Radiation Exposure and Risk

Ionizing radiation damages living things and contaminates the environment, sometimes permanently. Studies have shown increases in cancer around nuclear facilities and uranium mines. Radiation mutates genes which can cause genetic damage across generations.

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Entries from May 1, 2021 - May 31, 2021

Monday
May102021

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, including lingering radioactive contamination impact on human health, downstream, downwind, up the food chain, and down the generations.

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