Palisades ASLB Rejects All Environmental, Safety, & Health Contentions; Watchdogs Vow Appeal
COVERT, MI and WASHINGTON, DC, APRIL 4, 2025–On March 31, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) refused to grant a hearing on the merits for seven contentions brought by oppponents of Holtec International’s scheme to restart the Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shore in southwest Michigan.
Continued Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power
Billionaires Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Oracle’s Larry Ellison—who had, just a few days back, been part of Donald Trump’s first news conference—lost a combined 48 billion dollars in paper money. As a good friend of mine, who shall go unnamed because of their use of an expletive, said “I hate all AI, but it’s hard to not feel joy that these asshats are losing a lot of money.”
Google, Amazon, Meta join back tripling of global nuclear power by 2050
A coalition of the world's biggest corporate energy users signed a pledge Wednesday in Houston to support a tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
Founding signatories include tech giants Google, Amazon and Meta as well as Occidental, Dow, Allseas and OSGE.
Christie Brinkley: Don’t let the US resume nuclear weapon tests that ended decades ago | Opinion
The United States and other nuclear powers are now moving closer to resuming nuclear weapons tests, decades after testing ended. This highly disturbing trend must be halted. Since the atomic age, 2,056 nuclear weapons have been detonated, 528 of them above the ground. The United States and Soviet Union accounted for about 85% of these tests. The explosive power of atmospheric tests equaled 29,000 Hiroshima bombs. Airborne radioactive fallout circled the globe, re-entered the environment through precipitation, and entered human bodies through food and water.
The Supreme Court faces the absurdly difficult problem of where to put nuclear waste
On March 5, the Supreme Court will hear a case that may involve one of the most toxic examples of NIMBYism in American history. The issue at the heart of Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas arises out of a predictable problem: Absolutely no one wants radioactive waste anywhere near where they live or work, but that waste has to go somewhere.
They won’t tell you these truths about nuclear energy
Scientists have been arguing about the health risks from radiation since the end of the 19th century, when radioactivity was first discovered. Today, with electricity demand soaring and AI companies clamoring for their own nuclear power plants, from small modular reactor projects to giant new nuclear builds, that century-old argument is ongoing.
Fukushima Revisited
Nine years ago, EON posted an in depth interview with Dr. Majia Nadesan. Majia Nadesan is an interdisciplinary scholar whose extensive research examines the ethical implications of societal governing logics and risk-management strategies.
This Solstice we’re grateful for being able to contribute to "raising awareness to drive meaningful change."
Every phase of the nuclear chain - from uranium mining, uranium milling, uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, nuclear reactor fuel fissioning, irradiated fuel storage and reprocessing, and through all phases of weapons production, leaves its own intense contribution to a rapidly accumulating legacy of radioactive waste that will remain lethal to all living things for longer than human civilization has yet existed.