Yucca Mountain Archives · Page 15 of 17 · NIRS

November 18, 1998

Dump Yucca Mountain! Nation’s Environmental Groups Agree: Yucca Mountain is a terrible place to mind atomic waste.

Press Release
November 15, 1998

Fact Sheet
May 29, 1998

NIRS letter to U.S. Senate urging support for President Clinton’s veto of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Revisions

Update
April 28, 1998

Stop Mobile Chernobyls in Colorado. Contact Colorado’s U.S. Senators! NIRS alert.

Alert!
April 26, 1998

NIRS alert opposing Mobile Chernobyl/Screw-Nevada-Again bill in Congress on the 12th anniversary of Chernobyl,

Alert!
April 21, 1998

Sen. Lott an International Nuclear Waste Expert?—Not!

Press Release
March 27, 1998

New Revelations Prove Folly of Yucca Mountain as “Interim” Dump

Press Release
March 26, 1998

Stop Mobile Chernobyl Action Day. NIRS Alert.

Alert!
March 10, 1998

Americans Agree: Mobile Chernobyl Bill is a Bad Idea. New Poll Finds Strong Opposition to Atomic Waste

Press Release
February 13, 1998

NIRS Legislative Update on the Mobile Chernobyl Bill (Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997, HR1270 and S104)

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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