Radioactive Waste
Holtec’s Initial Brief in Beyond Nuclear v. NRC
[Image above: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, New Mexico.] On December 1, 2023, Holtec International, Intervenor for Respondent, filed its Initial Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the case Beyond Nuclear, et al., versus U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Beyond Nuclear is one…
Read MoreUS House blocks RECA extension in defense bill
The US House has blocked the proposed inclusion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Amendments of 2023 in the current National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to extend the program for another 19 years and expand its financial relief to more US communities impacted by harmful radiation exposure caused by the government and nuclear industry.…
Read MoreEnvironmental Coalition Intervenes Against Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart
[Image above: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] See the December 6, 2023 press release by Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future. See the legal and technical documents submitted to NRC on December 5, 2023, below: PETITION TO INTERVENE AND…
Read MoreResisting 20 More Years at Perry
Beyond Nuclear has joined with the Ohio Nuclear-Free Network to challenge Energy Harbor’s (formerly, FirstEnergy Nuclear) application for a 20-year license extension at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, on the Lake Erie shore in Ohio, northeast of Cleveland (pictured above). If approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the 20-year extension would allow Perry…
Read MoreFederal response to Beyond Nuclear et al.’s appeals against Holtec CISF in NM
[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] On November 9, 2023, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Justice filed their 103-page RESPONDENTS’ INITIAL BRIEF in the case Beyond Nuclear versus NRC, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A week later, the…
Read MoreNEIS Night With The Experts–Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides. November 30, 7pm CST
NEIS (Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago) announced, re-posted here with permission: You’re Invited to A Night with the Experts Featuring: Dr. Arjun Makhijani President and Co-Founder of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Speaking on Exploring Tritium Dangers Health & Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides Thursday, November 30, 2023 7pm Central…
Read MoreNEIS Statement on the Legislature’s Partial Repeal of Illinois’ Nuclear Construction Moratorium, and Embrace of Small Modular Reactors
Thank you to everyone who took action as we forwarded action alerts from Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago (NEIS) over the past many weeks. Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s nuclear construction moratorium. Ironically enough, the state legislature’s unwise move came at the very…
Read MoreGrassroots pushback against DOE’s bogus “Consent-Based Siting” for federal CISFs!
As posted on March 8, 2022 at Beyond Nuclear’s now-archived website: Top Ten Overarching Comments, in Summary Form, Submitted to DOE on March 4 by a Coalition of 140 Groups, Opposing Federal CISFs (1.) The most serious and inevitable risk if the U.S. Department of Energy were to take ownership of commercial highly radioactive nuclear waste…
Read MoreHelp defend new reactor moratorium!
See urgent action alert from David Kraft, director, Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago, below. If you reside in Illinois, please take action ASAP, and spread the word to everyone you know in Illinois. If you do not reside in Illinois, please forward this alert to folks you know there, ASAP. Kraft also got an…
Read MoreDOE dog and pony show re: “consent-based siting”
On Thursday, November 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) held a so-called “open house,” regarding its so-called “consent-based siting” scheme for high-level radioactive waste “consolidated interim storage facilities” (CISFs). See DOE’s “consent-based siting” homepage, here. It turned out that DOE, and its dozen consortia representing the nuclear power industry, academia, a half-dozen Native…
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