Amended 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…

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NRC 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…

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Listen 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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MI Nuke Resurgence: Potential Health Impacts?

[Photo above shows the Palisades atomic reactor during its previous operational phase (notice steam rising from cooling towers), Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, view facing east. The Palisades Park County Club, a 120-year old resort community of 200 cottages, is to the immediate right, to the south, sharing the fence line.] “A Nuclear…

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Beyond Nuclear files two relicensing legal actions

In February 2025, Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club (“petitioners”) filed two legal actions challenging extreme relicensing decisions by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to qualify and extend US reactor operating licenses beyond 60 years to 80 years. The petitioners have argued that these license renewals are based on faulty analyses of the environmental impacts…

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Holtec Submits Yet More Palisades LARs!

[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová from the second Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor, August 2000. Palisades’  reactor containment building and steam are visible, as is Lake Michigan.] ZOMBIE NUKE?!   The Rube Goldberg machine of a make-it-up-as-you-go “regulatory pathway to restart” at the Palisades…

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‘Nuked’ documentary now on Vimeo

Indigenous perspectives take the spotlight as the award-winning feature documentary from filmmaker and eco advocate Andrew Nisker is available On Demand for the first time to US audiences. As the Marshall Islands Nuclear Remembrance Day approaches and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moves the doomsday clock to 89 seconds to midnight, ‘Nuked’ examines the legacy…

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‘Nothing short of an act of God would force me to fire you’

[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse then very much under way at the time.] On February 4, 2025, Andrew Seidman and Abraham Gutman published an article in the business section of…

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Beyond Nuclear Argues Against Recommissioning of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant

[The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is located at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission HQ in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC] Holtec International had been awarded the job of decommissioning the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country. Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear talks about the plant,…

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