Sacrifice environment for faster relicensing?

NRC to trade off legally required Environmental Impact Statements for lesser Environmental Assessments? The nuclear energy trade journal Inside NRC (published by Platts/S&P Global) reports that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “staff plans to narrow the focus of subsequent (60 to 80 years) operating license renewal safety and environmental reviews to speed their completion…

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DOGE cuts starve US defense against ICBMs

As reported in an exclusive by USA Today. Fort Greely, Alaska’s role in U.S. defenses — or lack thereof — against adversarial attack by Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), including nuclear-tipped ones, plays a central role in the blockbuster film “House of Dynamite.” (See the movie poster, above.) The so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts…

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Fukushima Coverup, 15 Years On

An article by Arnie Gundersen, published at CounterPunch. Gundersen serves as Beyond Nuclear and our environmental coalition’s expert witness in opposition to Holtec’s unprecedented restart of the Palisades atomic reactor in Michigan.

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IUC intervention against Duane Arnold restart

Beyond Nuclear is striving to intervene at the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC), against NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor (pictured above). Duane Arnold is a more than 50-year old General Electric Mark 1 reactor — that is, a twin-design to Fukushima Daiichi. Our legal counsel is Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids,…

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U.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT. TO BEYOND NUCLEAR RE: HOLTEC HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP LICENSE IN NEW MEXICO

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] (*See below the press release, for a note regarding consolidated interim storage facility transport risks, sent to reporters covering Holtec’s Palisades closed reactor restart scheme in Michigan. However, such transport risks apply to every reactor in the U.S.) {The…

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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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