Every phase of the nuclear chain - from uranium mining, uranium milling, uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, nuclear reactor fuel fissioning, irradiated fuel storage and reprocessing, and through all phases of weapons production, leaves its own intense contribution to a rapidly accumulating legacy of radioactive waste that will remain lethal to all living things for longer than human civilization has yet existed.

A 41-year-old worker assigned to the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for several months in 2021 claims he was poisoned by radiation and that Holtec Pilgrim, the plant’s owner, misled workers about safety. He has sued the company for injuries caused by “the release of radioactive, hazardous, and toxic substances.”

Pacific Gas & Electric is deploying Atomic Canyon’s Neutron Enterprise solution at its 2,256-MW Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in what would be the first-ever on-site use of generative AI at a U.S. nuclear power facility.

The e-commerce giant announced last week that it is partnering with several energy companies to develop small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs. That includes an agreement with a consortium of Washington state utilities to develop and build reactors in southeast Washington that would help power data centers across the Columbia River in Umatilla and Morrow counties.

A crumbling nuclear waste site in Cumbria is leaking thousands of litres of radioactive water into the ground every day, a report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned. The so-called Magnox Swarf Storage Silo is among the most hazardous buildings at Sellafield, Europe’s largest nuclear site, with work ongoing to transfer its contents into newer, safer facilities. 

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Known as hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

EON is stoked to share the good news that our feature film production SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome has so far been included in five independent film festivals, and won top awards in all of them, and counting….

Set in the year 2032 and told through the eyes of fictional newspaper journalist Michael Powell of the ‘East Bay Times,’ novelist Roger Gloss’s prescient cautionary tale opens with Powell’s dispatch covering a State-of-the-State speech by Governor Teresa Morales.