Reactor Status
What Humpty Dumpty doesn’t want you to know: Davis-Besse’s cracked concrete containment snow job
See Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps’s comprehensive backgrounder (dated August 8, 2012), here: For more info., click here.
Read MorePublic Stonewalled in Holtec Takeover of Palisades and Big Rock Point Atomic Reactor Sites: Entergy Confirms License Transfer; No NRC Public Hearings Held
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Terry Lodge, legal counsel, Toledo, OH, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Takoma Park, MD, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Bette Pierman, President, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Benton Harbor, MI, (269) 369-3993, [email protected] Iris…
Read MoreKevin Kamps’ statement re: Diablo at SLOMFP press conference
Image: “Diablo Boys,” by Mark Bryan — ArtOfMarkBryan.com
Read MoreSierra Club Michigan Chapter letter to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, expressing opposition to Palisades bailout and restart
Environmental Coalition to Governor Whitmer: “Cease and Desist” from Massive Bailout Scheme at Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor; Restarting Dangerously Age-Degraded Nuke Would Risk Health, Safety, Security, and Environment, Watchdogs Warn
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216;Michael Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes and Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441;Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, [email protected], (301) 270-6477 ext. 3;Terry Lodge, environmental coalition legal counsel, [email protected], (419) 205-7084Iris Potter, Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, [email protected],…
Read MoreCoalition to MI Gov. Whitmer: “Cease and Desist” from Scheming to Bail Out Palisades!
On June 8, a coalition of 94 organizations, including Beyond Nuclear, plus 328 individuals, wrote to Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, urging her to “cease and desist” from attempting to bail out the closed for good Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Covert Township, Michigan. See the letter, here: As the letter lays…
Read MoreLTE in the H-P re: SMR(s) at Palisades
We got a letter to the editor in the St. Joe-Benton Harbor Herald-Palladium, in extreme s.w. MI, today: Don’t bring more reactors to Palisades | Letters To Editor | heraldpalladium.com The Herald-Palladium Holtec CEO Krishna Singh has floated the trial balloon of building one or more so-called small modular nuclear reactors at Palisades in Covert……
Read MoreMedia Statement by Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, regarding the Palisades Atomic Reactor’s Shutdown for Good
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] No More Risk of Reactor Core Meltdown, No More Radioactive Waste Generation, but Significant Waste and Contamination Risks Continue COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI and TAKOMA PARK, MD,…
Read MoreNRC rescinds reactor license extensions
A legal appeal filed by Beyond Nuclear to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has yielded a landmark February 24, 2022 decision and agency orders (CLI-22-02, CLI-22-03, CLI-22-04) rescinding the federal agency’s second 20-year operating license renewal of US reactors (60- to 80-year period) without first creating and applying an updated environmental analysis for reactor…
Read MoreReactors are closing
There are presently 93 commercial nuclear power reactors licensed to commercially operate in the United States. While U.S. nuclear power stations were originally licensed to operate for a 40-year period, the bulk of the U.S. nuclear power fleet is now relicensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to operate for an “initial” 20-year license extension…
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