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May 15, 2025
Yard signs created by Michigan Safe Energy Future's Kalamazoo Chapter and Shutdown Palisades Campaign.

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps]

{Friday, May 16, 2025 updates: The Toledo Blade, Michigan Public Radio, and Michigan Advance have reported on the Palisades zombie reactor restart NRC ASLB oral argument pre-hearings. Regarding the Toledo Blade article, note that Nuclear Energy and Information Service (NEIS) of Illinois is a member group of the intervening environmental coalition, not Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) of Maryland.}

Press advisory by Michael Keegan of Don’t Waste Michigan:

Thursday – Please drop in for Listen Only on Palisades Oral Arguments at 10:00am ET Thursday.
Come back in the afternoon to Comment on Point Beach at 4:00pm ET (3:00pm CT).
Palisades Oral Argument Thursday, May 15th @ 10:00am – Listen In Only
May 15, 2025 Oral Argument in the matter of Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC, AND Holtec Palisades, LLC (Palisades Nuclear Plant) License Amendment proceeding

This oral argument has been rescheduled for 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time.  Members of the public may listen to the oral argument on a listen-only telephone line by dialing: (301) 576-2978 and entering passcode 161 010 605#.  Please see the referenced memorandum and order to the right or contact the Board’s law clerk Georgia Rock (301-415-5052) or the Panel’s administrative staff member Twana Ellis  (301-415-6094) for more information.

 MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
05/15/25
10:00AM –
2:00PM ET		 Meeting info
Oral Argument in the matter of Hiltec Decommissioning International, LLC, AND Holtec Palisades, LLC (Palisades Nuclear Plant) License Amendment proceeding [more…]Participation: Open		 NRC>
staff>
points>of>contact>		 Georgia Rock
(301) 415-5052Twana Ellis
(301) 415-6094
Petitioning Organizations’ Amended and New Contentions Based on Draft Environmental Assessment/ FONSI
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant.  Legal Motion 3/3/2025.
Press Release with Background:
March 4, 2025
Contact:
Michael J. Keegan
Don’t Waste Michigan
Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, and Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, serve as the intervening environmental coalition’s legal counsel.
For addition background on the “zombie nuclear nightmare” at Palisades, as well as Holtec’s scheme to build two SMR-300s (not-so-Small, yet oh so Menacing, Reactors, of 300 Megawatts-electric each, nearly doubling the nuclear megawattage on the tiny, 432-acre site), see this post.
Point Beach Comment 4:00-6:00pm ET on 2nd Draft SEIS
Time zone check please – follow Meeting Info for link
05/15/25
4:00PM –
6:00PM ET		 Meeting info
To provide the results of the NRC staff’s supplemental environmental review and associated consideration of new information for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 subsequent license renewal application, as documented in its second draft supplemental environmental impact statement, and provide an opportunity for public comment on the NRC staff’s findings. [more…]Participation: Comment-GatheringTeleconference		 Webinar
NA
NA MD		 Chris Tyree
(301) 415-3754Kevin Folk
(301) 415-6944
Document Title: NUREG-1437, DFC, Supp. 23, “Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 23, Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 & 2” Second Draft Report for Comment
Document Type: NUREG
Document Date: 04/30/2025

Several years ago, PSR WI (Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin) intervened against the Point Beach 80-year licenses. Beyond Nuclear and Don’t Waste Michigan served as consultants. Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio served as legal counsel. Learn more about that intervention, here (keep scrolling back in time for yet more info.!).

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