Radioactive Waste
A.I. Criticism of Holtec’s Palisades Reactor Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, [email protected]; Terry Lodge, environmental coalition co-counsel, Toledo, OH, [email protected]; Wally Taylor, environmental coalition co-counsel, Cedar Rapids, IA, [email protected] A.I.…
Read MoreNuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen to testify at NRC ACRS mtg. on 8/21 re: Holtec’s Palisades steam generator tube degradation
[Photo of a typical steam generator in a pressurized water reactor like Palisades. The exceedingly thin-walled tubes are shown, looking from the top down.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer/expert witness, (802) 238-4452; Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t…
Read MoreDOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on
DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on By the mid-1980s, Dr. Mary Sinclair (pictured), co-founder of Don’t Waste Michigan, had helped lead the movement to victory, against Consumers Power’s Midland nuclear power plant, blocking the partially-built Nuclear Leaning Tower of Pisa twin reactors. They would have largely electrified and provided industrial steam for Dow…
Read MoreFEMA@PALISADES
FEMA@PALISADES Rushed Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) The Federal Emergency Management Agency held a public meeting in southwest Michigan about re-establishing emergency preparedness/evacuation planning (EP) at the long closed Palisades atomic reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore. On July 11, 2022, Holtec successfully requested the Nuclear Regulatory Commission exempt Palisades from EP requirements, as the reactor had…
Read MoreIs Holtec pulling out of New Mexico?
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES).] August 14, 2025 article by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad Current-Argus. The article reports on a recent letter from Holtec International to its southeastern New Mexico business partners, the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance. The letter reads, in part, as reported: “Unfortunately, the passage…
Read MoreNuclear-Free Anishinaabe Aki Rally Sets Stage for Intensifying Opposition to Nuclear Waste
[Thank you — Miigwetch — to We the Nuclear-Free North, in whose e-newsletter this article and photo appeared. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, had the honor and privilege of meeting Fort William First Nation officials and members while in Thunder Bay speaking out against the highly radioactive waste dump scheme on Earth Day…
Read MoreCourt rejects our appeals against Holtec CISF
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] On August 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Beyond Nuclear’s appeal for a rehearing, either en banc (before all the judges of the circuit court), or by the initial three-judge panel which ruled against us…
Read MoreASLB rejects our Palisades SG tube intervention
[Photo of typical steam generator (SG) tubes, looking from the top downward.] On August 5, 2025, a three-administrative judge (or -hearing examiner) panel of the Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) ruled against our environmental coalition’s intervention petition regarding severe steam generator (SG) tube degradation at the Palisades atomic reactor in Covert Township, on…
Read MoreArnie Gundersen on Nuclear Hotseat re: Palisades
Here is Nuclear Hotseat Podcast host Libbe HaLevy’s write up: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, whistleblower, and green energy advocate who has been a consulting expert on many nuclear reactor issues, including the shut down of the San Onofre nuclear facility in southern California. Here, he explains the problems with the planned restart of…
Read MorePalisades steam generators: Enviros object to NRC-Holtec conspiracy
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {Update: WWMT TV-3 in Kalamazoo, Michigan has reported on this story. Their coverage quotes Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps. The 3 minute 30 second-long segment has been posted on YouTube.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact:…
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