Seventeen international scientists and experts write UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging international action on Fukushima crisis.
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96 organizations, including NIRS, send letter to Energy Information Administration stating its energy forecasts severely understate renewable energy growth and have not been borne out by experience; urge review of current methodologies and assumptions.
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Dr. Arjun Makhijani of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research published a new paper on the "traveling wave" reactor concept touted by Bill Gates; finds that it can't possibly ever be economical.
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Decontaminate the Fukushima Decontamination Project. Presentation by Tokyo City University emeritus professor Teiichi Aoyama details how efforts to decontaminate area around Fukushima are doing little except to enrich nuclear contractors.
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Letter from Sens. Markey and Warren to Entergy CEO warns of false assumptions in Pilgrim reactor emergency evacuation plans (which would apply to just about all reactors) and urges major changes.
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New study finds 107 commerical and research reactors vulnerable to terrorist attack. From Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at University of Texas.
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New study finds 107 commerical and research reactors vulnerable to terrorist attack. From Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at University of Texas.
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Important new report from Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: small modular reactors won't solve nuclear industry's problems and may exacerbate them. (pdf)
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Pittsburgh City Council passes proclamation in support of NIRS Petition for Rulemaking on emergency planning. (pdf)
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