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SMOKING GUN: 3 Years Since Holtec Con Job

July 9, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beginning in 2020, Holtec perpetrated a bait and switch trick at Palisades on Lake Michigan. Promising to decommission the half-century old, perpetually problem-plagued reactor after Entergy shut it for good on 5/20/22,…

Beyond Nuclear press release: Coalition Objects to Holtec’s Alleged Abuse of Palisades Decommissioning Trust Fund 

July 8, 2025

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected]  Michael Keegan, co-chairman, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected] Coalition Objects to Holtec’s Alleged Abuse of Palisades Decommissioning Trust Fund Environmental Groups Continue to Allege Company Misused Funds for Unprecedented…

Coalition objects to Holtec’s alleged abuse of Palisades DTF

July 2, 2025

[“Burning Money” image, by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power relapse then being attempted.] {See our environmental coalition’s press release, here. Michigan Public/NPR and WZZM/ABC 13…

Holtec’s Palisades SMR-300s: Reference reactors for global buildout

May 7, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] HOLTEC “SMR”-300s Targeting Utah as Mountain West base   As reported by Power Engineering, Holtec has announced development of a manufacturing and training headquarters in Utah, for deployment of more than a…

Holtec Submits Yet More Palisades LARs!

February 19, 2025

[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová from the second Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor, August 2000. Palisades’  reactor containment building and steam are visible, as is Lake Michigan.] ZOMBIE NUKE?!   The Rube Goldberg machine of a make-it-up-as-you-go “regulatory pathway…

ZOMBIE NUKE? Holtec’s 2 Years of Neglect!

January 16, 2025

[Photo of a steam generator in a pressurized water reactor. The photo is taken from the top, looking down. The exceedingly thin-walled steam generator tubes at Palisades are only 0.042 inches thick to begin with; many are significantly cracked, risking through-wall failure.] For nearly three years, Beyond Nuclear and environmental…

Holtec neglected Palisades’ steam generator tubes for two years!

January 15, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Keegan, co-chairman, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected](Reporters wishing to speak with Arnie Gundersen, chief…

Palisades: Sample Talking Points for Jan. 14, 2025 NRC-Holtec meeting

January 2, 2025

[Photo of the thousands of exceedingly-thin (merely 0.042 inches thick!) walled tubes inside a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator. This photo is taken from the top looking down.] Please click on this link to learn more about the very important January 14,* 2025 meeting between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory…

New Holtec “Warning Signs”

November 21, 2024

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies of southeastern New Mexico.] In a New Jersey Monitor article by Jeff Pillets entitled “New legal claims offer ‘warning signs’ about energy firm Holtec, critics say,” Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps is quoted a number of times, including: “The…

Environmental coalition replies to NRC & Holtec at Palisades zombie reactor

November 12, 2024

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] An environmental coalition has replied to attacks (“Answers”) filed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Holtec Decommissioning International on November 4, 2024, against/to the coalition’s October 7, 2024 request for a…

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