On-Site Storage

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Holtec and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) zealous and reckless push for restart of the 60-year old zombie reactor, as well as “Small Modular Reactor” new builds, at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert, Michigan, has…

[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…

[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.

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…

[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…

[“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.…

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…

[“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 attempted nuclear power relapse.] TRUMP Bailouts Continue to Flow   During the presidential campaign and since taking office, Donald Trump has hooted and hollered…

TMI, 46 YEARS ON Restart Despite Past Disaster?! On March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 2 in Pennsylvania had a 50% meltdown (pictured), the worst commercial reactor disaster in U.S. history. Ignoring that cautionary tale, Constellation schemes to restart Unit 1, closed for good in 2019, supposedly to power Microsoft A.I. data centers.…