Anti-Nuclear Actions 2023

Current NIRS Actions!

Essential things you can do to help build a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future.

Online

Thrive Without Nuclear: Action Workshop >>
New Mexico

July 14th, 2018: NECR Uranium Legacy Commemoration >>
United States

Tell the NRC: Keep nuclear waste isolated–not in consumer goods! >>
United States

Don’t Let Congress Waste America! >>
Kyoto, Japan

Help Protect Japan from another Nuclear Accident! >>
Connecticut

Stop Connecticut’s Multi-Billion Dollar Nuclear Bailout! >>
United States

Help Stop the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017 (H.R. 3053)! >>

Recent Actions

Takoma Park, MD

Little Voices from Fukushima (Feature Film Screening with Filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka and Activist Ruiko Muto) >>
United States

You’re Invited…NIRS Telebriefing: New Nuclear Dumps-Voices from TX and NM >>
New Jersey

Hip-Hip Hooray! New Jersey Nuclear Bailout FAILS! >>
United States

We Did It! Trump’s Nuclear-Coal Bailout is REJECTED! >>
New Jersey

Stop the NJ Nuclear Bailout! >>
Georgia

URGENT — Georgia PSC to Decide on Vogtle Reactors THURSDAY!! >>
United States

Don’t Let Trump FERC It Up–Stop the Nuclear-Coal Bailout NOW! >>
Illinois

A Look at the Human Toll of the Nuclear Age, from Fermi to Fukushima, with Arnie Gundersen >>
California

Demand Clean-Up of Los Angeles Nuclear Meltdown Site >>
Washington, DC

A NIRS event on Human Rights, Climate Justice, and the New Nuclear Renaissance in India >>

May 08, 2023
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…

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December 13, 2022
NIRS Statement on 12/13/22 DOE Nuclear Fusion Announcement Today, the US Department of Energy announced what scientists consider a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. In the DOE’s press release, they celebrate “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean…

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June 10, 2022
News from Beyond Nuclear, For Immediate Release Contacts: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, kevin@beyondnuclear.org, (240) 462-3216;Michael Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes and Don’t Waste Michigan, mkeeganj@comcast.net, (734) 770-1441;Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, dianed@nirs.org, (301) 270-6477 ext. 3,;Terry Lodge, environmental coalition legal counsel, tjlodge50@yahoo.com, (419) 205-7084Iris Potter, Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, b.irispotter@gmail.com,…

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March 30, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2022 GROUPS DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN URANIUM Activists gathered near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to demand President Biden and Congress Ban Imports of Russian Uranium into the United States U.S. CORPORATIONS BUYING RUSSIAN URANIUM ARE FUNDING PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE Washington D.C. – Activists affiliated…

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March 29, 2022
NIRS has joined our counterparts in Ukraine, calling for sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry, including a ban on imports of uranium from Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear conglomerate. Doing so should not depend on there being no impact on the U.S. economy–we should have the courage of our convictions, and bringing an end to the wanton…

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March 29, 2022
It is increasingly urgent to do all we can to end Russia’s war on Ukraine and achieve a peaceful withdrawal of Russian forces from the country. Untold thousands of civilians have now been killed. Over one-fourth of Ukraine’s population–more than 10 million people–have been displaced from their homes and cities, many of which have been…

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