Nuclear Waste and Safety

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Heatwaves and the Energy Crunch: A Dangerous Feedback Loop

California’s summers are getting hotter, and heatwaves are now longer, stronger, and deadlier. As temperatures soar, the demand for electricity spikes, straining the grid and triggering rolling blackouts. This cycle creates a dangerous feedback loop: burning more fossil fuels to stay cool drives the very warming that fuels future heatwaves.

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Sound the Alarm: What Your City Isn’t Telling You About Disaster Risk

We hear of natural disasters in other countries that take more lives because warnings systems don’t exist. We expect better across the United States. But many communities have public alert systems that are often flawed, outdated, and untested.

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From Protests to Policy: The Environmental Justice Movement Goes Mainstream

For decades, the fight for environmental justice has been waged on a local level, in community centers, at city council meetings, and on the front lines of protests against toxic facilities. This grassroots activism, born from the simple truth that all people deserve a clean and healthy environment, has historically been a ground-up movement. Now, we are witnessing a pivotal and powerful shift: the environmental justice movement is going mainstream, influencing state and federal policy in unprecedented ways.

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U.S. Nuclear Protocols Demand Quick Presidential Response

The United States has stringent U.S. nuclear launch protocols that require a presidential decision within 10 minutes of a confirmed threat, according to NPR (2022). This rapid decision-making process underscores the high-stakes nature of nuclear deterrence and the critical role of the Commander-in-Chief.

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How Communities Prepare for a Disaster

When nuclear plants shut down but the waste stays behind, what happens to the people who trained for catastrophe?

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Residents Demand Transparency on Nuclear Waste

SOLANA BEACH, CA – The scenic Southern California coastline, with its world-famous beaches and vibrant communities, is home to a pressing environmental and public safety concern: the 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste stored at the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

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Why the Federal Government Still Has No Permanent Nuclear Waste Solution

Forty-three years after Congress promised a solution, the United States remains trapped in an expensive stalemate over nuclear waste disposal. Despite President Trump's recent executive orders calling for a "recommended national policy to support spent nuclear fuel management" within 240 days, decades of political reversals have left 89,000 metric tons of radioactive waste scattered across 75 sites with no permanent solution in sight.

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Justice Delayed: Environmental Exploitation and Recovery

For over eight decades, Indigenous communities worldwide have served as unwilling guardians of humanity's most dangerous industrial legacy. From the uranium mines of Namibia to the nuclear test sites of Kazakhstan, from the Marshall Islands to the Navajo Nation, Native peoples have borne the environmental and health costs of the global nuclear industry while reaping none of its benefits.
This pattern of "nuclear colonization" represents a modern form of environmental racism where marginalized communities become expendable in pursuit of national security and energy production. The consequences are measured not just in contaminated soil and water, but in generations of cancer, birth defects, and cultural displacement.

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Toxic Legacy: Why California's Coastal Communities Demand Nuclear Justice

Coastal communities bear the environmental burden of 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste.