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Bob Alvarez, Presente!
Email message from Dee D’Arrigo at NIRS, sent at 3:32am ET, Thursday, July 3, 2025: Dear friends Our ally, expert and friend, Bob Alvarez died yesterday July 1, 2025. He just wrote and shared on Facebook another of his brilliant vignettes a couple weeks ago. His daughter, Amber Alvarez Torgerson, wrote the announcement on his…
Read MoreSTOP EO radiation health menace
Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), at their public meeting on July 16, 1-5 PM ET, that science demonstrates radiation exposure is always harmful. Registration required. The NRC is taking comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model (starting…
Read MoreState of Michigan Renews Palisades’ NPDES Permit
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] EMAIL WITH ATTACHMENTS FROM MI EGLE TO PUBLIC COMMENTERS ON PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR NPDES PERMIT: From: “McKay, Betsy (EGLE)” <[email protected]> Date: 07/02/2025 8:33 AM EDT Subject: Response to Comments on NPDES Permit No. MI0001457; Designated Name: Palisades…
Read MoreCoalition objects to Holtec’s alleged abuse of Palisades DTF
[“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.] In a letter, an environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future…
Read MoreCOMMENT: Canada and US FAIL on radionuclides
TELL CANADIAN AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT RADIONUCLIDES SHOULD BE DESIGNATED AS A CHEMICAL OF MUTUAL CONCERN UNDER THE GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY AGREEMENT Seeking Your Voice and Participation on Monday July 14, 2025 (10 AM Eastern/9 AM Central): Dear Friends & Colleagues: We are seeking your participation in an important meeting to be…
Read MoreYet another Palisades ASLB forms
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Our environmental coalition continues challenging LARs (License Amendment Requests) associated with restarting the closed Palisades “zombie” atomic reactor in Covert Township, southwest Michigan. On June 16, our environmental coalition intervened against Holtec’s dangerous License Amendment Request (LAR)…
Read MoreNuclear Hotseat: CISFs@SCOTUS
On Nuclear Hotseat Episode #730, host Libbe HaLevy interviews Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on June 18, 2025 regarding consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) for highly radioactive waste, targeted at Texas and New Mexico. Listen to the podcast here. Libbe describes the featured…
Read MoreHochul’s choice: Bought by the nuclear industry?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is either in the pocket of the nuclear power industry or woefully ignorant about the technology itself. We suspect the former since there is ample empirical data to show that the choice she has made — to build a new nuclear power plant in New York State — is the…
Read MoreUK buys nuclear-capable fighter jets from Trump
From Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: The announcement by the British government from the NATO summit that it will be purchasing 12 nuclear capable F35A fighter jets is yet another disastrous decision by the Starmer government, that makes the world more dangerous and puts the British population on the nuclear frontline. The deal with US President…
Read MoreNuclear neutralization or regime change?
What is the real agenda behind theUS/Israel attacks on Iran and its nuclear facilities? There has been considerable debate about whether — or how much of — Iran’s nuclear facilities were destroyed during the recent US bombing raid and prior attacks by Israel, whether key components and supplies were moved in advance and whether Iran…
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