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Environmentalists Object to Holtec-NRC Complicity in Dangerously Degraded Steam Generator Tube Repairs prior to Agency Approval
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN AND WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 29, 2025--Following up on its initial protest, decrying U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) actions, the environmental coalition opposing Holtec’s unprecedented Palisades atomic reactor restart scheme has filed an emergency…
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NRC Approves New Mexico Nuclear Waste ‘Interim’ Storage Facility
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced it approved licensing for Holtec International’s controversial consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in southeastern New Mexico’s Lea County, not far from the Texas border. The facility is designed to store high-level radioactive waste…
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Efforts to quench on-going fire in Fukushima zone hampered by high radiation levels from 2011 nuclear disaster
TAKOMA PARK, MD, May 2, 2017 --A raging wildfire in the Fukushima radiation zone not far from the March 2011 Japan nuclear power plant disaster, demonstrates that a nuclear accident has long-term and on-going effects that can worsen over time, says Beyond Nuclear, a leading national anti-nuclear…
Radioactive waste now a mountain 70 years high: Energy Department must consider hardened on-site storage
TAKOMA PARK, MD - December 2nd will mark 70 years since scientists achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, without knowing then, or now, what to do with the radioactive waste it would generate. That very first waste was generated by the Enrico Fermi team at the University of…