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Mothballed nuclear plant on brink of revival
Michigan’s Palisades plant is planning to turn on again this fall after Democrats and Republicans got behind the project — but it’s not free from controversy. As reported at E&E News. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a Palisades watchdog since 1992, is quoted.
Read MoreWho Pays the Price for Nuclear’s Clean Energy Promise?
Nuclear has been promoted as a climate solution for an energy-hungry society looking to wean itself from oil and gas. But is it as clean as advocates say? Article published by ATMOS on 7/9/25. Words by Yessenia Funes Luminograms by Marton Perlaki (The unprecedented zombie reactor restart at Palisades in Michigan is featured.) Full article…
Read MoreBOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague
BOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague Michael Slater, a former co-worker of Bob Alvarez on the staff of U.S. Senator John Glenn, has published an appreciation in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, after Bob’s death on July 1st. Slater included a link to Bob’s prolific Bulletin contributions, including an article he…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts On July 15, our environmental coalition appealed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners regarding the NRC Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board’s (ASLB) ruling against our new and amended environmental contentions in the…
Read MoreSMOKING GUN: 3 Years Since Holtec Con Job
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beginning in 2020, Holtec perpetrated a bait and switch trick at Palisades on Lake Michigan. Promising to decommission the half-century old, perpetually problem-plagued reactor after Entergy shut it for good on 5/20/22, Holtec instead applied to the…
Read MoreBob Alvarez, Presente!
It is with a profound sadness and sense of loss that we share the news of Bob Alvarez’s passing on July 1, 2025, at age 76. See the New York Times obituary, published on July 18, 2025, here. (Here below is a remembrance, shared by Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association: Friends:…
Read MoreState of Michigan Renews Palisades’ NPDES Permit
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] EMAIL WITH ATTACHMENTS FROM MI EGLE TO PUBLIC COMMENTERS ON PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR NPDES PERMIT: From: “McKay, Betsy (EGLE)” <[email protected]> Date: 07/02/2025 8:33 AM EDT Subject: Response to Comments on NPDES Permit No. MI0001457; Designated Name: Palisades…
Read MoreCoalition objects to Holtec’s alleged abuse of Palisades DTF
[“Burning Money” image, by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured 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 then being attempted.] {See our environmental coalition’s press release, here. Michigan Public/NPR and WZZM/ABC 13 have reported on this story.}…
Read MoreYet another Palisades ASLB forms
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Our environmental coalition continues challenging LARs (License Amendment Requests) associated with restarting the closed Palisades “zombie” atomic reactor in Covert Township, southwest Michigan. On June 16, our environmental coalition intervened against Holtec’s dangerous License Amendment Request (LAR)…
Read MoreVideo + updated fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport
Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called consolidated interim storage facilities), as well as such EJ communities also burdened by highly radioactive waste’s transportation along the…
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