NIRS letter to NRC Commission Chair Nils Diaz in follow-up to NIRS presentation to NRC Commissioners February 2003 conveying continued concern that the federal nuclear safety agency has not learned the most significant lesson from the near miss accident at Davis-Besse nuclear station (2002) regarding failure to enforce safety guidelines and an agency Order in a gamble to give FirstEnergy more production time.
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NIRS comments to the California Central Water Quality Control Board regarding hearings on the habitat destruction from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power station cooling water system discharge into Diablo Cove.
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NIRS speech to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulatory Information Conference workshop focuses on material degradation of reactor internal components.
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NIRS comments to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services in opposition to nitrogen oxide trading credits for the operation of the Seabrook nuclear power station.
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NIRS presented to the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission its concerns with the near-miss accident of the Davis-Besse nuclear power station and the agency’s abandonment of its safety principles for an industry production agenda.
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“Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Gordon Tompson. Institute for Resource and Security Studies. Focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations to terrorism and what we can do about it. Executive Summary and Full report.
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