00:48:56	Kevin Kamps:	I forgot to include my contact info. on my title slide. Here it is: Kevin Kamps; Executive Director; Don't Waste Michigan; 441 Fairfax Avenue; Kalamazoo, Michigan; 49001 -- kevin.kamps@proton.me -- (269) 217-6326 -- https://www.dontwastemichigan.org/

00:49:46	Kevin Kamps:	2,000 metric tons of irradiated nuclear fuel are generated each year by all 95 still operating reactors, grand total.

00:50:08	Kevin Kamps:	I am happy to make my slides available, yes

00:52:22	Kevin Kamps:	Pete, You may well have seen this already, but if not, Mother Jones did a good exposé on Valar: The Trump Administration's Favorite Nuclear Startup Has Ties to Russia and Epstein. Also, Christian nationalism.

Kiera Butler -- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/the-trump-administrations-favorite-nuclear-startup-has-ties-to-russia-and-epstein/

00:58:13	Kevin Kamps:	As with commercial irradiated nuclear fuel, there is no permanent repository for final disposal of military irradiated nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons complex highly radioactive wastes. US Navy irradiated nuclear fuel is currently stored "temporarily" (for several decades already) at Idaho National Lab. If there were mishaps with transporting US Nucler Navy

01:00:29	Kevin Kamps:	...irradiated nuclear fuel, would we ever hear about it? Or would military secrecy be invoked? Re: Nuclear Navy reactors, they have huge budgets to get it right. But what if a nuclear powered aircraft carrier or submarine is sunk in combat, or by accident? The US has lost two nuclear powered subs, the Scorpion and the Thresher, if memory serves. Russia lost the Kursk. So the irradiated nuclear fuel on board is on the bottom of the ocean now.

01:03:46	Kevin Kamps:	Dr. Marvin Resnikoff's 1987 book, "The Next Nuclear Gamble," documents real world radioactive waste transport mishaps. So too Robert Halstead's 1996 report on leaking and externally contaminated highly radioactive waste shipments in the US from the 1940s to 1996, when the report was published.

01:06:21	Kevin Kamps:	Re: the US Nuclear Navy, and nuclear weapons complex, I'll add that Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility in New York City, penned an article in THE PROGRESSIVE magazine some years ago, entitled "It's All About the Bomb."
01:06:48	Kevin Kamps:	Nuclear Power -- It's All About the Bomb. The connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons are many!

01:12:43	Kevin Kamps:	And Alfred Meyer's companion article that also packed quite a punch was "The Bipartisan Atom"!

01:16:46	<Anonymous User>:	I have a question based on discoveries made by Margene Bullcreek and me during the Private Fuel Storage Skull Valley Goshute fight, but it requires a brief explanation. Is it possible for me to get on screen to  ask my question?

01:17:23	Kevin Kamps:	The dry cask storage at the Palisades atomic reactor in s.w. MI is at most 150 yards from the shore of Lake Michigan. It is vulnerable to even a mild earthquake, as the pad rests on 55 feet of loose sand underneath.

01:17:58	Kevin Kamps:	Lake Michigan is the drinking water supply for 16 million people in four states: MI, IN, IL, and WI. And of course flows downstream into the rest of the Great Lakes.

01:18:50	Kevin Kamps:	Ewing Macfarlane Krall -- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111833119

01:23:07	Kevin Kamps:	$2.2 million per day. $800 million per year. Year after year after year...

01:31:15	Kevin Kamps:	There is an aerial photo of a Heavy Haul Truck shipment at this site, scroll down and look at the right hand margin: http://archives.nirs.us/radwaste/hlwtransport/mobilechernobyl.htm

01:31:49	Kevin Kamps:	It was not highly radioactive waste. It was so-called "low level" radioactive waste -- the Big Rock Point reactor pressure vessel, packed with other "LLRWs".

01:32:47	Kevin Kamps:	Even that Big Rock Point shipment (n. MI to SC) experienced several incidents itself! Including causing derailments in its wake, twice -- one in s.e. MI, the second in the Carolinas. The 200-ton weight damaged the rails, and follow on trains derailed.