October 28, 2003 NIRS and environmental coalition press release Concerns Raised on Radioactive Nuclear Reactor Shipped through Southeast for Burial in South Carolina, Press Release
October 7, 2003 Highly-Radioactive Nuclear Reactor Moving from Michigan Through Several States an Route to South Carolina Dump, News from NIRS, Press Release
July 9, 2002 Fact sheet handed to U.S. Senators as they walked through the U.S. Capitol lobby on their way to vote urging them to sustain the State of Nevada’s veto of the high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at Yucca Mountain, Update
July 9, 2002 NIRS letter sent to U.S. Senators from Great Lakes states on the day of the vote to sustain or override Nevada’s veto against the Yucca Mountain dump, (see also Great Lakes United Resolution on Yucca Mountain. June 2002.) Update
June 11, 2002 Bush Administration Stops One Dirty Bomber, But Targets U.S. Cities With Largest Dirty Bomb Program In History. NIRS Press Release. Press Release
June 1, 2002 The 2002 Radioactive Roads & Rails Wagon Train Tour is Underway! NIRS has a wagon train of mock nuclear waste casks touring proposed U. S. Dept. of Energy high level atomic waste tranportation routes across America targeted for sending shipments to the Yucca Mountain dump in Nevada- Press Release. Press Release
May 29, 2002 What if the Potterville, Michigan Train Derailment Had Involved High-Level Nuclear Waste?: Detroit Edison’s Highly Radioactive Fermi Nuclear Plant Waste Could Travel Grand Trunk Western Railway. NIRS Press Release. Press Release
May 26, 2002 Barge rams bridge in deadly Oklahoma interstate highway disaster. But what if high-level radioactive waste had been involved? Update
May 16, 2002 NIRS Fact Sheets: A Brief History of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Shipments: Atomic Waste Transport “Incidents” and Accidents the Nuclear Power Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About, and Hot Cargo!- Nuclear Waste Transportation Update