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Palisades: 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…
Read MoreKay Drey: 50+ Years of Anti-Nuke Activism
[Kay Drey. Photo credit: Leo A. Drey Family Advisory Council/L-A-D Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri] November 13 marked the 50th anniversary of Kay Drey’s first public speech against nuclear power. Coincidentally, it was the very same day that Karen Silkwood died. Drey, 91-years young, lifelong resident of University City, Missouri, jokes that anti-nuclear activism has been…
Read MoreKaren Silkwood’s death, 50 years on
[Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974)] November 13, 2024 marked 50 years since the tragic, suspicious death of Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower and Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) organizer at Kerr-McKee’s Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site, a nuclear weapons complex production facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. The Christic Institute Archives on…
Read MoreEnvironmental coalition replies to NRC & Holtec at Palisades zombie reactor
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] An environmental coalition has replied to attacks (“Answers”) filed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Holtec Decommissioning International on November 4, 2024, against/to the coalition’s October 7, 2024 request for a hearing and petition to intervene,…
Read MoreGroups press on the legality of NRC environmental reviews to extend reactor operating licenses
NRC Final Rule on Generic Environmental Impact Statement to Approve 60 to 80 Year Operating License Renewals Ignores Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on the Projected Increased Risk of Severe Nuclear Accidents Per Order of a federal court, on November 1, 2024, Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club filed a “Statement of Issues to be Raised”…
Read MorePalisades zombie reactor: NRC & Holtec “Answer” Opponents
November 4, 2024 update re: resistance to Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant (pictured) in Covert, Michigan: NRC staff “Answered” the environmental coalition‘s October 7, 2024 intervention petition and hearing request. NRC staff also “Answered” Alan Blind and Palisades Park residents’ petition and request. Likewise, Holtec International “Answered” both Beyond Nuclear…
Read MorePalisades’ problem-plagued “containment coatings and sump strainers”
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] MEDIA ADVISORY: 10:30am ET, Thursday, 10/24/24 Public Mtg. between NRC & Holtec/Palisades, with public comment/question session, re: “Containment coatings and sump strainers” at Palisades atomic reactor — yet another long unresolved risk of core meltdown Dear News…
Read MoreNukewatch reprises NRC hiding radioactive leaks
Apologies are merely coverups where federal enforcement should be mandatory, not industry voluntary reporting Nukewatch has reprised its public disclosure that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) deliberately plays down a significant potential public hazard pathway by most recently by misreporting that Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power station had an large accidental radioactive release on…
Read MoreThe DOE doles out another $900 million for SMRs
And it’s not going to be close to nearly enough October 16, 2024, Reuters news service reports that the US Department of Energy (DOE) is dangling another $900 million in federal government applications in its bid to stimulate construction activity for new nuclear power plants on the many false promises of Small Modular Reactors (SMR).…
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