ZOMBIE NUKES?! Resistance to restarts, dump

ZOMBIE NUKES?!

Resistance to restarts, dump

We have entered our fourth year (2022-2026) fighting closed reactor restarts, first at Holtec’s Palisades in Michigan, and now at NextEra’s Duane Arnold in Iowa (pictured, above).* In both cases, our counsel are Wally Taylor in IA and Terry Lodge in OH.

At Palisades, Holtec missed its years-long stated schedule to restart the 60-year old reactor by the end of 2025. In fact, in mid-2022, in a secret restart strategy document and application for many billions of dollars of public bailouts, Holtec had predicted mid-2024, so it’s now two years late.

We have also petitioned for certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court against Holtec’s radioactive waste dump in New Mexico, and could hear back by January 12.

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*Duane Arnold was directly struck by a derecho in August 2020. While NextEra tried to keep the focus on the damage to the non-safety related mechanical draft cooling towers, the truth is that damage to the electrical grid, as well as the post-Fukushima FLEX facility, meant that Duane Arnold had around a 1% risk of a core meltdown that day. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is supposed to require reactor licensees to keep such risks to one-in-one-million, or at worst one-in-ten-thousand. One-in-one-hundred is 100 to 10,000 times too close to catastrophe! 1/100 is getting frighteningly close to radioactive Russian roulette levels of risk (1 in 6).