Nuclear Power
ZOMBIE reactor to re-apply for billion dollar bailout
Holtec has pulled yet another bait and switch. On December 19, it announced its second attempt at a billion dollar, or more, bailout to restart the Palisades reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore in southwest Michigan (pictured). Palisades was closed for good May 20 by previous owner Entergy, and its operating license relinquished in mid-June. Holtec…
Read MoreThe latest fusion hype
Despite the hype and the headlines, the real agenda behind the fusion “breakthrough” announced this week is to benefit the nuclear weapons sector, not electricity production. The NIF experiment far more closely resembles the process of a (very tiny) thermonuclear warhead. Since the U.S. has not tested nuclear weapons since 1992, the data from experiments…
Read MoreNuScale SMR cost headed off-scale?
True to form, every new generation of commercial nuclear power development project thus far has grossly failed to control its construction cost-to-completion and maintain estimates construction time-to-completion. It was certainly the death knell in the United States for Generation III designs and the “nuclear renaissance” launched by Congress in 2005. Seventeen years later, only two…
Read MoreCoalition FOIAs DOE and State of Michigan re: why Palisades was denied CNC bailout
Beyond Nuclear has joined with Don’t Waste Michigan to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the State of Michigan, seeking answers as to why DOE denied Holtec International a Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) bailout to the tune of a billion dollars or more, in order to…
Read MoreRADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is a feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown–the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers-turned-activists, two women lawyers who took the local community’s case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist…
Read MoreNew Talking Points: SMRs
Beyond Nuclear has now published its 6th in the series of Talking Points: Unfounded Promises. Small Modular Reactors solve none of the challenges of nuclear power and make climate change and proliferation worse. A tsunami of license applications for new small modular (mirage) reactors is about to be unleashed in the US. But none remotely…
Read MoreNM Governor Lujan Grisham writes President Biden in opposition to Holtec CISF
See the strong Nov. 16, 2022 letter, here: New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, pictured above, served as one of just a handful of official chairs for the 2020 Democratic National Convention that nominated Joe Biden as the party’s candidate for president. She also served as a top presidential Transition Team leader, after he won…
Read MoreA billion down the drain for Diablo
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the California coastline has been granted a $1.1 billion transfusion to keep the aging, uneconomical plant open. The plant, which sits on a major earthquake fault line and has destroyed the indigenous marine environment in Diablo Cove, was scheduled to close its two reactors in 2024 and 2025. …
Read MorePalisades atomic reactor’s shutdown for good: No More Risk of Reactor Core Meltdown, No More Radioactive Waste Generation, but Significant Waste and Contamination Risks Continue
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, Board of Directors Member for Don’t Waste Michigan (Kalamazoo Chapter), (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, regarding the Palisades Atomic Reactor’s Shutdown for Good No More Risk of Reactor Core Meltdown, No More Radioactive Waste…
Read MoreBreaking: DOE rejects Holtec’s bid to reopen Palisades
“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rejected Holtec International’s application for funding to reopen the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan,” a Holtec spokesperson told Reuters today (Nov. 18). Holtec, which is supposed to be decommissioning the Palisades reactor, had instead made a bid to secure federal funds to reopen it, even though the company…
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