DOE releases report on its new strategy for high-level radioactive waste, endorses recommendations of Blue Ribbon Commission, including "consolidated interim storage"–which is adamantly opposed by entire clean energy community.
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Letter from 25 organizations, including NIRS, urging NRC to withdraw Notice seeking scoping comments on revisions to its Waste Confidence rule, and republish when the Notice meets legal requirements, including discussion of an end to reactor licensing and radioactive waste generation.
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Prepared statement of Michael Mariotte, NIRS Executive Director, for Coalition Against Nukes Congressional briefing–on uranium mining and radioactive waste.
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88 organizations, 5400+ individuals tell Energy Secretary Steven Chu to reject Blue Ribbon Commission recommendations and act to prevent "interim" storage of radioactive waste and resultant widespread transportation of waste across U.S. Press release. Text of letter with organizational signers.
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Major new report from Robert Alvarez at Institute for Policy Studies for the first time spells out the estimated amount of radioactivity in spent fuel at each U.S. reactors site, and what should be done to reduce the unacceptable hazard of high-density spent fuel pools.
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Environmental Answers to Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. The Commission asked the environmental community to respond to a series of questions on radioactive waste policy. The answers were crafted by 30+ activists, endorsed by 168 organizations, and submitted to the Commission on
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A Perspective on U.S. Nuclear Waste Policies for the Last 40 Years, paper by Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center presented for the opening session of the Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission re-evaluating U.S. radioactive waste policy.
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FOIA documents reveal Bush Administration signed contracts with nuclear utilities for government to take waste from new reactors—enough to fill two Yucca Mountain waste dumps—leaving taxpayers at risk for tens of billions of dollars. Press release.
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