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Media statement U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Holtec/Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Public Meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan
{Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shutdown Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear re: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC)…
Read MoreThe government is spending billions to restart Michigan’s Palisades reactor. Why?
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] An op-ed published on April 16, 2024 in the Detroit Free Press, written by Roger Rapoport. Rapoport hosted a recently published, four-part podcast interview with Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a 32-year watchdog on the Palisades…
Read MoreEmergency Enforcement Petition at Palisades
[Update: Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future made an audio recording of the one hour thirteen minute long meeting described below. Here is his link to the audio recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xn76QP7-eIpUjWv8z8xYebRmEXivb3Se/view Schultz also read a prepared statement during the meeting. Here is the text of his prepared statement: “My Name is Kraig Schultz. I am…
Read MoreNCAC to host IUFF in Vegas!
Ian Zabarte, Secretary of Native Community Action Council, has issued a press release about hosting the International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 30 to May 1, 2024.
Read MoreSystemic cover-up: New book profiles radiation risks and scientists
The Scientists Who Alerted us to Radiation’s Dangers by Ian Fairlie, PhD and Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers, MS, has just been published by The Ethics Press. The book profiles 23 radiation scientists over the previous half-century or so, who revealed that radiation risks were higher than thought, but who were victimized by governments and the…
Read MoreWebinar: Harms from uranium mining
WEBINAR: URANIUM MINING Harm to Indigenous communities Beyond Nuclear and the UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, will co-host a webinar on April 11, from 1:30pm-2:30pm Eastern US time on the harm to communities — most often Indigenous — from uranium mining. Carletta Tilousi, from the Havasupai Tribal Council —Guardians of the Grand Canyon will talk…
Read MoreOutrageous Nuclear Bailouts
Nuclear Hotseat #667: Outrageous Nuclear Bailouts — $14+ Billion of YOUR Tax Dollars & Counting! – Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Specialist Kevin Kamps [The featured interview begins just after the 22 minute mark of the audio recording.] {Image credit: Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an…
Read MoreGAO excoriates NRC for abandonment of climate crisis licensing and oversight at US reactors
On April 2, 2024, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released an extensive report, “NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change” (GAO-24-106326). U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), both devout supporters of nuclear power expansion, asked GAO to review US energy infrastructure…
Read MoreBiden approves extension of Price-Anderson Act
Congress demonstrates no confidence in new reactor design claims of “inherent safety” with PAA 40-year expansion to 2065 According to the nuclear industry and it champions, atomic power has suddenly changed its spots, at least on paper, to become “inherently safe.” We recognize it as part of a larger orchestrated illusion to rebrand a new,…
Read MorePress Release–THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades
[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] THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion…
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