Search Results: Palisades

Palisades concerns mount

April 17, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] As reported by Waleed Alamlehon Fox17 TV in West Michigan. Beyond Nuclear is quoted.

Palisades ASLB Rejects All Environmental, Safety, & Health Contentions; Watchdogs Vow Appeal

April 4, 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 release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected]  Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] (Kevin Kamps can also connect…

ASLB rejects intervenors’ Palisades “zombie” nuke reactor restart petition & hearing request

March 31, 2025

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) has struck again. Per usual, the three-administrative law judge panel (formerly known as hearing examiners) has rejected all contentions re: health, safety, security, and the environment raised by an environmental coalition, denying hearings on the merits. Such…

$57M disbursement of DOE loan propels restart of Palisades Nuclear Plant

March 18, 2025

[“Burning Money” graphic by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse.] As reported by Abigail Taylor at News Channel 3 (WWMT) in Kalamazoo, MI on Monday,…

ZOMBIE and SMRs?! Palisades Targeted for Both

March 13, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] April 2025 marks three years since this nuclear nightmare began: Holtec’s decommissioning scam was revealed at the Palisades atomic reactor on the Great Lakes shore in Michigan. Holtec CEO Krishna Singh floated…

OPPOSITION MOUNTING TO PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART

March 6, 2025

[Protestors at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000 at Van Buren State Park in Covert Township, Van Burn County, southwest Michigan. The cooling tower steam and reactor containment building are visible in the background, as is Lake Michigan. Photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For…

Amended and New Contentions Opposing Palisades “Zombie” Reactor Restart

March 4, 2025

[Aerial view of Palisades nuclear power plant, looking eastward. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] Our environmental coalition’s legal counsel, Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids IA, and Terry Lodge of Toledo OH, filed the following with the Atomic Safety and…

NRC Palisades Restart EA/FONSI: Environmental Coalition Comments

March 4, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] An environmental coalition opposed to the “zombie” reactor restart by Holtec at Palisades in Michigan filed comments with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) before the agency’s arbitrarily short 30-day deadline last…

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…

Anti-nuclear Groups Challenge Palisades Reopening

February 18, 2025

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Amanda Durish Cook in RTO Insider, LLC. (The article is behind a paywall.)

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