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Yet another Palisades ASLB forms
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Our environmental coalition continues challenging LARs (License Amendment Requests) associated with restarting the closed Palisades “zombie” atomic reactor in Covert Township, southwest Michigan. On June 16, our environmental coalition intervened against Holtec’s dangerous License Amendment Request (LAR)…
Read MoreNuclear Hotseat: CISFs@SCOTUS
On Nuclear Hotseat Episode #730, host Libbe HaLevy interviews Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on June 18, 2025 regarding consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) for highly radioactive waste, targeted at Texas and New Mexico. Listen to the podcast here. Libbe describes the featured…
Read MoreHochul’s choice: Bought by the nuclear industry?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is either in the pocket of the nuclear power industry or woefully ignorant about the technology itself. We suspect the former since there is ample empirical data to show that the choice she has made — to build a new nuclear power plant in New York State — is the…
Read MoreUK buys nuclear-capable fighter jets from Trump
From Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: The announcement by the British government from the NATO summit that it will be purchasing 12 nuclear capable F35A fighter jets is yet another disastrous decision by the Starmer government, that makes the world more dangerous and puts the British population on the nuclear frontline. The deal with US President…
Read MoreNuclear neutralization or regime change?
What is the real agenda behind theUS/Israel attacks on Iran and its nuclear facilities? There has been considerable debate about whether — or how much of — Iran’s nuclear facilities were destroyed during the recent US bombing raid and prior attacks by Israel, whether key components and supplies were moved in advance and whether Iran…
Read MoreUS Mayors urge US to reverse nuclear arms race
At the close of its 93rd Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, on June 22, 2025, the final business plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a timely new resolution, “Urging the United States to Lead the World Back From the Brink of Nuclear War and Halt and Reverse the Nuclear Arms…
Read MoreVideo + updated fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport
Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called consolidated interim storage facilities), as well as such EJ communities also burdened by highly radioactive waste’s transportation along the…
Read MorePalisades: ASLB rejects new/amended environmental contentions
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] On June 20, 2025, the three administrative law judge panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board overseeing the Palisades closed reactor restart proceedings ruled against our environmental coalition’s new and amended…
Read More“Gross mismanagement”: Plan to release tritium is halted
New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has temporarily paused a plan to vent 30,000 curies of radioactive tritium into the air this summer. NMED, citing significant public interest, is requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to perform four additional steps before proceeding, including an independent technical review, tribal consultation, public meeting, and compliance audit. NMED states…
Read MoreAttack on Iran? Nuclear fears mount
As fears mount that the US could help Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, critics are calling out ‘nuclear hypocrisy’. Speaking at a hastily called rally in London over concerns of possible UK engagement against Iran, Iranian-born trade union leader Maryam Eslamdoust said, “Israel secretly develops illegal nuclear weapons, but Iran is the one accused of…
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