New grassroots groups form to permanently shutdown Palisades

Entergy Nuclear's problem-plagued Palisades atomic reactor, and the inland "sweet water sea" (Lake Michigan) and countryside (southwest Michigan) which it threatens.As reported by the Kalamazoo Gazette, a town hall meeting was held at the Kalamazoo Public Library last night with the goal of revitalizing local efforts to permanently shutdown Entergy Nuclear's problem-plagued Palisades atomic reactor. There have been over four decades of resistance to Palisades, including during the initial licensing hearings about construction and operations that were held at the Kalamazoo Public Library in the mid to late 1960s.

Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps was a featured speaker at last night's meeting. His power point presentation was entitled "The Catastrophe Waiting to Happen at Palisades: What YOU Can Do to Prevent It." A Kalamazoo native, who first got involved in anti-nuclear activism at Palisades more than 20 years ago, Kevin was interviewed by WWMT TV about the upside of shutting down Palisades: no more potentially catastrophic reactor risks; no more "routine" releases, or leaks, of radioactivity into the environment, including air, soil, groundwater, and Lake Michigan; and no more generation of high-level radioactive waste.

WKZO Radio also covered the Kalamazoo meeting.

The second grassroots organizing meeting of 2013 will be held at the South Haven public library this Saturday.