BIDEN BAILOUT?! $195 Billion for Old Nukes?!

"Burning Money" graphic by Gene Case/Avenging Angels, which was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in Jan. 2001, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the nuclaer power relapseFriends of the Earth (FOE) warns the Biden administration's support for Production Tax Credits for 93 still operating, dangerously age-degraded atomic reactors across the U.S., could cost the American public $195 billion over the next decade. FOE's Program Manager Lukas Ross stated: "A nuclear bailout is wrong for taxpayers, wrong for ratepayers, and wrong for the climate. Paying to keep aging reactors online is courting disaster and guaranteed to slow the deployment of truly clean renewables. Congress and President Biden should not throw good money after bad." This bailout would be on top of many hundreds of billions of dollars in public subsidies lavished on the nuclear power industry over past decades. Urge President Biden to change course!

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INDIAN POINT 3 -- Shut down for good!

Indian Point nuclear power plant on th eHudson River just north of New York City, NRC file photoThe Indian Point (IP) Unit 3 atomic reactor on the Hudson River near New York City (photo, left) will permanently close by April 30! The good news is that once the irradiated nuclear fuel is removed, a reactor core meltdown is no longer possible. Also, no more radioactive waste will be generated. But plenty of radioactive waste already exists, and the site is severely radioactively contaminated.

Shut Down Indian Point Now has organized an online event on Friday, April 30, at 7:30pm Eastern, to mark this very hard won victory. Beyond Nuclear joined with Clearwater to call for congressional hearings into Holtec's takeover, from Entergy, of the IP site, and NRC's dangerous dereliction of duty vis-a-vis decommissioning.

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Indian Point Shuts Down Tomorrow: Here's What You Need to Know

See the alert from Beyond Indian Point!

Update on April 30, 2021 by admin

• NRDC - Indian Point Is Closing, but Clean Energy Is Here to Stay - Kit Kennedy

Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap

Now the biggest barrier to change is the will of our politicians to take serious climate action.

As reported by Bill McKibben in The New Yorker.

PSR WI defends its intervention contentions, as it opposes an 80-year operating license at the Point Beach nuclear power plant

Point Beach Units 1 and 2, located on WI's Lake Michigan shoreline.As filed by Toledo, OH-based attorney Terry Lodge, who serves as legal counsel for Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin:

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WISCONSIN’S REPLY IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE IN POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 SUBSEQUENT LICENSE RENEWAL PROCEEDING, AND REQUESTING AN ADJUDICATORY HEARING

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PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WISCONSIN’S MOTION TO AMEND CONTENTION 2 (INADEQUATELY TESTED REACTOR COOLANT PRESSURE BOUNDARY)

The filings were submitted on April 26, 2021 -- the 35th annual commemoration of the beginning of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. They contain the expert witness testimony of Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer, Fairewinds Energy Associates.

See the initial PSR WI petition to intervene, dated March 23, 2021, linked here.