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Rest in Power, James “Jim” Heddle (Aug. 1940- Nov. 2025)
November 25, 2025 Message from the San Onofre Syndrome Team: It is with deep sadness and the heaviest of hearts that we share the passing of James Heddle, award-winning filmmaker, co-director of EON Ecological Options Network, and the anchor, along with Mary Beth, of Team SOS. The inimitable Jim Heddle was a creative genius and…
Read MoreIUFF 2025, Las Vegas, NV
[IUFF logo design by Klee Benally] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Laura Piffero, Shoshone/Paiute (602) 391-3656 Thalia “Star” Guerrero: (435) 879-9086 Norbert Suchanek, [email protected], uraniumfilmfestival.org Media Release from Native Community Action Council P.O. Box 46301, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114 www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2025 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA NOVEMBER 21,…
Read MoreANA gathering Nov. 21 to Oppose Resumption of Nuclear Testing
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Ian Zabarte, Secretary of the Native Community Action Council: (702) 203-8816 or [email protected] Tanvi Kardile, President of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability: (925) 549-0910 or [email protected] ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY (ANA) MEDIA RELEASE ANA is a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production…
Read MoreUS to “buy and own” new domestic reactors
On November 19, 2025, Bloomberg news reported that the United States government will “buy and own” as many as ten new, large (1000 MWe and bigger) commercial nuclear reactors. The new nuclear power deal emerged out of President Trump’s October meeting with Japan’s first woman and ultra-conservative Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi. According to the Trump White…
Read MoreTrump’s radiation EO will harm women and girls more
Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal officials warning of public health consequences of a series of executive orders by President Trump which direct the NRC to dramatically weaken Standards for Protection Against Radiation in the US federal code. The letter, spearheaded by the nonprofit Generational Radiation Impact Project (GRIP) and Beyond…
Read MoreENVIRONMENTALISTS FILE FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST HOLTEC’S UNPRECEDENTED PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] {News coverage of this story includes: MLive, WSJM radio St. Joe MI, WWMT TV-3 Kalamazoo, Michigan Public (Radio), BridgeMichigan, WSBT TV-22 South Bend IN, ABC-57 South Bend IN, The Detroit News, Moody on the Market, ExchangeMonitor,…
Read More“Make Atoms Great Again?”
Trump is melding a financial partnership between the fed and the US nuclear industry President Trump has set a course to “Make Atoms Great Again” as part of his White House “call to action” that is not only extremely risky but a foolhardy national energy policy shift that raises potential ethical questions. In October 2025,…
Read MoreNuclear Engineers Question Holtec Palisades Steam Generators’ Safety
[Photo of tubes in a typical Pressurized Water Reactor steam generator (not Palisades), shown from the top looking downwards.] {EVWorld.com has reported on this story.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI,…
Read MoreAnd then there were five
President Trump has nominated a candidate to occupy the still vacant fifth seat on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a move that now locks in a Republican majority. Trump had already played dirty by firing Democratic commissioner Christopher Hanson earlier this year without cause and probably illegally, as Hanson’s term was not due to expire…
Read MoreOur ‘House of Dynamite’ will eventually blow
If you haven’t seen ‘A House of Dynamite’, this is a spoiler alert. But here’s another spoiler alert: nuclear deterrence does not and cannot work. Kathryn Bigelow’s thought-provoking film has been assailed by nuclear hawks as inaccurate but their critiques are nitpicks compared to the terrifying reality she portrays: that when it comes to how…
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