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Background

 

August 16, 2011: Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against a Nuclear Renaissance. New book from International Forum on Globalization, now available for free download. Good stuff!

January 19, 2011: New brief from IEER examines status of nuclear power projects as of January 2011—finds that the nuclear industry is not doing too well. PDF Heavily footnoted and useful.

September 9, 2010: New study: French nuclear program plagued by escalating costs and prevents adoption of clean renewable energy technologies. PDF And some would use this failure as a model for the U.S.? Study by Marc Cooper of Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment.


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April 21, 2010: Groups Urge Feds to Suspend Nuclear Licensing. Press Release.

April 21, 2010: Engineer's report and graphic illustrations of the chimney-effect during an accident.

April 21, 2010: AP1000 Oversight Group Petition to ACRS on AP1000 Design Flaw. PDF

April 21, 2010: Appeal to NRC Chair from AP1000 Oversite Group on Design Flaw in AP1000. PDF

 

 


September 17, 2009: WISE-Paris evaluation of the French nuclear programme: "Lessons to be learnt from the French nuclear program - From dreams to promises... of disillusions", PDF presentation by Yves Marignac, Executive Director of WISE-Paris, in Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY.

September 15, 2009: European Expert: U.S. Policymakers Are "As Wrong As They Can Be" About the French Experience With Nuclear Power. Press Release. Listen to Audio From 09.15.09 News Event

August 27, 2009: Another Major Setback for "Nuclear Renaissance": Industry Goes 0-6 in 2009 Efforts to Overturn State Bans on New Nuclear Reactors. NIRS press release.

July 2009: IEER/PSR factsheet: Thorium Fuel: No Panacea for Nuclear Power. PDF 34.6KB

May 2009: Nuclear France Abroad: History, Status and Prospects of French Nuclear Activities in Foreign Countries. A report from Mycle Schneider Consulting on the expansion of the French nuclear power industry across the world. PDF

EPR: The French Reactor. A Costly and Hazardous Obstacle to Climate Protection.PDF November 2008 report from Greenpeace International on the problems with the French Evolutionary Power Reactor, proposed for Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York in the U.S.

France’s Nuclear Failures: The Great Illusion of Nuclear Energy, PDF November 2008 report from Greenpeace International on the failures of the French nuclear program.


False PromisesJuly 2008: This new version of False Promises produced by NIRS examines many of the false propaganda claims made by the nuclear industry and carefully rebuts each one, supplemented with extensive footnotes. You’ll find information on nuclear safety, economics, radioactive waste, sustainable energy, radiation and health and much more. You can download it free here. Printed copies are available from NIRS for $15 (includes priority mail postage and handling). Send a check to NIRS, 6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912.

 


Periodically updated NRC chart of expected new reactor applications. PDF January 2, 2008

January 16, 2008: Excerpt from the Democratic Presidential candidates' debate in Las Vegas January 15, on Yucca Mountain, nuclear power and energy policy.

U.S. Nuclear Power Relapse PDF -- table and map, data available from NRC as of of 11/08/07

November 2005: Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial on Nuclear Power and Public Health by Dr. Richard Clapp. PDF 224.13KB

International Poster Campaign "Shut Down Nuclear Power Plants" - The international poster campaign of IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), EUROSOLAR (European Association for Renewable Energy) and WISE International (World Information Service on Nuclear Energy). The statements on these posters against nuclear power are enhanced by pithy and catchy designs. With these you can put forward powerful arguments in discussions with friends, colleagues or advocates of nuclear power.

Are you puzzled by the rapid shift nuclear power has made from financial albatross to the supposedly nimble solution to all of the United State's energy woes?  Confused by the claims that nuclear energy's poor economics has somehow been reversed?  Wowed by the spin and polish of the Nuclear Energy Institute?  Wondering what goodies to nuclear power lurk amongst energy legislation that will soon surface? The NuSubsidies Nuclear Consortium (NNC) helps make sense of these seemingly contradictory directions.  Excellent Powerpoint presentation by economist Doug Koplow. http://www.earthtrack.net/documents.asp?docUrl=NNC_Overview.ppt

Government Admits Each Nuclear Reactor Relicensing Expected to Kill 12 People, (July 31, 2001)

Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Nuclear Power & anti-nuke links (from NIRS Southeast office)

Bush Plan for Nuclear Power and Plutonium Invites Nuclear Accidents and Proliferation (Nuclear Control Institute, May 17, 2001)

Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers (Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, May 17, 2001)