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November 23, 2001

US: Yucca heats up

Update
October 10, 2001

Submit public comments to DOE on its Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation for Yucca Mountain

Alert!
October 4, 2001

NIRS comments on the Secretary of Energy’s “Possible Site Recommendation for Yucca Mountain,” Nevada, for Development as a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository,

Update
July 9, 2001

Citizen Alert’s general comments on the Supplement Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) for a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

Update
July 6, 2001

NIRS’ Comments to the DOE on the Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain.

Update
June 28, 2001

Yucca Mountain Nuke Dump Update, NIRS/WISE Nuclear Monitor newsletter article,

Update
June 27, 2001

The State of Nevada today filed suit in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the EPA's recently promulgated rule governing allowable releases of radiation for a Yucca Mountain repository. The State's brief can be found at the here

Link
June 27, 2001

A coalition of national and Nevada-based environmental, consumer advocacy, and public interest groups filed a lawsuit today, challenging the weakest aspects of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule that establishes radiation protection standards for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

Press Release
June 25, 2001

Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth’s Comments on Supplement to Draft EIS for Proposed Yucca Mountain Repository.

Update
June 6, 2001

EPA Radiation Standards Offer Inadequate Protection from Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump: Important Precedent for Groundwater Protection Undermined by Rule’s Deficiencies, NIRS and environmental coalition press release.

Press Release

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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