DoomsdaysCWMar 3, 2025

#Palisades power plant will restart. Here's where on the #GreatLakes #NuclearPlants operate

Story by Sarah Moore, Lansing State Journal, 2/27/2025

"Owners of Michigan's Palisades nuclear energy plant this week announced a new five-year program aimed at restarting the power station while adding two smaller, modular reactors to the existing facility.

"Holtec has launched 'Mission 2030,' a program to build America’s first small modular reactors — Holtec’s SMR-300 — at the Palisades site in Covert Township, Michigan, with a target of 2030 for first commercial operation.' Holtec International said in a release. "The new SMR-300s will be co-located with the existing 800-megawatt Palisades plant, which is on track to restart after an extended outage following shutdown in 2022.'

"The program was discussed at a ceremony Feb. 25, at which #Holtec said it has joined forces with #Hyundai Engineering & Construction to build a 10-gigawatt fleet of SMR-300s in North America, the release said.

"Nuclear energy production is seeing growing interest for power generation because it requires no fossil fuels and can help reduce greenhouse gases. The systems, however, generate tons of highly #RadioactiveWaste that has to be stored. In #Michigan, waste is stored within a short distance of the #GreatLakes in some locations."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/palisades-power-plant-will-restart-heres-where-on-the-great-lakes-nuclear-plants-operate/ar-AA1zUV7D
#RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #Renewables #RenewablesNow #WaterIsLife #RadioactivePollution #HoltecLies

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hotsukiNov 2, 2023
The problem with the policy of releasing wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean is not the amount of radioactivity currently in the wastewater. Once the policy of discharging the wastewater into the sea is permitted, there will be no psychological barrier to releasing it in the future, regardless of how much the level of radioactivity in the wastewater increases. #Fukushima
#EnvironmentalConcern
#OceanProtection
#WastewaterDischarge
#RadioactivePollution
#PublicHealth
Show threadBrian SmallAug 3, 2023

.> Globally, nuclear power generation costs continue to rise. The construction cost of a new nuclear plant already exceeds a trillion yen (in the range of 10 billion U.S. dollars), and nuclear is now the most expensive source of electricity. In Japan as well, costs are ballooning for reactor restart safety measures, maintenance, and decommissioning. TEPCO has spent more than a trillion yen on safety measures just for the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture.
.> Nuclear power is neither green nor clean. From uranium mining to fuel processing, nuclear plant operation, nuclear waste disposal, and decommissioning, the environment continues to be polluted with radioactive materials. In addition, when operating, nuclear plants continue to generate nuclear waste, which needs to be managed for tens of thousands of years, leaving a burden for future generations. - https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20230310/11849/
#NuclearPower #NuclearPollution #ContaminatedWater #ContaminatedSoil #RadioactiveWaste #RadioactivePollution #RadioactiveContamination

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