Nuke kills 13 sea turtles

Beyond Nuclear Bulletin July 18, 2024 ZOMBIE NUKE?! Enviros resist Feds & Holtec at Palisades   At the July 11 NRC/DOE hybrid public comment meeting on environmental scoping for the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme, our side more than held its own: although 17 commenters favored restart, 24 opposed it. This despite the meeting being held in a company area: Benton Harbor, Michigan, is 15 miles from Palisades to the north, and 15 miles from Cook nuclear plant to the south. Organizations that spoke out against the unprecedented, insanely expensive for the public, and extremely high-risk scheme included: Beyond Nuclear; Don't Waste MI; MI Safe Energy Future; Nuclear Energy Information Service; Palisades Park Country Club residents; and Radiation and Public Health Project. Written comments can still be submitted till July 29. Please take action ASAP!   Read More TURTLES KILLED AT NUKE 13 die at Brunswick plant   Thanks to the Rachel Carson Council for flagging the news that the Brunswick nuclear power plant on North Carolina’s Cape Fear River killed 13 sea turtles earlier this year, an usually high number. The news was not reported through the customary Nuclear Regulatory Commission docketing system. Beyond Nuclear is investigating why not. This high kill rate, above the permitted allowance set by the National Marine Fisheries Service, prompts a new review. The sea turtles died after becoming trapped in the plant’s cooling water intake canal when a screen on a sea turtle exclusion structure was damaged during violent weather. Read our online investigative report — Licensed to Kill —on harm to sea turtles and other aquatic life at nuclear plants.   Read More NUCLEAR IN PROJECT 2025 Privatizing nuclear waste, new atomic tests The ominous Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership that may well underpin future Republican policy, is bursting with dangerous rhetoric inviting nuclear war, especially in its provocative stance toward China and the recommendation to “restore readiness to test nuclear weapons” in Nevada. The content around nuclear power is surprisingly limp and unoriginal, including to “streamline the nuclear regulatory requirements and licensing process,” already in play under the ADVANCE Act. It suggests “DOE should recommit to working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission” on the permit application for the Yucca Mountain high-level waste repository while admitting that “Finishing the review does not mean that Yucca Mountain will be completed and operational.” It also wants nuclear waste management delivered into the private sector.    Read More 7/16 IN NEW MEXICO Commemorating nuke disasters As happens annually, New Mexicans marked two radioactive catastrophes that happened on the same date, July 16: the Trinity plutonium bomb "test" blast in 1945during the Manhattan Project (pictured), and the massive flood at Church Rock from a uranium mill tailings pond, down the Rio Puerco in 1979. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium still seeks Radiation Exposure Compensation Act coverage, nearly 80 years later. The Red Water Pond Road Community Associationof the Navajo Diné still seek justice as well, 45 years later. In its ghoulish tone deafness, or worse, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chose July 16, 2018, to launch the licensing proceeding for Holtec's high-level radioactive waste dump targeting NM. Beyond Nuclear and allies have resisted since.   Read More Beyond Nuclear | 301.270.2209 | www.BeyondNuclear.org Donate