Radioactive Waste
Forum on Palisades Nuclear Plant’s ‘decommissioning’ turns into debate over restarting reactor
As reported by MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette. Beyond Nuclear is quoted: …Kevin Kamps with the organization Beyond Nuclear, accused Holtec of taking part in a “con job” by taking ownership of Palisades for decommissioning and shortly afterward announcing it’s effort to restart it. “This will be challenged,” Kamps said. “Just as the plant was challenged before it…
Read More2018 documentary about South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, by Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac
God’s River, by filmmakers Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac GOD’S RIVER is a short documentary film created by Mark Isaac and Gabriela Bulisova as part of their work in Ukraine supported by a Fulbright grant. Energy producers and environmentalists agree that climate change has significantly reduced the flow of the Southern Bug River, the longest river…
Read MoreNCAC: Western Shoshone land ownership contention in opposition to Yucca dump
As the State of Nevada moved to re-open the NRC’s Yucca Mountain dump licensing proceeding, in order to terminate it once and for all, the Native Community Action Council (NCAC) took no position on the motion. NCAC re-asserted its land ownership contention, based on the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians’ treaty with…
Read MoreNevada files motion regarding Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Project, launches dedicated website with educational resources
CARSON CITY, NV – September 20, 2022 Today, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects announced the filing of a new legal motion to bring an end to failed federal plans to construct a repository for the nation’s highly radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, 65 miles northwest of Clark County’s populated…
Read MoreOral argument re: ISP CISF federal appeal scheduled for Nov. 10 in D.C. Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has scheduled oral argument in the federal appeal Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., versus U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, re: Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility targeted at the Waste Control Specialists, LLC’s national “low-level” radioactive waste dump in Andrews…
Read MoreHoltec’s PSDAR and DCE for Palisades; NRC public comment meeting Sept. 22, in-person and virtual/teleconference
Holtec International’s Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report and Decommissioning Cost Estimate for the Palisades atomic reactor in Covert, Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline, was published on December 23, 2020. The document is 98 pages long. The PSDAR begins on page 1 of 98, while the DCE begins on page 48 of 98, on the PDF…
Read MoreHigh-Level Radioactive Waste Dump Legal Hearing, Mon., Aug. 29–5th Circuit Court
Thank you to Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition in Austin, TX for the following alert: LISTEN TO the TX versus NRC legal case Monday morning! The State of Texas, Fasken Land and Minerals Company and the Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners are suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in federal appeals court, opposing the…
Read MoreBiden Urged to Act Swiftly on Ukraine Nuclear Plant
Letter from dozens of experts and former officials calls on the U.S. president to demand immediate IAEA inspection of the Zaporizhzhia plant As reported by the Wall Street Journal on August 25, 2022. (The article is behind a paywall. Only the first few paragraphs are readable, without a subscription.)
Read MoreChina calls on Putin to end Russian roulette at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine after disaster near-miss
Beijing warns that just one incident might cause a serious nuclear accident ‘with irreversible consequences for the ecosystem and public health of Ukraine and its neighbouring countries.’ As reported by iNews.
Read MoreUkraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant reconnected to country’s power grid, nuclear operator says
As reported by CNN on Friday morning, August 26, 2022. The article reports: An administrative worker at the plant told CNN Friday that amid “shelling around the station and the city, smoke from fires, dust from the ash dump of a thermal power plant,” the “situation sometimes looks like the end of the world.” “It’s…
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