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Palisades: $2.79 billion in bailouts, and counting
[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 billion-dollar bailout to support the…
Read MoreSeismic Showdown Coming at Diablo Canyon
Environmental groups have successfully petitioned for “enforcement action” by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct a review of the earthquake risks and the potential nuclear accident threat with the continued operation of California’s two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo. The March 4, 2024 petition was filed to the NRC…
Read MoreWSJ on Palisades zombie reactor restart
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 first.” (The article is mostly…
Read MoreBring Indigenous Radiation Survivors to D.C.
Demand Indigenous Radiation Survivors are heard in D.C. From the RECA Working Group fundraiser: “We Demand Justice. For too long, Indigenous communities have suffered in silence. Government nuclear weapons programs have made us sick, yet we are still fighting for the basic health screenings and compensation we deserve. Indigenous communities have been on the frontlines…
Read MoreD.C. Circuit Blesses Holtec’s Environmental Injustice
[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On August 27, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dubbed the “second highest court in the land,” just below the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled against Beyond Nuclear, a grassroots environmental coalition, and…
Read MoreCoalition resists Palisades zombie reactor restart license transfer
[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, convenor, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734)…
Read MoreDOE keen to downplay Mobile Chornobyl risks, yet again
[Image: The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) submitted the map, above, as official public comments on the Interim Storage Partners, LLC (ISP) Draft EIS in Nov. 2020. It shows the most likely rail transport routes to haul irradiated nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants, to the proposed highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF)…
Read MoreHoltec’s lethal plans — video
Massachusetts Peace Action hosted a webinar recently on nuclear waste, focused on Holtec’s activities in Massachusetts and New Mexico. Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and Melissa Harding-Ferretti of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe addressed Holtec’s decision to vent evaporated tritium from the closed Pilgrim, MA nuclear power plant, where the company has the decommissioning contract.…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima — video
On August 5, 2024, the Hiroshima / Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Region and the WILPF US DMV branch commemorated the 79th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing with Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura, and speakers John Steinbach, Melvin Hardy, Gwen DuBois, Linda Pentz Gunter, Fan Yang, Dennis Nelson, and James Wagner. You can watch…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration events this week, Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida reiterated that despite the widening nuclear threats in the world, “we must continue moving forward” on the path to nuclear disarmament. The remarks come amidst on-going concerns that Japan could quickly develop nuclear weapons given its plutonium stockpile accumulated from its…
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