NIRS Fact Sheet focused on how natural phenomenon (tornadoes, floods, etc.) can play a role in the risks from nuclear power.
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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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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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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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