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Study shows radioactive wastewater would linger
Any radioactive wastewater discharged from the decommissioning Pilgrim nuclear power plant on Cape Cod Bay would linger in the bay potentially for months rather than drift out to sea, a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has revealed. “We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still…
Read MoreANA Fall Meeting & SRS site tour
[Photo by Nikolas Peterson, executive director of Hanford Challenge. Pictured from left to right are: Joanne Sweeney/Nuclear Watch South; Andrea Jones/GA WAND; Alfred Meyer/PSR; Tanvi Kardile/OREPA; Kimmy Igla/PeaceWorks Kansas City; Ellen Barfield/Veterans for Peace; Scott Kovac/Nuclear Watch New Mexico; Lon Burnam/Peace Farm; Ann Suellentrop/PeaceWorks Kansas City; Kevin Kamps/Beyond Nuclear; Ellen Thomas/Proposition One Committee; Betsy Rivard/GA…
Read MoreRisky Revival: How Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant could impact agriculture
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] On December 10, 2024, S. Nicole Lane published an article in Investigate Midwest entitled “Risky Revival: How Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant could impact agriculture: While state leaders champion the Palisades reopening as an energy solution, local farmers…
Read MorePalisades restart timeline questioned
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] A front page, below the fold article by Carol Thompson in the Detroit News on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 was entitled “Nuke plant restart timeline questioned: Decision to repair, not replace damaged part irks safety advocates.” The…
Read MoreIndigenous views on nuclear power: no thanks
A new report — Indigenous Views on Nuclear Energy and Radioactive Waste — and a 10-minute video —Askomiw Ksanaqak (Forever Dangerous): Indigenous Nations Resist Nuclear Colonialism — are being released this week. Both are the culmination of a year-long project, CEDAR, led by Susan O’Donnell at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada, in partnership with…
Read MoreRepair plan for cracked steam generator tubes at Palisades plant going before NRC soon
[Photograph of steam generator tubes, from the top looking down. Steam generators are very large nuclear components, as big as a school bus. Steam generators are safety-significant: a cascading failure of tubes can lead to a reactor core meltdown. Palisades’ steam generators have needed replacement since at least spring 2006, according to a slideshow presentation…
Read MoreEx-Westinghouse VP sentenced to jail in $9 billion nuclear heist of SC ratepayers
On November 20, 2024, the ex-Westinghouse Electric Corporation Vice President, who once headed the company’s AP1000 advanced reactor global marketing division, Jeffrey Alan Benjamin was sentenced in the District of South Carolina Federal Court to one year and a day in prison and a $100,000 fine for his role to defraud the South Carolina Public…
Read MoreNew Holtec “Warning Signs”
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies of southeastern New Mexico.] In a New Jersey Monitor article by Jeff Pillets entitled “New legal claims offer ‘warning signs’ about energy firm Holtec, critics say,” Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps is quoted a number of times, including: “The stakes at play in trusting…
Read MorePalisades: Public Speaks Out Against “Zombie Atomic Reactor”
[Photo: Protestors at Van Buren State Park, with Palisades’ containment building, cooling tower steam, and Lake Michigan visible in the background, Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000; photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] {November 21, 2024 update: WWMT TV-3 from Kalamazoo covered this story, quoting Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps at length. So too did ABC 57…
Read MoreAttempted Nuke Relapse Recalls Past Boondoggles
[“Burning Money,” image by Gene Case and Avenging Angels. It appeared on the cover of The Nation in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, pushing back about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse at that time.] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published an opinion-editorial in POWER. It…
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