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The boom in nuclear rhetoric ignores overwhelming evidence that nuclear is a bad risk. Only 2 U.S. reactors were completed in the last 30 years, costing $35 billion+. Huge cost overruns sank NuScale and its SMR. Meanwhile, the regulatory regime is in free fall. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

The Hill publishes Beyond Nuclear op-ed - Beyond Nuclear An op-ed authored by Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has been published in The Hill.

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You can now pre-order Beyond Nuclear international specialist Linda Pentz Gunter's forthcoming book -- No to Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress & Provokes War. It will be published by Pluto Press in March 2026. www.plutobooks.com/product/no-t...

The “Golden Age of Nuclear” is all a veneer A promise sheet from corporations is empty rhetoric and worse

The Golden Age of nuclear is more hyped-up Trumpian rhetoric pandering to international (and mostly US) corporations whilst derailing real #climate progress. It is also, like the reactors it promises, just a piece of paper. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/10/05/t...

Danger déjà vu Running on backup power, how long can Ukraine’s biggest nuke survive?

All eyes on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, now without offsite power for 10 days. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/10/01/d...

Prologue Abstract. The extinction of the dinosaurs and the effects of nuclear conflicts are usually considered separate topics. However, parallels between nuclear w

Alan Robock and Brian Toon, the leading scientific experts on nuclear winter, have published a new book, Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter.

Markey Calls Out Energy Secretary’s Conflict of Interest with Oklo and Transfer of Nuclear Materials | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Letter Text (PDF) Washington (September 23, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a...

Senator Ed Markey expresses his concern that plans to transfer plutonium to Oklo,Inc. and allowing it to build a reprocessing plant, benefits Department of Energy Secretary Wright and his former company financially, rather than the United States.

Nuclear waste in a landfill? Uranium cleanup is needed, but so is environmental justice

The Quivira #uranium mine near Church Rock, New Mexico is long overdue for cleanup. But it needs to be done right, with the full consent and understanding of the #Navajo community, writes Kathy Helms beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/09/28/n...

Living with the legacy of France's nuclear weapons testing – DW – 09/26/2025 France tested nuclear weapons for 30 years in the Pacific. The people of French Polynesia bore the brunt of the testing.

"We have been poisoned for the greatness of France, for France to be a state with a nuclear weapon."

Annual Conference 2025 YouTube video by Project for Peace & Justice by Jeremy Corbyn

PEACE, JUSTICE AND NUKES
The climate case

Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter made the case against the US-UK “golden age” of nuclear power con job just signed by the two countries when she spoke at last weekend’s international Peace & Justice Project conference.

Cato Institute: Nuclear power's hamster wheel - Beyond Nuclear Accelerating climate change demands a stop to wasting  precious little time along with human and financial resources being diverted from real solutions on

“The mystery is why the nuclear industry retains any credibility. Throughout its history...rosy claims...have all gone unfulfilled...Why are people unwilling to consider the reason that nuclear projects fail so often is the technology itself?"

‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects

For decades, the federal government attempted to compensate workers who had suffered health ailments associated with working at nuclear facilities. All the while, Trump has called for a renewed push to increase nuclear enrichment activity for energy and national security reasons.

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Enhancing Uranium Production as a Domestic Source for Nuclear Energy; Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Fall 2025 Meeting October 8, 2025 | 1:00-5:00 PM ET

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Great Lakes: Radionuclides are persistent, toxic - Beyond Nuclear In 2016 and again in 2022, more than 100 advocacy groups nominated radionuclides for designation as Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under the 2012 Great

Over 100 groups nominated radionuclides as Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) under an agreement between the U.S. and Canada meant to rid the Great Lakes of persistent toxics. Groups cited concerns about persistence, bioaccumulation, and unique long-term health risks.

Zombies Against Palisades! (ZAP!) Halloween Rally, Kal., MI
Halloween, Friday, October 31, 2025
Noon-1:30pm & 4:30-6pm (both Eastern Time)

More details and a flyer here: beyondnuclear.org/zombies-agai...

Trump’s nuclear ‘renaissance’ rests on risky plan for radioactive waste The administration goes all-in on recycling spent fuel, despite a history of spectacular mishaps, including an unintentional atom bomb.

Risky plan for radioactive waste fuels nuclear renaissance. It's in Washington Post so it's paywalled.

Fukushima recovery plagued with setbacks Earthquake-prone Japan isn’t ready for a second nuclear nightmare

Nuclear power, the gift that keeps on taking. #Fukushima #nuclear beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/09/22/f...

JOIN US TOMORROW: “Meltdown of Democracy,” 7pm EST, 09/23/2025

Governor Healey, MA and governors of NY, MI, CA, WI, CT, PA, IL, and MD are rallying around dirty, dangerous, expensive, and authoritarian atomic power at precisely the wrong time. Register and more: beyondnuclear.org/meltdown-of-...

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"Former U.S. NRC Chairman: U.S.- UK Nuke Deal Is A Stinker
The world needs affordable energy today, not 20 years from now. No amount of handshakes or pledges will change the fundamental challenges of building cost effective, timely nuclear power.”

You're Invited to A Night with the Experts

David Kraft, Executive Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service

Speaking on Repealing Nuclear Moratoriums Endangers
A Renewable Energy Future

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 7pm Central Time (8pm ET, 6pm MT, 5pm PT) UTC -5

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SIGN UP TO WATCH "SOS - THE SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME: Nuclear Power's Legacy" 1) Sign up to receive a private viewing link to watch SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome on your own time from 22 September - 30 September, 2025. 2) On September 25 at 7 PM U.K. / 11 AM US PT use this Zoom...

Sept. 25 Tran-Atlantic Nuclear Free Alliance Webinar

Nuclear NOT the Solution to Climate Change: Physicist Ramana Physicist M.V. Ramana spells out all the ways that nuclear cannot help mitigate climate change in his new book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION.

On Nuclear Hotseat: A discussion with renowned physicist M. V. Ramana on his acclaimed new book: Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change. Ramana is professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia.

Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power No national study of the health risks posed by existing US nuclear reactors has been conducted since the late 1980s, despite many reported cases of cancer and other diseases. There will be no safe and...

Articles on individual nuclear facilities have documented elevated cancer rates in local populations. Current proposals to revivify and expand US nuclear power make it imperative that an objective, current national study of cancer near existing reactors be conducted.

Nuke Power is Trump/Fascist Power…and an Epic Global Failure Donald Trump has torched atomic power’s last illusion of credible regulation. He’s destroyed the last shreds of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Atomic power is a corporate/military-based technology designed to keep all electric and political power under the firm fascist grip of the likes of Donald Trump and his billionaire beneficiaries. Their mission is to obliterate all renewables, not to co-exist in some “all the above” delusion...

Iran: Limited nuclear inspections to resume? - Beyond Nuclear Inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which were heavily attacked by the US and Israel in June, could resume under a new agreement struck this week

Inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which were heavily attacked by the US and Israel in June, could resume under a new agreement struck between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

But Iran has also warned that the deal will be limited and may not proceed...

Uranium Contamination: Restoring health, trust, and accountability - Beyond Nuclear You can watch a live stream public conversation about the legacy and future of uranium contamination in the Southwest U.S. Sunday, September 21, 3:30-5:30 PM

Watch a live stream public conversation about the legacy and future of uranium contamination, Sunday, September 21 3:30-5:30 PM MT, at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Tribal scientists and leaders, health researchers, and policy advocates discuss uranium contamination and moving forward.

Prospect of Indian Point re-opening floated this week - Mid Hudson News BUCHANAN – The question has been asked since the Indian Point Energy Center closed in 2021. Could the nuclear power plant ever reopen? The prospect of Indian Point ever being restarted seems like a lo...

Tracy Brown, President of the environmental group Riverkeeper, blasted the idea of restarting Indian Point.
“Holtec has failed at one of its most critical tasks at Indian Point: identifying and containing radioactive contamination...yet Holtec has no plans to clean up...these harmful pollutants."

Read this book! A strong indictment against paper reactors and other nuclear follies

This a clearly written book that makes a sometimes complex issue accessible. It also tackles the bigger picture, the system that allows corporations to gouge consumers and taxpayers with irrelevant and exorbitant #nuclear projects we don't even need. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/09/14/r...

Small Modular Reactors and the Big Questions of Cost & Waste - CleanTechnica New research challenges SMR promises, finding diseconomies of scale, cost overruns, and added nuclear waste streams.

"Decarbonization this decade depends on scaling technologies that are already cheap and fast to deploy: wind, solar, batteries, interconnectors, demand management...Given [SMR's] cost and waste risks, they should not crowd out higher-probability options for near-term deployment."

DaExecutive Order to NRC: "Enable" New Nukes!" The NRC, our supposed nuclear safety watchdog, gets hit by Executive Order to “enable” the building of more reactors. What could go wrong? Cindy Folkers explains.

Libbe HaLevy of Nuclear Hotseat interviewed Cindy Folkers, of Beyond Nuclear. Cindy breaks down what’s wrong with recent nuclear Executive Order (EO) 14300, which overturns NRC's regulatory mandate by asking NRC to “enable” the building of new, untried Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.