Senate Gang of 4 releases waste bill encouraging "interim" storage. Bill text and other documents.
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Professor Benjamin Sovacool (Virginia Tech) and several others rebut pro-nuclear climate scientist James Hansen’s recent error-filled article in support of new nuclear.
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Presentation by NIRS to NRC on June 19 on foreign ownership, control or domination of U.S. nuclear reactors. Powerpoint.
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The Senate Energy Committee has posted all of the comments (more than 3,000) it received on its draft radwaste bill.
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Comments from 100 environmental/clean energy organizations in opposition to "consolidated interim storage" provisions in Senate Energy Committee discussion draft legislation on high-level radioactive waste. Press Release.
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Rep. Engel (D-NY) introduces HR 1700, a bill that would expand emergency planning zones to 50 miles, put one agency in charge of emergency planning for nuclear accidents.
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Multiple shipments of High level liquid nuclear waste (highly enriched uranium liquid) could come through WNY in the next year! Ask Gov Cuomo to STOP it. Would be from Chalk River nuclear complex in Ontario to Savannah River nuclear complex in South Carolina.
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Four Senators (Senate Energy Committee Chair Wyden, Feinstein, Alexander and Murkowski) introduce "discussion draft" of major high-level radioactive waste bill. Includes "interim" storage which would unleash massive transport of radwaste across the country. The Senators also ask several questions for further discussion, and two (Alexander & Feinstein) propose accelerated "interim" storage. Link is to Senate Energy Committee site with draft and several related documents.
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