Nuclear Power
NRC dismisses GAO climate warnings for nukes
On September 27, 2027, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Chairman Christopher Hanson publicly provided the federal agency’s response and an attachment that dismisses the April 3, 2024 U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report [GAO-24-106326], “Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change.” The GAO in its…
Read MoreIntervention against Zombie Reactor Restart
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Our environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future — which has intervened together against Palisades multiple times in the past dozen years, now welcomes Three Mile Island Alert of Harrisburg, PA,…
Read MoreNew NRC Report Highlights Dangerous Components at Palisades Nuclear Plant
[Palisades atomic reactor, located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] {The Register has reported on this story.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, co-chair, board of directors, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI,…
Read MoreBiden Administration closes deal on $1.52B loan for Palisades restart effort
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Tom Henry in the Toledo Blade. The article quotes a former engineering director at Palisades under the previous owner, Entergy: But Alan Blind, who was the engineering director at Palisades from May of 2006…
Read MoreUA/RU RISKS: Threats to NPPs, of N Weapons Use
[Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon, created from fragments of Soviet and US nuclear missiles that were destroyed under a treaty. Photo:UN Photo/Milton Grant] Ukraine’s (UA) president, Zelensky, warned the annual United Nations (UN) General Assembly of world leaders yesterday Russia (RU) is threatening to attack UA’s nuclear power plants. This, while the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…
Read MoreLarge number of SG tube flaws at Palisades
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, co-chair, board of directors, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] (Media reporters wishing to speak with Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer of Fairewinds, can do so by contacting Kevin Kamps, above.) Steam…
Read MoreHochul: “Hoodwinked In The Hothouse?”
Karl Grossman, a veteran investigative reporter, professor of journalism, and Beyond Nuclear board member, has written Has Hochul Been “Hoodwinked In The Hothouse” in the Long Island newspaper Smithtown Matters. Grossman states “It took decades to stop the plan of the now defunct Long Island Lighting Company to build seven to eleven nuclear power plants in…
Read MorePalisades: $2.79 billion in bailouts, and counting
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] On September 9, 2024, Kelly House at Bridge Michigan has published an article entitled “Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash.” She reported on a close to billion-dollar bailout to support the…
Read MoreSeismic Showdown Coming at Diablo Canyon
Environmental groups have successfully petitioned for “enforcement action” by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct a review of the earthquake risks and the potential nuclear accident threat with the continued operation of California’s two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo. The March 4, 2024 petition was filed to the NRC…
Read MoreWSJ on Palisades zombie reactor restart
The Wall Street Journal published an article on August 26, 2024 entitled “Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s Be Brought Back to Life? Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart Michigan’s decommissioned Palisades plant. It would be a global first.” (The article is mostly…
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