May 13, 2002 NIRS holds press conference on Michigan State Capitol Steps in Opposition to Yucca Dump. Press Release
May 10, 2002 Environmental Groups Spotlight Undue Industry Influence as U.S. Senators Prepare to Vote on Shipping High-Level Nuclear Waste upon Michigan's Roads, Rails, and Shoreline Press Release
April 25, 2002 NIRS mock “Mobile Chernobyl” circled U.S. Capitol on 16th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe to protest impending vote in U.S. House of Representatives on Yucca Mountain dump and risky atomic waste transportation. Press Release
March 21, 2002 National Research Council Report Does NOT Endorse US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Aim to Let Nuclear Waste Go into Consumer Products or Normal Trash Press Release
March 18, 2002 Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to EPA Rule for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump. NIRS and a coalition of environmental groups suing EPA over woefully weak water protection standard. NIRS-Public Citizen Press Release. Press Release
March 18, 2002 Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to EPA Rule for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump Press Release
March 14, 2002 Did Anyone Lose a Cesium Rod? Disaster Narrowly Averted in Taiwan Incident. Meanwhile, U.S. Government Intentionally Releasing Radioactive Materials Into Market Press Release
March 13, 2002 We Almost Lost Toledo! Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant in Ohio Comes Close To Disaster. NIRS Press release. Press Release