Licensing & Oversight Process Archives · Page 3 of 3 · NIRS

December 15, 2008

The NRC’s reactor licensing process is in disarray. NIRS briefing sheet.

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July 16, 2008

Testimony of Richard Webster, Legal Director for Eastern Environmental Law Center, before Senate Environment Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. The testimony argues that the NRC’s relicensing process is deficient and there are severe weaknesses in the oversight of reactor safety.

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September 1, 2006

The NRC’s Reactor Licensing Process: An Overview. A NIRS briefing paper on how reactors are licensed and factors to consider in participating in the process.

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June 19, 2006

NIRS testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce on the NRC Reactor Oversight Process.

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December 13, 2004

Court Allows NRC to Hold Informal Public Hearings in Reactor Licensing Proceedings. But Court Makes Clear That Challenges Can Be Made. NIRS/Public Citizen press release. Read the decision in the PC/NIRS suit against the new Part 2 rules.

Press Release
December 8, 2004

NIRS coalition opposes Michigan’s Cook nuclear power station relicensing application: Press Release on Opposition to Cook License Renewal, Comments to the NRC on License renewal.

Press Release
October 1, 2004

We Can’t Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem If We Keep Making More. Environmental Working Group published a new web site in about how the Nuclear Power Relapse has already begun, in the form of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission numerous and accelerating rubberstamps for 20 year license extensions at old, deteriorating reactors. 20 year license extensions guarantee that vast amounts of high-level radioactive waste will remain at reactor sites indefinitely into the future, even if a national repository is opened and filled to its legal capacity. http://www.ewg.org

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July 31, 2001

Government Admits Each Nuclear Reactor Relicensing Expected to Kill 12 People,

Press Release
October 1, 2000

NIRS’ comments on NRC generic license renewal rules,

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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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