GRANHOLM ON CISFs: Moving forward, targeting tribal governments

Jennifer M. Granholm's official portrait was unveiled in the state Capitol where it will hang in the Gallery of the Governors. The portrait features the governor amid symbols that tell the story of her administration's efforts to diversify Michigan's economy, educate and train its citizens, and protect them in tough economic times during the two-terms she served as Michigan's 47th governor.Alarmingly, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (pictured) has said the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will move forward with irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs), "establishing a funding mechanism" and "engaging...tribal governments...to explore the concept." Does this mean DOE does not support CISFs currently targeted at New Mexico and Texas? Why, then, is the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission poised to rubber-stamp the Holtec and Interim Storage Partners construction and operations licenses? Lack of consent for radioactive waste abuses was just expressed again in Texas, by strong objection to dangerous legislation benefiting ISP's host, Waste Control Specialists. Given Biden administration support for EJ, how can it support CISFs targeting polluted, low income, Latinx and Indigenous communities?!

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BIDEN'S BAILOUT?! Delaware's old reactor risks

NRC file photo of Salem 1 and 2 in s. NJPresident Biden reportedly supports $195 billion in subsidies for 93 dangerously age-degraded atomic reactors across the U.S., as supposed climate emergency mitigation. Ironically, Biden's long-time political power base, Wilmington, Delaware, is very much in harm's way if a breakdown phase disaster occurs 18 miles away, at the three-reactor Salem/Hope Creek nuclear plant in southern New Jersey (pictured). According to NRC's 1982 CRAC-II report, if "just" the 45-year old Salem 1's core melts, 100,000 "peak early fatalities" (acute radiation poisoning deaths) could occur, the worst figure for any U.S. reactor. Seventy thousand radiation injuries, 40,000 latent cancer fatalities, and 367 billion (2020 dollars) in property damage could also result. Urge Biden to change course!

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Interior Department approves first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.

The Vineyard Wind project envisions building 62 turbines off Martha’s Vineyard producing enough electricity to power 400,000 homes

As reported by the Washington Post.

The 800 Megawatt-electric (MW-e) Vineyard Wind project will almost be enough to entirely replace all the commercial nuclear power capacity that has ever operated in Massachusetts: Pilgrim, 677 MW-e (which operated from 1972 to 2019), and Yankee Rowe, 185 MW-e (which operated from 1960 to 1992).

Palisades Power Plant employees prepare for last year on the job

The Palisades atomic reactor in Covert Township, Van Buren County, MI, four miles south of South Haven, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.As reported by the South Haven Tribune in southwest Michigan.

Beyond Nuclear is quoted.

Although not mentioned in the article, the local grassroots organization, Michigan Safe Energy Future, is also intervening against the Entergy-to-Holtec license transfer.

VICTORY ON TX NUKE WASTE BILL! Thanks for helping stop HB 2692 -- for now

Opponents spoke out against Waste Control Specialists, LLC's highly radioactive waste Consolidated Interim Storage Facility schemes at NRC's environmental scoping public comment meeting in Andrews, Texas in Feb., 2017Anti-nuke activist Lon Burnam, who previously served as a progressive Democratic Texas State Rep. from Fort Worth for 18 years, reports: "We in Austin are excited to report the TX Nuke Waste House Bill was referred back to committee today because the Bill Analysis was substantially incorrect. That does not mean it's dead, but is a very polite way of saying the author of the bill has lied about what the bill would accomplish."

Thanks to all who have opposed State Rep. Brooks Landgraf's bill, including our members in TX! Texans, please continue to take action. If you do not reside in TX, please spread word to Texans you know, urging them to take action. See action alerts at link below for more information.

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