Palisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic reactor as a top news story of 2025 (or as a top environmental story to watch in 2026): Michigan Advance’s…

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ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump

ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor in IA and Terry Lodge in OH. At Palisades, Holtec missed its years-long stated…

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“Deep Fission” launches its mile deep reactor

Much to the surprise of residents in the rural community of Parsons, Kansas, on December 4, 2025 they discovered that a Berkeley, California nuclear startup company, Deep Fission, had selected their town for the fledgling company’s nuclear power plant groundbreaking ceremony just a few days later beneath the nearby 6800 acre security gated Great Plains…

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CISF@SCOTUS: Reply Brief filed by deadline

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the filing of our Reply Brief. The article is behind a paywall, so a link cannot be…

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Our Reply to Holtec on CISF SCOTUS Appeal

[Photo of the nine Justices currently comprising the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the filing of our Reply Brief. The article is behind a paywall, so a link cannot be provided…

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Britain’s “borrowed bombs” and bombers

A new report reveals that the UK government’s purchase of American nuclear-capable F-35A planes and the atomic bombs they would drop, are a colossal waste of money, unneeded and incapable of serving any useful or timely strategic purpose. “Smoke and Mirrors” from Nukewatch UK and Nuclear Information Service exposes the hollowness of this dangerous and…

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The sacrificial victims of radiation exposure

Ignoring radiation risks and promoting nuclear power as beneficial to communities instead of protecting them, is one of the many negative outcomes of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb oversight by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. By discarding the Linear No Threshold model that says there is no safe dose of radiation, regulators will codify…

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“It’s All About the Bomb”

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION THE PEACEFUL ATOM GOES TO WAR ECO-LOGIC Weds., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. [ET], radio & internet [See the poster advertising this particular episode of the show! And see Alfred Meyer’s November 2022 The Progressive article, “It’s All About the Bomb: Why civilian nuclear power is merely a cover for producing more nuclear…

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BAS exposés on Holtec

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] Investigative journalist Matt Smith has published two articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in the past couple weeks regarding Holtec International. The first, published November 20, 2025, is entitled “How Holtec International Became an Expanding (and…

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