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NRC buckles to White House and licenses dangerous TerraPower reactor
The following is the press statement released by Beyond Nuclear today on the decision by all five NRC commissioners to accede to pressure from the White House to fast-track reactor designs that have been clearly flagged by scientists as highly dangerous. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license of dangerous new reactor risks lives Beyond Nuclear decries NRC…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear condemns attack on Iran
Beyond Nuclear strongly condemns the attacks against Iran by two nuclear-armed countries, the United States and Israel, when a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program was already within reach. “These renewed attacks on Iran come at a time when negotiations were already underway to secure a new nuclear verification agreement with Iran,” said Linda Pentz…
Read MoreNew cancer study goes where NRC refused
Shows increase in cancer deaths near reactors The Lost Opportunity: NRC’s Canceled Study In the early 2010s, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) tasked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with conducting a groundbreaking study on childhood cancer risks near nuclear facilities. This study was designed to address shortcomings in the NRC’s existing 1990 health…
Read MoreArizona votes to cut county regs on SMRs
Eyes are on the Arizona State House which just passed a bill (HB2456) that would cut the state’s 15 counties out of zoning requirements that might slow down the fast track siting of Small Modular Reactors (SMR). The bill streamlines new reactor development designated for powering new data centers. If adopted, the change waives utility…
Read MoreMind-boggling $1.5 trillion military budget request
From: Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action: Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” It is clear that the United States is rapidly approaching that end, and worse – humanity’s demise by…
Read MoreIran’s right to the bomb?
Which countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons? The nuclear-armed nations say only they are. This includes Israel, which is officially an “undeclared” atomic state, even though the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution every year asking Israel to disarm. Iran says it is abiding by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but the US and Israel…
Read MoreOn the road to nuclear war
It’s 85 seconds to midnight. The collapse of the New START Treaty hasn’t helped but there is still time to turn things around, writes Lawrence S.Wittner On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since…
Read MoreEnviro coalition defends EJ against NWMO DGR!
[Photo from We the Nuclear Free North newsletter, summer 2025] An environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) — has defended Environmental Justice (EJ) against the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) latest Deep Geological Repository (DGR) scheme. The coalition submitted…
Read MoreYet MORE safety-significant SNAFUS at Palisades!
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future–Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Feb. 6, 2026 UPDATE: Regarding this subject matter below, Roger Rapoport has published an article entitled “Delayed Michigan Nuclear Plant Restart Could Hurt Atomic Energy Industry: Bad Welds At Obsolete Michigan Nuclear Plant Could Delay Restart…
Read MoreTrump nixes nukes from environmental reviews
White House Executive Order & DOE set rule for “categorical exclusion” of new reactors from NEPA environmental impact statements On February 2, 2026, the American Nuclear Society’s NuclearNewsWire headlined the US Department of Energy (DOE) announcement for the exclusion of experimental advanced nuclear reactors (ANR) from environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).…
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