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Radioactive Waste Alerts
2010

March 31: Let's Move Forward on Radioactive Waste Policy: Defend Obama's Shutdown of Yucca Mountain! Tell Your Representatives: Oppose H.RES 1209

2009

February 2: Act now: Tell NRC we have no confidence in radioactive waste policy

2008

August 14: Help Stop Nuclear Waste from Getting Out of Control — On Purpose
March 27: Stop the Import of Radioactive Waste! Support HR 5632—Call Your Representative Now
March 2: Oppose License Applications to Import Massive Amounts of Nuclear Power Waste from Europe to Burn, Melt, Transport and Dump in the US!
January 4: Comments on Yucca Mountain & High Level Radioactive Waste due Jan. 10

2007

2006

October 20: Stop a Blank Check for High-Level Radioactive Waste Transport & Storage in Your State!
October 10: Help Stop the International Push for Deregulating Nuclear Waste!
August 14: Public Comments sought on NRC's Plans for future management of Byproduct Materials

2005

2004

November 16: URGENT--White House Attempt to Overturn Yucca Court Decision!
Contact your Senator Now!
August 5: Sign-on by August 31, 2004 to Letter to Congress on High-Level Waste in South Carolina/Great Lakes
April 26: Comments due May 17, 2004 on radioactive "recycling" proposal from EPA!

2003

December 1: NIRS RADIATION ALERT AND UPDATE
June 25: Last Chance to Tell NRC: No Nuclear Waste in the Marketplace!
April 16: RadiationThreat: Nuke Waste to Make Toys, Toasters & Toothbrushes?!

2002

2001

2000

March 7: DOE Attempting to Weaken the Rules on Yucca Mountain and Future High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories
March 4: Stop DOE From Changing the Rules in the Middle of the Game on the Proposed Yucca Mountain Dump
February 25: Last Chance to Comment on the Department of Energy's Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain.
February 2: Are Consumer Products Radioactive Now? What is Going on?

1999

December 10: Yucca Draft EIS hearings!
November 19: Protect present and future generations at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
October 26: Stop a Mobile Chernobyl! Stop the Atomic Waste Trains!
October 19: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Highly-Radioactive Nuclear Fuel Rod. Don't Let the Nuclear Industry Screw Us All Demand DOE & EPA Do the Right Thing!
September 10: S. 1287, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1999, may soon hit the U.S. Senate Floor. Register your opposition NOW by writing, faxing and phoning your U.S. Senators!
August 25: Yucca Mountain Environmental Impact Statement Meetings Pushed Back Major Transport Hub and California Site Added to Meeting List
June 27: Tell the NRC "Don't Screw Nevada!" Submit Your Comments on NRC Proposed Repository Licensing Rule for Yucca Mountain by June 30th
May 17: Atomic Issue Buffet
January 16: Mobile Chernobyl Alert!

1998

October 16: NRC Preparing to Issue New Rule on Yucca Mountain. First Info; We will be Providing More in Coming Weeks
April 28: In Solidarity with the Rocky Flats 20th Anniversary Reunion: Stop Mobile Chernobyl
April 28: The US Congress is Considering One of the Biggest Nuclear "Bail-Outs" Ever, Your Action is Needed Now to Stop the Mobile Chernobyl Act — S 104 & HR 1270
April 26: Stop Mobile Chernobyl
March 26: Stop Mobile Chernobyl Action Day

1997

April 4: Have You ever called Congress? Call to Senators and reps Needed now!
February 3: Senate Energy Committee to Vote on Mobile Chernobyl Part II.
Likely Vote Date: February 12, 1997.
Let's kill this in Committee and save ourselves a lot of work!
January 16: DOE attempting to change (yet again!) rules for Yucca Mountain.
Your comments are needed!
January 16: Comments, Letters and Coordinated Press Work Needed

1996

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