STOP EO radiation health menace

Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), at their public meeting on July 16, 1-5 PM ET, that science demonstrates radiation exposure is always harmful. Registration required. The NRC is taking comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model (starting…

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COMMENT: Canada and US FAIL on radionuclides

TELL CANADIAN AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT RADIONUCLIDES SHOULD BE DESIGNATED AS A CHEMICAL OF MUTUAL CONCERN UNDER THE GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY AGREEMENT   Seeking Your Voice and Participation on Monday July 14, 2025 (10 AM Eastern/9 AM Central):  Dear Friends & Colleagues: We are seeking your participation in an important meeting to be…

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“Gross mismanagement”: Plan to release tritium is halted

New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has temporarily paused a plan to vent 30,000 curies of radioactive tritium into the air this summer. NMED, citing significant public interest, is requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to perform four additional steps before proceeding, including an independent technical review, tribal consultation, public meeting, and compliance audit. NMED states…

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The St. Louis atomic bomb waste dump still sickens

It’s been 83 years and “We still don’t know what to do with the first cupful.” On June 2, 2025, WBUR Boston and National Public Radio (NPR) aired the “On Point” podcast regarding a decades old environmental justice struggle, “The long-term effects of nuclear waste in St. Louis.” Kay Drey, a St. Louis, Missouri environmentalist,…

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Reactor radiation harms: Trump’s EO will make this worse

It’s time to set the record straight on radiation and the damage it causes, particularly to pregnancy, children and women. Contrary to what Trump’s recent EO claims, abundant and largely officially ignored, scientific evidence demonstrates that childhood cancers increase around normally operating nuclear facilities, with indications that these cancers begin during pregnancy. Uranium mining to…

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We can’t have both healthier children and nukes

According to The New York Times, a new Trump Administration Executive Order (EO) urges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “to reconsider its safety limits for radiation exposure, saying that current limits are too strict and go beyond what is needed to protect human health.” And yet, studies already show increases in childhood cancers, including leukemia…

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TAKE ACTION Sign petition on tritium

Sign the petition to stop The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from large releases of radioactive tritium gas. LANL plans to release the tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The only roadblock to the Lab’s plans is that it needs a “Temporary Authorization” from the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to do so.…

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RADIATION MEETING May 15-16

The Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies is hosting its 46th Meeting on May 15 & 16. Among the topics are advancements and limitations in low dose research, implications of attacks on commercial nuclear reactors, and development of a multi-laboratory, multi-entity collaborative project to detect soil and groundwater contamination at waste disposal…

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JOIN US: REPORT BACK on Nuclear weapons UN meeting

You are invited to an informal zoom REPORT BACK to the community, April 16, 4:30 PM ET on the third Meeting of States Parties (MSP3) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that took place in NYC at United Nations Headquarters, March 2-7. Mary Olson (Founder of Gender and Radiation Impact Project)…

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MI Nuke Resurgence: Potential Health Impacts?

[Photo above shows the Palisades atomic reactor during its previous operational phase (notice steam rising from cooling towers), Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, view facing east. The Palisades Park County Club, a 120-year old resort community of 200 cottages, is to the immediate right, to the south, sharing the fence line.] “A Nuclear…

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