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June 14, 2005

Environmental group letter opposing funding for Yucca Mountain.

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June 14, 2005

NIRS and Public Citizen have compiled two timelines — one on the targeting of Native American tribes in general, and the other on the targeting of the Skull Valley Goshutes of Utah in particular, for high-level radioactive waste dumps — plus a backgrounder on why the Private Fuel Storage dump is all of a sudden on the fast track. The History of Targeting Native American Communities with High-Level Atomic Waste Dumps Skull Valley Goshutes/PFS Timeline Why is the Nuclear Industry Pushing for Private Fuel Storage (PFS)?

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June 10, 2005

Timeline (from Feb. 24 to ) showing recent developments in the struggle against the Private Fuel Storage, LLC high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at the Skull Valley Goshutes in Utah. June 10, 2005

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June 8, 2005

NRC Commissioners Memorandum and Order.

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June 1, 2005

Study by Rocky Mountain Institute finds renewables, efficiency, distributed generation remains cheaper and more effective than nuclear power; passage of energy bill would undermine national security. June 2005. http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1154.php

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June 1, 2005

Environmental Statement on Nuclear Energy and Global Warming.

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May 25, 2005

NIRS comments opposing a proposed NRC change to fire protection regulations for nuclear power plants that would allow manual actions to be substituted for qualified protective fire barriers around electrical cabling vital to shutting the reactor down in the event of fire.

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May 20, 2005

On , NRC dismisses NIRS petition to provide emergency backup power to sirens that will fail in the event of main power line failure simultaneously occurring with a nuclear accident or act of terrorism

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May 20, 2005

Best of Nuclear Boondoggles.

Fact Sheet
May 11, 2005

Environmental groups ask House Appropriations to eliminate funding for Yucca…

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May 08, 2023
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…

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December 13, 2022
NIRS Statement on 12/13/22 DOE Nuclear Fusion Announcement Today, the US Department of Energy announced what scientists consider a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. In the DOE’s press release, they celebrate “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean…

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June 10, 2022
News from Beyond Nuclear, For Immediate Release Contacts: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, kevin@beyondnuclear.org, (240) 462-3216;Michael Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes and Don’t Waste Michigan, mkeeganj@comcast.net, (734) 770-1441;Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, dianed@nirs.org, (301) 270-6477 ext. 3,;Terry Lodge, environmental coalition legal counsel, tjlodge50@yahoo.com, (419) 205-7084Iris Potter, Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, b.irispotter@gmail.com,…

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March 30, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2022 GROUPS DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN URANIUM Activists gathered near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to demand President Biden and Congress Ban Imports of Russian Uranium into the United States U.S. CORPORATIONS BUYING RUSSIAN URANIUM ARE FUNDING PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE Washington D.C. – Activists affiliated…

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March 29, 2022
NIRS has joined our counterparts in Ukraine, calling for sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry, including a ban on imports of uranium from Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear conglomerate. Doing so should not depend on there being no impact on the U.S. economy–we should have the courage of our convictions, and bringing an end to the wanton…

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March 29, 2022
It is increasingly urgent to do all we can to end Russia’s war on Ukraine and achieve a peaceful withdrawal of Russian forces from the country. Untold thousands of civilians have now been killed. Over one-fourth of Ukraine’s population–more than 10 million people–have been displaced from their homes and cities, many of which have been…

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