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January 24, 2005

NRC Petitioned To Urgently Upgrade Nuclear Security Requirements: Meet Realistic Threat Levels and Shield Units From Air Attack! Your Comments Needed by NIRS Alert. November 16, 2004.

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November 24, 2003

"Thank and Spank" your Senators for their energy bill vote. NIRS Alert,

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June 4, 2003

The Senate Energy Bill, S 14, is Expected to Return to the Senate Floor Call Your Senator Now! NIRS Alert,

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June 29, 2002

NIRS action alert to Michigan on impending Yucca Mountain vote in US Senate

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May 20, 2002

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Michigan’s Nuclear Utilities Steamroll Anti-Environmental Resolutions through County Commissions without Concerned Citizens’ Knowledge. U.S. House of Representatives says yes to Yucca, NIRS/WISE Nuclear Monitor newsletter article, May 17, 2002.

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April 30, 2002

Imminent Vote in U.S.House of Representatives on Yucca Dump.

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March 15, 2002

Alert and Update-New Senate Energy Bill – S. 517 – Includes Price-Anderson, Nuclear Subsidies Abound!

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February 8, 2002

National call-in day to George W. Bush: Oppose the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump and the Mobile Chernobyls it Would Launch!

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December 6, 2001

Protest U.S. Chamber of Commerce to dump atomic waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

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October 10, 2001

Submit public comments to DOE on its Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation for Yucca Mountain

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May 08, 2023
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…

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December 13, 2022
NIRS Statement on 12/13/22 DOE Nuclear Fusion Announcement Today, the US Department of Energy announced what scientists consider a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. In the DOE’s press release, they celebrate “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean…

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June 10, 2022
News from Beyond Nuclear, For Immediate Release Contacts: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, kevin@beyondnuclear.org, (240) 462-3216;Michael Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes and Don’t Waste Michigan, mkeeganj@comcast.net, (734) 770-1441;Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, dianed@nirs.org, (301) 270-6477 ext. 3,;Terry Lodge, environmental coalition legal counsel, tjlodge50@yahoo.com, (419) 205-7084Iris Potter, Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, b.irispotter@gmail.com,…

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March 30, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2022 GROUPS DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN URANIUM Activists gathered near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to demand President Biden and Congress Ban Imports of Russian Uranium into the United States U.S. CORPORATIONS BUYING RUSSIAN URANIUM ARE FUNDING PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE Washington D.C. – Activists affiliated…

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March 29, 2022
NIRS has joined our counterparts in Ukraine, calling for sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry, including a ban on imports of uranium from Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear conglomerate. Doing so should not depend on there being no impact on the U.S. economy–we should have the courage of our convictions, and bringing an end to the wanton…

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March 29, 2022
It is increasingly urgent to do all we can to end Russia’s war on Ukraine and achieve a peaceful withdrawal of Russian forces from the country. Untold thousands of civilians have now been killed. Over one-fourth of Ukraine’s population–more than 10 million people–have been displaced from their homes and cities, many of which have been…

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