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Latest Updates

• January 19, 2017

   Additional Resources:

  • Grandmothers for Peace/Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth:
    The People’s Policy on Radioactive Waste

  • The Nuclear Guardianship Project
    An Ethic of Nuclear Guardianship

  Update

• January 1, 2017

  Radiation Exposures from Nuclear Waste Transport. Robert Halstead, State of Nevada

  Update

• November 29, 2016

  Radioactive Waste Summit Supplementary PowerPoint:

  Reducing the Risks of “Spent” Fuel Storage, by Robert Alvarez, Sr. Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies 5/5/2012

  Update

• November 2, 2016

  Too Big to Bailout: The Economic Costs of a National Nuclear Power Subsidy

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  Update

• October 1, 2016

  NIRS’s Mobile Chernobyl campaign page, includes background info and additional resources on radioactive waste transport from this successful campaign from 1994-2014.

  Update

• July 27, 2016

  In only five days (including Christmas!), 100+ renewable and safe energy organizations sign letter urging new Congress to shift energy funding from nuclear/fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency

  • Energy Shift Release Letter pdf

  Update

• July 15, 2016

  Are Federal Permissible Standards for Tritium Too Permissive? NIRS fact sheet.

  Update

• June 10, 2016

  NIRS, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Food and Water Watch Press Release Opposing EPA Proposal to Adopt WATER PAGs Protective Action Guides allowing thousand fold increases in radioactivity in drinking water.

  Update

• May 15, 2016

  Class action lawsuit against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company regarding dangers of hazardous and radioactive waste transportation,

  Update

• May 15, 2016

  Know Your Risks, Know Your Rights. A brochure for nuclear industry workers. (, 306 Kb)

  Fact Sheet