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DIABLO ZOMBIES?! NRC rejects emergency petition
[“Diablo Boys” cartoon by Mark Bryan — ArtOfMarkBryan.com] ]On July 23, 2025, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) notified attorneys representing San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP), Friends of the Earth, and Environmental Working Group that their appeal to the NRC Commissioners, regarding an Emergency Enforcement Petition the environmental coalition had filed against NRC…
Read MorePalisades: Statement re: NRC Staff Partial Authorization for Holtec’s Restart of the Closed Atomic Reactor
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová, of participants at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000, at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor. Banner by Laura Bulow of NEIS. The steam from Palisades, and the water of Lake Michigan, are visible in the background.] {July 26, 2025 updates — Additional…
Read MoreEnvironmentalists Protest NRC Cover-Up
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected] Terry Lodge, Esq., Toledo, OH, [email protected] Wallace Taylor,…
Read MorePalisades Steam Generators: Enviro Coalition Reply to NRC & Holtec Answers
[Photo, from the top looking down, of a steam generator, showing the exceedingly thin-walled tubes] On July 18, 2025, the environmental coalition resisting the unprecedented restart of the closed Palisades reactor, filed its REPLY with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB). The REPLY rebutted attacks contained in July 11th…
Read MoreMothballed nuclear plant on brink of revival
Michigan’s Palisades plant is planning to turn on again this fall after Democrats and Republicans got behind the project — but it’s not free from controversy. As reported at E&E News. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a Palisades watchdog since 1992, is quoted.
Read MoreWho Pays the Price for Nuclear’s Clean Energy Promise?
Nuclear has been promoted as a climate solution for an energy-hungry society looking to wean itself from oil and gas. But is it as clean as advocates say? Article published by ATMOS on 7/9/25. Words by Yessenia Funes Luminograms by Marton Perlaki (The unprecedented zombie reactor restart at Palisades in Michigan is featured.) Full article…
Read MoreUPDATE: COMMENT BY JULY 25 — STOP radiation health menace
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL 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 for radiation exposure. NRC views this as an “opportunity” to “enable the…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear appealing en banc at D.C. Circuit Court against Holtec’s CISF license
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES). The design incorporates the shape of the state of New Mexico, its turquoise and gold colors, as well as the Zia Pueblo sun symbol, which also appears on the state flag.] On July 16, 2025 — the 80th annual commemoration of the…
Read MoreBOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague
BOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague Michael Slater, a former co-worker of Bob Alvarez on the staff of U.S. Senator John Glenn, has published an appreciation in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, after Bob’s death on July 1st. Slater included a link to Bob’s prolific Bulletin contributions, including an article he…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts On July 15, our environmental coalition appealed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners regarding the NRC Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board’s (ASLB) ruling against our new and amended environmental contentions in the…
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