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WEBINAR: Learn More about DOE’s Package Performance Demonstration (PPD) Request For Information (RFI) – Key Insights & Next Steps
[Image: The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) submitted the map, above, as official public comments on the Interim Storage Partners, LLC (ISP) Draft EIS in Nov. 2020. It shows the most likely rail transport routes to haul irradiated nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants, to the proposed highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF)…
Read MoreHoltec’s lethal plans — video
Massachusetts Peace Action hosted a webinar recently on nuclear waste, focused on Holtec’s activities in Massachusetts and New Mexico. Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and Melissa Harding-Ferretti of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe addressed Holtec’s decision to vent evaporated tritium from the closed Pilgrim, MA nuclear power plant, where the company has the decommissioning contract.…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration events this week, Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida reiterated that despite the widening nuclear threats in the world, “we must continue moving forward” on the path to nuclear disarmament. The remarks come amidst on-going concerns that Japan could quickly develop nuclear weapons given its plutonium stockpile accumulated from its…
Read MoreOrganizations and Individuals Signed Onto Environmental Scoping Comments to NRC Opposing Holtec/Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart Scheme
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shut Down Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] This PDF lists the names of 104 individuals and 55 organizations endorsing the environmental coalition comments, as of 6:30pm ET, Saturday, July 27, 2024.
Read MoreJune 26, 2024 letter from environmental coalition to every Michigan State Legislator, opposing a second round of bailouts for another $150 million to restart the Palisades zombie atomic reactor
June 26, 2024 Dear State of Michigan Legislator, The undersigned four-dozen individuals, and dozen organizations, representing thousands of Michiganders, implore you to oppose the second installment of $150 million in bailouts Holtec International has requested from the State of Michigan for its unprecedented, extremely high risk, and insanely expensive scheme to restart the closed Palisades…
Read More*Please take action!* Endorse coalition letter to Michigan State Legislators in opposition to another $150 million bailout for Palisades zombie atomic reactor restart — Michigan-based organizations & Michigan residents welcome to sign on by Friday, June 28, 2024
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is a coalition sign on letter for organizations and individuals to sign onto. As it is addressed to Michigan State Legislators, we are seeking sign ons from organizations based in, and residents…
Read More“Congress’s Nuclear Addiction”
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, Beyond Nuclear board member, and author of many books and articles, has just published an article in Counterpunch: “Congress’s Nuclear Addiction.” As Grossman states: The “ADVANCE Act,” a bill to promote nuclear power, was passed 88-to-2 by the U.S. Senate last…
Read MoreWhite House nuclear hypocrisy on EJ
In light of the White House’s hypocrisy in both supporting nuclear power while simultaneously claiming to care about Environmental Justice (EJ) in the context of addressing the climate crisis, Beyond Nuclear submitted the following comments to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. June 18, 2024 To: The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC)…
Read MoreConfronting rising nuclear tensions
If you missed the panel presentation and discussion hosted by Veterans for Peace — Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions — you can watch it here. The speakers featured Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, William Hartung of the Quincy Institute, and Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group.
Read MoreCoalition letter to Michigan State Legislators in opposition to another $150 million bailout for Palisades zombie atomic reactor restart — Michigan-based organizations & Michigan residents welcome to sign on by Friday, June 28, 2024
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Text of letter in PDF format; Text of letter pasted in below: June XX, 2024 Dear State of Michigan Legislator, The undersigned XX individuals and XX organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of Michiganders, implore you to oppose…
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