Radioactive Waste
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor in IA and Terry Lodge in OH. At Palisades, Holtec missed its years-long stated…
Read MorePress Statement: Holtec Misses Palisades Restart Deadline; Enviro Lawsuit
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {E&E News by POLITICO has reported on this story, but the article is behind a paywall.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Press Statement…
Read MoreCISF@SCOTUS: Reply Brief filed by deadline
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the filing of our Reply Brief. The article is behind a paywall, so a link cannot be…
Read MoreOur Reply to Holtec on CISF SCOTUS Appeal
[Photo of the nine Justices currently comprising the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the filing of our Reply Brief. The article is behind a paywall, so a link cannot be provided…
Read MoreBAS exposés on Holtec
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] Investigative journalist Matt Smith has published two articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in the past couple weeks regarding Holtec International. The first, published November 20, 2025, is entitled “How Holtec International Became an Expanding (and…
Read MoreNM-MI-UT Amici Brief to SCOTUS, in support of Beyond Nuclear’s Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On December 4, 2025, the States of New Mexico, Michigan, and Utah submitted an Amici Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), in support of Beyond Nuclear’s Petition for a Writ of Cert. NM and MI…
Read MorePress Statement re: $400 Million DOE Bailout for “SMRs” at Palisades
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Michigan Advance has reported on this story. Kyle Davidson’s article is entitled “Amid safety concerns, Whitmer touts $400 million in federal funds for new reactors at Palisades.”} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive…
Read MoreNRC ACRS to Discuss Palisades’ Degraded Steam Generators, Dec. 4, 8:30am ET
[Photo, looking from the top downwards, of tubes in a typical steam generator at a pressurized water reactor — not Palisades. Holtec’s self-inflicted steam generator tube degradation risks a release of hazardous ionizing radioactivity into the environment, or even a full-blown reactor core meltdown, at the 60-year old (designed in the mid-1960s, ground broken for…
Read MoreRest in Power, James “Jim” Heddle (Aug. 1940- Nov. 2025)
November 25, 2025 Message from the San Onofre Syndrome Team: It is with deep sadness and the heaviest of hearts that we share the passing of James Heddle, award-winning filmmaker, co-director of EON Ecological Options Network, and the anchor, along with Mary Beth, of Team SOS. The inimitable Jim Heddle was a creative genius and…
Read MoreIUFF 2025, Las Vegas, NV
[IUFF logo design by Klee Benally] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Laura Piffero, Shoshone/Paiute (602) 391-3656 Thalia “Star” Guerrero: (435) 879-9086 Norbert Suchanek, [email protected], uraniumfilmfestival.org Media Release from Native Community Action Council P.O. Box 46301, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114 www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2025 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA NOVEMBER 21,…
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