Radioactive Waste
Growing Coalition Urges Energy Secretary to Again Deny Palisades “Zombie” Reactor Massive Bailout for Operational Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Terry Lodge, legal counsel, [email protected], (419) 205-7084 Environmental Coalition to Energy Secretary Granholm: Yet Again Reject Massive Bailout Scheme at Palisades Atomic Reactor Restarting Dangerously Age-Degraded Nuke Would Violate Law, and Risk Health, Safety, Environment, and Pocketbooks, Watchdogs Warn COVERT…
Read MoreZombie reactors really must be resisted!
Public Virtual Access to NRC-HOLTEC Meeting, Monday, March 20, beginning at 3pm ET: Webinar Webinar Link:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTU0MGFlZGItMmI1Yi00NGEwLTkwZjgtOGI0NTc1MWYxYWNh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22e8d01475-c3b5-436a-a065-5def4c64f52e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f4d12ca8-cdab-400f-9cf0-e494b8ccd74c%22%7d Webinar Meeting Number:301-576-2978 Webinar Password:103 064 240# INTRODUCTION Dear Friends and Colleagues, In early February, Holtec International submitted a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), regarding the company’s proposed, secretive scheme that they called a “regulatory pathway”…
Read MoreTrain derails on way to load N-waste
VT rail accident sends a clear warning The Brattleboro Reformer reports that a train on its way to load up nuclear waste from the decommissioning Vermont Yankee nuclear power station derailed on February 24, 2023. The derailment involved the “spacer” cars to be coupled between freight cars intended to carry nuclear waste out west. “‘The…
Read MoreThe High-Level Nuclear Waste Policy Dilemma: The First Eight Decades
See the Summary Chronology about the national highly radioactive waste dump targeted at Western Shoshone land at Yucca Mountain (pictured), Nevada, here. This Summary Chronology has been prepared by the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force.
Read MoreLetter to Transportation Secretary Buttigieg re: highly radioactive waste shipping risks
On February 24, 2023, Beyond Nuclear wrote to U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, regarding the high risks of shipping highly radioactive wastes via road, rail, and/or waterway. Last week’s letter marked a year to the day when Beyond Nuclear sent Secretary Buttigieg a comprehensive letter on such risks. Despite assurances from U.S. Department of…
Read MoreRail routes to CISFs in the Permian Basin
This route map appeared in the license application from Holtec International for its consolidated interim storage facility targeting southeastern New Mexico. An almost identical route map appeared in Interim Storage Partners’ (ISP) license application for its CISF targeting western Texas. The only difference between the two route maps was the CISF destination, and the two…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Radioactive Hot Spots map, 2013
See the 2013 map by John Jackson and Anna Tilden, here. Also see the 1990 version, by Irene Kock and David Martin, here.
Read MoreWatchdogs File FOIA Request for Holtec’s Secretive “Regulatory Path to Reauthorize Power Operations at Palisades Nuclear Plant”
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Wally Taylor, Environmental Coalition Legal Co-Counsel, (319) 350-5807, [email protected] Watchdogs File Freedom of Information Act Request with NRC for Holtec’s “Regulatory Path to Reauthorize Power Operations at the Palisades Nuclear Plant” Groups Argue…
Read MoreLetter to Hayes Township Advisory Focus Group and Planning Commission, re: need for zoning at the former Big Rock Point nuclear plant to absolutely minimize human exposure to hazardous radioactivity
On Feb. 6, 2023, Beyond Nuclear and Don’t Waste Michigan wrote the Hayes Township, Michigan, Advisory Focus Group and Planning Commission. They emphasized the need for zoning at the former Big Rock Point nuclear power plant to absolutely minimize human exposure to the lingering hazardous radioactive contamination of the site, as well as to the…
Read MoreWatchdogs Demand NRC Block Destruction of Safety-Significant Documents at Palisades Atomic Reactor
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Wally Taylor, Legal Counsel, (319) 350-5807, [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds, (802) 238-4452 Watchdogs Demand NRC Block Destruction of Safety-Significant Documents at Palisades Atomic Reactor Holtec and Governor…
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