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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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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May 12, 2020
When we think about frontline or essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, we often think of doctors, nurses, grocery clerks, bus drivers, and others who perform critical services and can’t work from home. But there are some frontline workers that haven’t been mentioned a lot in the news: nuclear workers. Nuclear workers already work under…

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May 05, 2020
America is in the middle of a global pandemic. There are currently more than one million cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. and more than 67,000 people have died from it so far. Millions of Americans are sheltering in place, either voluntarily or because of state or local mandates. Roughly 30 million people have filed…

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