Centralized Storage
Holtec’s Initial Brief in Beyond Nuclear v. NRC
[Image above: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, New Mexico.] On December 1, 2023, Holtec International, Intervenor for Respondent, filed its Initial Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the case Beyond Nuclear, et al., versus U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Beyond Nuclear is one…
Read MoreFederal response to Beyond Nuclear et al.’s appeals against Holtec CISF in NM
[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] On November 9, 2023, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Justice filed their 103-page RESPONDENTS’ INITIAL BRIEF in the case Beyond Nuclear versus NRC, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A week later, the…
Read MoreGrassroots pushback against DOE’s bogus “Consent-Based Siting” for federal CISFs!
As posted on March 8, 2022 at Beyond Nuclear’s now-archived website: Top Ten Overarching Comments, in Summary Form, Submitted to DOE on March 4 by a Coalition of 140 Groups, Opposing Federal CISFs (1.) The most serious and inevitable risk if the U.S. Department of Energy were to take ownership of commercial highly radioactive nuclear waste…
Read MoreDOE dog and pony show re: “consent-based siting”
On Thursday, November 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) held a so-called “open house,” regarding its so-called “consent-based siting” scheme for high-level radioactive waste “consolidated interim storage facilities” (CISFs). See DOE’s “consent-based siting” homepage, here. It turned out that DOE, and its dozen consortia representing the nuclear power industry, academia, a half-dozen Native…
Read MoreDOE “Consent-Based Siting” CISF meeting, Nov. 2, 4-5pm ET
[Image above: Texans express non-consent to consolidated interim storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste in their state, or shipments through TX bound for CISFs in other states, such as New Mexico. Learn more at No Nuclear Waste Aqui.] {Beyond Nuclear, in coalition with hundreds of environmental and environmental justice groups across the country, have resisted…
Read MoreAppeals filed en banc to 5th Circuit Court, in favor of Texas dump
[Image above: Opponents to ISP’s CISF at WCS, TX speak out at NRC environmental public comment meeting in Feb., 2017 in Andrews, TX.] NRC and DOJ, as well as ISP, have filed petitions en banc, asking the full roster of judges at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overrule a…
Read MoreNUKESPEAK: “Clean” hydrogen from nuclear?!
[Image: Front cover of the 1983 book NUKESPEAK, republished with a new introduction post-Fukushima.] Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave, he could be hooked up to a turbo-generator and qualify for clean energy production tax credits (a paraphrase of a 2006 joke by then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Ed Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts), about DOE nuclear…
Read MoreGroups Demand DOE EIS Before Agency Bails Out Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Terry Lodge, environmental coalition co-counsel, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Environmental Coalition Demands DOE Prepare EIS before Bailing Out Palisades for Unprecedented Restart NEPA Requires “Major Federal Project” Hard Look, Groups…
Read MoreNM AG Opposes Holtec CISF
On Friday, September 8, 2023, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed an Amicus Brief, arguing against the Holtec International license granted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Friend of the Court Brief is in support of Beyond Nuclear and others’ legal challenges to the NRC license in federal appeals currently before the U.S.…
Read MorePress Statement re: Palisades zombie reactor restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Wolverine and Hoosier Rural Electric Co-Ops’ Power Purchase Agreement with Holtec for Palisades’ Electricity a ‘Pig in a Poke,’ Says Critic Reliability, Affordability, and Even Safety Put at Extreme Risk by Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Scheme COVERT TOWNSHIP,…
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