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July 12, 2001

Alert! House Passes Price-Anderson Act; Help Stop it in Senate!;

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November 1, 2000

ALERT! Act now to affect U.S. position on COP 6 meeting in

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October 24, 2000

Nuclear Waste + Native Lands= Environmental Racism. NIRS Alert.

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March 7, 2000

Further Update on Deadline for Comments on Proposed Changes to Yucca Mountain Siting Guidelines (10 CFR Parts 960 and 963); DOE Attempting to Weaken the Rules on Yucca Mountain and Future High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories

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March 4, 2000

NIRS action alert for group sign on letter to DOE Secretary Richardson urging withdrawal of proposed gutting of Yucca Mountain site suitability guidelines

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February 25, 2000

Last Chance to Comment on the Department of Energy’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain

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November 19, 1999

Comment on EPA’s proposed Yucca Mountain radiation standards! NIRS action alert

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October 29, 1999

DOE’s “Parallex” shipment of weapons-usable plutonium MOX nuclear fuel from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. NIRS Alert.

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October 26, 1999

Mock nuke waste cask protest featuring Members of Congress against congressional efforts to ram through Mobile Chernobyl shipments to Yucca Mountain, outside U.S. DOE Draft Environmental Impact Statement public hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on

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September 10, 1999

Bad nuclear waste bill looming in U.S. Senate. Contact your Senators!

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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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