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BACKGROUND INFO. ON HOLTEC’S ZOMBIE REACTOR RESTART, AND “SMALL MODULAR REACTOR” NEW BUILD, SCHEMES ON THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORE
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Backgrounder, posted in PDF format with functioning hot links to cited documents. This backgrounder complements a June 14, 2024 action alert focused on preventing yet another $150 million bailout by the State of Michigan for the Palisades…
Read MoreLong-serving Holtec advisory board member indicted on racketeering in New Jersey
[Photo: George Norcross (center) sits in the front row before a press conference where New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (not pictured) announced corruption charges against him in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 17, 2024. | Daniel Han/POLITICO] As reported by Politico, George E. Norcross III (pictured above), a New Jersey Democratic Party kingmaker and…
Read MorePublic comment: Extending Monticello reactor operating license by 60 to 80 years
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has extended the public comment period from June 10, 2024 to June 25, 2024 regarding Xcel Energy ‘s Monticello nuclear power station application to renew its commercial operating license for a second 20- year period. To do so, the Xcel Energy application is seeking NRC approval of a Site-Specific…
Read MoreRadiation Exposure Compensation Act expires
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that provided financial compensation for atomic test downwinders in three states and pre-1971 uranium miners, expired on June 10 after attempts to extend as well as expand the bill to include more states and affected communities were killed by the Republican House leadership. Despite passing the Senate with bi-partisan support,…
Read MoreEnviro Close-Up: The New Nuclear Push, Part 2
Enviro Close-Up is hosted by author, investigative journalist, nuclear watchdog, and founding Beyond Nuclear board of directors member, Karl Grossman. Here is the write up for “The New Nuclear Push, Part 2” (see Part 1, here): Enviro Close-Up #690, The New Nuclear Push with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Part 2: The program starts off…
Read MoreLegal clash over dumping ban in NY
An article in The New Lede delineates the legal struggle between the anti-dumping law passed in New York last August, and the lawsuit filed by company Holtec. Holtec payed a 5 million dollar fine to the neighboring state of New Jersey to avoid criminal prosecution, and wants to dump the radioactive isotope tritium into the…
Read MoreJohnson pulls gutted RECA bill
Update: US House Speaker Mike Johnson has pulled his watered-down version of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that would have extended the bill past its June 7th expiration date but omitted key constituents. A vote will no longer be held on Johnson’s so-called “clean” (read “cheaper”) version of the RECA extension. Lawmakers from Missouri, in…
Read More“Terrible news”
Legislation banning Russian uranium imports should have been a driver to phase out nuclear power. Instead, the new bill will further victimize Native American communities with US uranium mining expansion. The bill signed by President Biden last week adds uranium to the list of fossil fuel imports now banned from Russia due to its war…
Read More“The New Nuclear Push” — Beyond Nuclear board member Karl Grossman interviews our radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps
Enviro Close-Up #689 The New Nuclear Push with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear Part 1 “We are up against the biggest push for nuclear power that I’ve ever experienced in 32 years of anti-nuclear power activism,” says Kevin Kamps of the organization Beyond Nuclear. Kamps refutes the claim of the nuclear industry that nuclear power…
Read MoreUNSUNG HERO: Johnsrud Award to Wally Taylor
Beyond Nuclear will award the 2024 Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud “Unsung Hero” Award to Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based environmental attorney Wally Taylor. The award will be presented by the inaugural recipient of the Johnsrud Award in 2014, Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS. Johnsrud, D’Arrigo, and Taylor share the special connection of working very hard for many decades…
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