Trump 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…

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Palisades 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,…

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Duane 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…

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Sacrifice 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…

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Fukushima Coverup, 15 Years On

An article by Arnie Gundersen, published at CounterPunch. Gundersen serves as Beyond Nuclear and our environmental coalition’s expert witness in opposition to Holtec’s unprecedented restart of the Palisades atomic reactor in Michigan.

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IUC intervention against Duane Arnold restart

Beyond Nuclear is striving to intervene at the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC), against NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor (pictured above). Duane Arnold is a more than 50-year old General Electric Mark 1 reactor — that is, a twin-design to Fukushima Daiichi. Our legal counsel is Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids,…

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Palisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic reactor as a top news story of 2025 (or as a top environmental story to watch in 2026): Michigan Advance’s…

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ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump

ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor in IA and Terry Lodge in OH. At Palisades, Holtec missed its years-long stated…

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“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…

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