71 groups to State of MI: Stop permitting Palisades reactor to dump in Lake Michigan!

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A coalition comment spearheaded by Don’t Waste Michigan and NIRS, endorsed by 71 organizations, has raised numerous concerns with the State of Michigan’s EGLE (Energy, Great Lakes, and Environment) agency, regarding renewal of the NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System) permit at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township, Michigan, four miles south of South Haven, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Beyond Nuclear is one of the endorsing groups. 26 individuals also endorsed the comments.

See the coalition comments, and listing of the 71 groups, here.

Entergy closed Palisades for good on May 20, 2022. The reactor had operated for 51 years. But Holtec, which had taken over at Palisades, supposedly to decommission it, changed its mind. It decided to restart Palisades instead, even though it is unprecedented, unneeded, insanely expensive for the public, and extremely risky for health, safety, security, and the environment. Holtec will need a renewed NPDES permit in order to dump thermal wastewater into Lake Michigan during renewed operations from 2025 to 2051. That wastewater also contains toxic chemicals, as well as hazardous radioactive contamination. To learn more about the latter, see Beyond Nuclear’s related pamphlet, authored by our emerita board of directors president, Kay Drey of St. Louis, MO.

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