On-Site Storage
New Holtec “Warning Signs”
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies of southeastern New Mexico.] In a New Jersey Monitor article by Jeff Pillets entitled “New legal claims offer ‘warning signs’ about energy firm Holtec, critics say,” Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps is quoted a number of times, including: “The stakes at play in trusting…
Read MorePalisades: Public Speaks Out Against “Zombie Atomic Reactor”
[Photo: Protestors at Van Buren State Park, with Palisades’ containment building, cooling tower steam, and Lake Michigan visible in the background, Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000; photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] {November 21, 2024 update: WWMT TV-3 from Kalamazoo covered this story, quoting Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps at length. So too did ABC 57…
Read MoreAttempted Nuke Relapse Recalls Past Boondoggles
[“Burning Money,” image by Gene Case and Avenging Angels. It appeared on the cover of The Nation in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, pushing back about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse at that time.] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published an opinion-editorial in POWER. It…
Read MoreEnvironmental coalition replies to NRC & Holtec at Palisades zombie reactor
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] An environmental coalition has replied to attacks (“Answers”) filed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Holtec Decommissioning International on November 4, 2024, against/to the coalition’s October 7, 2024 request for a hearing and petition to intervene,…
Read MorePalisades zombie reactor: NRC & Holtec “Answer” Opponents
November 4, 2024 update re: resistance to Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant (pictured) in Covert, Michigan: NRC staff “Answered” the environmental coalition‘s October 7, 2024 intervention petition and hearing request. NRC staff also “Answered” Alan Blind and Palisades Park residents’ petition and request. Likewise, Holtec International “Answered” both Beyond Nuclear…
Read MorePalisades’ problem-plagued “containment coatings and sump strainers”
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] MEDIA ADVISORY: 10:30am ET, Thursday, 10/24/24 Public Mtg. between NRC & Holtec/Palisades, with public comment/question session, re: “Containment coatings and sump strainers” at Palisades atomic reactor — yet another long unresolved risk of core meltdown Dear News…
Read MoreIntervention against Zombie Reactor Restart
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Our environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future — which has intervened together against Palisades multiple times in the past dozen years, now welcomes Three Mile Island Alert of Harrisburg, PA,…
Read MoreNew NRC Report Highlights Dangerous Components at Palisades Nuclear Plant
[Palisades atomic reactor, located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] {The Register has reported on this story.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, co-chair, board of directors, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI,…
Read MoreUS CISF overview, for NDI/Japan
On September 27, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was honored and privileged to present on a panel hosted by the New Diplomacy Initiative (NDI) in Tokyo, Japan. Kevin provided an overview of the resistance to highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities in the U.S. See Kevin’s slideshow, with Japanese translation of…
Read MoreBiden Administration closes deal on $1.52B loan for Palisades restart effort
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] As reported by Tom Henry in the Toledo Blade. The article quotes a former engineering director at Palisades under the previous owner, Entergy: But Alan Blind, who was the engineering director at Palisades from May of 2006…
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