Radioactive Waste Archives · Page 19 of 44 · NIRS

September 7, 2006

Hard Won Victory Against Environmentally Racist Nuke Waste Dump Targeted at Native Lands!

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September 1, 2006

The C-10 Education and Research Foundation and Citizens Awareness Network’s joint presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security: The Case for Hardened Storage” of high-level radioactive waste onsite at nuclear power plants (a 10 minute presentation).

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June 29, 2006

In one day, 80+ organizations signed this letter to Senate Appropriations Committee opposing centralized “interim” surface storage of high-level radioactive waste.

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June 28, 2006

New report from Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads Campaign: Is a Mobile Chernobyl converging on the Southeast? The Bush administration’s GNEP project could bring high-level waste–from all across the world–to the South, with the Asheville, North Carolina area in the center of the crosshairs.

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June 20, 2006

Safety and Security Concerns about Derailment in Clare County, Michigan of Train Hauling Atomic Waste from Consumers Energy: Inconsistencies Raise Questions about Emergency Preparedness. NIRS press release.

Press Release
January 26, 2006

28 groups write to all 535 Members of Congress urging opposition to the reprocessing relapse

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January 26, 2006

20+ groups warn Congress against Bush Administration reprocessing initiative

Press Release
January 23, 2006

Federal Decision Triples Radioactive Burden In Permanent Sacrifice Zone of the Southeast. NIRS Southeast press release.

Press Release
January 18, 2006

Public interest and environmental groups thank U.S. Senator Reid of Nevada for his efforts in support of the Cedar Mountains Wilderness Act, blocking the preferred rail route PFS would need to deliver irradiated nuclear fuel to the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation.

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January 1, 2006

Whistling In The (Radioactive) Dark? a second article by Mike Hopping on nuclear transports in Western North Carolina.

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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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