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October 13, 2017

Nuclear Ban Group ICAN Wins Nobel Peace Prize as Trump Threatens to End Iran Deal & Nuke North Korea

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October 5, 2017

Trump EPA to propose repealing Obama’s climate regulation: document

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September 26, 2017

Reshaping History: The importance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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September 7, 2017

Activists fight effort to import radioactive waste to Royersford from Canada

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August 29, 2017

Nuclear Reactors in Harvey’s Path

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July 31, 2017

Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House

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July 31, 2017

SCE&G, Santee Cooper abandon nuclear power project

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July 31, 2017

Yucca Mountain: High stakes and high hurdles

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July 22, 2017

Air Force chief objects to Yucca Mountain nuclear routes

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July 20, 2017

Plans To Release Entire Fukushima Waste Into Ocean Confirmed By Tepco

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July 07, 2026
The 4th of July, a time when many Americans celebrate the founding of their country. This year is particularly momentous this year, as it is the 250th year since this country’s founding. Our president wants to celebrate this momentous occasion by starting up (or “going critical”) three untested, unlicensed, unregulated reactors—of course, creating more nuclear…

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April 26, 2026
The Buzz About Chornobyl, 40 Years Later. How Do We Tell the Bees? No, the bees in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) are not mutated–in the visual ways we think of–nor are they glow-in-the-dark. They didn’t turn into giant, killer bees, and they don’t light up green at night. But what they did do was…

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January 15, 2026
Meta announced three new deals with nuclear power companies last week, claiming they add up to a massive amount of “clean” energy to power its AI data centers: 6,600 megawatts (MW), equal to six of the new reactors that recently came online in Georgia. Meta claims it will be receiving all of that power from…

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November 19, 2025
One of the biggest challenges facing deregulated states like Maryland, New York, and Illinois is that, while they’ve adopted renewable energy standards and climate policies, they’ve failed to implement meaningful system planning with enforceable requirements for utilities to actually meet those goals. California, by contrast, has taken a much more structured approach. The California Public…

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May 08, 2023
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…

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December 13, 2022
NIRS Statement on 12/13/22 DOE Nuclear Fusion Announcement Today, the US Department of Energy announced what scientists consider a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. In the DOE’s press release, they celebrate “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean…

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Reshaping History: The importance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.