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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Golden Dome spells doom for US taxpayers and world peace

The Golden Dome for America, announced with much grandiosity by the Trump White House and price tag $175 billion in taxpayer money, is just another reboot of a longstanding and failed missile defense program. Far from keeping Americans safe, it threatens to trigger another nuclear arms race and risks war in space. Prior iterations have…

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ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized its Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact on Holtec’s scheme to restart the closed Palisades atomic reactor in Covert, Michigan. This…

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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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