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New report from Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads Campaign: Is a Mobile Chernobyl converging on the Southeast? The Bush administration’s GNEP project could bring high-level waste–from all across the world–to the South, with the Asheville, North Carolina area in the center of the crosshairs.
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Report from Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads Campaign: Is a Mobile Chernobyl converging on the Southeast? The Bush administration’s GNEP project could bring high-level waste–from all across the world–to the South, with the Asheville, North Carolina area in the center of the crosshairs.
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In a major victory, a federal court rules that the NRC must consider security/terrorism issues in all nuclear licensing proceedings. For years, the NRC has tried to claim that the threat of terrorism on a nuclear facility is so remote that such issues need not be considered. Court decision is here.
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In a major victory, a federal court rules that the NRC must consider security/terrorism issues in all nuclear licensing proceedings. For years, the NRC has tried to claim that the threat of terrorism on a nuclear facility is so remote that such issues need not be considered. Court decision is here.
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Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, Brice Smith, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. The large number of reactors required for nuclear power to play any meaningful role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions greatly complicates the efforts required to deal with its unique vulnerabilities including the potential for the nuclear fuel cycle to enable nuclear weapons proliferation, the risks from catastrophicreactor accidents, and the difficulties of managing long-lived and highly radiotoxic nuclear waste.
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Comments of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) on International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)’s proposed 2006 recommendations DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION 02/276/06- 5
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