U.S. Senate passes pro-nuclear ADVANCE Act, 88 to 2

To paraphrase investigative reporter Greg Palast, it seems Congress is “the best that money can buy,” regarding the influence of nuclear industry lobbying and campaign contributions on its legislating. Thanks to all who took action to try to prevent this horrible outcome. But alas, we lost — very badly. On June 18, 2024, the United…

Read More

Action Alert for Michiganders: Urge Your State Senator & Representative to Block another $150 Million of State Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts for Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart!

[“Burning money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the Bush/Cheney administration’s nuclear power relapse.] ***Urgent Action Alert*** Urge Your Michigan State Senator & Representative to Block another $150 Million of State Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts for Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart!…

Read More

BACKGROUND INFO. ON HOLTEC’S ZOMBIE REACTOR RESTART, AND “SMALL MODULAR REACTOR” NEW BUILD, SCHEMES ON THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORE

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Backgrounder, posted in PDF format with functioning hot links to cited documents. This backgrounder complements a June 14, 2024 action alert focused on preventing yet another $150 million bailout by the State of Michigan for the Palisades…

Read More

RECA REMINDER: Expand the Act!

trinity explosion

Your urgent action is needed. Tell Congress to expand and extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Extending RECA is necessary before the program sunsets, June 7 of this year. Expanded RECA would add New Mexico downwinders and post-1971 uranium miners/workers to the fund for the first time along with other states/territories including Arizona, Colorado,…

Read More

Media statement: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Holtec/Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Public Meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan

{Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shutdown Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear re: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC)…

Read More

NEIS 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 More

Help 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 More

First we bombed New Mexico: A new film

From the promo: First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima. It is a story of government betrayal with tragic consequences. Thousands of New Mexicans – mostly Hispanic and Native American – were exposed to catastrophic…

Read More