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Palisades zombie reactor: NRC & Holtec “Answer” Opponents
November 4, 2024 update re: resistance to Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant (pictured) in Covert, Michigan: NRC staff “Answered” the environmental coalition‘s October 7, 2024 intervention petition and hearing request. NRC staff also “Answered” Alan Blind and Palisades Park residents’ petition and request. Likewise, Holtec International “Answered” both Beyond Nuclear…
Read MorePalisades’ problem-plagued “containment coatings and sump strainers”
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] MEDIA ADVISORY: 10:30am ET, Thursday, 10/24/24 Public Mtg. between NRC & Holtec/Palisades, with public comment/question session, re: “Containment coatings and sump strainers” at Palisades atomic reactor — yet another long unresolved risk of core meltdown Dear News…
Read MoreNukewatch reprises NRC hiding radioactive leaks
Apologies are merely coverups where federal enforcement should be mandatory, not industry voluntary reporting Nukewatch has reprised its public disclosure that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) deliberately plays down a significant potential public hazard pathway by most recently by misreporting that Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power station had an large accidental radioactive release on…
Read MoreThe DOE doles out another $900 million for SMRs
And it’s not going to be close to nearly enough October 16, 2024, Reuters news service reports that the US Department of Energy (DOE) is dangling another $900 million in federal government applications in its bid to stimulate construction activity for new nuclear power plants on the many false promises of Small Modular Reactors (SMR).…
Read More71 groups to State of MI: Stop permitting Palisades reactor to dump in Lake Michigan!
A coalition comment spearheaded by Don’t Waste Michigan and NIRS, endorsed by 71 organizations, has raised numerous concerns with the State of Michigan’s EGLE (Energy, Great Lakes, and Environment) agency, regarding renewal of the NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System) permit at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township, Michigan, four miles south of…
Read MoreAppealing adverse CISF ruling at D.C. Circuit Court
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On October 11, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel — Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA — met our 45-day deadline to appeal a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…
Read MoreJane Fonda: Nuclear power is no climate solution
From the Philadelphia Inquirer : “The actor Jane Fonda writes that while some see a planned restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant as a tool to fight climate change, the risk of an accident outweighs any potential benefits.” Fonda states “The recent news about restarting the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant 75 miles…
Read MoreAtomic Bomb Survivors win Nobel Peace Prize
Quoted from the MSN article: “Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them. Witnesses to the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, members of…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear challenges relicensing GEIS in federal court
On October 7, 2024, Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club filed a Petition for Review to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) new final rule that restricts the environmental review standards for license renewal applications of aging reactors in the US. The new Generic…
Read MoreNRC dismisses GAO climate warnings for nukes
On September 27, 2027, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Chairman Christopher Hanson publicly provided the federal agency’s response and an attachment that dismisses the April 3, 2024 U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report [GAO-24-106326], “Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change.” The GAO in its…
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