The Nuclear Reactor Next Door Series

Alan Blind, one of the nation's foremost nuclear power experts and former design engineer at Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, is back with breaking news and updates regarding the controversial restart of the Palisades facility on the shores of Lake Michigan. Blind's career spanned over 40 years operating nuclear plants, including Palisades.  In the latest podcast, Blind who is a proponent of...

Thanks to billions in pork barrel dollars from the Department of Energy, the State of Michigan and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Holtec International, a company that has never built or operated a nuclear reactor is now rebuilding one without Nuclear Reactor Commission approval . Alan Blind, the former Design Engineering Manager at the Palisades Nuclear Reactor near South Haven, Michigan, explain...

Palisades Nuclear Power plant’s next door neighbors Bruce and Karen Davis , live in the Palisades Park residential community near South Haven, Michigan. The Davis home is less than 2500 feet south of the Palisades Reactor containment building. Karen, her mother and sister are all victims of thyroid cancer. There are 205 homes in Palisades Park.  The concerning numbers of cancer cases in the Palisa...

Joseph Mangano MPH, MBA, is the Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) , an independent group of scientists and health professionals dedicated to research and education of health hazards from nuclear reactors and weapons. While at RPHP, he has written or co-written dozens of articles in medical/scientific journals. Mangano is the author of Low-Level Radiation and Immu...

This podcast focuses on the unprecedented plan to restart the dangerously obsolete and severely age-degraded Palisades nuclear reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline near South Haven.  In the face of decade long delays, billions in cost overruns and dozens of cancellations, the nuclear power industry is promoting this insanely expensive, high-risk $8.3 billion pilot project. Against all odds, util...

This podcast focuses on the unprecedented plan to restart the dangerously obsolete and severely age-degraded Palisades nuclear reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline near South Haven. In the face of decade long delays, billions in cost overruns and dozens of cancellations, the nuclear power industry is promoting this insanely expensive, high-risk $8.3 billion pilot project. Against all odds, utili...

This podcast focuses on the unprecedented plan to restart the dangerously obsolete and severely age-degraded Palisades nuclear reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline near South Haven.  In the face of decade long delays, billions in cost overruns and dozens of cancellations, the nuclear power industry is promoting this insanely expensive, high-risk $8.3 billion pilot project.  Against all odds, uti...

This podcast focuses on the unprecedented plan to restart the dangerously obsolete and severely age-degraded Palisades nuclear reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline near South Haven.  In the face of decade long delays, billions in cost overruns and dozens of cancellations, the nuclear power industry is promoting this insanely expensive, high-risk $8.3 billion pilot project. Against all odds, util...

Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering professor of civil and environmental energy Mark Jacobson directs the university’s Atmosphere/Energy Program . He says  the cost of nuclear power from America’s two most recently opened plants in Georgia is $16 per watt. “That does not compare favorably with onshore wind and solar which can be as low as $1 per watt." One of the world’s lead...

Investigative reporter Roger Rapoport's fascinating interview with veteran nuclear executive Alan Blind offers an inside look at his six years as engineering director at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant located on the Lake Michigan shore.  Blind, who worked for decades as a senior nuclear  power plant executive in Michigan, New York and Canada, focuses on the unprecedented plan to restart this reacto...