After SCOTUS CISF Ruling, We’ll Pursue Appeal at D.C. Circuit Court!

[Image credit: No Nuclear Waste Aqui, Karen Hadden/SEED Coalition, and Diane D’Arrigo/NIRS; Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017, NRC environmental scoping public comment meetings on WCS/ISP’s CISF scheme.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Diane Curran,...

Trump Fires NRC Commissioner Who Chaired Agency Under Biden

[Photo of NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.] The dismissal came after President Trump signed several executive orders aimed at cutting safety regulations for nuclear power plants. As reported by the New York Times. That said,...

ZOMBIE NUKES?! Palisades Precedent, Three Years On

On May 20, 2022, then owner of Palisades atomic reactor in southwest Michigan, Entergy, closed it for good. Holtec took over, supposedly to decommission it, on June 28, 2022. But decommissioning was a lie. By July 5, 2022, Holtec applied to the U.S. Department of...

TRUMP v. EARTH: EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?!

TRUMP v. EARTH EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?! President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on April 8th, overriding state laws that oppose nuclear facilities such as radioactive waste dumps, atomic reactors, uranium mines, mills, enrichment, etc. For example, Texas...

DEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps!

DEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps! Thanks to very generous donors, we have raised $3,500 in matching funds for legal work to block two high-level radioactive waste dumps in the Southwest, Interim Storage Partners’ in Texas, and Holtec’s in New Mexico....