NRC ACRS to Discuss Palisades’ Degraded Steam Generators, Dec. 4, 8:30am ET

[Photo, looking from the top downwards, of tubes in a typical steam generator at a pressurized water reactor — not Palisades. Holtec’s self-inflicted steam generator tube degradation risks a release of hazardous ionizing radioactivity into the environment, or even a full-blown reactor core meltdown, at the 60-year old (designed in the mid-1960s, ground broken for…

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Why giving matters

It’s giving Tuesday and you’re being bombarded with requests for donations. We know this can be overwhelming and even, for some, annoying. But when I trained in development work, I learned a surprising fact. The number one reason potential donors identify for not giving is “no one asked me.” That’s why we ARE asking you…

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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…

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IUFF 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,…

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US 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…

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Trump’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…

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“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,…

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