OPPOSITION MOUNTING TO PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART

[Protestors at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000 at Van Buren State Park in Covert Township, Van Burn County, southwest Michigan. The cooling tower steam and reactor containment building are visible in the background, as is Lake Michigan. Photo by Gabriela Bulišová.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Wally Taylor, environmental…

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CISFs@SCOTUS: Arguments Over “Nuking” Permian

[The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) as composed June 30, 2022 to present. Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.  Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett,…

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Amended and New Contentions Opposing Palisades “Zombie” Reactor Restart

[Aerial view of Palisades nuclear power plant, looking eastward. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.] Our environmental coalition’s legal counsel, Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids IA, and Terry Lodge of Toledo OH, filed the following with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) by…

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NRC Palisades Restart EA/FONSI: Environmental Coalition Comments

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] An environmental coalition opposed to the “zombie” reactor restart by Holtec at Palisades in Michigan filed comments with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) before the agency’s arbitrarily short 30-day deadline last night, regarding its draft Environment…

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Listen live, Wed., March 5, 10am ET: CISFs@SCOTUS!

[Protestors speak out against Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission environmental scoping public comment hearings in Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear,  [email protected], 240-462-3216 Stephen Kent, media consultant, [email protected], 914-589-5988 Source:  Beyond…

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MI Nuke Resurgence: Potential Health Impacts?

[Photo above shows the Palisades atomic reactor during its previous operational phase (notice steam rising from cooling towers), Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, view facing east. The Palisades Park County Club, a 120-year old resort community of 200 cottages, is to the immediate right, to the south, sharing the fence line.] “A Nuclear…

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Holtec Submits Yet More Palisades LARs!

[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová from the second Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor, August 2000. Palisades’  reactor containment building and steam are visible, as is Lake Michigan.] ZOMBIE NUKE?!   The Rube Goldberg machine of a make-it-up-as-you-go “regulatory pathway to restart” at the Palisades…

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‘Nothing short of an act of God would force me to fire you’

[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated Bush/Cheney nuclear power relapse then very much under way at the time.] On February 4, 2025, Andrew Seidman and Abraham Gutman published an article in the business section of…

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Beyond Nuclear Argues Against Recommissioning of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant

[The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is located at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission HQ in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC] Holtec International had been awarded the job of decommissioning the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country. Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear talks about the plant,…

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