ZOMBIE NUKES?! Palisades Precedent, Three Years On

On May 20, 2022, then owner of Palisades atomic reactor in southwest Michigan, Entergy, closed it for good. Holtec took over, supposedly to decommission it, on June 28, 2022. But decommissioning was a lie. By July 5, 2022, Holtec applied to the U.S. Department of Energy for many billions of dollars in bailouts, to restart…

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NEIS alert against new reactors in IL–take action ASAP!

If you live in Illinois, please take direct action as soon as possible! If you do not, please spread word about this alert to everyone you know who does reside in Illinois! NEIS is sending a delegation to the IL state capital, in Springfield, to speak out against the legislation. See the Nuclear Energy Information…

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Defending Lake Michigan against radioactive risks!

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Friday, May 16, 2025 updates: The Toledo Blade, Michigan Public Radio, and Michigan Advance have reported on the Palisades zombie reactor restart NRC ASLB oral argument pre-hearings. Regarding the Toledo Blade article, note that Nuclear Energy and…

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President Trump to unleash atomic power

On May 14, 2025, E&ENews updated reports on President Donald Trump’s  four “pre-decisional” White House Executive Orders to radically alter the historic role of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s  (NRC) to oversee the performance of reactor design safety reviews and the regulatory approval of reactor siting, construction and operation of commercial atomic power plants. In…

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ANA DC DAYS: June 8-11, then Spring Meeting

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has held DC Days annually for nearly four decades. All-day training will be Sunday, June 8. Meetings with congressional and executive branch offices will be from Monday to Wednesday, June 9 to 11. Monday evening will feature a screening of the film “To Use a Mountain,” about sites targeted in the…

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Holtec’s Palisades SMR-300s: Reference reactors for global buildout

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] HOLTEC “SMR”-300s Targeting Utah as Mountain West base   As reported by Power Engineering, Holtec has announced development of a manufacturing and training headquarters in Utah, for deployment of more than a dozen “Small Modular Reactors” (SMRs),…

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A tar pit awaits Santee Cooper’s RFP applicants

The South Carolina Public Service Authority, also known as Santee Cooper electric, has announced that it has closed its January 22, 2025 “Request For Proposals” (RFP) to gauge the potential interest of any new buyers to resume the financing  and construction of the abandoned V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 nuclear power project with nearly…

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Updates on Palisades: Zombie reactor & “SMR” new builds

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Holtec and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) zealous and reckless push for restart of the 60-year old zombie reactor, as well as “Small Modular Reactor” new builds, at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert, Michigan, has…

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ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?!

[Photo showing the exceedingly thin-walled tubes within a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a Federal Register Notice about Holtec’s License Amendment Request to merely “sleeve” severely degraded steam generator (SG) tubes at the Palisades zombie atomic reactor. Cascading failure of enough…

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