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JOIN US: REPORT BACK on Nuclear weapons UN meeting
You are invited to an informal zoom REPORT BACK to the community, April 16, 4:30 PM ET on the third Meeting of States Parties (MSP3) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that took place in NYC at United Nations Headquarters, March 2-7. Mary Olson (Founder of Gender and Radiation Impact Project)…
Read MoreTELL CONGRESS ‘NO NUKES’!
During the March 24 webinar on nuclear power hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action, and featuring M.V. Ramana and Paul Gunter, participants were asked to complete an action item that sends a strong anti-nuke message to their members of Congress, urging them not to vote to allocate further public resources to nuclear power. Click this link,…
Read More11am ET, 2/12 NRC ASLB hearings re: Palisades restart, with listen-only call-in phone line
[Holtec’s Palisades atomic reactor, located in Covert Township, south of South Haven, in Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Michael Keegan, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 (Media reporters wishing to speak with…
Read MoreSpeak out @ 1/14 Palisades Mtg.!
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, co-chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] PRESS ADVISORY: Jan. 14, 2025 NRC/Holtec Hybrid Meeting on Palisades…
Read MoreNuclear Weapons Are Not a Fact of Life
[Image compliments of ICAN.] An op-ed of this title was just published in the New York Times by Beatrice Fihn. Fihn is is the director of Lex International Fund and the former executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. (Beyond Nuclear is an ICAN member.) She reminds us of…
Read MorePalisades’ problem-plagued “containment coatings and sump strainers”
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] MEDIA ADVISORY: 10:30am ET, Thursday, 10/24/24 Public Mtg. between NRC & Holtec/Palisades, with public comment/question session, re: “Containment coatings and sump strainers” at Palisades atomic reactor — yet another long unresolved risk of core meltdown Dear News…
Read MoreBring Indigenous Radiation Survivors to D.C.
Demand Indigenous Radiation Survivors are heard in D.C. From the RECA Working Group fundraiser: “We Demand Justice. For too long, Indigenous communities have suffered in silence. Government nuclear weapons programs have made us sick, yet we are still fighting for the basic health screenings and compensation we deserve. Indigenous communities have been on the frontlines…
Read MorePalisades zombie reactor action alert!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, For the second time in just three short weeks, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding a major public meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan, regarding Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, in Van Buren County,…
Read MoreMore than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed coalition Palisades comments by July 29!
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, August 2000, with Palisades and Lake Michigan visible in the background.] UPDATE, July 29, 2024 More than 80 organizations, and around 150 individuals, endorsed the coalition comments. Thank you all! See the final coalition environmental scoping comments, as submitted by environmental coalition co-legal counsel,…
Read MorePALISADES ZOMBIE REACTOR: Action Alert on Environmental Scoping
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ============================================================================================ July 17, 2024 Update: ZOMBIE NUKE?! Enviros Resist Feds & Holtec at Palisades At the July 11 Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Department of Energy hybrid public comment meeting on environmental scoping for the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme,…
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