High-Level Radioactive Waste Archives · Page 5 of 7 · NIRS

March 23, 2010

Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors. Basic position paper signed by 170+ organizations in opposition to reprocessing of radioactive waste and providing principles for acceptable waste storage practices.

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January 30, 2010

Chu Panel Composition Squanders Opportunity to Develop Consensus Radioactive Waste Policy

Press Release
January 18, 2010

Press Release from Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (UK) announcing Submission to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee: “Effective Arrangements for Waste from New Reactors Do Not Exist”.

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January 15, 2010

Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (UK) report to House of Commons .

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November 13, 2009

Letter to Secretary Chu calling for inclusion of independent experts in the Department of Energy’s Radioactive Waste Advisory Panel work.

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May 4, 2009

Letter from Grassroots groups to President Obama on Policy Review of US High-Level Radioactive Waste. (including commercial irradiated fuel).

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July 1, 2008

Mothers for Peace and NRC face off at rare Commissioners’ hearing on dry casks and threat of terrorism.

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July 2, 2007

NIRS comments to NRC on its woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment and entirely unacceptable Finding of No Significant Impact regarding terrorist attack risks at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant High-Level Radioactive Waste Dry Cask Storage Installation.

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October 20, 2006

Stop a Blank Check for High-Level Radioactive Waste Transport & Storage in Your State!

Press Release
October 20, 2006

Current list of over 100 national, regional, state-wide and local organizations calling for high-level radioactive waste storage pools and outdoor dry casks to be “hardened” or fortified against terrorist attacks.

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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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