Centralized Storage
CISFs@SCOTUS: Arguments Over “Nuking” Permian
[The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) as composed June 30, 2022 to present. Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett,…
Read MoreListen live, Wed., March 5, 10am ET: CISFs@SCOTUS!
[Protestors speak out against Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission environmental scoping public comment hearings in Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], 240-462-3216 Stephen Kent, media consultant, [email protected], 914-589-5988 Source: Beyond…
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 MoreAmicus Briefs opposing CISFs filed at SCOTUS
[Photo of NRC environmental scoping public comment meeting in Andrews, TX in Feb. 2017, re: Waste Control Specialists’ (later renamed Interim Storage Partners) CISF license application, compliments of No Nuclear Waste Aqui and SEED Coalition.] Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 was the deadline for opponents of so-called “Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities” (CISFs) to submit Friend of…
Read MoreCISFs@SCOTUS: Fasken, Texas Submit Briefs
[Photo from NRC’s Feb. 2017 environmental scoping meeting in Andrews, TX for the ISP CISF, compliments of No Nuclear Waste Aqui.] Fasken Land & Minerals filed its Brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), by the Jan. 15 deadline. So too did the State of Texas. Our strange bedfellow allies, a fossil…
Read MoreProponents for nuke waste dumps in TX & NM file briefs with SCOTUS
[Photo: Protestors against ISP’s CISF speak out at NRC’s environmental scoping hearings in Andrews County, TX in February, 2017. Photo courtesy of SEED Coalition and No Nuclear Waste Aqui.] Federal appeals for and against high-level radioactive waste dumps targeting Texas and New Mexico are now before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Beyond…
Read MoreNew Holtec “Warning Signs”
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies of southeastern New Mexico.] In a New Jersey Monitor article by Jeff Pillets entitled “New legal claims offer ‘warning signs’ about energy firm Holtec, critics say,” Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps is quoted a number of times, including: “The stakes at play in trusting…
Read MoreAppealing adverse CISF ruling at D.C. Circuit Court
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On October 11, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel — Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA — met our 45-day deadline to appeal a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…
Read MoreSCOTUS to hear NRC/dumps’ appeal
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies of southeastern New Mexico. Holtec has targeted a site midway between Hobbs and Carlsbad, NM for its CISF. ISP has targeted the Waste Control Specialists, LLC site — a national “low-level” radioactive waste dump — just 0.3 miles from the NM state line…
Read MoreUS CISF overview, for NDI/Japan
On September 27, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was honored and privileged to present on a panel hosted by the New Diplomacy Initiative (NDI) in Tokyo, Japan. Kevin provided an overview of the resistance to highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities in the U.S. See Kevin’s slideshow, with Japanese translation of…
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