Beyond Nuclear challenges relicensing GEIS in federal court

On October 7, 2024, Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club filed a Petition for Review to the  United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) new final rule that restricts the environmental review standards for license renewal applications of aging reactors in the US.  The new Generic…

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NRC dismisses GAO climate warnings for nukes

On September 27, 2024, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Chairman Christopher Hanson publicly provided the federal agency’s response and an attachment that dismisses the April 2, 2024 U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report [GAO-24-106326], “Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change.” The GAO in its…

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Intervention against Zombie Reactor Restart

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Our environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future — which has intervened together against Palisades multiple times in the past dozen years, now welcomes Three Mile Island Alert of Harrisburg, PA,…

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SCOTUS to hear NRC/dumps’ appeal

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies of southeastern New Mexico. Holtec has targeted a site midway between Hobbs and Carlsbad, NM for its CISF. ISP has targeted the Waste Control Specialists, LLC site — a national “low-level” radioactive waste dump — just 0.3 miles from the NM state line…

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US CISF overview, for NDI/Japan

On September 27, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was honored and privileged to present on a panel hosted by the New Diplomacy Initiative (NDI) in Tokyo, Japan. Kevin provided an overview of the resistance to highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities in the U.S. See Kevin’s slideshow, with Japanese translation of…

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Biden Administration closes deal on $1.52B loan for Palisades restart effort

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Tom Henry in the Toledo Blade. The article quotes a former engineering director at Palisades under the previous owner, Entergy: But Alan Blind, who was the engineering director at Palisades from May of 2006…

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UA/RU RISKS: Threats to NPPs, of N Weapons Use

[Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon, created from fragments of Soviet and US nuclear missiles that were destroyed under a treaty. Photo:UN Photo/Milton Grant] Ukraine’s (UA) president, Zelensky, warned the annual United Nations (UN) General Assembly of world leaders yesterday Russia (RU) is threatening to attack UA’s nuclear power plants. This, while the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…

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Large number of SG tube flaws at Palisades

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, co-chair, board of directors, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] (Media reporters wishing to speak with Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer of Fairewinds, can do so by contacting Kevin Kamps, above.) Steam…

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Radiation victims come to DC pushing for compensation

“Beginning September 22, more than 50 members of the Navajo Nation, Laguna Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo and Hopi tribe will drive roughly 30 hours by bus from New Mexico to Washington, D.C., to demand House Speaker Mike Johnson allow a vote on legislation reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). The bill would aid victims of U.S. nuclear tests, uranium mining…

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