[On April 20, 2022, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer also first floated the trial balloon of restarting Palisades, instead of decommissioning it. Her statement, as reported in the Detroit News, came one month to the day before Entergy permanently closed Palisades, on May 20, 2022. Just a week or so earlier, in the Exchange Monitor trade press publication, Holtec CEO Krishna Singh first floated the trial balloon of building so-called “Small Modular Reactors” at the Palisades site. A few days after Singh’s statement was published, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps spoke out against it at a meeting of the Palisades Community Advisory Panel, held at Lake Michigan College in South Haven, Michigan (see June 1, 2022 entry above for a full transcript of Kamps’ statement, reproduced in a letter to the editor in a local newspaper.]

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