“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 Berkley, 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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The sacrificial victims of radiation exposure

Ignoring radiation risks and promoting nuclear power as beneficial to communities instead of protecting them, is one of the many negative outcomes of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb oversight by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. By discarding the Linear No Threshold model that says there is no safe dose of radiation, regulators will codify…

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“It’s All About the Bomb”

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION THE PEACEFUL ATOM GOES TO WAR ECO-LOGIC Weds., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. [ET], radio & internet [See the poster advertising this particular episode of the show! And see Alfred Meyer’s November 2022 The Progressive article, “It’s All About the Bomb: Why civilian nuclear power is merely a cover for producing more nuclear…

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BAS exposés on Holtec

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] Investigative journalist Matt Smith has published two articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in the past couple weeks regarding Holtec International. The first, published November 20, 2025, is entitled “How Holtec International Became an Expanding (and…

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Chornobyl dome is leaking, IAEA confirms

The protective dome — known as the “new, safe confinement” –built over the original Chornobyl Unit 4 reactor sarcophagus cost $1.75 billion. It was constructed and partially funded by a European collaborative and completed in 2019. But it took just one cheap Russian drone to blow a hole in it during a February 2025 attack…

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Press Statement re: $400 Million DOE Bailout for “SMRs” at Palisades

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Michigan Advance has reported on this story. Kyle Davidson’s article is entitled “Amid safety concerns, Whitmer touts $400 million in federal funds for new reactors at Palisades.”} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive…

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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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