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Palisades: $2.79 billion in bailouts, and counting
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] On September 9, 2024, Kelly House at Bridge Michigan has published an article entitled “Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash.” She reported on a close to billion-dollar bailout to support the…
Read MoreWSJ on Palisades zombie reactor restart
The Wall Street Journal published an article on August 26, 2024 entitled “Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s Be Brought Back to Life? Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart Michigan’s decommissioned Palisades plant. It would be a global first.” (The article is mostly…
Read MoreCoalition resists Palisades zombie reactor restart license transfer
[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Michigan Public Radio, Crain’s Detroit Business, and ExchangeMonitor have reported on this story.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, convenor, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734)…
Read MorePalisades zombie reactor action alert!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, For the second time in just three short weeks, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding a major public meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan, regarding Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, in Van Buren County,…
Read MoreMore than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed coalition Palisades comments by July 29!
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000, with Palisades and Lake Michigan visible in the background.] UPDATE, July 29, 2024 More than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed the coalition comments. Thank you all! See the final coalition environmental scoping comments, as submitted by environmental coalition co-legal counsel,…
Read MorePALISADES ZOMBIE REACTOR: Action Alert on Environmental Scoping
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ============================================================================================ July 17, 2024 Update: ZOMBIE NUKE?! Enviros Resist Feds & Holtec at Palisades At the July 11 Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Department of Energy hybrid public comment meeting on environmental scoping for the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme,…
Read MoreU.S. Senate passes pro-nuclear ADVANCE Act, 88 to 2
To paraphrase investigative reporter Greg Palast, it seems Congress is “the best that money can buy,” regarding the influence of nuclear industry lobbying and campaign contributions on its legislating. Thanks to all who took action to try to prevent this horrible outcome. But alas, we lost — very badly. On June 18, 2024, the United…
Read MoreAction Alert for Michiganders: Urge Your State Senator & Representative to Block another $150 Million of State Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts for Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart!
[“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 administration’s nuclear power relapse.] ***Urgent Action Alert*** Urge Your Michigan State Senator & Representative to Block another $150 Million of State Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts for Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart!…
Read MoreBACKGROUND INFO. ON HOLTEC’S ZOMBIE REACTOR RESTART, AND “SMALL MODULAR REACTOR” NEW BUILD, SCHEMES ON THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORE
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Backgrounder, posted in PDF format with functioning hot links to cited documents. This backgrounder complements a June 14, 2024 action alert focused on preventing yet another $150 million bailout by the State of Michigan for the Palisades…
Read MoreLong-serving Holtec advisory board member indicted on racketeering in New Jersey
[Photo: George Norcross (center) sits in the front row before a press conference where New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (not pictured) announced corruption charges against him in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 17, 2024. | Daniel Han/POLITICO] As reported by Politico, George E. Norcross III (pictured above), a New Jersey Democratic Party kingmaker and…
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