NRC ACRS to Discuss Palisades’ Degraded Steam Generators, Dec. 4, 8:30am ET

December 2, 2025
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[Photo, looking from the top downwards, of tubes in a typical steam generator at a pressurized water reactor — not Palisades. Holtec’s self-inflicted steam generator tube degradation risks a release of hazardous ionizing radioactivity into the environment, or even a full-blown reactor core meltdown, at the 60-year old (designed in the mid-1960s, ground broken for construction in 1967) Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwest Michigan.]

{Update, 3pm ET, Thursday, December 4, 2025:

Thank you to Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future (MSEF) for these audio recordings of today’s ACRS meeting:

8:30-10:30am  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RbljTp0oE76v020H6hySgVeazKXdi-Z8/view?usp=drive_link
11:00am-11:05am https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xg39ZEOzfdYPr-yCfymDzu6H9_i4k1dn/view?usp=drive_link

A transcript of the audio recordings will be posted here ASAP.
Public commenters, in about the last half-hour of the second session, included:
Arnie Gundersen (environmental coalition expert witness, a nuclear engineer with 54 years of relevant experience);
Kraig Schultz (MSEF-Shoreline Chapter, Grand Haven, MI);
Kevin Kamps (Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI);
Kathy Barnes (Don’t Waste MI, Sherwood, MI);
Karl Rabenhorst (former FEMA official);
Michael Keegan (Don’t Waste MI, Monroe, MI);
Jacqui Drechsler (Holtec watchdog near Indian Point, NY);
Alan Blind (former senior engineer at Palisades, currently serving as pro se representative for several Palisades Park residents);
Breakthrough Institute representative (pro-nuclear power industry front group, although today their comment was to allow all interested persons to speak, and for more than the short two-minute time limit — but all other speakers opposed Palisades’ restart!);
Ann Scott (Palisades Park Country Club resort community resident, immediately south of the Palisades nuclear power plant);
Jesse Deer In Water (Citizens Resistance Against Fermi Two, CRAFT, Redford Township, MI).
See Arnie Gundersen’s prepared comments, here.
See Kraig Schultz’s prepared comments, here.}
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR


For immediate release

Contact: Michael J. Keegan, Intervenor with Don’t Waste Michigan (734) 770-1441, [email protected]Kevin Kamps, Intervenor with Beyond Nuclear (240) 462-3216, [email protected]

(Interviews with nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen can be arranged through Kevin Kamps.) 

PRESS ADVISORY

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to Discuss Palisades Steam Generators 

Thursday, December 4, 2025 @ 8:30 am ET
ROCKVILLE, MD, and COVERT TOWNSHIP, VAN BUREN COUNTY, MI, DECEMBER 4, 2025–

The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards will meet to discuss Palisades Steam Generator Operational Assessment  on Thursday morning, December 4th beginning at 8:30 am ET.   Please follow link below to ACRS posting of Agenda and how to Join webinar.
 
The following documents were published by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) on Tuesday morning, December 2, 2025, and posted on NRC’s ADAMS (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System):
 
Document Title: Slides – Palisades SG Presentation – ACRS Full Committee – December 4, 2025
Document Type: Meeting Agenda
Meeting Briefing Package/Handouts
Slides and Viewgraphs
Document Date: 12/04/2025
The ACRS Subcommittee Chairman and other Members are specifically considering nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen’s previously submitted written comments (10/10/2025) on Steam Generators posted here.  Gundersen provided previous statements and documentation to the ACRS in August and September, 2025 including this open letter (9/10/2025) evoking the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.  Arnie Gundersen has reserved time to comment live on Thursday.
We expect the ACRS to address Alan Blind’s written comments.   Alan is former Palisades Director of Engineering and he represents a number of residents of the Palisades Park Country Club, to the immediate south of the atomic reactor. Alan Blind previously submitted written comments  to the ACRS (11/5/2025) entitled “Comment on Holtec’s Use of 95/50 Probability Criteria in the Palisades Steam Generator Operational Assessment.”   We anticipate that Alan Blind will comment live on Thursday as well.
The ACRS had scheduled  Palisades discussion for October 10th, but because of government shutdown, that meeting was cancelled.  The ACRS again scheduled Palisades discussion for November 6th.  The ACRS did meet but Palisades was pulled from Agenda.
For extensive information, please see Beyond Nuclear’s “Newest Nuke Nightmares at Palisades, 2022 to Present”.
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