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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…
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 MorePress Availability and Statement by Arnold Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds, Re: Scheme to Restart the Permanently Closed Palisades Atomic Reactor
[Photo of Arnold Gundersen] November 14, 2022 press statement: Contact: Arnold Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds, (802) 238-4452 Press Availability and Statement by Arnold Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Re: Scheme to Restart the Permanently Closed Palisades Atomic Reactor Covert Township, Van Buren County, MI, November 14, 2022–Arnold Gundersen is Chief Engineer at Fairewinds. Gundersen, a world…
Read MoreAnd then there were five
President Trump has nominated a candidate to occupy the still vacant fifth seat on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a move that now locks in a Republican majority. Trump had already played dirty by firing Democratic commissioner Christopher Hanson earlier this year without cause and probably illegally, as Hanson’s term was not due to expire…
Read MoreMembers of Congress object to plutonium giveaway
On December 31, the Trump White House will start revealing which lucky startup companies will receive free plutonium needed for their new reactor fuel. Trump will give away between 20-25 tons, according to reports, going against US energy policy that has long avoided the transfer of nuclear weapons-usable materials into the commercial sector. One likely…
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 MoreSolar for none?
Trump’s EPA criminally cancelled Solar For All grants, an excellent climate solution and employment driver. A coalition of 14 Native American tribal governments were poised to deploy $100 million in solar infrastructure to more than 3,500 tribal homes, while training Native youth and veterans in a clean energy workforce that could serve their own communities.…
Read MoreMore (nuclear) fool’s gold
Yet another “golden” nuclear con job has been announced, this time in the UK. During Trump’s recent state visit to Britain the UK government announced its “Golden Age of Nuclear” deal between the two countries. But it is anything but. Laden with hyped-up Trumpian rhetoric about nuclear and energy “dominance”, it promises working class jobs…
Read MoreHoltec relief requests submitted to NRC
[Holtec’s Palisades atomic reactor, located in Covert Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.] Links to the Documentation about the Various Relief Requests (1.) ML25212A024 https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML25212A024 Document Title: Palisades Nuclear Plant, Relief Request Number RR 5-9, Proposed Alternative to ASME Section XI Code Requirements for Modification of Reactor…
Read MoreRenewed risks at Zaporizhzhia
For the 10th time since Russian forces occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on March 4, 2022, the site has lost offsite power. Workers are using backup diesel generators to pump vital cooling water into the six reactors. Although all are in cold shutdown, the fuel in the reactors remains hot and vulnerable to fires,…
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