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Related: About this forumEntergy Nuclear's Palisades "a disaster waiting to happen"
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Entergy Nuclear's Palisades "a disaster waiting to happen"
The Detroit News has quoted Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps in an article about the problem-plagued Palisades atomic reactor in Covert, Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline. The article reports:
"...At a May appearance in East Lansing, Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear a group that espouses abandoning nuclear energy described how Palisades earned its approval for the next 20 years.
'We resisted it,' he told a crowd at the Peace Education Center. 'In fact, the entire environmental movement in Michigan resisted the license extension for Palisades. But we were steamrolled by the nuclear industry, by the NRC.'
In four decades, Palisades has been fined by the NRC numerous times, and unscheduled shutdowns are almost an annual occurrence. To those who would characterize that as run-of-the-mill problems, Beyond Nuclear's Kamps disagrees.
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August 28, 2012
Entergy Nuclear's Palisades "a disaster waiting to happen"
The Detroit News has quoted Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps in an article about the problem-plagued Palisades atomic reactor in Covert, Michigan, on the Lake Michigan shoreline. The article reports:
"...At a May appearance in East Lansing, Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear a group that espouses abandoning nuclear energy described how Palisades earned its approval for the next 20 years.
'We resisted it,' he told a crowd at the Peace Education Center. 'In fact, the entire environmental movement in Michigan resisted the license extension for Palisades. But we were steamrolled by the nuclear industry, by the NRC.'
In four decades, Palisades has been fined by the NRC numerous times, and unscheduled shutdowns are almost an annual occurrence. To those who would characterize that as run-of-the-mill problems, Beyond Nuclear's Kamps disagrees.
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August 28, 2012
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Entergy Nuclear's Palisades "a disaster waiting to happen" (Original Post)
bananas
Aug 2012
OP
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)1. the only thing that makes me feel good about this
is that my ex-husband was totally wrong about this plant, and I WAS RIGHT ( in 1981...I still rejoice, however long my vindication took...)
FBaggins
(26,754 posts)3. What's the "vindication"?
Is it that a minor steam leak closed a reactor for three weeks (and now returned to service)... or that someone opposed to any nuclear power claims that it's an "accident waiting to happen"?
enough
(13,260 posts)2. k&r (nt)