HOLTEC AT PALISADES?! Environmental Coalition Intervenes

The age-degraded Palisades atomic reactor, its radioactively contaminated site, and the Lake Michigan shoreline and Van Buren County countryside it has long put at risk.Beyond Nuclear, joined by Don't Waste Michigan and Michigan Safe Energy Future, have requested a hearing at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in opposition to the Entergy-to-Holtec license transfers at the Palisades atomic reactor (photo, left) and the decommissioned Big Rock Point nuclear plant site, both on the Lake Michigan shore in West Michigan. See the press release, and the petition, filed by Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, the coalition's legal counsel. Environmental Law & Policy Center, as well as the Office of Michigan's Attorney General, Dana Nessel, have also intervened. In December, we warned AG Nessel, and many other MI officials, about the many risks and high stakes, and urged them to intervene. We are thankful they have.

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