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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,…
Read MoreReactor 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…
Read MoreZaporizhzhia restart? Greenpeace warns of perils
Russia could be preparing to reconnect Ukraine’s closed Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the grid, a facility occupied by Russia since March 4, 2022. According to a report from Greenpeace Ukraine, satellite imagery shows Russia repairing a transmission line with the assumed intent of restarting Zaporizhzhia but providing the electricity to Russia. Report author Shaun…
Read MoreEnsuring a meltdown: Trump’s reckless nuclear orders
On March 23, President Trump signed five executive orders that threaten to roll back US nuclear energy policy at least 50 years. The orders are: Restoring Gold Standard Science; Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base; Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy; and Deploying Advanced Nuclear…
Read MoreFINAL ACTION ALERT ON ILLINOIS NUCLEAR MORATORIUM — SESSION ENDS MAY 31
[June 1, 2025 update from Dave Kraft, director, NEIS: Illinois Moratorium Repeal Win — sort of… Greetings All — A short note here to let you know that the large energy omnibus bill that contained the nuclear construction moratorium repeal did NOT come up for a vote prior to the adjournment of the legislative session.…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKES?! Palisades Precedent, Three Years On
On May 20, 2022, then owner of Palisades atomic reactor in southwest Michigan, Entergy, closed it for good. Holtec took over, supposedly to decommission it, on June 28, 2022. But decommissioning was a lie. By July 5, 2022, Holtec applied to the U.S. Department of Energy for many billions of dollars in bailouts, to restart…
Read MoreNEIS alert against new reactors in IL–take action ASAP!
If you live in Illinois, please take direct action as soon as possible! If you do not, please spread word about this alert to everyone you know who does reside in Illinois! NEIS is sending a delegation to the IL state capital, in Springfield, to speak out against the legislation. See the Nuclear Energy Information…
Read MoreNuke Watch NM virtual workshop re: nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores
JOIN US TOMORROW! Virtual Workshop On the nationwide programmatic Environmental impact statement on the expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores Learn How to Make Effective Comments at the Upcoming Public Hearings… Why: Speak your mind at an upcoming hearing on the government’s plan to produce up to 120 new plutonium pits per year for…
Read MoreCoalition appeals against Palisades zombie reactor restart before NRC Commissioners
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Notice of Appeal of ASLB Decision LBP-25-04, by Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Three Mile Island Alert and Nuclear Energy Information Service, and Brief in Support of Appeal 04/25/2025 [the eve of…
Read MoreWe 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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