5th Circuit also vacates Holtec CISF license!

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, on March 27, 2024 issued a ruling vacating the license, approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in May 2023, for the construction and operation of Holtec…

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Biden approves extension of Price-Anderson Act

Congress demonstrates no confidence in new reactor design claims of “inherent safety” with PAA 40-year expansion to 2065 According to the nuclear industry and it champions, atomic power has suddenly changed its spots, at least on paper, to become “inherently safe.” We recognize it as part of a larger orchestrated illusion to rebrand a new,…

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Press Release–THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {As of mid-May, 2024, two more podcast episodes have been added, in addition to the ones discussed below. The two newest episodes include an interviewed conducted by Roger Rapoport with Stanford U. professor Mark Jacobson, and another…

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THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: A Podcast about Palisades, Featuring Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps

See the press release here.   The first six episdoes of the podcast, as of mid-May 2024, can be accessed at the following three sites:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door-series/id1745885298     https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/cc12cc90-0d2d-4bce-8a82-96b43ee7f2b7/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door   THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR  Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades A Podcast…

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Financial world rejects nuclear

Despite all the fanfare and hot air at the heavily promoted March 21 Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, representatives from the 30 countries in attendance, along with their host, the International Atomic Energy Agency, got an abrupt wake-up call from a panel of financial representatives who told them nuclear was their “last” choice and the…

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Belgian waffle

The IAEA and 30 countries that met in Brussels on March 21, spun false nuclear fairy tales, then issued a suitably “solemn pledge” to expand nuclear power, effectively announcing their own funeral. Many European groups protested in Brussels at the expo center where the summit was held (see headline photo). Press release from US groups:…

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Nuclear boosterism has gotten reckless

[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse at the time.] Today’s misguided focus on nuclear power is diverting us from renewables, storage and efficiency, hobbling us in our race against…

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IAEA fairy tales exposed in Brussels

More than 600 organizations from around the world signed a declaration condemning the IAEA and its Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, and 40 organizations were represented at a counter demonstration there to expose the fairy tales being spun inside the conference. Counterpunch also featured a Beyond Nuclear oped and Beyond Nuclear handed out a nuclear…

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Reprocessing: ELEA says the quiet part out loud at Holtec in NM

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] In a March 17, 2024 article by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad, New Mexico Current Argus, entitled ” ‘State consent’ on nuclear stripped from Senate bill: Opponents try to use federal budget to call for state consent for nuclear…

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