President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14300 on May 23, 2025. Among other things, the Executive Order addressed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulations protecting workers and the public from harm caused by exposure to radiation. Executive Order 14300 (EO 14300) contended that:

The NRC utilizes safety models that posit there is no safe threshold of radiation exposure and that harm is directly proportional to the amount of exposure. Those models lack sound scientific basis and produce irrational results, such as requiring that nuclear plants protect against radiation below naturally occurring levels.

November 2025, forty-one non-government organizations sent a letter to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, cautioning the roll-back on radiation protection in Executive Order 14300 would be a disaster for public health, particularly for girls and women…

Amanda Nichols and Mary Olson sit down with Podcast Host, Libbe Halevy for a riotous edition of NUCLEAR HOTSEAT! We are pleased and proud to bring it to you today.

Gender and Radiation Impact project celebrates the historic victory of radiation-impacted communities across the nation standing together in clear conscience to require the National Nuclear Security Administration—owner of the US nuclear arsenal, which it intends to greatly expand—to obey the National Environmental Policy Act and include the public in big decisions it is making! Let’s celebrate this victory by vowing ourselves to stepping in to this process as it unfolds over the next several years. READ THE PRESS STATEMENT from our friends here…

In 2006 an important insight came from evidence in a landmark report by the US National Academy of Science—young girls are harmed more than any other post-birth part of our lifecycle—and that females in any age group are harmed (rate of cancer incidence) more than males. This may sound like bad news—but it was worse hidden from sight!

NOW A NEW PAPER published by the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) shows that this finding exists widely in the scientific literature. Thin ice no more. This is thick ice we stand on! Time to center protection on those most-harmed!

If you would have asked 10 year-old, 15 year-old, even 19 year-old Jasmine what she would be doing after college, she would have laughed in your face if you said fighting to get rid of nuclear weapons. Growing up, nuclear weapons were never on my radar. Sure, I think I passively knew that they were really bad weapons, but my knowledge and care stopped there. [Read more...]

An intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb when she was a school girl on August 6, 1945. Her experience of atomic destruction and devastation is the source of her VOW to rid our planet of nuclear weapons. Her life's work culminated in the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which came into force in 2021...