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Photo credit: The White House Today, 4 February 2026, marks the final day of the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between Russia and the United States which expires tomorrow, 5 February. Learn more about what the Treaty required, why it expired and what the international community can do in response. What did New START do? New START, which was initially agreed in 2010 and extended for five years in 2021, limited U.S. and Russian deployed, strategic nuclear weapon arsenals. There is no agreed definition of what constitutes a “strategic” or “non-strategic” nuclear weapon, but the treaty defines strategic nuclear…

Judge’s gavel, Themis sculpture and collection of legal books on the brown background. (Updated 3/3/26 at 3pm with additional cases) This post is an update on previous posts (here and here) related to the remanded petition for the Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission of the State of California in the First Appellate District (Case No. A167721). There have been several petitions filed against the CPUC since August 2025. For the Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission of the State of California petition the California Supreme Court remanded to the First Appellate District, the docket now…

Is nuclear clean, renewable energy? Nuclear energy has produced electricity in America since 1958. But is nuclear energy clean, renewable energy? Johanna Neumann, Caitlin Soch In 1951, in Idaho, researchers powered a lightbulb using nuclear energy for the first time, and the American Atomic Energy Age was born. The Atomic Age came to symbolize progress, modernity and the power of science. By 1958, the first commercial nuclear power plant was up and running in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. In just seven years, research took us from powering a lightbulb with nuclear energy, to powering over a hundred thousand homes.  In 2023, there were 93 operating nuclear reactors in the United States.…

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The UK government says it wants more community energy projects. But the complexity of applying for funding and the lack of a guaranteed return have stymied progress. Ros Taylor reports. Ed Miliband & Bridget Phillipson view school solar panels. Credits: UK Government l Flicker, Public domain. Ask most Britons what they know about Barnsley, a town in Yorkshire, and they might mention brass bands, the Pennines or the coalfields. The last of the coalmines closed 30 years ago. Solar power would probably not be on the list. Yet in the world of community energy (CE), Barnsley is a pioneer: it…

For much of the 20th century, the U.S. set the global standard for civilian nuclear energy. American innovation shaped reactor design, safety culture, and regulatory practice worldwide. Yet today, as nuclear power regains prominence amid concerns over climate, energy security, and industrial competitiveness, America faces a quieter but more consequential challenge: the erosion of its nuclear fuel supply chain. In the global nuclear marketplace, leadership is no longer defined solely by who designs or builds reactors. It increasingly depends on who can reliably provide the fuel services that sustain them over decades. On that front, America’s position has weakened while…

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We’ve visited ground zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, they were the ancestral home to the people of the Marshall Islands.   As part of a team of Greenpeace scientists and specialists from the Radiation Protection Advisors team, we have embarked on a six-week tour on-board the Rainbow Warrior, sailing through one of the most disturbing chapters in human history: between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs across the Marshall Islands — equivalent to 7,200 Hiroshima explosions.  During this period, testing nuclear weapons at the expense of…

Trump administration secretly made sweeping changes to nuclear safety rules : National Public Radio The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained and reported exclusively by NPR reporter Geoff Brumfiel. The NPR report aired on 01/28/2026. According to the NPR report, the sweeping changes were made in secret to accelerate the development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. They occurred over the fall and winter at the Department of Energy, which is…

The Bulletin of the American Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight. That is the closest we have ever been. And one thing is already obvious from a European perspective: as long as European countries allow other countries’ nuclear weapons to be based on their territory, the clock will stay dangerously close to midnight. Nuclear dangers on the rise The Bulletin rightly cites the expiration of the new START treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between Russia and the United States as a cause for concern. So too is the massive investments made by…