Interior Department approves first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.

The Vineyard Wind project envisions building 62 turbines off Martha’s Vineyard producing enough electricity to power 400,000 homes

As reported by the Washington Post.

The 800 Megawatt-electric (MW-e) Vineyard Wind project will almost be enough to entirely replace all the commercial nuclear power capacity that has ever operated in Massachusetts: Pilgrim, 677 MW-e (which operated from 1972 to 2019), and Yankee Rowe, 185 MW-e (which operated from 1960 to 1992).

Palisades Power Plant employees prepare for last year on the job

The Palisades atomic reactor in Covert Township, Van Buren County, MI, four miles south of South Haven, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.As reported by the South Haven Tribune in southwest Michigan.

Beyond Nuclear is quoted.

Although not mentioned in the article, the local grassroots organization, Michigan Safe Energy Future, is also intervening against the Entergy-to-Holtec license transfer.

VICTORY ON TX NUKE WASTE BILL! Thanks for helping stop HB 2692 -- for now

Opponents spoke out against Waste Control Specialists, LLC's highly radioactive waste Consolidated Interim Storage Facility schemes at NRC's environmental scoping public comment meeting in Andrews, Texas in Feb., 2017Anti-nuke activist Lon Burnam, who previously served as a progressive Democratic Texas State Rep. from Fort Worth for 18 years, reports: "We in Austin are excited to report the TX Nuke Waste House Bill was referred back to committee today because the Bill Analysis was substantially incorrect. That does not mean it's dead, but is a very polite way of saying the author of the bill has lied about what the bill would accomplish."

Thanks to all who have opposed State Rep. Brooks Landgraf's bill, including our members in TX! Texans, please continue to take action. If you do not reside in TX, please spread word to Texans you know, urging them to take action. See action alerts at link below for more information.

Read more at our "low-level" radioactive waste website section.

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!

Read more at our Nuclear Costs website section