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Palisades: Sample Talking Points for Jan. 14, 2025 NRC-Holtec meeting
[Photo of the thousands of exceedingly-thin (merely 0.042 inches thick!) walled tubes inside a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator. This photo is taken from the top looking down.] Please click on this link to learn more about the very important January 14,* 2025 meeting between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Holtec International.…
Read MoreJIMMY CARTER: Commemorations by nuke watchdogs
[White House Oval Office photograph, signed by President Carter (October 1, 1924 — December 29, 2024), showing him with S. David Freeman (January 14, 1926 – May 12, 2020). Thank you to Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South coordinator, for sharing the photo.] Given his very extensive involvement in key nuclear issues, president Jimmy Carter’s death,…
Read MoreNuclear Weapons Are Not a Fact of Life
[Image compliments of ICAN.] An op-ed of this title was just published in the New York Times by Beatrice Fihn. Fihn is is the director of Lex International Fund and the former executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. (Beyond Nuclear is an ICAN member.) She reminds us of…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKE?! Jan. 14, 2025 Palisades restart mtg.
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future (MSEF)-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] {Updated Jan. 6, 2025} ZOMBIE NUKE?! Please take part in important January 14, 2025 meeting! (Note, this meeting was originally scheduled for Jan. 9, 2025. However, on Jan. 6, NRC notified registered participants that it was…
Read MoreTHOMAS CAMPBELL (1939-2024), PRESENTE!
[Photo: Bonnie Raitt and Tom Campbell. The photo accompanied Bonnie Raitt’s August 26, 2024 eulogy for Tom, posted on her Facebook Page.] THOMAS CAMPBELL, PRESENTE! Founder of Avocado Productions & Guacomole Fund, 1939-2024 Tom Campbell, a stalwart supporter of the anti-nuke cause since 1976, passed on August 13. His Celebration of Life was held this…
Read MoreBONNIE RAITT: Kennedy Center Honoree, Lifelong Activist
Bonnie Raitt (pictured) received a moving Kennedy Center Honor, broadcast on CBS December 22, 2024. Fellow musicians honoring her included Jackson Browne, Brandi Carlisle, Sheryl Crow, Keb’ Mo’, Susan Tedeschi, James Taylor, and others. Comedian and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus introduced Bonnie Raitt. As the Kennedy Center wrote: “…As known for her lifelong commitment to social…
Read MoreThe case against restarting TMI-1
[A photo taken in the mid-1980s, of the half-melted reactor core of Three Mile Island Unit 2. Although the meltdown occurred on March 28, 1979, it took several long years to clear the radioactive, melted nuclear fuel debris, as well as the mutated microbes in the radioactive wastewater covering the melted core, which had previously…
Read More“Why Nuclear Energy Is Suddenly Making a Comeback”–NOT!
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article about the Bush/Cheney administration’s ill-fated nuclear power relapse efforts.] On December 27, Bloomberg TV published a very largely pro-nuclear power report. Of the 12 minute 16 second-long report, only a very short section, beginning at…
Read MoreNihon Hidankyo Receives Nobel Peace Prize
[Mr. Terumi Tanaka, Co-Chair of Nihon Hidankyo, presents the Nobel lecture, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2024. Photo credit: © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Jo Straube] NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Nihon Hidankyo Receives Award The very moving December 10 (UN Human Rights Day) ceremony, including several musical performances, was…
Read MoreStudy shows radioactive wastewater would linger
Any radioactive wastewater discharged from the decommissioning Pilgrim nuclear power plant on Cape Cod Bay would linger in the bay potentially for months rather than drift out to sea, a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has revealed. “We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still…
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