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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So let's do the math here for the Army JANUS program. $2.2 billion of our money for 5 microreactors with a total power capacity of 32 MW-electric. That works out to a mere $68,750/kW. That makes the $15,000/kW Vogtle disaster look like pocket change. www.army.mil/article/2948...

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Army reaches agreement with private industry for nuclear micro-reactors

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Army is announcing today that the Janus Program has selected five nuclear energy vendors, and five initial locations.

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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Add Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of Senate Appropriations, to the list of folks who have been rebuffed by the NRC when requesting an extension to the comment period for its proposal to allow more Americans to get cancer from nuclear facilities. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2621/...

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Volumetric discharge of waste generated by TRISO fuel-based nuclear reactor concepts ranged from 4.4x to 16x that of conventional PWRs. An order of magnitude reduction in waste volume might occur if TRISO particles were separated from the graphite moderator so the latter were disposed of as LLW.

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Options for Managing Spent TRi-structural ISOtropic Nuclear Fuel

During the past few decades, there has been a renewed interest in advanced reactor concepts, especially the high-temperature gas-cooled and the molten salt-cooled technologies for energy production as...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

After enacting the largest SNAP cuts in history, Trump is now scrapping the federal government's annual report on hunger in America. The utter cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Meanwhile, Susan Monarez, a scientist with principles, was standing up for science and health. Bhattacharya is part of the Trump effort to destroy science. @aaas.org should hang their heads in shame for hosting him.

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Effective July 16, 2025, Trump dismissed all but one members of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, diminishing oversight over the country’s long-term spent nuclear fuel storage program.

eenews.net

Trump axes nuclear waste oversight panel

The move comes at a time when Republicans and Democrats alike are pursuing a nuclear expansion, with Presiden Donald Trump aiming to quadruple nuclear power

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 21/07/2025

NASA & her beloved caretakers have issued the NASA VOYAGER DECLARATION, a letter of formal dissent as defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120.5F. They join NIH & EPA in voicing their clear objection to the illegal & immoral objectives of the Trump administration.

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Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.

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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A really creepy statement from the NRC revealing that the takeover of the agency (unfortunately, not an entirely hostile one) is complete. Reminds me of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Another sad day for our weakening democracy. www.nrc.gov/cdn/doc-coll...

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Nuclear Engineering International @neimagazine.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🇺🇸 A Department of Government Efficiency staffer has been assigned to the NRC to implement Trump-era exec orders on nuclear reform. Critics cite concerns about NRC independence. The agency says reforms are accelerating licensing ⚛️📄 🔗 www.neimagazine.com/news/us-expe... #NuclearEnergy #EnergyPolicy

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US expedites NRC reform - Nuclear Engineering International

A US Government official has been assigned to the NRC to implement President Trump’s agenda to reform and streamline the commission’s operations.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 15/07/2025

Increased political interference at NRC is threatening a safe future nuclear energy fleet. We need a chairman that will retain and attract top experts.

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

“Rubber stamp.” 'Under the EO, the NRC could not revisit issues assessed by DOE or DOD, but DOGE and DOE officials went further to suggest NRC’s secondary assessment should be a foregone conclusion.'

eenews.net

DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's historic role of assuring safety is changing as the White House shifts some responsibility to the Department of Energy.

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François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🚨 JUST IN: Three former chairs of the US nuclear regulator explain how Trump's executive orders could have unintended safety consequences. By Stephen Burns, Allison Macfarlane, Richard Meserve In @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/07/why-... #NRC #Trump #nukesky #nuclearenergy #safety #SMR

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Why the US must protect the independence of its nuclear regulator

Three former chairs of the US nuclear regulator explain how Trump's executive orders could have unintended safety consequences.

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

NRC public seminar: "50th Anniversary of the Browns Ferry Fire - The Role of Research in the Evolution of Nuclear Fire Safety." July 15th, 2025. www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg?do=...

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🚨"We fear loss of public confidence that can befall a safety agency when expediency is given priority. Reducing NRC independence while mixing promotion of nuclear energy and responsibility for safeguarding the public and environment is a recipe for corner-cutting at best and catastrophe at worst."

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 07/07/2025

Three former chairs of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission explain how Trump's executive orders could have unintended safety consequences. "Why the US must protect the independence of its nuclear regulator," by Stephen Burns, Allison Macfarlane, and Richard Meserve.

thebulletin.org

Why the US must protect the independence of its nuclear regulator

Three former chairs of the US nuclear regulator explain how Trump's executive orders could have unintended safety consequences.

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Andy Miller @andymiller24.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The letter to EPA Destructor Zeldin is not only proper, it follows his own policy encouraging elevation of issues that pose “a substantial threat to human health or the environment.” www.epa.gov/aboutepa/mes... [1/3]

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Message to EPA Employees from Administrator Zeldin: Reaffirming EPA's Elevation Policy (March 7, 2025) | US EPA

Message sent from Administrator Zeldin on March 7, 2025 reaffirming EPA's Elevation Policy.

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

"The NRC has set safety requirements that have become the global gold standard for nuclear regulation.… "If it becomes clear that the NRC has been forced to cut corners on safety and operate less transparently, US reactor vendors will be hurt."

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/07/2025

🚨EPA workers who wrote and signed an open letter warning against the admin’s actions have been put on leave and under “investigation”. Feds are being punished for speaking out. Please sign their letter to show you stand with these brave EPA workers! www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How important is nuclear to fighting climate change? How much would the nuclear profession benefit from NPPs built on time, on budget? Not much according to the @americannuclear.bsky.social Neither climate change nor OTOB build is among nine "ANS Nuclear Grand Challenges" (but low-dose rad is?🤦🏼).

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Public Meeting on Executive Order 14300 Section 5(b) - Reconsidering the NRC's Radiation Protection Framework Date(s) and Time(s): July 16, 2025, 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM ET www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg?do=...

PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Title:

Public Meeting on Executive Order 14300 Section 5(b) - Reconsidering the NRC's Radiation Protection Framework

Date(s) and Time(s): July 16, 2025, 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM ET

Location:

Webinar

Category:

This is a Comment-Gathering Meeting. The purpose of this meeting is for NRC staff to meet directly with individuals to receive comments from participants on specific NRC decisions and actions to ensure that NRC staff understands their views and concerns.

Purpose:

Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b) directs the NRC to reconsider its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model and its use of the radiation principle that aims to keep radiation exposures as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA). The EO also directs the NRC to consider the use of determinate radiation dose limits. This EO provides the NRC with a great opportunity to rethink its radiation protection regulatory framework to ensure the NRC is supporting the whole-of-government effort to safely enable the nation's use of nuclear power. We are incorporating experience gained since we established this framework in the early 1990's. The NRC is holding this public meeting to obtain stakeholder perspectives to support near-term development of recommendations, that may include changes to our guidance and regulations. Please see the Comment section for important instructions for participants and proposals for presentations.

Contact:

David Garmon

301-415-3512

david.garmon@nrc.gov

Ed Miller

301-415-2481

ed.miller@nrc.gov

Participants:

NRC

NRC Staff

Teleconference:

Bridge Number (301) 576-2978

Conference ID

927054883

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Webinar:

URL

https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft. com/event/d9bb152c-e2ae-49b2-a0f4-3303c1b25b1b@e8d01475-c3b5-436a-a065-5def4c64f52e

Meeting Number

230 432 936 713 6

Password

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Comments:

Please note: This meeting requires registration prior to joining. Meeting participants can register by clicking on the hyperlink in t…

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This direct final rule replaces the 15y duration for DCs with a 40y duration period, both for existing DCs currently in effect and generically for future DCs, including renewals. The final rule is effective September 15, 2025, unless significant adverse comments are received by August 1, 2025.

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Revising the Duration of Design Certifications

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to revise the duration of design certifications (DCs). Specifically, this direct final rule replaces the 15-year duration for D...

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 26/06/2025

Communities living near nuclear infrastructure must be involved in NRC decisions. The Trump administration wants to shut them out. Today, I reintroduced my NRC Office of Public Engagement and Participation Act to defend the public’s right to have a seat at the table.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.” Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪

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Greg Jaczko @gregjaczko.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Until the Supreme Court says otherwise this is blatantly in contradiction to the NRCs governing statute, ie illegal. The NRC Chair and the full commission should issue a statement saying so. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

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Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety

NPR has learned that rules must now be vetted by the White House and that the administration is drafting an executive order that could loosen radiation limits.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

BREAKING: Two sources tell NPR that DOGE employees have gained accounts on classified networks that hold nuclear secrets. The Department of Energy denies the story: "This reporting is false," a spokesperson told NPR in an emailed statement. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets

Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Musk is destroying AmeriCorps. It looks like it’s RIP for AmeriCorps. The nonprofit that represents AmeriCorps’ state commissions which organize state-level community service programs funded by the federal agency announced that commissions in all 50 states,

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trump‘s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Jay Bhattacharya made up being “censored” to try to stop real scientists from stating the truth: that he was wrong. Now Trump is ACTUALLY censoring journals and scientists, and Bhattacharya is silent. This is disqualifying for running NIH: it’s a severe lack of integrity.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/04/2025

206 coffins. A funeral dirge. AIDS activists marched yesterday on the State Department to protest Marco Rubio and Republicans’ blockade of PEPFAR — a program that’s saved 26 million lives. Rubio and his allies are now putting millions at risk. This is the kind of ferocious activism we need. ❤️‍🔥💚💪

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AIDS Activist Pallbearers Deliver Mountain of Coffins to Marco Rubio’s Door Demanding Full Reinstatement of all of PEPFAR’s Global HIV Programs and $4.8 Billion in Funding for FY26

PRESS STATEMENTFor Immediate Release: April 17, 2025Contact: Asia Russell, +1 267 475 2645 | press@healthgap.org(Washington, DC) On the morning of April 17, AIDS activist pallbearers, dressed in black...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/04/2025

HHS Eliminations by Agency (Accessible Version) 🧵

Programs eliminated from the Agency for Children and Families:
Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demo
Community Economic Development
Community Services Block Grant
Head Start
LIHEAP
Limb Loss Resource Center
Medical-Legal Partnership
Preschool Development Grant
Primary Prevention Youth Homelessness
Refugee Support Services
Rural Community Development
Transitional Medical Services

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Congress Bot @congressbot.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🟦 H.R.2541 - Require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to revise its regulations to protect patients from unintended exposure to radiation during nuclear medicine procedures, and for other purposes ✏️ Rep. Davis, Donald G. [D-NC-1] 🔗 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congres…

To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to revise its regulations to protect patients from unintended exposure to radiation during nuclear medicine procedures, and for other purposes.

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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

More problems with the safety of the NuScale small modular #nuclear reactor design. 11 (!) NRC staff members dispute management's acceptance of NuScale's claim that the DC power system does not need to be safety-related even though it is critical for maintaining reactor pressure boundary integrity.

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"[M]uch of the ratcheting of regulatory reqs for operating plants about which industry has complained has been a direct result of the fact that the unduly rapid push to larger sizes has resulted in what amounts to a generation of prototypes." —Director, NRC Ofc of Stds Dev to Kemeny Comm, 1979

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TMI-2 KM Portal

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altNRCgov @altnrcgov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Average person has ~21% chance of dying from cancer in their lifetime. Adding 1 mSv radiation exposure (annual exposure limit for member of the public recommended by NCRP) increases risk by 0.005%. If you can't put 0.005% vs 21% risk into perspective, your problem is not LNT.

Estimated Risks of Fatal Malignancy of Death from Radiation Exposure and Lifetime Odds of Strong as a Result of Selected Activities of Everyday Life.

https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/cvimaging/documents/lectures/18DEC13_Fleischmann_RadiationDoseRisk_final_HANDOUT.pdf

Table 1.1: Comparison of NCRP Report No. 91, ICRP Publication 69, and this report. Recommendations, Risk values and Other factors. Assumed radiation risk. NCRP Publication 116. https://ncrponline.org/publications/reports/ncrp-reports-116/

Table 1.1 (continued): Comparison of NCRP Report No. 91, ICRP Publication 69, and this report. Recommendations, Risk values and Other factors. Public dose limits.

NCRP Publication 116. https://ncrponline.org/publications/reports/ncrp-reports-116/

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