Are Trump’s nuclear plans illegal?

13 organizations, including Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information & Resource Service, have filed comments to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, suggesting Trump’s nuclear “orders” may violate long-standing legislation The so-called “Rubber-Stamp Rule”, an effort by the Trump administration to “Make America Nuclear Again”, violates key components of the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) and Energy Reorganization…

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The dark side of reactors on the moon

As Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter warns in her new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — there are lunatic plans afoot to send nuclear-powered rockets to Mars, using the moon as a launching pad. On March 24, NASA announced plans “to launch robotic landers…

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Yet 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…

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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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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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U.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT. TO BEYOND NUCLEAR RE: HOLTEC HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP LICENSE IN NEW MEXICO

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] (*See below the press release, for a note regarding consolidated interim storage facility transport risks, sent to reporters covering Holtec’s Palisades closed reactor restart scheme in Michigan. However, such transport risks apply to every reactor in the U.S.) {The…

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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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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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