On-Site Storage
Attempted 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…
Read MoreUA/RU RISKS: Threats to NPPs, of N Weapons Use
[Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon, created from fragments of Soviet and US nuclear missiles that were destroyed under a treaty. Photo:UN Photo/Milton Grant] Ukraine’s (UA) president, Zelensky, warned the annual United Nations (UN) General Assembly of world leaders yesterday Russia (RU) is threatening to attack UA’s nuclear power plants. This, while the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…
Read MorePalisades: $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…
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