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September 1, 1999

A vote for S 1287 would result in: Endangerment of health for thousands of generations to come: S 1287 would prohibit protection for people living near the world’s largest nuclear waste dump and mandate a fatal cancer rate averaging one chance in 1000. Total cancer incidence due to radiation exposure would be roughly twice that.…

Fact Sheet
August 27, 1999

Yucca Mountain Draft Environmental Impact Statement, WISE News Communique newsletter.

Update
August 25, 1999

Comment on DOE Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain

Alert!
June 30, 1999

NIRS comments on NRC’s proposed Yucca Mountain licensing rule rule

Update
June 30, 1999

Comments by Dr. Arjun Makhijani of IEER on NRC’s Draft Yucca Mtn. licensing rule

Update
March 24, 1999

An excerpt from the Statement of Michael Mariotte, Executive Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, on S. 608, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, Before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, “YUCCA MOUNTAIN IS UNSUITABLE AS A PERMANENT NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY.”

Update
January 22, 1999

Yucca Mountain viability assessment released, WISE News Communique newsletter article.

Update
January 16, 1999

NIRS alert on HR 45, the Mobile Chernobyl bill of 1999,

Alert!
December 1, 1998

219 groups issue petition demanding disqualification of Yucca Mountain as waste site.

Update
December 1, 1998

PETITION FOR DISQUALIFICATION OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN FROM CONSIDERATION AS A NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY

Update

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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