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Church Rock, NM: Living with North America’s Worst Nuclear Disaster for 39 Years

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March 25, 2016

NIRS webinar on widespread radioactive contamination around abandoned uranium mines across the U.S. and the campaign to force their clean-up. MP4 video file.

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March 18, 2016

Audio file (mp3) of NIRS telebriefing on 1979 uranium mining disaster at Church Rock, New Mexico.

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July 9, 2013

Conservative/Enviro group letter to U.S. House in support of Burgess Amendment to end taxpayer bailout of USEC. Groups include NRDC, UCS, FoE, R Street, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Freedom Action, and more.

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April 26, 2013

48 international organizations sign appeal to prevent uranium mining in Greenland.

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September 20, 2012

Prepared statement of Michael Mariotte, NIRS Executive Director, for Coalition Against Nukes Congressional briefing–on uranium mining and radioactive waste.

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July 7, 2011

Test centrifuges crash at USEC enrichment plant in Ohio following power outage in June; USEC disclosed incident to political backers before the NRC as deadline for loan guarantee loomed.

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June 1, 2011

New report from Earthworks on impact of uranium mining: Nuclear Power's Other Tragedy: Communities Living with Uranium Mining.

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March 1, 2011

Radioactive Revenues. New report from WISE and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations examines the financial flows between uranium mining companies and African governments.

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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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April 23, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2020 CONTACTS: Tim Judson, NIRS 301-270-6477 timj@nirs.org Karen Orenstein, Friends of the Earth korenstein@foe.org Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network 413-339-4374 deb@nukebusters.org Cynthia Papermaster, CodePINK codepinkgg@gmail.com Priscilla Star, Coalition Against Nukes priscillaastar@hotmail.com Mike Carberry, Green State Solutions mike@greenstatesolutions.com Dave Kraft, Nuclear Energy Information Service neis@neis.org Sheila Parks, On Behalf of Planet…

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