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Tell World Bank no nuclear financing
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are international financial institutions funded by governments to support economic development, poverty reduction, and infrastructure. Until now, both institutions have avoided supporting nuclear power projects for the following reasons: nuclear proliferation risks; serious concerns over safety; radioactive waste; extremely high costs. On June 10, the World…
Read MorePalisades steam generator appeal lodged at NRC Commission
[A photo of steam generator tubes in a pressurized water reactor, looking from the top down.] {The U.K.’s Daily Mail has reported on this story, quoting Beyond Nuclear.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe,…
Read MoreSolar keeps growing
The following is information provided by the Sun Day Campaign. A review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals thatsolar provided almost 9% of total U.S. electrical generation in the first half of this year while wind + solar produced over one-fifth and the mix…
Read MoreResponse to Holtec/Palisades’ claim of operational status
[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {UPDATE: Michigan Public Radio quoted Beyond Nuclear in its coverage of this story. So too has Utility Dive.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected]…
Read MoreA.I. Criticism of Holtec’s Palisades Reactor Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected]; Terry Lodge, environmental coalition co-counsel, Toledo, OH, [email protected]; Wally Taylor, environmental coalition co-counsel, Cedar Rapids, IA, [email protected] A.I.…
Read MoreNuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen to testify at NRC ACRS mtg. on 8/21 re: Holtec’s Palisades steam generator tube degradation
[Photo of a typical steam generator in a pressurized water reactor like Palisades. The exceedingly thin-walled tubes are shown, looking from the top down.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t…
Read MoreDOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on
DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on By the mid-1980s, Dr. Mary Sinclair (pictured), co-founder of Don’t Waste Michigan, had helped lead the movement to victory, against Consumers Power’s Midland nuclear power plant, blocking the partially-built Nuclear Leaning Tower of Pisa twin reactors. They would have largely electrified and provided industrial steam for Dow…
Read MoreFEMA@PALISADES
FEMA@PALISADES Rushed Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) The Federal Emergency Management Agency held a public meeting in southwest Michigan about re-establishing emergency preparedness/evacuation planning (EP) at the long closed Palisades atomic reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore. On July 11, 2022, Holtec successfully requested the Nuclear Regulatory Commission exempt Palisades from EP requirements, as the reactor had…
Read MoreASLB rejects our Palisades SG tube intervention
[Photo of typical steam generator (SG) tubes, looking from the top downward.] On August 5, 2025, a three-administrative judge (or -hearing examiner) panel of the Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) ruled against our environmental coalition’s intervention petition regarding severe steam generator (SG) tube degradation at the Palisades atomic reactor in Covert Township, on…
Read MoreArnie Gundersen on Nuclear Hotseat re: Palisades
Here is Nuclear Hotseat Podcast host Libbe HaLevy’s write up: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, whistleblower, and green energy advocate who has been a consulting expert on many nuclear reactor issues, including the shut down of the San Onofre nuclear facility in southern California. Here, he explains the problems with the planned restart of…
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