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New book looks at the human stories along the uranium chain and the true impacts of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and the links between them No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War by Beyond Nuclear’s founder Linda Pentz Gunter (pictured), is now available to order from Pluto Press.…
Read MoreDeep Fission to get Deep Environmental review?
Mixing the words “exemptions, exclusions” and “nuclear safety regulations” sends a dire warning. On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed four Executive Orders relating to sweeping federal policy changes that fast-track new US nuclear power commercial development and deployment nationally and globally. This included the signing of White House Executive Order 14299 “Deploying…
Read MoreEnviro coalition defends EJ against NWMO DGR!
[Photo from We the Nuclear Free North newsletter, summer 2025] An environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) — has defended Environmental Justice (EJ) against the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) latest Deep Geological Repository (DGR) scheme. The coalition submitted…
Read MoreYet MORE safety-significant SNAFUS at Palisades!
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future–Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Feb. 6, 2026 UPDATE: Regarding this subject matter below, Roger Rapoport has published an article entitled “Delayed Michigan Nuclear Plant Restart Could Hurt Atomic Energy Industry: Bad Welds At Obsolete Michigan Nuclear Plant Could Delay Restart…
Read MorePalisades restart: Gundersen invokes Space Shuttle disaster 40 years ago as cautionary tale
[Photograph of top-down view of steam generator tubes in a typical pressurized water reactor like Palisades.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 Terry Lodge, attorney, Toledo, OH, [email protected] Wallace Taylor,…
Read MoreDuane Arnold: IUC approves our Petition to Intervene against restart
On January 26, 2026, the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) approved Beyond Nuclear’s December 31, 2025 Petition to Intervene. See the IUC’s ruling here. Beyond Nuclear is intervening, on behalf of its members and supporters in Iowa, due to the safety and environmental risks associated with NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor…
Read MoreNuclear Hotseat: SCOTUS refusal to review Holtec CISF
Libbe HaLevy interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps on January 16, 2026, regarding the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denial of a writ of certiorari for Beyond Nuclear to challenge adverse rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s license…
Read MoreIUC intervention against Duane Arnold restart
Beyond Nuclear is striving to intervene at the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC), against NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor (pictured above). Duane Arnold is a more than 50-year old General Electric Mark 1 reactor — that is, a twin-design to Fukushima Daiichi. Our legal counsel is Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids,…
Read MoreU.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT. TO BEYOND NUCLEAR RE: HOLTEC HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP LICENSE IN NEW MEXICO
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] (*See below the press release, for a note regarding consolidated interim storage facility transport risks, sent to reporters covering Holtec’s Palisades closed reactor restart scheme in Michigan. However, such transport risks apply to every reactor in the U.S.) {The…
Read MorePalisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic reactor as a top news story of 2025 (or as a top environmental story to watch in 2026): Michigan Advance’s…
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