Centralized Storage
Beyond 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…
Read MoreD.C. Circuit Blesses Holtec’s Environmental Injustice
[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On August 27, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dubbed the “second highest court in the land,” just below the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled against Beyond Nuclear, a grassroots environmental coalition, and…
Read MoreHoltec appeals to SCOTUS re: NM nuke waste dump
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES)] As posted at its website, Holtec International has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, regarding its highly radioactive waste dump targeted at New Mexico. See Holtec’s Writ of Cert., here. See the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s closely industry-allied Writ of Cert., here. Holtec is…
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