Nuclear Power
WEBINAR: 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…
Read MoreBiden administration bailouts for Palisades reactor restart under threat from Trump?
[“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 Bush/Cheney attempted nuclear power relapse at that time. In fact, the $1.52 billion nuclear loan guarantee awarded Holtec by DOE for Palisades’ restart, below, was authorized by the Energy Policy…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKE?! Legal resistance; bailouts in doubt
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beyond Nuclear and our allies have resisted the leading closed-reactor-restart, at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, for nearly three years. Our environmental coalition has intervened against it, and will have a “day in court” at the Nuclear…
Read MoreMI nuke slated to restart, but Trump could complicate things
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Izzy Ross at Grist. She quotes Beyond Nuclear: Kevin Kamps, a radioactive waste specialist with the group Beyond Nuclear, thinks the Palisades restart is ill-advised. “This is unprecedented risk taking that they’re talking about…
Read MoreChina AI startup rattles US new nukes plan
Innovative computer modelling with AI doesn’t need the most expensive and dangerous energy from nukes The much touted second-coming of a “nuclear renaissance” in the United States fueled by the projected soaring global demand to power artificial intelligence (AI) just got a major setback with the surprise January 20, 2025 overnight emergence of an apparently…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear annual report
The Beyond Nuclear Annual Report for 2024, a brief overview of some of the highlights of our work last year, is now available for download here. The annual report focuses on our work to stop extreme reactor license renewals; to draw attention to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s reckless decision to ignore the likely impacts of…
Read MoreTrump’s attack on Biden’s IRA spending could complicate Palisades restart effort
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It was featured on the cover of The Nation in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, critical of the Bush/Cheney administration nuclear power relapse then underway.] As reported by Tom Henry at the Toledo Blade. However, the article is behind a paywall. Trump’s executive order regarding the…
Read MoreRural energy co-op in northern Michigan wants nuclear revival
[The Palisades atomic reactor, located in Covert Twp., Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.] As reported by Izzy Ross at Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. The coverage focuses on the Wolverine rural electric cooperative’s role in the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme, namely as Power Purchase Agreement purchaser. Beyond Nuclear…
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