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ZOMBIE and SMRs?! Palisades Targeted for Both
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] April 2025 marks three years since this nuclear nightmare began: Holtec’s decommissioning scam was revealed at the Palisades atomic reactor on the Great Lakes shore in Michigan. Holtec CEO Krishna Singh floated the trial balloon of building…
Read MoreContinued Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power
An article by M.V. Ramana, published at Counterpunch. M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia and the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India. He is also the author of Nuclear is Not…
Read MoreFukushima 14 years later and still uncertain future
Beyond Nuclear turns to our Japanese colleagues to report on the 14th annual commemoration of the March 11, 2011 nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. This timeless disaster started with a severe offshore earthquake followed by a 48-ft high tsunami. Combined, this two unimaginable disasters caused the nuclear power station’s loss of…
Read MoreOPPOSITION MOUNTING TO PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART
[Protestors at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000 at Van Buren State Park in Covert Township, Van Burn County, southwest Michigan. The cooling tower steam and reactor containment building are visible in the background, as is Lake Michigan. Photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Wally Taylor, environmental…
Read MoreAmended and New Contentions Opposing Palisades “Zombie” Reactor Restart
[Aerial view of Palisades nuclear power plant, looking eastward. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] Our environmental coalition’s legal counsel, Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids IA, and Terry Lodge of Toledo OH, filed the following with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) by…
Read MoreNRC Palisades Restart EA/FONSI: Environmental Coalition Comments
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] An environmental coalition opposed to the “zombie” reactor restart by Holtec at Palisades in Michigan filed comments with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) before the agency’s arbitrarily short 30-day deadline last night, regarding its draft Environment…
Read MoreMI Nuke Resurgence: Potential Health Impacts?
[Photo above shows the Palisades atomic reactor during its previous operational phase (notice steam rising from cooling towers), Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, view facing east. The Palisades Park County Club, a 120-year old resort community of 200 cottages, is to the immediate right, to the south, sharing the fence line.] “A Nuclear…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear files two relicensing legal actions
In February 2025, Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club (“petitioners”) filed two legal actions challenging extreme relicensing decisions by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to qualify and extend US reactor operating licenses beyond 60 years to 80 years. The petitioners have argued that these license renewals are based on faulty analyses of the environmental impacts…
Read MoreHoltec Submits Yet More Palisades LARs!
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová from the second Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor, August 2000. Palisades’ reactor containment building and steam are visible, as is Lake Michigan.] ZOMBIE NUKE?! The Rube Goldberg machine of a make-it-up-as-you-go “regulatory pathway to restart” at the Palisades…
Read More‘Nothing short of an act of God would force me to fire you’
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse then very much under way at the time.] On February 4, 2025, Andrew Seidman and Abraham Gutman published an article in the business section of…
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