Radioactive Waste
ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?!
[Photo showing the exceedingly thin-walled tubes within a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a Federal Register Notice about Holtec’s License Amendment Request to merely “sleeve” severely degraded steam generator (SG) tubes at the Palisades zombie atomic reactor. Cascading failure of enough…
Read MoreTRUMP v. EARTH: EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?!
TRUMP v. EARTH EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?! President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on April 8th, overriding state laws that oppose nuclear facilities such as radioactive waste dumps, atomic reactors, uranium mines, mills, enrichment, etc. For example, Texas and New Mexico have very hard-won state laws prohibiting highly radioactive waste Consolidated Interim…
Read MoreDEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps!
DEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps! Thanks to very generous donors, we have raised $3,500 in matching funds for legal work to block two high-level radioactive waste dumps in the Southwest, Interim Storage Partners’ in Texas, and Holtec’s in New Mexico. Please donate today and your gift will be doubled. Since February, we have…
Read MorePalisades concerns mount
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] As reported by Waleed Alamlehon Fox17 TV in West Michigan. Beyond Nuclear is quoted.
Read More“To Use A Mountain” (Yucca/NTS doc film)
[Yucca Mountain and the Nevada (Nuclear Weapons) Test Site, renamed the Nevada National Security Site, are located on Western Shoshone land, as acknowledged by the 1863 “peace and friendship” Treaty of Ruby Valley, aigned by the Western Shoshone Nation and U.S. government.] News Media Contact: Media Release Brian Terrell April 10, 2025 773-853-1886…
Read MoreTRUMP LOVES NUKES: In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power renaissance (relapse) attempt underway at that time.] TRUMP LOVES NUKES In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted President Trump said he’d…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKES?! Updates from across U.S.
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Updates from across the Country It’s been three long years since Holtec’s CEO, Krishna Singh, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, first floated trial balloons at Palisades in s.w. MI (a bait and switch trick, and con job), to reverse decommissioning into “Small Modular Reactor” (SMR) new builds and an unprecedented “zombie” reactor restart…
Read MorePalisades ASLB Rejects All Environmental, Safety, & Health Contentions; Watchdogs Vow Appeal
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] (Kevin Kamps can also connect reporters with the environmental coalition’s…
Read MoreNUKE LOVEFEST?! Cautionary Tale to MI House
[“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 nuclear power relapse underway at that time. Of three-dozen gigantic new reactors proposed, almost all were cancelled in various stages of development.…
Read MoreASLB rejects intervenors’ Palisades “zombie” nuke reactor restart petition & hearing request
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) has struck again. Per usual, the three-administrative law judge panel (formerly known as hearing examiners) has rejected all contentions re: health, safety, security, and the environment raised by an environmental coalition, denying hearings on the merits. Such rulings reflect the ASLB’s very…
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