WATER IS LIFE: Standing in solidarity with Indigenous Water Protectors

Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, took part in the September 4th "Float Out" at the Mackinac Bridge, between the Lower and Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. Dozens of kayakers joined a traditional Indigenous long boat to raise banners on the Straits of Mackinac, between Lakes Michigan and Huron, protesting Enbridge's Line 5 Canadian tar sands crude oil pipeline nearby. (Kamps hails from Kalamazoo, MI, where in July 2010 Enbridge Line 6 leaked 1.4 million gallons of diluted bitumen into the river, the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history.) Kamps also staffed an anti-nuclear information table at the Water Is Life Festival in Mackinaw City. The events, held in traditional Odawa and Ojibwe territory, were Anishinaabe led.

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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: Protesting nuke power bailouts in Chicago

Photo by Dave Kraft, Director, NEIS of ChicagoOn September 13, Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps, and fellow Don't Waste Michigan board member Michael Keegan, traveled to Chicago. They stood with Nuclear Energy Information Service director Dave Kraft, NEIS board members and supporters, as part of the National Day of Opposition Against Nuclear Bailouts. (Kamps and Keegan are holding the yellow "Nuclear Power? No Thanks!" flags in the photo, taken in front of a Marc Chagall mosaic mural outside Exelon Nuclear HQ in downtown Chicago.) Participants wore placards and handed out pamphlets protesting the around $25 billion Exelon would receive as part of $58 billion in federal infrastructure bill nuclear subsidies currently proposed. Ironically, later that day, a $694 million Illinois bailout for dangerously age-degraded Exelon reactors was approved.

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NRC LICENSES ISP: Opponents redouble resistance to CISF

Texans protest against high-level radioactive waste dumping in the Lone Star State at its Capitol earlier this month.On September 13, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced it had approved licensing for Interim Storage Partners' (ISP) controversial consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County, West Texas, on the New Mexico border. The CISF would "temporarily store" up to 40,000 metric tons of highly radioactive waste, from atomic reactors across the U.S. But without a permanent geologic repository in sight for decades, "interim" risks becoming permanent surface storage, a parking lot dump. The long expected NRC approval notwithstanding, a new Texas law, and environmental coalition federal court challenges, including ours, will hopefully block ISP. See our press release, and widespread media coverage. We have opposed this dump since it was first proposed, and won't stop now!

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NEIS pieces on nuclear bailouts and political corruption links

Write ups by Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago:

THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR BAILOUTS;

PRESS STATEMENT: NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER BAILOUTS;

"You can't have an energy future, by bailing out the past!" (Homer Simpson);

Letter to the Editor: Opposition to Nuke Plant Bailouts Oversimplified, Incomplete;

PRESS RELEASE: National Day of Opposition to Nuclear Bailouts in Chicago.

Beyond Nuclear press release: NRC APPROVES TEXAS NUCLEAR WASTE ‘INTERIM’ STORAGE FACILITY, BUT A NEW TEXAS LAW AND A FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE COULD PREVENT THE PROJECT FROM GOING FORWARD

NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release

NRC APPROVES TEXAS NUCLEAR WASTE ‘INTERIM’ STORAGE FACILITY, BUT A NEW TEXAS LAW AND A FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE COULD PREVENT THE PROJECT FROM GOING FORWARD

Contacts:      Kevin Kamps,  kevin@beyondnuclear.org, 269-716-8174
Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, 914-589-5988

[Andrews County, Texas – September 14] Late yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced it approved licensing for Interim Storage Partners’ controversial consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County in West Texas, on the New Mexico border.  The facility is designed to store high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the U.S. But NRC approval notwithstanding, a new Texas law and a federal court challenge may block the project.

See rest of press release, here.

See media coverage at our Centralized Storage website section, here.