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Reactor Watch Press Releases
2008

January 3: Groups File Petition to Halt NRC "Cut And Paste" Relicensing Tactics

2007

August 23: Palisades Nuclear Plant Critics Warn Court about Catastrophic Earthquake Risks
June 28: Citizen Groups Appeal to Federal Court against Palisades Nuclear Plant Charge High-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Violates Safety Regulations
June 21: Rep. Upton Seeks $5 Billion Taxpayer Subsidy for New Nuclear Reactors: Critics Charge He's Doing Nuclear Power Industry's Dirty Work
June 20: NIRS Investigation Finds That "New" Browns Ferry-1 Reactor Still Doesn't Meet Fire Protection Regulations Its 1975 Fire Caused
May 15: Major Security Breach at Palisades Nuclear Plant
Critics Call for U.S. Congressional Investigations

2006

2005

2004

December 13: Court Allows NRC to Hold Informal Public Hearings in Reactor Licensing Proceedings
December 8: Citizen Groups Blast AEP Request for 20 More Years at Cook Nuclear Plant
September 13: Groups Charge Nuclear Agency with Illegally Eliminating Public Participation
August 17: NRC Pulls Fast One Over Public Participation in Safety Oversight of Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station.
August 6: NRC Strikes Down Environmental Justice Claims and Bid for Licensing Hearing to Site New Reactor Unit at Grand Gulf
August 2: Spotlight Put On Nationwide Fire Hazard At U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
February 12: Coalition Files Legal Challenge to Entergy's Proposed New Nuclear Plants

2003

December 19: Decision Imminent on Iter Fusion Reactor Boondoggle
October 20: Nuclear Information and Resource Service has filed Contentions October 21, 2003 in the proceeding before the Atomic Safety Licensing Board

2002

2001

2000

April 1: "Nuclear Fools Day" Protest Against Cook Nuclear Plant
February 11: Air Delivered Valentine's Day Protest Against Nuclear Power

1999

November 17: Nuclear Power Regulator Reply To Senate Y2K Special Committee Questions Further Undercuts Public Confidence in Nuclear Industry and Y2K
October 20: CAN and NIRS Will Fight The Buy-Up Of Vermont Yankee and Nuclear Utility Mega-Mergers By Amergen
September 27: Amergen Partner Blasted By British Nuclear Inspectors; British Energy's Downsizing Threatens Nuclear Safety
August 26: Activists Stare Down Vermont Ysnkee. Utility Intimidated by Demonstrators
August 25: U.S. Federal Regulator Rejects Y2K Compliance as Standard for 103 U.S. Power Reactors
July 8: Sorry, But November 1999 is not Good Enough for Y2K Fixes, Says NIRS
July 6: 2nd Nuclear Free Northeast Action Camp Set For August 20-28
July 1: Group Calls for Reactor Closures Rather Than Tax Shelters

1998

1997

December 19: CAN Appeals To Court To Force NRC Acountability At Connecticut Yankee
September 29: Grassroots Summit Vows to "NIX MOX" and Stop Use of Plutonium Fuel in Nuclear Reactors
January 14: 171 Organizations Worldwide Condemn U.S. MOX Decision; Ask President Clinton to Stop Plutonium Fuel Approach

1996

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