Attempted Nuke Relapse Recalls Past Boondoggles

[“Burning Money,” image by Gene Case and Avenging Angels. It appeared on the cover of The Nation in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti, pushing back about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse at that time.]

Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published an opinion-editorial in POWER. It focuses on Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades, and the so-called “Small Modular Reactor” new build proposals there and at Big Rock Point, on Michigan’s Lake Michigan shore, as a microcosm of the nuclear power establishment’s money grabs, extreme risk taking, and propaganda push across the country.