Revived Rust Belt Resistance to Radioactive Reactor Risks

Beyond Nuclear has helped lead environmental coalition efforts at FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse, OH, and Entergy's Palisades, MI, to shutdown cracked and leaking nuclear power plants, respectively, before they melt down, and unleash Fukushima-scale radioactive catastrophes on the Great Lakes shoreline (photo, left). U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), standing with Beyond Nuclear at Davis-Besse, and citing our FOIA request revelations, has now demanded an investigation into NRC wrongdoing regarding the agency's rushed reactor restart approval near Toledo. At Palisades near Kalamazoo, suffering crises and scandals on almost a daily basis, it has just come to light that former NRC Chairman Jaczko was being kept in the dark -- about radioactive water leaks into the control room -- by his own agency staff, not to mention the nuclear utility, as much as were concerned environmentalists and local residents. U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) has shined a bright spotlight on wrongdoings at Palisades for years on end.