NIRS in the News Archives

June 7, 2018

Trump Plan to Prop Up Nuclear, Coal to Cost Consumers Billions?

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June 7, 2018

Trump's nuclear bailout would cost up to $17 billion a year: NIRS

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June 1, 2018

PJM auction will not stop nuclear units from retiring: analysts

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May 28, 2018

Competition drives nuclear industry to look for millions in subsidies

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May 14, 2018

Nuclear waste could be headed to West Texas under House bill

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April 11, 2018

Activists kick off NM tour to protest nuke storage plan

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April 9, 2018

New Evidence Might Bolster Case Against Massive NY Bailout of Nuclear Power Plants

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March 5, 2018

NIRS’s Diane D’Arrigo discusses nuclear power and weapons waste with Laura Evans

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March 2, 2018

Environmental groups map next phase of West Valley nuclear site cleanup

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January 30, 2018

Challenge to N.Y. Nuclear Subsidies Will Go to Trial

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May 26, 2021
For Immediate Release: May 26, 2021 Contact: Tim Judson, NIRS 301-270-6477, timj@nirs.org Lukas Ross, Friends of the Earth (202) 222-0724, lross@foe.org Cardin backs $50 billion nuke bailout Production tax credit for merchant reactors would hurt electricity consumers and slow renewables WASHINGTON– Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) this morning filed a nuclear bailout amendment to the Clean Energy for America Act,…

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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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NIRS’s Diane D’Arrigo discusses nuclear power and weapons waste with Laura Evans