fourteen years after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the site is an ongoing…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC live stream,10.30.2025 (Updated 02.17.2026)
Updated February 17, 2026: Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club are still awaiting a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on their Petition for Judicial Review of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and nuclear industry. However, in a catastrophic move that further defies science and common sense, the…
Read MoreSolar for none?
Trump’s EPA criminally cancelled Solar For All grants, an excellent climate solution and employment driver. A coalition of 14 Native American tribal governments were poised to deploy $100 million in solar infrastructure to more than 3,500 tribal homes, while training Native youth and veterans in a clean energy workforce that could serve their own communities.…
Read MoreCato 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 Nuclear Renaissance?” provides a comprehensive status report and global overview, nuclear nation by nation. The report…
Read MoreSolar keeps growing
The following is information provided by the Sun Day Campaign. A review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals thatsolar provided almost 9% of total U.S. electrical generation in the first half of this year while wind + solar produced over one-fifth and the mix…
Read MoreWho Pays the Price for Nuclear’s Clean Energy Promise?
Nuclear has been promoted as a climate solution for an energy-hungry society looking to wean itself from oil and gas. But is it as clean as advocates say? Article published by ATMOS on 7/9/25. Words by Yessenia Funes Luminograms by Marton Perlaki (The unprecedented zombie reactor restart at Palisades in Michigan is featured.) Full article…
Read MoreHochul’s choice: Bought by the nuclear industry?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is either in the pocket of the nuclear power industry or woefully ignorant about the technology itself. We suspect the former since there is ample empirical data to show that the choice she has made — to build a new nuclear power plant in New York State — is the…
Read MoreFL nuke threatens Miami drinking water supply
Florida’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 3 and 4 are back in the news with “Miami’s Drinking Water Is Threatened by a Florida Nuclear Plant,” Bloomberg News, June 6, 2025 but behind the paywall. It’s about the billions of gallons of water required to cool the large twin nuclear reactors that are located 25…
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