Thanks to New York activist Charlie Olson for producing this wonderful video of the nuclear-free, carbon-free mobilization at the March for a Clean Energy Revolution (2016), in honor of NIRS's 40th anniversary.
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NIRS and AGREE submit extensive comments to New York Public Service Commission that show how New York can meet its 2030 carbon emissions goals without nuclear (and thus without nuclear subsidies).
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NIRS/AGREE analysis finds FitzPatrick reactor can be replaced with clean & renewable energy at a lower cost. Press release; full analysis
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NIRS brief to D.C. Public Service Commission against proposed Exelon takeover of Pepco. Briefs in opposition to takeover by GRID 2.0 and DC SUN.
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Proposed Ginna reactor bailout and rate hike. A video webinar with Jessica Azulay of Alliance for a Green Economy and Tim Judson of Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
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NIRS’ executive director Tim Judson’s third testimony to Washington DC Public Service Commission on proposed Exelon/Pepco merger focuses on reactor decommissioning liabilities Pepco ratepayers could be exposed to if merger were approved.
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Report from four Illinois state agencies on the implications of shutdown of some Exelon reactors. Exelon, and some state legislators, had hoped this report would lay the groundwork for a ratepayer bailout of the utility’s uneconomic nukes, but it falls far short of that intent.
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Renewable Energies versus Nuclear Power: Comparing Financial Support. A report on energy subsidies in the European Union and how they are best allocated, commissioned by the Vienna (Austria) Ombuds-Office for Environmental Protection. Report blasts subsidies for proposed Hinkley Point UK reactors; concludes renewable energy support is more economical and effective than subsidies for nuclear power.
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