Impacts
New 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 MoreSacrifice environment for faster relicensing?
NRC to trade off legally required Environmental Impact Statements for lesser Environmental Assessments? The nuclear energy trade journal Inside NRC (published by Platts/S&P Global) reports that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “staff plans to narrow the focus of subsequent (60 to 80 years) operating license renewal safety and environmental reviews to speed their completion…
Read More“Deep Fission” launches its mile deep reactor
Much to the surprise of residents in the rural community of Parsons, Kansas, on December 4, 2025 they discovered that a Berkeley, California nuclear startup company, Deep Fission, had selected their town for the fledgling company’s nuclear power plant groundbreaking ceremony just a few days later beneath the nearby 6800 acre security gated Great Plains…
Read MoreUS 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…
Read MoreTrump’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…
Read More“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,…
Read MoreTrump cuts Westinghouse reactors deal
On October 28, 2025, the Trump White House announced its commitment to stake at least $80 billion of US federal dollars to initiate yet another very risky run at new construction of Westinghouse Electric Company’s AP1000 nuclear stations. This is the follow-up to his May 23, 2025 executive orders to “unleash” more atomic power in…
Read MoreEVENT: RETURN TO FUKUSHIMA Living in an ongoing catastrophe
NEIS Night with the Experts hosts Thomas Bass — writer, professor of English and journalism, and author of the book Return to Fukushima — Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm CT. Registration is required. Fourteen years after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the site is an ongoing…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC live stream,10.30.2025 (Updated 02.17.2026)
Updated February 17, 2026: Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club are still awaiting a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on their Petition for Judicial Review of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and nuclear industry. However, in a catastrophic move that further defies science and common sense, the…
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