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March 5, 2018

NIRS’s Diane D’Arrigo discusses nuclear power and weapons waste with Laura Evans

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November 30, 2017

Trump’s Nuclear and Coal Revival Plan: What It Means for our Energy Future with energy expert Amory Lovins

Last month, the Trump administration unveiled a radical plan to promote nuclear power and coal with a massive national bailout. The plan has far-reaching implications for energy and the environment. And it will cost the public over $100 billion in higher energy bills.

Energy expert Amory Lovins has been outspoken in challenging the bailout plan and shared his views on what it means for clean energy in the United States. He, and NIRS Executive Director, Tim Judson, discussed the nuclear-coal bailout and what we can do to stop it.

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September 26, 2017

Reshaping History: The importance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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August 3, 2017

Experts: V.C. Summer Failure Should Put an End to State and Federal Bailouts for Nuclear Industry

Audio

July 14, 2017

Don’t Waste America! Telebriefing

Don’t Waste America is our national campaign focused on preventing decades of massive and dangerous high-level radioactive waste transport across the United States that would occur if efforts to revive the scientifically-indefensible Yucca Mountain, Nevada waste dump are accomplished, or if a Centralized or Consolidated “Interim” Storage (CIS) site for high-level radioactive waste is created.

Presenters each discussed one of the campaign’s four main components:

Ian Zabarte (Principal Man, Western Bands Shoshone Nation Newe Sogobia) presented End Yucca!
Diane D’Arrigo (Director, Radioactive Waste Project of NIRS) presented Stop CIS!
Deb Katz (Citizen Awareness Network) presented Implement HOSS!
Mary Olson (Director, NIRS Southeast) moderated and reflected on how waste transport intersects with the above.

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July 7, 2017

UN Press Briefing-Experts Explains What a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Could Achieve

On June 22, 2017 a UN media briefing took place for the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York. Nuclear experts and presenters at a UN conference to negotiate a new nuclear ban treaty discussed the current, acute state of nuclear weapons threats, the decline of the post-Cold War nuclear arms regime, and a new initiative led by non-nuclear weapons states to ban nuclear weapons. The briefing was organized by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and co-sponsored and moderated by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THE PRESS RELEASE.

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July 6, 2017

United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session– Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts

On June 20, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented two side sessions at the United Nations in New York City: Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts; and The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

In this excerpt from Fission: Family, Community, Environment, and Justice Impacts, which included speakers Karina Lester, South Australia; Linda Cataldo Modica, Tennessee USA; Roland Oldham, Atomic Veteran, French Polynesia; and Mary Olson of NIRS, panelists discussed the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons production, testing, and use on health, families, communities and human rights.

Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts.

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July 6, 2017

United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session-The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink

On June 21, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented a side session at the United Nations in New York City: The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

In this excerpt from The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink, which included speakers Matthew McKinzie, Natural Resources Defense Council; Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists; Tilman Ruff, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; and Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, panelists discuss the threats posed by nuclear weapons’ targeting capability upgrades to international security.

Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

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June 8, 2017

Out of Control– on Purpose: DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste Into Landfills and Consumer Products

Presented by Diane D’Arrigo at the Great Lakes Environmental Alliance

Download full report (PDF)

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April 27, 2017

Telebriefing-Chernobyl +31: From Nuclear Disaster to Renewable Energy Revolution

First-hand experiences of Chernobyl’s impact on Ukraine, and energy experts on the way Chernobyl led to revolutionary changes in energy:

— Nadia K. McConnell – President, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
— Max Guenig – President, Ecologic Insti…tute U.S.Chernobyl’s legacy is not ONLY one of tragedy. The impact of the reactor explosion and meltdown convinced millions of the need to power the world with renewable energy, inspiring Germany’s Energy Transition, the foundation for the clean energy revolution we are building toward today.

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NIRS’s Diane D’Arrigo discusses nuclear power and weapons waste with Laura Evans

Trump’s Nuclear and Coal Revival Plan: What It Means for our Energy Future with energy expert Amory Lovins

Reshaping History: The importance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Experts: V.C. Summer Failure Should Put an End to State and Federal Bailouts for Nuclear Industry https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/WhatNextforNuclear.mp3

Experts: V.C. Summer Failure Should Put an End to State and Federal Bailouts for Nuclear Industry

Don’t Waste America! Telebriefing

UN Press Briefing-Experts Explains What a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Could Achieve

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THE PRESS RELEASE.

United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session– Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts

Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts.

United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session-The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink

Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

Out of Control– on Purpose: DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste Into Landfills and Consumer Products

Download full report (PDF)

Telebriefing-Chernobyl +31: From Nuclear Disaster to Renewable Energy Revolution

Experts: V.C. Summer Failure Should Put an End to State and Federal Bailouts for Nuclear Industry