2011

• May 2011: Major new report from Robert Alvarez at Institute for Policy Studies for the first time spells out the estimated amount of radioactivity in spent fuel at each U.S. reactors site, and what should be done to reduce the unacceptable hazard of high-density spent fuel pools.

2008

• July 1, 2008: Mothers for Peace and NRC face off at rare Commissioners’ hearing on dry casks and threat of terrorism.

2007

• July 2, 2007: NIRS comments to NRC on its woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment and entirely unacceptable Finding of No Significant Impact regarding terrorist attack risks at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant High-Level Radioactive Waste Dry Cask Storage Installation.

2006

• Current list of over 100 national, regional, state-wide and local organizations calling for high-level radioactive waste storage pools and outdoor dry casks to be “hardened” or fortified against terrorist attacks. October 20, 2006.
• Stop a Blank Check for High-Level Radioactive Waste Transport & Storage in Your State. NIRS Alert. October 20, 2006.
• The C-10 Education and Research Foundation and Citizens Awareness Network’s joint presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security: The Case for Hardened Storage” of high-level radioactive waste onsite at nuclear power plants (a 10 minute presentation). September 2006.
• 10 Attorneys General oppose Senate's high-level waste interim storage bill. Letter. Press Release. September 7, 2006.

2005

• Dec. 2005 NRC map showing locations of dry cask storage facilities at commercial nuclear power plants and other sites across the U.S. The map also shows the numbers of loaded dry casks at certain sites. This map was provided to NIRS by NRC after NIRS specifically requested it from the NRC Spent (sic) Fuel Project Office. The map on NRC’s website (at http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/locations.html) is over two years older, and does not provide any information on the numbers of loaded dry casks at each site.”
• This GAO report is an indictment of NRC’s loss of control of the growing nuclear waste inventory at the nation’s nuclear power stations. ( 1.15Mb) 04/11/2005

2004

• Summary of Oscar Shirani’s Allegations of Quality Assurance Violations Against Holtec Storage/Transport Casks. July 22, 2004.
• Dr. Ross Landsman, NRC dry cask inspector for the Midwest regional office headquartered in Chicago, wrote this memo to his superiors expressing his full support for whistleblower Oscar Shirani’s quality assurance allegations against the Holtec storage/transport casks (handwritten notes by Oscar Shirani, mentioning the devious manner in which Exelon Nuclear orchestrated his firing and defending itself against his wrongful termination lawsuit.
• Get the Facts on High-Level Atomic Waste Storage Casks! (62 kb)
  Updated on July 15, 2004.
• NIRS affidavit in case of opposition to establishment of dry cask storage at Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut, February 13, 2004

2003

• “Lessons learned” from 1979 Gorleben, Germany decisions on high-level nuclear waste storage given the threats of terrorism and sabotage to U.S. high-density irradiated nuclear fuel storage pools, memo by Dr. Gordon Thompson of Institute for Resource and Security Studies, April 19, 2003.
• “Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Gordon Tompson. Institute for Resource and Security Studies. Focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations  to terrorism and what we can do about it. Executive Summary (, 102 Kb) and Full report (, 275 Kb). January 2003.

2002

• Letter from Michigan’s U.S. Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, to Secretary of State Colin Powell expressing concern about 2,000 dry storage casks for high-level radioactive waste proposed for the Lake Huron shoreline at Bruce nuclear power plant, October 17, 2002.
• Growing Concern in US over Bruce Nuclear Waste (in Canada), Press Release, November 13, 2002.
• A Yucca Mountain in the Heart of the Great Lakes?! Nuclear Monitor Article on on-site dry cask storage at Bruce NPP in Canada. November 5, 2002.
• NIRS press statement regarding “radioactive bull’s eye on the Great Lakes shoreline” – the proposal to put 2,000 high-level radioactive waste dry casks outdoors at the Bruce nuclear power plant – Ottawa, Canada, September 13, 2002.
• Don’t Build a Yucca Mountain on the Lake Huron Shoreline! Kevin Kamps' Press Statement on Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission hearing on the proposed high-level radioactive waste dry cask storage facility at the Bruce nuclear plant. September 13, 2002.
• Submission to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission regarding dry cask storage of HLRW at Bruce nuclear plant in Canada, September 13, 2002
• Letter from concerned Michigan citizen to Michigan Attorney General [now Governor] Jennifer Granholm, and Granholm’s response, on the dangers of irradiated nuclear fuel storage in outdoor dry casks on the shorelines of the Great Lakes in both Canada and the U.S., June/July 2002.
• IEER’s proposal for hardened on-site storage of irradiated nuclear fuel at reactor sites as an alternative to the Yucca Mountain dump and for security against terrorist attack. June 4, 2002.
• Great Lakes United on Expansion of High-Level Nuclear Waste Storage at the Bruce Nuclear Complex on the Shoreline of Lake Huron, Canada. June 2002.
• Robert Alvarez article in “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” (Jan./Feb., 2002) on the danger of terrorist attacks against irradiated nuclear fuel storage pools leading to catastrophic radioactivity releases.

2000

• NIRS testimony at NRC Commissioners Meeting on Dry Cask Storage, February 23, 2000

1999

• NIRS statement regarding dry cask storage for NRC Commissioners meeting on NRC/Stakeholder interactions, November 9, 1999