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Repair plan for cracked steam generator tubes at Palisades plant going before NRC soon
[Photograph of steam generator tubes, from the top looking down. Steam generators are very large nuclear components, as big as a school bus. Steam generators are safety-significant: a cascading failure of tubes can lead to a reactor core meltdown. Palisades’ steam generators have needed replacement since at least spring 2006, according to a slideshow presentation…
Read MoreEx-Westinghouse VP sentenced to jail in $9 billion nuclear heist of SC ratepayers
On November 20, 2024, the ex-Westinghouse Electric Corporation Vice President, who once headed the company’s AP1000 advanced reactor global marketing division, Jeffrey Alan Benjamin was sentenced in the District of South Carolina Federal Court to one year and a day in prison and a $100,000 fine for his role to defraud the South Carolina Public…
Read MoreNew Holtec “Warning Signs”
[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 stakes at play in trusting…
Read MorePalisades: Public Speaks Out Against “Zombie Atomic Reactor”
[Photo: Protestors at Van Buren State Park, with Palisades’ containment building, cooling tower steam, and Lake Michigan visible in the background, Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000; photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] {November 21, 2024 update: WWMT TV-3 from Kalamazoo covered this story, quoting Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps at length. So too did ABC 57…
Read MoreNOW IN EBOOK: Profiles of radiation risks and scientists
The Scientists Who Alerted us to the Dangers of Radiation by Ian Fairlie, PhD and Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers, MS, is now available in ebook and paperback. The book profiles 23 radiation scientists over the previous half-century or so, who revealed that radiation risks were higher than thought, but who were victimized by governments and…
Read MoreAttempted Nuke Relapse Recalls Past Boondoggles
[“Burning Money,” image by Gene Case and Avenging Angels. It appeared on the cover of The Nation in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, pushing back about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse at that time.] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published an opinion-editorial in POWER. It…
Read MoreKay Drey: 50+ Years of Anti-Nuke Activism
[Kay Drey. Photo credit: Leo A. Drey Family Advisory Council/L-A-D Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri] November 13 marked the 50th anniversary of Kay Drey’s first public speech against nuclear power. Coincidentally, it was the very same day that Karen Silkwood died. Drey, 91-years young, lifelong resident of University City, Missouri, jokes that anti-nuclear activism has been…
Read MoreKaren Silkwood’s death, 50 years on
[Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974)] November 13, 2024 marked 50 years since the tragic, suspicious death of Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower and Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) organizer at Kerr-McKee’s Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site, a nuclear weapons complex production facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. The Christic Institute Archives on…
Read MoreEnvironmental coalition replies to NRC & Holtec at Palisades zombie reactor
[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 hearing and petition to intervene,…
Read MoreGroups press on the legality of NRC environmental reviews to extend reactor operating licenses
NRC Final Rule on Generic Environmental Impact Statement to Approve 60 to 80 Year Operating License Renewals Ignores Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on the Projected Increased Risk of Severe Nuclear Accidents Per Order of a federal court, on November 1, 2024, Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club filed a “Statement of Issues to be Raised”…
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