Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025

Posted: 9th December 2025

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s mission switch that now positions nuclear power as ‘beneficial’ is deeply dangerous especially for women’s and children’s health, writes Cindy Folkers. And Britain’s American nuclear bombs and bombers are a reckless and unneeded extravagance, reports Linda Pentz Gunter 

NRC set to ignore radiation risks

Ignoring radiation risks and promoting nuclear power as beneficial to communities instead of protecting them, is one of the many negative outcomes as the Trump administration curbs oversight by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. By discarding the Linear No Threshold model that says there is no safe dose of radiation, regulators will codify a system that accepts — even demands — more sacrificial victims of radiation exposure, mainly women and children. READ MORE

US nukes in UK unneeded, unlikely

A new report reveals that the UK government’s purchase of American nuclear-capable F-35A planes and the atomic bombs they would drop, are a colossal waste of money, unneeded and incapable of serving any useful or timely strategic purpose. “Smoke and Mirrors” exposes the hollowness of this dangerous and expensive purchase decision. READ MORE

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