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While the nuclear industry pours billions into a vast, organized propaganda campaign, relentlessly promoting the false promise of a "nuclear renaissance," our community isn't buying it. They claim nuclear power is the silver bullet for climate change and our energy needs, but they're not the only ones with momentum.
Team SOS and the global nuclear-free movement remain a steadfast voice of reason. We're fighting back, relentlessly pursuing our strategic, multi-faceted international campaign to raise awareness and build a truly effective, safe, nuclear-free future.
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| Sept. 30, 2025:Larry Agran Special Study Session |
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We are thrilled to announce Mayor Larry Agran’s brave and visionary call for a special study session to address severe public safety risks regarding precariously stored intensely radioactive long-lived waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Please join us! September 30th, 2025, at 2 PM PT View the City of Irvine Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@ictv30/streams
Attend in-person Irvine City Council, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Irvine, CA This Study Session is intended to be informational and educational. It will enable the City Council, the public, and stakeholders to gain a clearer understanding of conditions at San Onofre and to identify constructive measures that the City of Irvine can take to promote safer storage of the San Onofre spent nuclear fuel. The Council will receive presentations from subject-matter experts, and members of the public will have an opportunity to comment. No specific action will be taken at this meeting; the Council will discuss next steps, including further consideration of this matter at a regularly scheduled City Council meeting in October or November. Watch this special video made for Mayor Agran here. |
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| | Book Recommendation:
Nuclear Is Not The Solution by M.V. Ramana |
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We’re grateful to Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear International for alerting us to this important book. Read this book!
“Cost and the slow rate of deployment largely explain why the share of global electricity produced by nuclear reactors has been steadily declining, from around 16.9 percent in 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol was signed, to 9% percent in 2022. In contrast, as the costs of wind and solar energy declined dramatically, and modern renewables (which do not include large dams) went from supplying 1.2 percent of the world’s electricity in 1997 to 14.4 percent in 2022.”
Professor M. V. Ramana is a physicist by training and is Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and the director of the graduate program at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He previously worked at the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and the Program on Science and Global Security, both at Princeton University. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Material, The International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report.
You can order the book from Verso Books. |
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| Gregory Jaczko Statement on UK-US Nuclear Deal |
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| Dr. Gregory Jaczko, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chairman, released the following statement on the Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear energy, a September 2025 bilateral agreement to expand nuclear domestically and abroad:
“The Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy between the United States and United Kingdom is a pointless PR effort that weakly mimics the failed 2006 Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) initiative. None of it will bring down the cost of electricity for consumers and provide sustainable, clean electricity for the future.” Learn more here. |
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| The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025 |
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| The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025 (WNISR2025) assesses on 589 pages the status and trends of the international nuclear industry. It provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on operation, production, fleet age, construction, and decommissioning of reactors. Special focus is lent to the situation in China, France, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as Taiwan, which completed its nuclear phaseout. Other special sections include: New build programs; Integration into the grid; Fukushima Status Report and more. Full report here. |
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| Raise your hands to stop nuclear weapons: Nuclear Abolition Day, Sep 26! |
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We are honored to join with over 500 organizations and an additional 800 individuals to endorse the Joint Appeal for Nuclear Abolition Day, September 26.
You can join too with this simple social media action Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands which you can do where-ever you are in the world, today, tomorrow or the day after.
Raise your hand to stop nuclear weapons. Take a selfie. Add the word 'stop' or superimpose the hand graphic on your photo. Send to us and/or upload to your social media, using #NuclearAbolitionDay and/or @youthfusion2000
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| Upcoming Screenings & Events |
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| Celebrate San Diego Climate Week with a free screening of SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome, sponsored by The Samuel Lawrence Foundation.
📅 Date: Sunday, Oct. 05th, 2025 ⏰Time: 4:30 PM 📍 Address: La Paloma Theater, 471 S Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas, California, 92024.
Get Your FREE Tickets Here!
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Join us for the first in-person screening of SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome with The Transatlantic Nuclear-Free Alliance.
📅 Date: Sunday, Oct. 25th, 2025 ⏰Time: 11 H (UK) 📍 Address: Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham LL1 3 8BY
Post-screening Q&A with: *Richard Outram - Secretary - U.K./Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities *Dr. Stephen Thomas, Emeritus Professor, Energy Policy, University of Greenwich.
A special video from the SOS Team: *Mary Beth Brangan *James Heddle *Morgan Peterson |
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| What’s New (& Old) With Nuclear News? |
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| | A Nuclear Power Parable By Arnie Gundersen, CounterPunch
Once upon a time in Michigan, there was an aged nuclear power plant called Palisades. Since it started operation in 1971 until it was permanently closed in 2022, it ran about 73% of the time, about three days out of every four. But the old nuclear plant could not financially compete against renewables, and after its electric subsidy from Michigan expired in 2022, Palisades was closed and sold for scrap metal.
Holtec, the scrap company that bought the Palisades’ carcass, had never designed, constructed or operated a nuclear power plant. Its expertise was demolishing (decommissioning) them. So it neglected the aging steel pipes, allowing them to sit idle and deteriorate. It should come as no surprise that, like everything metallic, the nuclear pipes began to corrode and crack from that neglect…
Full Article Here. |
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| | | Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it By Amory B. Lovins, Utility Drive
Now comes another vision: powering the glorious new world of artificial intelligence. This may be a trillion-dollar bubble, but it’s sellable until market realities intervene. The International Energy Agency expects data centers, mostly non-AI, to cause only a tenth of global electricity demand growth to 2030, doubling their share of usage — to just 3%.
So AI won’t eat the grid. But IEA forecasts renewables will power data-center growth 10-20 times over, while Bloomberg NEF predicts over 100. Nuclear lost the race to power the grid, so new reactors have no business case or operational need… Full Article Here. |
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| Help us keep spreading the word |
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| Our ongoing impact campaign needs your support so we can continue to organize screening events with meaningful and inspiring dialogue and actions around the country and beyond. Please help us mobilize and activate audiences to address this critical issue.
Donations to the producing organization, EON, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, are tax-deductible. |
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