Radioactive Waste
Biden 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…
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 MoreD.C. Circuit Blesses Holtec’s Environmental Injustice
[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On August 27, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dubbed the “second highest court in the land,” just below the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled against Beyond Nuclear, a grassroots environmental coalition, and…
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 MoreDOE keen to downplay Mobile Chornobyl risks, yet again
[Image: The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) submitted the map, above, as official public comments on the Interim Storage Partners, LLC (ISP) Draft EIS in Nov. 2020. It shows the most likely rail transport routes to haul irradiated nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants, to the proposed highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF)…
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,…
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