Water and Reactors
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New report from Clean Water Action examines the failures of the Safe Drinking Water Act--and its enforcement--to protect critical clean water supplies from oil and gas development, and from uranium mining activities.
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Important new study from American Clean Energy Agenda: thirsty US electricity generation from nukes, coal, fracking, on collision course with climate-imperiled water supply.
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Nuclear Power and Water. Powerpoint presentation by NIRS’ Executive Director Michael Mariotte to American Clean Energy Agenda meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Presentation in pdf format.
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Too Close to Home: Nuclear Power and the Threat to Drinking Water. New report from PIRG/Environment America.
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Brief Virginia Tech paper showing nuclear power by far the most water-intensive means of producing electricity (page 8). This has enormous implications because, as the report notes, 36 states face water shortages in the next 10 years.
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