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Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors. Basic position paper signed by 170+ organizations in opposition to reprocessing of radioactive waste and providing principles for acceptable waste storage practices. PDF March 23, 2010

A Perspective on U.S. Nuclear Waste Policies for the Last 40 Years, PDF paper by Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center presented for the opening session of the Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission re-evaluating U.S. radioactive waste policy. March 25, 2010.

FOIA documents reveal Bush Administration signed contracts with nuclear utilities for government to take waste from new reactors—enough to fill two Yucca Mountain waste dumps—leaving taxpayers at risk for tens of billions of dollars. Press release. PDF March 24, 2010.

Chu Panel Composition Squanders Opportunity to Develop Consensus Radioactive Waste Policy. Politics and Money Trump Science and Reason on Nuclear Waste Panel; Doomed to Fail. NIRS Press Release. January 30, 2010.

Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (UK) report to House of Commons. PDF January 15, 2010

Press Release from Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (UK) PDF announcing Submission to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee: “Effective Arrangements for Waste from New Reactors Do Not Exist”. January 18, 2010

Letter to Secretary Chu calling for inclusion of independent experts in the Department of Energy’s Radioactive Waste Advisory Panel work. PDF November 13, 2009

Letter from Grassroots groups to President Obama on Policy Review of US High-Level Radioactive Waste. PDF (including commercial irradiated fuel). May 4, 2009