NIRS delivers signatures of 42,000+ people urging stop to Mobile Chernobyl bill (S. 1240) to Senate Energy Committee. Press release.
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Small Isn't Always Beautiful: new UCS report finds small reactors won't solve safety, security, cost problems.
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Important new study from American Clean Energy Agenda: thirsty US electricity generation from nukes, coal, fracking, on collision course with climate-imperiled water supply.
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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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