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October 1, 2004

We Can’t Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem If We Keep Making More. Environmental Working Group published a new web site in about how the Nuclear Power Relapse has already begun, in the form of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission numerous and accelerating rubberstamps for 20 year license extensions at old, deteriorating reactors. 20 year license extensions guarantee that vast amounts of high-level radioactive waste will remain at reactor sites indefinitely into the future, even if a national repository is opened and filled to its legal capacity. http://www.ewg.org

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September 28, 2004
NIRS factsheets on barge shipments of deadly high-level radioactive waste on waterways by state (September 28, 2004):

MD-Chesapeake Bay

VA-James River

DE- Deleware Bay

NJ, NY, CT – Waters Surrounding New York City

MA – Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts Bay, and Boston Harbor

IL, MI, WI – Lake Michigan

LA, MS – Mississippi River

TN, AL – Tennessee River

NE, KS, MO – Missouri River

CA – California Coast

FL – Florida’s Atlantic Coastline
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September 20, 2004

Responses on Behalf of Petitioners Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Public Citizen to Request for Admissions by Commission Staff.

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September 17, 2004

Reply Brief on Behalf of Petitioners Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Public Citizen in Support of NIRS/PC Contention EC-3/TC-1.

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September 9, 2004

Yucca dump suffers blow: NRC licensing board rules against DOE document submission

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September 8, 2004

Response of Louisiana Energy Services, L.P. to the Question Certified to the Commission by Memorandum and Order (Ruling Regarding Standing, Contentions, and Procedural/Administrative Matters).

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September 1, 2004

This U.S. Government Accountability Office congressional testimony () is critical of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s oversight of revised Design Basis Threat validation of reactor security compliance.

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August 27, 2004

Governor Richardson Calls for NRC to Reconsider Decision Concerning Uranium Enrichment Plant; State Continues to Push Environmental Issues.

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August 25, 2004

Order (Schedule for Clarification Motion Responses).

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August 24, 2004

Petition for Reconsideration.

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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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