Nuclear Power
Beyond 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…
Read MoreAnti-nuclear Groups Challenge Palisades Reopening
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Amanda Durish Cook in RTO Insider, LLC. (The article is behind a paywall.)
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear Argues Against Recommissioning of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
[The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is located at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission HQ in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC] Holtec International had been awarded the job of decommissioning the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country. Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear talks about the plant,…
Read MoreWill Trump funding freeze block bailouts for closed reactor restarts?
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s ill-fated, attempted nuclear power relapse at that time.] An article published by E&E News, “Trump Spending Freeze on Rural Electric Co-ops Could Raise…
Read MorePalisades restart ASLB oral arguments audio recording/transcript
[Feb. 14, 2025 UPDATE: The written transcript of the oral argument pre-hearings has been published.] Thank you to Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future-Shoreline Chapter, for audio recording today’s U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) oral argument pre-hearings re: Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades in Covert…
Read MoreWEBINAR: What nuclear boosters won’t tell you about radiation
In Their Rush to Expand, Nuclear Interests Ignore and Suppress Evidence of Radiation’s Harms, Including Worse Impacts on Women and Children Gender + Radiation Impact Project will host a webinar on February 20 at 12 PM ET, featuring leading experts on the impacts of radiation from nuclear technologies. Cindy Folkers, author and radiation and health…
Read MoreHalted Nuclear Plant Project Could Restart in South Carolina
[An aerial view of the V.C. Summer nuclear site near Jenkinsville, S.C. Credit: High Flyer] To meet the growing demand from data centers, the state is looking to give nuclear energy another try. Will it be cost-effective? Reported by Carrie Klein at Inside Climate News.
Read More11am ET, 2/12 NRC ASLB hearings re: Palisades restart, with listen-only call-in phone line
[Holtec’s Palisades atomic reactor, located in Covert Township, south of South Haven, in Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Michael Keegan, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 (Media reporters wishing to speak with…
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