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July 19, 2019

Voices from the Frontlines of Nuclear Waste

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Chernobyl Resource Page

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May 6, 2019

Chernobyl Myths & Misconceptions: We have better evacuation plans than they did at Chernobyl.

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May 6, 2019

Chernobyl Myths & Misconceptions: We wouldn’t make the same mistakes.

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May 6, 2019

Chernobyl Myths & Misconceptions: It Couldn’t Happen Here.

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April 19, 2019

Saudi Nuclear Deal: NIRS Requests Documents on DOE Nuclear Projects

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April 4, 2019

40 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster

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March 28, 2019

NIRS Statement at Three Mile Island 40th Anniversary Press Conference

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March 27, 2019

40 Years After Three Mile Island: Nuclear Declining, Renewables Surging Past

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March 13, 2019

2019 Coalition Letter to Congress: End Yucca, Stop CIS!

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April 15, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 12 April 2021 Download at www.climatefalsesolutions.org Register for telepress conference featuring experts and book authors on 15 April at 2pm EDT here https://forms.gle/dVpDWmoXRWo6wzRBA NEW BOOK UNCOVERS CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FLAWS AHEAD OF EARTH DAY At a time when governments are rolling out climate change policies around the world, activists…

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April 01, 2021
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill repealing the state’s $1.1 billion nuclear bailout yesterday. Ohioans have been fighting to stop and then repeal the bailout law (HB6), since 2019. Their struggle goes back even further, to 2014, when FirstEnergy launched into a series of four other failed nuclear and coal bailout schemes. It took…

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February 24, 2021
MEDIA ALERT / STATEMENT / SOURCE OFFER Contact: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, 914-589-5988 Independent Expert Sources on Planned Exelon Break-up Warn of Safety Risks and a Grab for More Subsidies Below are two short statements by independent experts from nuclear industry watchdog groups commenting on Exelon’s announcement that it intends to split into two companies. These…

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October 21, 2020
For Immediate Release–Contact Diane D’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director Nuclear Information and Resource Service dianed@nirs.org; 202-841-8588 Audio teleconference on VLLW: https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Telebrief_VLLW-landfills_2020-07-15.mp3 October 21, 2020 Nearly 10,000 comments were submitted by today’s deadline to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) against its plan to deliberately allow nuclear waste, mainly from nuclear power reactors, to go to…

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October 20, 2020
For immediate release: Contacts: Tim Judson, NIRS, 301-270-6477 Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear, 301-523-0201 David Kraft, NEIS, 773-342-7650 Nuclear power plants appear to be sites of COVID-19 super-spreader events, but government regulators are ignoring the problem. So says a coalition of safe-energy advocates who have been tracking the situation. The groups obtained copies of social media…

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May 18, 2020
Our fight to phase out nuclear energy is about much more than just one type of dirty energy. It’s part of a broader goal: a carbon-free, nuclear-free world powered by clean, renewable energy. That’s the only way we can overcome the challenges of climate change. In pursuing that goal, we have always tried to include…

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