THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: A Podcast about Palisades, Featuring Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps

See the press release here.   The first six episdoes of the podcast, as of mid-May 2024, can be accessed at the following three sites:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door-series/id1745885298     https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/cc12cc90-0d2d-4bce-8a82-96b43ee7f2b7/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door   THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR  Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades A Podcast…

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Nuclear boosterism has gotten reckless

[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse at the time.] Today’s misguided focus on nuclear power is diverting us from renewables, storage and efficiency, hobbling us in our race against…

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New Backgrounders about Palisades & Big Rock Point!

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published three new backgrounders about the closed for good Palisades atomic reactor (Covert Township, near South Haven), and its sibling closed reactor site, the decommissioned Big Rock Point (Hayes Township,…

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NRC Cites Holtec for Improper Use of Decommissioning Trust Funds

Holtec Decommissioning International has misspent money from the decommissioning trust funds at all four nuclear plants it owns, using it to pay for activities like parades and softball games when federal regulations restrict the use to decommissioning of the reactors and cleaning up the contaminated sites. As reported by Christine Legere in the Provincetown Independent…

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Breakdown of Bailouts at Holtec’s Palisades NPP

[Image: Design 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 nuclear power relapse.]   [April 10, 2025 update: TRUMP LOVES NUKES. In words & deeds, he and his administration promote the nuclear power industry. President…

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Newest Nuke Nightmares at Palisades, 2022-Present

[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Below is a reverse (present day to past) chronological listing of Beyond Nuclear web posts about the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme (and so-called “Small Modular Reactor” new builds scheme on the same tiny 432-acre site),…

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“Unbelievable” bailouts fund zombie nuke nightmares

[Image designed by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power relapse.] In Stateline on February 12, 2024, Alex Brown published an article entitled “Federal money could supercharge state efforts to preserve nuclear power:…

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OH indictments in nuclear-bribery-for-bailouts conspiracy

On February 12, 2024, State of Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost — flanked by Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh and Summit County Sheriff Kandy Fatheree — announced dozens of state felony indictments against two former FirstEnergy executives — Charles “Chuck” Jones, former CEO of FirstEnergy, and Michael Dowling, former FirstEnergy senior vice president of…

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Holtec is infamous for lying

[Tee shirt graphic art, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico.] Holtec is infamous for lying. Or at least for major reversals. Also known as con jobs. A few examples: (1.) Holtec said beginning in 2020 that it wanted to take over the Palisades nuclear power plant…

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