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Palisades: $2.79 billion in bailouts, and counting
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] On September 9, 2024, Kelly House at Bridge Michigan has published an article entitled “Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash.” She reported on a close to billion-dollar bailout to support the…
Read MoreSeismic Showdown Coming at Diablo Canyon
Environmental groups have successfully petitioned for “enforcement action” by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct a review of the earthquake risks and the potential nuclear accident threat with the continued operation of California’s two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo. The March 4, 2024 petition was filed to the NRC…
Read MoreWSJ on Palisades zombie reactor restart
The Wall Street Journal published an article on August 26, 2024 entitled “Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s Be Brought Back to Life? Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart Michigan’s decommissioned Palisades plant. It would be a global first.” (The article is mostly…
Read MoreCoalition resists Palisades zombie reactor restart license transfer
[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Michigan Public Radio, Crain’s Detroit Business, and ExchangeMonitor have reported on this story.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, convenor, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734)…
Read MoreHoltec’s lethal plans — video
Massachusetts Peace Action hosted a webinar recently on nuclear waste, focused on Holtec’s activities in Massachusetts and New Mexico. Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and Melissa Harding-Ferretti of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe addressed Holtec’s decision to vent evaporated tritium from the closed Pilgrim, MA nuclear power plant, where the company has the decommissioning contract.…
Read MorePalisades zombie reactor action alert!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, For the second time in just three short weeks, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding a major public meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan, regarding Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, in Van Buren County,…
Read MoreMore than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed coalition Palisades comments by July 29!
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000, with Palisades and Lake Michigan visible in the background.] UPDATE, July 29, 2024 More than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed the coalition comments. Thank you all! See the final coalition environmental scoping comments, as submitted by environmental coalition co-legal counsel,…
Read MoreWatch-dogging embrittlement at Palisades
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Reporters, attorneys, activists, etc. have asked Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps about the decades-long, and still ongoing, watch-dogging of reactor pressure vessel neutron-embrittlement risks at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. Below is voluminous documentation, and links…
Read MoreOne of the worst of days
July 16, 1945 marks the day when the first atomic bomb was detonated — at the Trinity test site in New Mexico. July 16, 1979 is the forgotten day of the devastating Church Rock uranium mill dam breach that sent 90 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste into New Mexico’s Puerco River. On this week’s…
Read MorePresident Biden launches next nuclear fool’s errand
Congress and the White House have launched their next fool’s errand chasing after even more nuclear power mirages. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm acknowledged it in her “victory lap” around the only two Westinghouse AP1000 units to finish construction and finally connect to the electric grid in Georgia—11 years behind schedule and well over $20+…
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