Radioactive Waste
Court kills Holtec’s NM nuke dump license
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] As reported by Scott Wyland in the Santa Fe New Mexican. (Please note, this article may be behind a paywall.)
Read MoreCISF court rulings stacking up
As reported by Danielle Prokop at Source NM: Court rulings stacking up in U.S. nuclear storage fight Federal judge in Louisiana rules against Texas facility, while D.C. court considers another proposed site in southeastern New Mexico
Read More5th Circuit also vacates Holtec CISF license!
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, on March 27, 2024 issued a ruling vacating the license, approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in May 2023, for the construction and operation of Holtec…
Read MorePress Release–THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {As of mid-May, 2024, two more podcast episodes have been added, in addition to the ones discussed below. The two newest episodes include an interviewed conducted by Roger Rapoport with Stanford U. professor Mark Jacobson, and another…
Read MoreTHE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR: A Podcast about Palisades, Featuring Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps
See the press release here. The first six episdoes of the podcast, as of mid-May 2024, can be accessed at the following three sites: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door-series/id1745885298 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/cc12cc90-0d2d-4bce-8a82-96b43ee7f2b7/the-nuclear-reactor-next-door THE NUCLEAR REACTOR NEXT DOOR Why A Company With Zero Nuclear Reactor Operating Experience is Receiving Over $8 Billion to Restart Palisades A Podcast…
Read MoreNuclear boosterism has gotten reckless
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse at the time.] Today’s misguided focus on nuclear power is diverting us from renewables, storage and efficiency, hobbling us in our race against…
Read MoreReprocessing: ELEA says the quiet part out loud at Holtec in NM
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] In a March 17, 2024 article by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad, New Mexico Current Argus, entitled ” ‘State consent’ on nuclear stripped from Senate bill: Opponents try to use federal budget to call for state consent for nuclear…
Read MoreFull 5th Circuit Court Upholds Victory against Texas Nuke Waste Dump
On March 14, 2024, the full panel of 16 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, by a 9 to 7 vote, upheld the August 2023 ruling by a 3-judge panel, nullifying the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) September 2021 license approval for Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s (ISP)…
Read MoreNew Backgrounders about Palisades & Big Rock Point!
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published three new backgrounders about the closed for good Palisades atomic reactor (Covert Township, near South Haven), and its sibling closed reactor site, the decommissioned Big Rock Point (Hayes Township,…
Read MoreNRC Cites Holtec for Improper Use of Decommissioning Trust Funds
Holtec Decommissioning International has misspent money from the decommissioning trust funds at all four nuclear plants it owns, using it to pay for activities like parades and softball games when federal regulations restrict the use to decommissioning of the reactors and cleaning up the contaminated sites. As reported by Christine Legere in the Provincetown Independent…
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