Celebrating Victories Near and Far
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Hello community,
We hope you all are staying safe in these times. Our community has spent the weekend honoring our ancestors and beloved dead as many cultures and cultures pause at this time of year to remember our beloveds. Sending up love and prayers for our community members who have lost friends and family this year in particular.
There are some exciting announcements in this month's newsletter so read on to learn more!
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Ypsilanti Says NO to a Data Center
The Ypsilanti City Council unanimously approved a resolution in opposition to the University of Michigan in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory’s planned massive data center in Ypsilanti Township. A data center is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings, used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. This data center was intended for AI research, but both UofM and Los Alamos have a history of nuclear weapons research as well. Ypsi is a member of Mayors for Peace, an international organization working against nuclear weapons and for world peace. Interestingly, Ann Arbor is also a member while simultaneously the home base for the University of Michigan, which has a Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences (NERS) program.
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Holtec Int'l Stopped in New Mexico
On Indigenous Peoples Day, Holtec International and Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance’s plan to build the world’s largest nuclear waste dump in New Mexico has been stopped after a decade long struggle by a coalition of Indigenous, environmental, state governments, and public interest allies! The planned site would have contained fifty canisters of spent nuclear fuel for 40 years, as a temporary storage site, which is laughable as Holtec planned to scale up to 10,000 canisters eventually. Holtec is also responsible for the revival of the Palisades nuclear power plant and CRAFT is one of many orgs working together to oppose Holtec here in the Midwest.
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Nuclear Waste 101
We’re always educating about the threat of nuclear power and the dangers of power plants and waste storage facilities. But what exactly are the problems? We are including a resource from Beyond Nuclear explaining what nuclear waste is and why it’s dangerous, on both the personal and national scale. For instance: did you know that indirect exposure to radiation can damage your DNA, resulting in inheritable mutations? The nuclear industry is a threat here and now, as well as to future generations of our communities and our environments.
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Thanks for supporting us and a safer world powered by renewables.
We’re in this together!
Peace and Safety,
The CRAFT Team
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Citizen's Resistance At Fermi Two (CRAFT) is an Indigenous-led, grassroots, organization, committed to an accessible, fair, and just energy future for all! CRAFT originally formed after the Christmas Day 1993 incident at the Fermi2 nuclear reactor that dumped 1.5 million gallons of untreated toxic, radioactive water into Lake Erie. We will continue to push for the closing of Fermi2, and for a safer world powered by renewables.
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Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/05/2025 - 13:34
