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SMR-300s: Not-So-Small, But Oh-So-Mythical Reactors
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] SMR-300s Not-So-Small, But Oh-So-Mythical Reactors Beyond Nuclear and Don’t Waste Michigan did battle with Holtec over so-called Small Modular Reactor (SMR) new builds at Palisades in southwest Michigan. But Holtec’s 300 Megawatt-electric reactors are 4.5 times larger…
Read More$57M disbursement of DOE loan propels restart of Palisades Nuclear Plant
[“Burning Money” graphic by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse.] As reported by Abigail Taylor at News Channel 3 (WWMT) in Kalamazoo, MI on Monday, March 17, 2025. Beyond Nuclear’s…
Read MoreZOMBIE and SMRs?! Palisades Targeted for Both
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] April 2025 marks three years since this nuclear nightmare began: Holtec’s decommissioning scam was revealed at the Palisades atomic reactor on the Great Lakes shore in Michigan. Holtec CEO Krishna Singh floated the trial balloon of building…
Read MoreContinued Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power
An article by M.V. Ramana, published at Counterpunch. M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia and the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India. He is also the author of Nuclear is Not…
Read MoreFukushima 14 years later and still uncertain future
Beyond Nuclear turns to our Japanese colleagues to report on the 14th annual commemoration of the March 11, 2011 nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. This timeless disaster started with a severe offshore earthquake followed by a 48-ft high tsunami. Combined, this two unimaginable disasters caused the nuclear power station’s loss of…
Read MoreOPPOSITION MOUNTING TO PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART
[Protestors at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000 at Van Buren State Park in Covert Township, Van Burn County, southwest Michigan. The cooling tower steam and reactor containment building are visible in the background, as is Lake Michigan. Photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Wally Taylor, environmental…
Read MoreCISFs@SCOTUS: Arguments Over “Nuking” Permian
[The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) as composed June 30, 2022 to present. Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett,…
Read MoreAmended and New Contentions Opposing Palisades “Zombie” Reactor Restart
[Aerial view of Palisades nuclear power plant, looking eastward. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] Our environmental coalition’s legal counsel, Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids IA, and Terry Lodge of Toledo OH, filed the following with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) by…
Read MoreNRC Palisades Restart EA/FONSI: Environmental Coalition Comments
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] An environmental coalition opposed to the “zombie” reactor restart by Holtec at Palisades in Michigan filed comments with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) before the agency’s arbitrarily short 30-day deadline last night, regarding its draft Environment…
Read MoreListen live, Wed., March 5, 10am ET: CISFs@SCOTUS!
[Protestors speak out against Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission environmental scoping public comment hearings in Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], 240-462-3216 Stephen Kent, media consultant, [email protected], 914-589-5988 Source: Beyond…
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