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February 11, 2016

New study: Meeting carbon reduction goals economically means no nuclear power

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February 9, 2016

NIRS/Fairewinds embark on Japan tour February 11-March 15. NIRS' Mary Olson will focus on radiation and health issues while nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen will address Fukushima aftermath and safety issues with Japanese reactors at stops across the country. Media Advisory

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February 9, 2016

New York’s Nuclear Fork in the Road: Subsidizing Old Reactors Is a Dead End

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February 2, 2016

The verdict is in: solar and wind have won the technology race

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February 2, 2016

Paris and Onward: the Path Forward to a Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free energy future. NIRS telebriefing with Dr. Mark Jacobson, Stanford University; The Solutions Project (http://thesolutionsproject.org/) and Dr. Arjun Makhijani Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER.org). Moderated By: Tim Judson, Executive Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. MP3 recording.

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February 2, 2016

Citizens Nuclear Information Center (Tokyo) newsletter, including status of Fukshima accident and decommissioning activities five years later.

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January 29, 2016

Maryland’s Renewable Grid of the Future. Presentations given at symposium at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. All files are pdf.

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January 27, 2016

Governor Cuomo’s schizophrenic nuclear policies

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January 27, 2016

NIRS and several national and regional organizations and state government representatives met with the Office of Management and Budget to request their rejection of EPA’s proposal to adopt Protective Action Guidelines (PAGs) for Water which would increase allowable radioactivity in water tens, hundreds, or more times the Safe Drinking Water.

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January 19, 2016

2016 could be a transformative year

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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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