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More 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+…
Read MorePALISADES ZOMBIE REACTOR: Action Alert on Environmental Scoping
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ============================================================================================ July 17, 2024 Update: ZOMBIE NUKE?! Enviros Resist Feds & Holtec at Palisades At the July 11 Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Department of Energy hybrid public comment meeting on environmental scoping for the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme,…
Read MoreKarl Grossman receives Antioch College’s Horace Mann Award
Karl Grossman, a founding member of the board of directors of Beyond Nuclear, has received the Horace Mann Award from the Antioch College Alumni Association on Friday, June 28, 2024. Karl gave a talk about the nuclear menace in a presentation at the event. Karl received the award at a ceremony at Antioch‘s Yellow Springs, Ohio…
Read MoreExtending reactor licenses under a 385 foot dam?
On June 24, 2024, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB) heard Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club South Carolina Chapter’s (the Petitioners) oral arguments on the admissibility of three contentions that scrutinize the environmental qualification of the Subsequent License Renewal (SLR) of Duke Energy’s three unit Oconee nuclear power station for 60…
Read More“Congress’s Nuclear Addiction”
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, Beyond Nuclear board member, and author of many books and articles, has just published an article in Counterpunch: “Congress’s Nuclear Addiction.” As Grossman states: The “ADVANCE Act,” a bill to promote nuclear power, was passed 88-to-2 by the U.S. Senate last…
Read MoreWhite House nuclear hypocrisy on EJ
In light of the White House’s hypocrisy in both supporting nuclear power while simultaneously claiming to care about Environmental Justice (EJ) in the context of addressing the climate crisis, Beyond Nuclear submitted the following comments to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. June 18, 2024 To: The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC)…
Read MoreConfronting rising nuclear tensions
If you missed the panel presentation and discussion hosted by Veterans for Peace — Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions — you can watch it here. The speakers featured Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, William Hartung of the Quincy Institute, and Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group.
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