The depth of fear of environmental accountability in the Corporate State is manifested in major legislation 2X in recent years plus Trump admin rescission of all CEQ regulations and executive orders plus the Supreme Court decapitations in the Seven Counties decision. Has any other federal statute every been swatted by all three branches simultaneously?
Consumers Energy’s briefing to State of Michigan regulators regarding its intention to sell the Palisades reactor as quickly as possible, revealing important problems afflicting the plant.
Palisades Simulator Inspection Report – Violation Missing QA
For more information, see Beyond Nuclear’s “Newest Nuke Nightmares at Palisades, 2022 to Present”. It is a one-stop-shop of web posts dating back to April 2022, when Holtec CEO Krishna Singh first floated “Small Modular Reactor” construction and operation at Palisades, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer first floated restarting the closed-for-good reactor.
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As Palisades works to load fuel, person falls into reactor cavity by reporter Dustin Dwyer, October 22, 2025:
2006 Testimony to Michigan Public Service Commission found here: http://archives.nirs.us/reactorwatch/licensing/kampsconsbrifeinf051806.htm
Holtec's safety-significant stumbles have exacerbated serious, persistent, and worsening problems that date back at least two decades, as admitted to by Palisades' original owner, Consumers Energy, in testimony to the Michigan Public Service Commission in spring 2006 (see page 2).
Nuclear engineer Dave Lochbaum (Union of Concerned Scientists) created document in 2010 on Palisades historical poor performance with Control Rod Drive Mechanisms (CRDM) available by request as pdf.
Date Released: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Package Contents (https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2119/ML21195A368.html Parent zip of 3 below)
ML21195A367 - Exemption-Palisades Nuclear Plant (PNP) Record Retention-L-2021-LLE-0033 (13 page(s), 11/23/2021)
ML21195A369 - FRN - PNP Records Retention Exemption FRN- L-2021-LLE-0033 (16 page(s), 11/23/2021)
ML21195A372 - Palisades Nuclear Plant - Partial Exemption From Record Retention Requirements (EPID L-2021-LLE-0033) (16 page(s), 11/23/2021)
Palisades NRC Docket info (PDF)
Articles of Interest:
Don't Waste Michigan and Michigan Safe Energy Future have also appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, continuing their years-long campaign opposing Holtec International's unprecedented effort, to restart the long closed Palisades atomic reactor. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, near South Haven. The groups' attorneys, Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, and Wallace Taylor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have provided legal counsel to Palisades' opponents in previous U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing proceedings and federal court actions since 2005 and 2014, respectively.
The Sixth Circuit appeal involves the groups' challenge to NRC's approval of an "Exemption Request" by Holtec, to reverse Palisades' previous owner, Entergy's official and legally binding certifications of permanent cessation of operations, and permanent removal of nuclear fuel from the reactor vessel, dated June 13, 2022. Entergy's certifications, docketed by NRC, meant the 60-year old Palisades reactor, designed in the mid-1960s, and first fired up in 1971, was closed for good, after 51 years of troubled operations, never to again load nuclear fuel in the core, nor operate
