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Iran’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).…
Read MoreTrump slashing reactor safety and security rules
Department of Energy executes White House Executive Order Radical changes to nuclear safety and security at new reactors withheld from public review In response to White House Executive Order 14301 issued on May 23, 2025, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is deregulating federal reactor safety /security standards and rules in order to expedite at…
Read MorePalisades restart: Gundersen invokes Space Shuttle disaster 40 years ago as cautionary tale
[Photograph of top-down view of steam generator tubes in a typical pressurized water reactor like Palisades.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 Terry Lodge, attorney, Toledo, OH, [email protected] Wallace Taylor,…
Read MoreDuane Arnold: IUC approves our Petition to Intervene against restart
On January 26, 2026, the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) approved Beyond Nuclear’s December 31, 2025 Petition to Intervene. See the IUC’s ruling here. Beyond Nuclear is intervening, on behalf of its members and supporters in Iowa, due to the safety and environmental risks associated with NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor…
Read MoreNuclear Hotseat: SCOTUS refusal to review Holtec CISF
Libbe HaLevy interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps on January 16, 2026, regarding the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denial of a writ of certiorari for Beyond Nuclear to challenge adverse rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s license…
Read MorePalomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later
[U.S. Navy photo] Dr. Michael E. Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, has authored “Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later.” See his English language version here. An Andalusian Spanish version has been edited and published by elDiario.es in Spain. As Dr. Ketterer’s English language version…
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