US Mayors urge US to reverse nuclear arms race

At the close of its 93rd Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, on June 22, 2025, the final business plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a timely new resolution, “Urging the United States to Lead the World Back From the Brink of Nuclear War and Halt and Reverse the Nuclear Arms…

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Video + updated fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport

Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called consolidated interim storage facilities), as well as such EJ communities also burdened by highly radioactive waste’s transportation along the…

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Palisades: ASLB rejects new/amended environmental contentions

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] On June 20, 2025, the three administrative law judge panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board overseeing the Palisades closed reactor restart proceedings ruled against our environmental coalition’s new and amended…

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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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Attack on Iran? Nuclear fears mount

As fears mount that the US could help Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, critics are calling out ‘nuclear hypocrisy’. Speaking at a hastily called rally in London over concerns of possible UK engagement against Iran, Iranian-born trade union leader Maryam Eslamdoust said, “Israel secretly develops illegal nuclear weapons, but Iran is the one accused of…

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Trump’s “Unleashing Atomic Power” is Unhinged

Without explanation, on June 16, 2025, President Trump unceremoniously fired Democrat Commissioner Christopher Hanson from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as the first senior manager causality initiating a slash and burn attack on commercial nuclear power regulatory oversight.  Hanson’s second term of office was to have expired in 2029. Hanson’s abrupt removal follows a…

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After SCOTUS CISF Ruling, We’ll Pursue Appeal at D.C. Circuit Court!

[Image credit: No Nuclear Waste Aqui, Karen Hadden/SEED Coalition, and Diane D’Arrigo/NIRS; Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017, NRC environmental scoping public comment meetings on WCS/ISP’s CISF scheme.] {June 21, 2025 Update: The following news outlets, among others, have reported on this story: Source New Mexico; AP; Courthouse News Service; Reuters; The Texas Tribune; ScienceNews; CBS News;…

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Trump Fires NRC Commissioner Who Chaired Agency Under Biden

[Photo of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.] The dismissal came after President Trump signed several executive orders aimed at cutting safety regulations for nuclear power plants. As reported by the New York Times. That said, NRC Commissioner Hanson consistently voted against the public interest, including against health, safety, and environmental…

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FL 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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