Beyond Nuclear

Opinion: Utah doesn't need expensive, unsafe nuclear power Gov. Cox's support for nuclear power is misguided.

Nuclear power was born as a public relations afterthought of manufacturing nuclear weapons. It should remain an afterthought.

'Making America Unsafe Again': Alarm Over Environmental Review Exemption for Nuclear Reactors | Common Dreams The US Department of Energy is allowing exemptions for nuclear reactor environmental reviews, alarming critics who called the policy "terrifying" and "truly crazy."

A rogue government pretty much doing away with any last barriers against nuclear disaster. www.commondreams.org/news/nuclear...

Polish monk could face death penalty Opposition to nuclear weapons led to arrest in Belarus

Thanks to Nuclear The Nuclear Resister and Our House for this story. Polish monk Grzegorz Gawel was arrested in Belarus and charged with acquiring sensitive papers about the stationing of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, something Poland denies. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/02/01/p...

Without START, everything could end Will Trump snub Putin’s offer to extend nuclear treaty?

An all-out nuclear war might well be suicidal for humanity; indeed, for most life forms. With a major nuclear exchange there would be many detonations, killing billions of people. As the fallout spreads, billions more would sicken and die a slower death from radiation poisoning.

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

DOE loosens safety rules for new reactors.

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked Canadians are being conned with false visions of a nuclear revival

Let's remember that most of our politicians are just as dumb north of the border as they are here in the disUnited States of America. Nuclear to extract oil from the tar sands? And the usual bunk about small modular reactors, here roundly DE-bunked! beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/01/18/t...

Opposition of nuclear power ‘revival’ in New York holds its first forum | NationofChange

The action emphasized oncerns about safety and a $33 billion ratepayer subsidy to keep four aging reactors in upstate New York operating for another 20 years.

All the president’s yes-men? Will change of NRC chair further boost industry influence?

The NRC is loaded up with yes-men and everything is on a recklessly accelerated pace now to license reactors that are labeled "dangerous" by anyone who actually understands the technology and cares about public safety. Be afraid. Be very afraid. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/01/15/a...

Navajo lands at risk Rushed process bypasses tribal law and will harm communities

This isn't cleanup a plan, it's a recontamination scheme. "More than 500 abandoned uranium mines contaminate the #Navajo Nation, but cleanup must be grounded in strict environmental oversight, transparency, and full community consultation." beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/01/11/n...

Time for a course correction? Other issues now rally bigger numbers than nuclear abolition

The nuclear disarmament movement does not command the kinds of turnouts we saw at the height of the Cold War and yet arguably the threat of nuclear war is greater now than ever. How can we turn that around, asks M.V. Ramana beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/01/04/t...

YouTube video by Gordon Edwards Thorium Reactors: Game-Changer or Hype? a brief intro - Dr. Gordon Edwards

Thorium reactors: Game-changer or Hype?

Residential proximity to nuclear power plants and cancer incidence in Massachusetts, USA (2000–2018) - Environmental Health Purpose To investigate the associations between residential proximity to nuclear power plants and ZIP code–level cancer incidence among Massachusetts residents. Methods We assessed proximity of Massac...

Residential proximity to nuclear plants in Massachusetts is associated with elevated cancer risks...underscoring the need for continued epidemiologic monitoring amid renewed interest in nuclear energy.

Customs officials intercept alarming discovery after examining suspicious shipment: 'Potentially exposing the public' Nearly 90 customs agencies participated, leading to 51 seizures across 18 countries over three weeks.

Customs officials in Malta are being credited with stopping a potentially dangerous shipment after a routine container inspection revealed unexpected — and alarming — traces of radiation. The discovery...highlights the growing challenge of keeping radioactive materials out of consumer supply chains.

Warren, Garamendi call for pause, review of nuclear bomb-building plan. "This program is already years behind schedule and over budget," Warren told USA TODAY, adding that she and Garamendi hope to spark "a vigorous review" of the project's "years of waste and mismanagement." tinyurl.com/ya4tjajh

DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors - Roll Call Co-locating smaller reactors with data centers at federal sites is part of the Trump administration's bid to accelerate both technologies.

“It seems like it’s not an immediate fix...So that leaves us with a lot of questions,” ...such as “what are we going to do for the next five years, or the next 10 years, or however long it takes” before nuclear power can serve the energy needs of the data centers.

Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?

In 2020, a storm toppled two cooling towers at nuclear plant Duane Arnold in IA, shutting it down. “It wasn’t until we went outside afterwards that we realized that the cooling towers were gone,”. Now they want to reopen it in tornado country for data centers.

Nuclear power is inherently colonialist and unjust MARK JONES is right to argue in his recent article that corporate-driven energy industries should come under public control.Regrettably, that is unlikely to happen any time soon, whereas long-lasting ...

Nuclear power is inherently colonialist and predatory as well as slow, expensive and dangerous. Expanding it makes climate change worse. Promises of good longterm jobs won't realize for years if ever while renewables are squeezed out. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nucl...

Nuclear power will never be “beneficial” Children are at highest risk from regulatory re-set

Ignoring radiation risks and promoting nuclear power as beneficial to communities instead of protecting them...will codify a system that accepts — even demands — more sacrificial victims of radiation exposure, mainly women and children.

Britain’s “borrowed bombs” The atomic bombs and the planes to carry them are expensive and unneeded

New report reveals UK government purchase of American nuclear-capable F-35A planes and the atomic bombs they would drop, are a colossal waste of money, unneeded and incapable of serving any useful or timely strategic purpose. @NukewatchUK @Nuclearinfo beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/12/07/b...

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Competition, Conflagration, or Coexistence? In an era of Mutually Assured (Economic or Nuclear) Destruction there is another way

"The struggle for great power hegemony is rooted in economic and intellectual competition as much as in traditional, but increasingly complicated, arms races," writes Joseph Gerson. @gerson4peace beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/11/30/c...

The Big-Tech Warmongers’ American Dream Now billionaires want to build our bombs

The AI tech bros don't just want nuclear power plants, they want the weapons, too. An ominous drift well explained by @WilliamHartung beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/11/30/t...

Why citizen scientists and public information are so crucial Testing for radiation in Mongolia resulted in detention and deportation

Andrey Ozharovskii, a Russian citizen scientist, was measuring radiation levels at disused uranium mines in Mongolia when he was detained, deported, and has since been stripped of his passport. His rights and freedoms should be restored. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/11/23/w...

Minnesota’s aging nukes pose national threat Leaks and spills contaminate the Mississippi River

Minnesota's nuclear power plants and the waste sitting close to the Mississippi River are bad for human health. "For approximately the next six generations, radioactive tritium will be a part of the drinking water wherever those molecules wander." beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/11/23/m...

US to "buy and own" new domestic reactors - Beyond Nuclear On November 19, 2025, Bloomberg news reported that the United States government will "buy and own" as many as ten new, large (1000 MWe and bigger) commercial

Why learn any lessons when you can proceed with a failed technology on other people's money?

Ohio PUC orders FirstEnergy utilities to pay $250.7M over HB 6 bribery scandal The decision “closes a chapter tied to activities that do not represent the company we are today,” according to FirstEnergy, which has paid $390 million in other fines related to the scandal.

Ohioans expect and deserve fair utility bills and utility companies that follow the law... Today’s PUCO order requiring fines, restitution and refunds is an important milestone in fixing the harms FirstEnergy caused.

Long lead and construction times of nuclear facilities, coupled with the fact that some stocks in the space with zero revenues are in nosebleed territory, has sent the sector into a tailspin. Nuclear and uranium stocks have pulled back sharply from recent highs, with many seeing double-digit losses

State Finds No Exemption for Holtec on Nuclear Wastewater Release - The Provincetown Independent PLYMOUTH — Holtec International, the company that owns and is decommissioning the Pilgrim nuclear power station, has likely lost its appeal of a state environmental ruling that has prevented it […]

State official finds that Holtec does not qualify for any of the exemptions listed in the MA Ocean Sanctuaries Act, including an exemption for discharges related to the generation of electric power, since Pilgrim has not generated electricity since its shutdown in 2019.