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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…
Read MoreZOMBIE 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…
Read MoreTRUMP v. EARTH: EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?!
TRUMP v. EARTH EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?! President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on April 8th, overriding state laws that oppose nuclear facilities such as radioactive waste dumps, atomic reactors, uranium mines, mills, enrichment, etc. For example, Texas and New Mexico have very hard-won state laws prohibiting highly radioactive waste Consolidated Interim…
Read MorePalisades concerns mount
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] As reported by Waleed Alamlehon Fox17 TV in West Michigan. Beyond Nuclear is quoted.
Read MoreGOP states sue NRC to deregulate SMR licensing
The GOP governors and their respective offices of state attorneys general (in one case the top GOP state legislators) in Texas, Utah, Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona have joined together with a number of fledgling nuclear start-up companies still in the design development phase for new, unproven small modular reactors (SMR) in a lawsuit filed in…
Read MoreTRUMP LOVES NUKES: In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power renaissance (relapse) attempt underway at that time.] TRUMP LOVES NUKES In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted President Trump said he’d…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKES?! Updates from across U.S.
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Updates from across the Country It’s been three long years since Holtec’s CEO, Krishna Singh, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, first floated trial balloons at Palisades in s.w. MI (a bait and switch trick, and con job), to reverse decommissioning into “Small Modular Reactor” (SMR) new builds and an unprecedented “zombie” reactor restart…
Read MoreNuclear-Free Future Award laureates honored
S.P. Udayakumar of India, Márcia Gomes and Norbert Suchanek of Brazil and Germany respectively, and Edwick Madzimure of Zimbabwe, received their Nuclear-Free Future Awards at a moving ceremony in New York on March 4. The event was founded by Claus Biegert (pictured) in 1998. Udayakumar was unable to travel and has incurred great risks to…
Read MorePalisades ASLB Rejects All Environmental, Safety, & Health Contentions; Watchdogs Vow Appeal
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] (Kevin Kamps can also connect reporters with the environmental coalition’s…
Read MoreX-Energy submits SMR permit to build in Texas
Still Chasing Mirages Reuters news reports on March 31, 2025 that the privately owned X-Energy nuclear startup company has submitted an application for a construction permit to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a proposed “first-of-its-kind” High Temperature Gas (helium) cooled Reactor (HTGR) nuclear power project in Texas. The Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR)…
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