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June 26, 2017

Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and Alliance for a Green Economy (AGREE) offer the following comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the technical conference about the Nuclear Bailouts held on May 1 and 2, 2017.

Download PDF comments.

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June 20, 2017

RE: Opposition to H.R. 1551 – Amending Tax Credit Provisions for “Advanced” Nuclear Power

On June 20, 2017 , coalition members submitted a letter to the House of Reps opposing the extension/expansion of tax credits for new reactors.

Download PDF letter.

Download press release.

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April 17, 2017
Nuclear Subsidies and Bailouts – Costs, Impacts, Responses

Presented by:

Jessica Azulay, Alliance for a Green Economy (AGREE NY): Nuclear Bailout-Looking Forward (PDF Download)

Tim Judson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS): New Subsidies for Old Reactors-No Bridge to Clean Energy (PDF Download)

Dave Kraft, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS): Bailouts-The New Nuclear Terrorism (PDF Download)

Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen: Nuclear Power: Otherwise Known as the Sex Pistols (No Future) (PDF Download)
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March 7, 2017

Fearing journalism’s nuclear meltdown

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February 24, 2017

NIRS’s Tim Judson presents on the importance of Stopping the Millstone Nuclear Bailout

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February 24, 2017

Testimony of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Before the Connecticut General Assembly – Energy and Technology Committee

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November 2, 2016

Too Big to Bailout: The Economic Costs of a National Nuclear Power Subsidy

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April 23, 2016

NIRS and AGREE submit extensive comments to New York Public Service Commission that show how New York can meet its 2030 carbon emissions goals without nuclear (and thus without nuclear subsidies).

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October 22, 2015

Replacing FitzPatrick: How the Closure of a Nuclear Reactor Can Reduce Greenhouse Gasses and Radioactive Waste, while Creating Jobs and Supporting the Local Community

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October 22, 2015

NIRS/AGREE analysis finds FitzPatrick reactor can be replaced with clean & renewable energy at a lower cost. Press release; full analysis

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February 07, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2019 Contact: Tim Judson 301-270-6477 timj@nirs.org Green New Deal Needs More Green to Make Good on the Name Markey/Ocasio-Cortez Resolution Must Call for Phasing out Nuclear Power and Fossil Fuels Takoma Park, MD—Nuclear Information and Resource Service issued the following statement today on Sen. Markey’s (D-MA) and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s…

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January 31, 2019
For Immediate Release — January 29, 2019 Contact: Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service — dianed@nirs.org 301-270 6477 x3 Leona Morgan, Nuclear Issues Study Group — 505-879-8547 Allies Move to Block High-Level Radioactive Waste Targeted for New Mexico: HOLTEC Proposes World’s Largest Nuclear Dump and Nationwide Shipment of N-Waste Albuquerque, NM — Ten organizations*…

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December 24, 2018
For Immediate Release: 24December 2018 Contacts: USA: Tim Judson, NIRS +1 301 270 6477, timj@nirs.org Europe: Peer de Rijk, WISE-International +31 20 6126368, director@wiseinternational.org South Africa: Makoma Lekalakala, Earthlife Africa, +27 82 682 9177, makoma@earthlife.org.za Germany: Kerstin Rudek, Don’t Nuke the Climate +49 1590 21 54 831, kerstin.rudek@gmx.de Austria: Patricia Lorenz, Global 2000 +43…

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December 13, 2018
For Immediate Release: 13 December 2018 Contact: Makoma Lekalakala, Earthlife Africa, +27 82 682 9177, makoma@earthlife.org.za Ayumi Fukakusa, Friends of the Earth-Japan, fukakusa@foejapan.org Leona Morgan, Diné No Nukes, +1 505 879 8547, leona.morgan.nm@gmail.com Kerstin Rudek, Don’t Nuke the Climate +49 1590 21 54 831, kerstin.rudek@gmx.de Nuclear Power Violates Climate Justice, Human Rights Environmental…

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December 11, 2018
Media Advisory: 12 December 2018 at 6pm CET Contacts: Kerstin Rudek, Don’t Nuke the Climate +49 1590 21 54 831, kerstin.rudek@gmx.de Makoma Lekalakala, Earthlife Africa, +27 82 682 9177, makoma@earthlife.org.za Ayumi Fukakusa, Friends of the Earth-Japan, fukakusa@foejapan.org Leona Morgan, Diné No Nukes, +1 505 879 8547, leona.morgan.nm@gmail.com Nuclear Power Violates Climate Justice, Human…

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December 07, 2018
For Immediate Release: 7 December 2018 Contact: Tim Judson, NIRS +1 212-729-1169, timj@nirs.org Makoma Lekalakala, Earthlife Africa +27 82 682 9177, makoma@earthlife.org.za Kerstin Rudek, Don’t Nuke the Climate Coalition +49 159 02154831, kerstin.rudek@gmx.de No Nuclear Road to Paris New report concludes nuclear power “will play no meaningful role” in averting catastrophic warming Renewable energy pathways…

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