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Latest Updates

• July 7, 2017

  UN Press Briefing-Experts Explains What a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Could Achieve

  On June 22, 2017 a UN media briefing took place for the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York. Nuclear experts and presenters at a UN conference to negotiate a new nuclear ban treaty discussed the current, acute state of nuclear weapons threats, the decline of the post-Cold War nuclear arms regime, and a new initiative led by non-nuclear weapons states to ban nuclear weapons. The briefing was organized by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and co-sponsored and moderated by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THE PRESS RELEASE.

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• July 6, 2017

  United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session– Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts

  On June 20, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented two side sessions at the United Nations in New York City: Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts; and The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

  In this excerpt from Fission: Family, Community, Environment, and Justice Impacts, which included speakers Karina Lester, South Australia; Linda Cataldo Modica, Tennessee USA; Roland Oldham, Atomic Veteran, French Polynesia; and Mary Olson of NIRS, panelists discussed the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons production, testing, and use on health, families, communities and human rights.

  Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts.

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• July 6, 2017

  United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session-The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink

  On June 21, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented a side session at the United Nations in New York City: The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

  In this excerpt from The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink, which included speakers Matthew McKinzie, Natural Resources Defense Council; Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists; Tilman Ruff, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; and Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, panelists discuss the threats posed by nuclear weapons’ targeting capability upgrades to international security.

  Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.

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• July 6, 2017

  The Energy and Commerce Committee has passed HR3053 to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA). Led by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), the bill moves ahead a consolidated storage concept that would potentially strand large amounts of waste in de facto parking lot storage dumps and trigger mass high-level nuclear waste transport. The bill is also pushing for the revitalization of the Yucca Mountain project.

  On June 27th, a group letter signed by 49 organizations went to Rep. Shimkus and his Co-Chair opposing the bill . As we try to prevent the bill from making it to the House Floor in July by contacting the Senate with our objections, the letter is a great source of talking points. You can also send the letter itself via email to your US Representative.

  Learn more and share handouts with elected officials and others:

  • • Reasons elected officials should oppose H.R. 3053 NWPA amendment
    • HR 3053 Community Opposition Letter, June 27,2017
    • House Energy and Commerce Committee Members
    • House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings

   

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• July 3, 2017

  Nuclear Reactor Sites Scheduled to Send High-Level Radioactive Waste to CIS Facilities, prepared by Cody Slama

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• June 29, 2017

  Perry cites ‘moral obligation’ to build Yucca nuclear waste site

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• June 28, 2017

  Photo and video coverage from the United Nations Nuclear Weapons Treaty negotiations Side Events

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• June 27, 2017

  Reports to the President:

  • EVIDENCE OF THE HUMANITARIAN CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: “THE ROAD BACK TO THE NUCLEAR BRINK” 21 JUNE, 2017
  • EVIDENCE OF THE HUMANITARIAN CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS / FISSION: “FAMILY, COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE IMPACTS” 20 JUNE, 2017

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• June 26, 2017

  Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and Alliance for a Green Economy (AGREE) offer the following comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the technical conference about the Nuclear Bailouts held on May 1 and 2, 2017.

  Download PDF comments.

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• June 26, 2017

  At UN Press Briefing, Experts Explain Why A Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Is In the Works and What It Could Achieve. Download press release. 

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