On-Site Storage

[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…

[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse then very much under way at the time.] On February 4, 2025, Andrew Seidman and Abraham Gutman published an article in the business section of…

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Amanda Durish Cook in RTO Insider, LLC. (The article is behind a paywall.)

[The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is located at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission HQ in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC] Holtec International had been awarded the job of decommissioning the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country. Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear talks about the plant,…

[“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, attempted nuclear power relapse at that time.] An article published by E&E News, “Trump Spending Freeze on Rural Electric Co-ops Could Raise…

[Feb. 14, 2025 UPDATE: The written transcript of the oral argument pre-hearings has been published.] Thank you to Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future-Shoreline Chapter, for audio recording today’s U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) oral argument pre-hearings re: Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades in Covert…

[An aerial view of the V.C. Summer nuclear site near Jenkinsville, S.C. Credit: High Flyer] To meet the growing demand from data centers, the state is looking to give nuclear energy another try. Will it be cost-effective? Reported by Carrie Klein at Inside Climate News.

[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, about the Bush/Cheney attempted nuclear power relapse at that time. In fact, the $1.52 billion nuclear loan guarantee awarded Holtec by DOE for Palisades’ restart, below, was authorized by the Energy Policy…

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beyond Nuclear and our allies have resisted the leading closed-reactor-restart, at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, for nearly three years. Our environmental coalition has intervened against it, and will have a “day in court” at the Nuclear…