Nuclear Power
Nuclear neutralization or regime change?
What is the real agenda behind theUS/Israel attacks on Iran and its nuclear facilities? There has been considerable debate about whether — or how much of — Iran’s nuclear facilities were destroyed during the recent US bombing raid and prior attacks by Israel, whether key components and supplies were moved in advance and whether Iran…
Read MorePalisades: ASLB rejects new/amended environmental contentions
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] On June 20, 2025, the three administrative law judge panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board overseeing the Palisades closed reactor restart proceedings ruled against our environmental coalition’s new and amended…
Read MoreTrump’s “Unleashing Atomic Power” is Unhinged
Without explanation, on June 16, 2025, President Trump unceremoniously fired Democrat Commissioner Christopher Hanson from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as the first senior manager causality initiating a slash and burn attack on commercial nuclear power regulatory oversight. Hanson’s second term of office was to have expired in 2029. Hanson’s abrupt removal follows a…
Read MoreCoalition Intervenes against BAND-AID Steam Generator Fixes at Palisades “Zombie” Reactor
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {June 30, 2025 UPDATE: Earlier today, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) posted our environmental coalition filing (PETITION TO INTERVENE AND REQUEST FOR ADJUDICATORY HEARING BY BEYOND NUCLEAR, DON’T WASTE MICHIGAN, MICHIGAN SAFE ENERGY FUTURE, THREE MILE…
Read MoreTrump Fires NRC Commissioner Who Chaired Agency Under Biden
[Photo of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.] The dismissal came after President Trump signed several executive orders aimed at cutting safety regulations for nuclear power plants. As reported by the New York Times. That said, NRC Commissioner Hanson consistently voted against the public interest, including against health, safety, and environmental…
Read MoreFL nuke threatens Miami drinking water supply
Florida’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 3 and 4 are back in the news with “Miami’s Drinking Water Is Threatened by a Florida Nuclear Plant,” Bloomberg News, June 6, 2025 but behind the paywall. It’s about the billions of gallons of water required to cool the large twin nuclear reactors that are located 25…
Read MoreZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] ZOMBIE REACTOR RUBBER STAMP?! NRC Finalizes Palisades Restart EA/FONSI The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized its Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact on Holtec’s scheme to restart the closed Palisades atomic reactor in Covert, Michigan. This…
Read MoreThe St. Louis atomic bomb waste dump still sickens
It’s been 83 years and “We still don’t know what to do with the first cupful.” On June 2, 2025, WBUR Boston and National Public Radio (NPR) aired the “On Point” podcast regarding a decades old environmental justice struggle, “The long-term effects of nuclear waste in St. Louis.” Kay Drey, a St. Louis, Missouri environmentalist,…
Read MoreReactor radiation harms: Trump’s EO will make this worse
It’s time to set the record straight on radiation and the damage it causes, particularly to pregnancy, children and women. Contrary to what Trump’s recent EO claims, abundant and largely officially ignored, scientific evidence demonstrates that childhood cancers increase around normally operating nuclear facilities, with indications that these cancers begin during pregnancy. Uranium mining to…
Read MoreZaporizhzhia restart? Greenpeace warns of perils
Russia could be preparing to reconnect Ukraine’s closed Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the grid, a facility occupied by Russia since March 4, 2022. According to a report from Greenpeace Ukraine, satellite imagery shows Russia repairing a transmission line with the assumed intent of restarting Zaporizhzhia but providing the electricity to Russia. Report author Shaun…
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