Radioactive Waste
Gundersen warns of yet more cracking at Palisades
[Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, our environmental coalition’s expert witness opposing Holtec’s extremely risky Palisades restart scheme.] {Sept. 12, 2025 update: MITechNews, a podcast out of Ann Arbor, MI, interviewed Arnie Gundersen, and Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps. See the 15-minute video recording of the Zoom interview here.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate…
Read MorePalisades steam generator appeal lodged at NRC Commission
[A photo of steam generator tubes in a pressurized water reactor, looking from the top down.] {The U.K.’s Daily Mail has reported on this story, quoting Beyond Nuclear.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe,…
Read MoreResponse to Holtec/Palisades’ claim of operational status
[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] {UPDATE: Michigan Public Radio quoted Beyond Nuclear in its coverage of this story. So too has Utility Dive.} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected]…
Read MoreA.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…
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