Sacrifice environment for faster relicensing?

NRC to trade off Environmental Impact Statements for Environmental Assessments? The nuclear energy trade journal Inside NRC (published by Platts/S&P Global) reports that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “staff plans to narrow the focus of subsequent (60...

Fukushima Coverup, 15 Years On

An article by Arnie Gundersen, published at CounterPunch. Gundersen serves as Beyond Nuclear and our environmental coalition’s expert witness in opposition to Holtec’s unprecedented restart of the Palisades atomic reactor in Michigan.

IUC intervention against Duane Arnold restart

Beyond Nuclear is striving to intervene at the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC), against NextEra’s scheme to restart the closed Duane Arnold atomic reactor (pictured above). Duane Arnold is a more than 50-year old General Electric Mark 1 reactor — that is, a...

Palisades restart top news story of 2025 in Michigan

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and the Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Several publications and outlets have named Holtec’s impending, unprecedented restart of the 60-year-old, closed-for-good Palisades atomic...

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...