Search Results: Palisades

Palisades: $2.79 billion in bailouts, and counting

September 10, 2024

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] On September 9, 2024, Kelly House at Bridge Michigan has published an article entitled “Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash.” She reported on a close to…

WSJ on Palisades zombie reactor restart

September 4, 2024

The Wall Street Journal published an article on August 26, 2024 entitled “Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s Be Brought Back to Life? Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart Michigan’s decommissioned Palisades plant. It would be a global…

Coalition resists Palisades zombie reactor restart license transfer

August 29, 2024

[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Michigan Public Radio, Crain’s Detroit Business, and ExchangeMonitor have reported on this story.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan,…

Palisades zombie reactor action alert!

July 31, 2024

Dear Friends and Colleagues, For the second time in just three short weeks, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding a major public meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan, regarding Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert…

Organizations and Individuals Signed Onto Environmental Scoping Comments to NRC Opposing Holtec/Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart Scheme

July 27, 2024

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shut Down Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] This PDF lists the names of 104 individuals and 55 organizations endorsing the environmental coalition comments, as of 6:30pm ET, Saturday, July 27, 2024.

More than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed coalition Palisades comments by July 29!

July 25, 2024

[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000, with Palisades and Lake Michigan visible in the background.] UPDATE, July 29, 2024 More than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed the coalition comments. Thank you all! See the final coalition environmental scoping comments, as submitted…

June 26, 2024 letter from environmental coalition to every Michigan State Legislator, opposing a second round of bailouts for another $150 million to restart the Palisades zombie atomic reactor

July 19, 2024

June 26, 2024 Dear State of Michigan Legislator, The undersigned four-dozen individuals, and dozen organizations, representing thousands of Michiganders, implore you to oppose the second installment of $150 million in bailouts Holtec International has requested from the State of Michigan for its unprecedented, extremely high risk, and insanely expensive scheme…

Watch-dogging embrittlement at Palisades

July 17, 2024

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Reporters, attorneys, activists, etc. have asked Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps about the decades-long, and still ongoing, watch-dogging of reactor pressure vessel neutron-embrittlement risks at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. Below…

PALISADES ZOMBIE REACTOR: Action Alert on Environmental Scoping

July 4, 2024

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ============================================================================================ July 17, 2024 Update: ZOMBIE NUKE?! Enviros Resist Feds & Holtec at Palisades At the July 11 Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Department of Energy hybrid public comment meeting on environmental scoping for the…

*Please take action!* Endorse coalition letter to Michigan State Legislators in opposition to another $150 million bailout for Palisades zombie atomic reactor restart — Michigan-based organizations & Michigan residents welcome to sign on by Friday, June 28, 2024

June 26, 2024

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is a coalition sign on letter for organizations and individuals to sign onto. As it is addressed to Michigan State Legislators, we are seeking sign ons from…

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