Nuclear Engineers Question Holtec Palisades Steam Generators’ Safety

[Photo of tubes in a typical Pressurized Water Reactor steam generator (not Palisades), shown from the top looking downwards.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240)...

And then there were five

President Trump has nominated a candidate to occupy the still vacant fifth seat on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a move that now locks in a Republican majority. Trump had already played dirty by firing Democratic commissioner Christopher Hanson earlier this...

Our ‘House of Dynamite’ will eventually blow

If you haven’t seen ‘A House of Dynamite’, this is a spoiler alert. But here’s another spoiler alert: nuclear deterrence does not and cannot work. Kathryn Bigelow’s thought-provoking film has been assailed by nuclear hawks as inaccurate but their critiques are...

Appeal to SCOTUS against Holtec’s NM CISF license!

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Mindy Goldstein, co-counsel for Beyond Nuclear, Turner Environmental Law Clinic, (404) 727-3432, magolds@emory.edu Kevin...

Trump threatens to restart nuclear testing

US President Donald Trump says the US will start testing nuclear weapons again, a statement that has raised alarm in the peace movement and in nations across the world. According to news reports, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that “We’ve halted many years ago,...

ZAP! Zombies Against Palisades Halloween Protest Rally

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (240) 462-3216, kevin@beyondnuclear.org Michael J. Keegan, chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, Michigan, mkeeganj@comcast.net...