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Energy Department Pressed on Nuclear Fuel, Waste in Budget Bill
As reported by Bloomberg Law, re: consolidated interim storage facility and high-assay low enriched uranium funding levels at the U.S. Department of Energy, as decided and provided each year by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, using federal taxpayer funds.
Read MoreProhibition of federal funds for private interim storage of spent nuclear fuel
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (Democrat-Texas) introduced an amendment at the House Appropriations Committee markup hearing and vote on Fiscal Year 2023 Energy & Water Development funding that would have prohibited any federal spending on privately-owned consolidated interim storage facilities for highly radioactive waste. See the Cuellar amendment here: Rep. Cuellar did offer his amendment, but…
Read MorePublic Stonewalled in Holtec Takeover of Palisades and Big Rock Point Atomic Reactor Sites: Entergy Confirms License Transfer; No NRC Public Hearings Held
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Terry Lodge, legal counsel, Toledo, OH, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Takoma Park, MD, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Bette Pierman, President, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Benton Harbor, MI, (269) 369-3993, [email protected] Iris…
Read MoreBRIEF FOR AMICUS CURIAE NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC. IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS AND AFFIRMANCE
On June 13, 2022, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) — the nuclear power industry’s lobbying and public relations HQ in Washington, D.C. — filed a Friend of the Court Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Don’t Waste Michigan v. NRC case: NEI’s Friend of the Court…
Read MoreINITIAL BRIEF OF INTERVENOR INTERIM STORAGE PARTNERS, LLC
Interim Storage Partners, LLC filed its Initial Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on June 21, 2022. See ISP’s Initial Brief here: Petitioners (parties opposed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of ISP’s construction and operating license on September 13, 2021) include Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan…
Read MoreKevin Kamps’ statement re: Diablo at SLOMFP press conference
Image: “Diablo Boys,” by Mark Bryan — ArtOfMarkBryan.com
Read MoreNRC & DOJ filings in ISP CISF federal appeal at DC Circuit Court
On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Justice met the deadline for their response to federal appeals filed by Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, Sierra Club, et al. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case is referred to as Don’t Waste Michigan, et…
Read MoreCISFs would automatically double transport risks!
Consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) for highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel would automatically double already high transportation risks. First the wastes would be shipped from the nuclear power plants where they are currently stored, to a CISF. But someday — or some decade, or some century, depending on how long the CISFs would sit there…
Read MoreBriefs Filed in Federal Appeal against NRC Licensing of Interim Storage Partners Radioactive Waste Dump in Texas
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Mindy Goldstein, attorney for Beyond Nuclear, director, Emory University’s Turner Environmental Law Clinic, [email protected], (404) 727-3432 Michael Keegan, co-chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 Terry Lodge, attorney for Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., [email protected], (419)…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC: More join opposition to proposed waste dumps
On March 25, Natural Resource Defense Council and the City of Fort Worth filed Amicus briefs with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. They support legal challenges brought against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of Interim Storage Partners’ consolidated interim storage facility in West Texas. NRDC focused on the ISP…
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