New Mexico sues US over proposed nuclear waste storage plans

Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES), used with permission. The square shape is in the form of NM's map perimeter.As reported by the Associated Press.

Courthouse News Service has also reported on this story, with a link to the State of New Mexico lawsuit.

Additional coverage: PowerMag; Bloomberg Law (behind pay wall); PBS; the Carlsbad Current Argus (behind pay wall); The Hill; The Sandpaper; Nuclear Intelligence Weekly (behind pay wall); and The Center Square -- New Mexico.

See the New Mexico Attorney General's press release, here (it is followed by the lawsuit itself).

Beyond Nuclear, Don't Waste MI, & MI Safe Energy Future defend intervention at Palisades & Big Rock Point against Holtec takeover

Entergy's Palisades atomic reactor, located on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Covert Township, Van Buren County, MichiganREPLY OF BEYOND NUCLEAR, MICHIGAN SAFE ENERGY FUTURE AND DON’T WASTE MICHIGAN IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR LEAVE TOINTERVENE, AND REQUEST FOR AN ADJUDICATORY HEARING;

RESPONSE OF EXPERT WITESS ROBERT ALVAREZ.

Toledo, OH based attorney Terry Lodge serves as legal counsel for the environmental coalition.

Robert Alvarez, senior scholar at Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., serves as the coalition's expert witness.

The coalition filed its intervention petition and hearing request on Feb. 24, 2021.

They were joined by the AG of MI, Dana Nessel, as well as the Environmental Law & Policy Center of Chicago.

Defiance on film. Watch two films free, then join March 30 discussion

Please sign up to enjoy virtual screenings of two new documentaries exploring resistance to nuclear power: 33 Days of Utopia (Germany) & The Beekeeper (UK). Then register for our online event to meet the filmmakers and protagonists, listen to their stories, and ask questions live.

The Goethe-Institut Washington, DC, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Washington, DC and Beyond Nuclear will present four events during 2021 -- under the heading Cultural Resistance: Standing Up to Nuclear Power Through Protest and the Arts -- in a year that marks 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and 35 years since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. 

The first in the series -- Defiance on Film -- takes place on Tuesday, March 30, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern US time. Register here to get links to free screenings of The Beekeeper and 33 Days of Utopia, then join us for a lively online discussion. Featuring Roswitha Ziegler, Rebecca Harms and Attila Dézsi of Utopia and Will McGregor and Katie Hayward from The Beekeeper.

REGISTER AND SPREAD THE WORD!

“Toward an Evidence-based Nuclear Energy Policy,” 2:00–3:30 PM EST, March 30, 2021, Virtual Capitol Hill Briefing

Beyond Nuclear will participate as a presenter and panelist in the Energy and Environmental Study Institute’s fourth briefing of Congressional members and staff on a host of nuclear energy issues including climate change, radioactive waste, decommissioning and environmental justice. Beyond Nuclear’s presentation will focus on the industry effort to extend atomic power plant operating licenses to ever more dangerous extremes from 40 to 60 years, now 80 and next 100 years. Amory Lovins, an adjunct professor at Stanford University, is the keynote speaker on the economics of nuclear power vs. renewable energy, efficiency and climate change. The program is free and open to the public online. Learn more on the event and register here.

PSR WI petitions to intervene and requests hearing in opposition to NextEra Energy Point Beach's 80-year operating license application

Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant, NRC file photo.Petition for Leave to Intervene and Request for an Adjudicatory Hearing, filed by attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, on behalf of Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin (PSR WI).

The NextEra Energy Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant Atomic Reactor Units 1 and 2 are located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on the Lake Michigan shoreline (see photo, left).

Accompanying the petition and request were expert witness declarations:

Declaration of Arnold Gundersen, M.E., Nuclear Engineering, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Associates, Inc.;

Declaration of Alvin Compaan, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Physics at University of Toledo, and President of Lucintech, Inc.;

Declaration of Mark Cooper, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for Economic Analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, and Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America.

See PSR WI's press release, here.