Solar keeps growing

The following is information provided by the Sun Day Campaign. A review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals thatsolar provided almost 9% of total U.S. electrical generation in the first half of this year while wind + solar produced over one-fifth and the mix…

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Response to Holtec/Palisades’ claim of operational status

[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {UPDATE: Michigan Public Radio quoted Beyond Nuclear in its coverage of this story. So too has Utility Dive.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected]…

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A.I. Criticism of Holtec’s Palisades Reactor Restart

  NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected]; Terry Lodge, environmental coalition co-counsel, Toledo, OH, [email protected]; Wally Taylor, environmental coalition co-counsel, Cedar Rapids, IA, [email protected] A.I.…

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Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen to testify at NRC ACRS mtg. on 8/21 re: Holtec’s Palisades steam generator tube degradation

[Photo of a typical steam generator in a pressurized water reactor like Palisades. The exceedingly thin-walled tubes are shown, looking from the top down.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t…

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DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on

DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on By the mid-1980s, Dr. Mary Sinclair (pictured), co-founder of Don’t Waste Michigan, had helped lead the movement to victory, against Consumers Power’s Midland nuclear power plant, blocking the partially-built Nuclear Leaning Tower of Pisa twin reactors. They would have largely electrified and provided industrial steam for Dow…

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FEMA@PALISADES

FEMA@PALISADES Rushed Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) The Federal Emergency Management Agency held a public meeting in southwest Michigan about re-establishing emergency preparedness/evacuation planning (EP) at the long closed Palisades atomic reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore. On July 11, 2022, Holtec successfully requested the Nuclear Regulatory Commission exempt Palisades from EP requirements, as the reactor had…

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Is Holtec pulling out of New Mexico?

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES).] August 14, 2025 article by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad Current-Argus. The article reports on a recent letter from Holtec International to its southeastern New Mexico business partners, the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance. The letter reads, in part, as reported: “Unfortunately, the passage…

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Court rejects our appeals against Holtec CISF

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] On August 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Beyond Nuclear’s appeal for a rehearing, either en banc (before all the judges of the circuit court), or by the initial three-judge panel which ruled against us…

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ASLB rejects our Palisades SG tube intervention

[Photo of typical steam generator (SG) tubes, looking from the top downward.] On August 5, 2025, a three-administrative judge (or -hearing examiner) panel of the Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) ruled against our environmental coalition’s intervention petition regarding severe steam generator (SG) tube degradation at the Palisades atomic reactor in Covert Township, on…

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