Nuclear Economics Archives · Page 8 of 13 · NIRS

July 10, 2010

Letter from Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash to Senator Environment Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) urging her opposition to more taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power.

Update
July 1, 2010

New NIRS report finds that foreign companies and workers would be the big winners from U.S. taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors. | Report. | Press release. | Audio recording of the press conference.

Press Release
June 17, 2010

Southern Company expected to accept nuclear loan “guarantee” Friday, June 18; Groups alert journalists to under-reported issues surrounding nuclear loans and the Vogtle reactor project.

Update
June 17, 2010

New analysis from EarthTrack for Friends of the Earth details massive new taxpayer subsidies for new reactors in Kerry-Lieberman’s American Power Act.

Link
May 13, 2010

It’s Not Just Vermont: State Lawmakers Do Not Share Congress’ Love for the Nuclear Industry, Which Gets Shut Out 0-8 in State Legislatures During 2010. NIRS Press Release. Click here for an audio recording of the press conference.

Press Release
March 17, 2010

Environmental group letter to Department of Energy expressing concern about the lack of transparency and openness in the DOE’s loan guarantee program. DOE is keeping almost everything about this program secret, contrary to the President’s openness directives.

Update
March 1, 2010

Analysis of S. 2776, Alexander-Webb’s trillion-dollar nuclear bailout bill, from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Link
March 1, 2010

Center for American Progress explains nuclear loan guarantee credit subsidy costs, and finds current practice underestimates risk to taxpayers.

Link
February 17, 2010

Nuclear Loan Guarantees Aren’t Just Guarantees: They are Actual Taxpayer Loans. NIRS Press Release.

Press Release
February 17, 2010

Other reaction to President Obama’s announcement of loan guarantees for Georgia’s Vogtle reactors: Statement of Sierra Club. Statement of Ralph Nader. Statement from Taxpayers for Common Sense. Statement of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Statement of Environment America.

Link

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…

Read the release
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…

Read the release
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,…

Read the release
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…

Read the release
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…

Read the release
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…

Read the release