NIRS comments to NRC on its woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment and entirely unacceptable Finding of No Significant Impact regarding terrorist attack risks at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant High-Level Radioactive Waste Dry Cask Storage Installation.

NIRS, Committee To Bridge the Gap and Public Citizen press release in response to 5-0 vote by Commission to leave reactors vulnerable to 9/11 style attack.

Nuclear Security Coalition calls upon each member of Congress to support hardened onsite storage of used nuclear fuel.

In a major victory, a federal court rules that the NRC must consider security/terrorism issues in all nuclear licensing proceedings. For years, the NRC has tried to claim that the threat of terrorism on a nuclear facility is so remote that such issues need not be considered. Court decision is here.

In a major victory, a federal court rules that the NRC must consider security/terrorism issues in all nuclear licensing proceedings. For years, the NRC has tried to claim that the threat of terrorism on a nuclear facility is so remote that such issues need not be considered. Court decision is here.

GAO documents that NRC water downed its staff recommendations on nuclear power plant security after conferring with industry on cost considerations.

NIRS comments on NRC proposed rulemaking to amend requirements to protect nuclear power plants from terrorism.

On the NRC issued its Final Director’s Decision dismissing the request for emergency enforcement action of August 10, 2004 regarding the vulnerability of the General Electric Mark I and II Boiling Water Reactor irradiated fuel storage ponds that are elevated to the top of the reactor building at 32 units in the United States. Read Nuclear Security Coalition letter of response to the petiotion here.