On-Site Storage

ZOMBIE NUKE?! Coalition Opposes Duane Arnold NextEra’s Fukushima twin design reactor in Iowa closed for good after a close call with catastrophe in August 2020. A direct hit by 140 mile per hour derecho winds not only damaged the cooling towers, but also caused a loss of offsite power. The 1% risk of a meltdown…

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] SMR-300s Not-So-Small, But Oh-So-Mythical Reactors Beyond Nuclear and Don’t Waste Michigan did battle with Holtec over so-called Small Modular Reactor (SMR) new builds at Palisades in southwest Michigan. But Holtec’s 300 Megawatt-electric reactors are 4.5 times larger…

[“Burning Money” graphic by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse.] As reported by Abigail Taylor at News Channel 3 (WWMT) in Kalamazoo, MI on Monday, March 17, 2025. Beyond Nuclear’s…

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] April 2025 marks three years since this nuclear nightmare began: Holtec’s decommissioning scam was revealed at the Palisades atomic reactor on the Great Lakes shore in Michigan. Holtec CEO Krishna Singh floated the trial balloon of building…

An article by M.V. Ramana, published at Counterpunch. M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia and the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India. He is also the author of Nuclear is Not…

[Protestors at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000 at Van Buren State Park in Covert Township, Van Burn County, southwest Michigan. The cooling tower steam and reactor containment building are visible in the background, as is Lake Michigan. Photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Wally Taylor, environmental…

[Aerial view of Palisades nuclear power plant, looking eastward. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] Our environmental coalition’s legal counsel, Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids IA, and Terry Lodge of Toledo OH, filed the following with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) by…

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] An environmental coalition opposed to the “zombie” reactor restart by Holtec at Palisades in Michigan filed comments with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) before the agency’s arbitrarily short 30-day deadline last night, regarding its draft Environment…

[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová from the second Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor, August 2000. Palisades’  reactor containment building and steam are visible, as is Lake Michigan.] ZOMBIE NUKE?!   The Rube Goldberg machine of a make-it-up-as-you-go “regulatory pathway to restart” at the Palisades…