July 6, 2001 Press Release – Mock Radioactive Waste Cask Tour at West Valley – Learn the Lessons of West Valley and Idaho National Labs- Funds for Cleanup-Not more nuclear waste!() Press Release
June 29, 2001 Comments to the Department of Energy on the Bush/Cheney Energy Plan Highlighting the Promise of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies Press Release
June 27, 2001 A coalition of national and Nevada-based environmental, consumer advocacy, and public interest groups filed a lawsuit today, challenging the weakest aspects of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule that establishes radiation protection standards for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Press Release
June 6, 2001 EPA Radiation Standards Offer Inadequate Protection from Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump: Important Precedent for Groundwater Protection Undermined by Rule’s Deficiencies, NIRS and environmental coalition press release. Press Release
May 17, 2001 Press Release on Bush-Cheney National Energy Tragedy, (NIRS and Environmental Advocates, ) Press Release
May 1, 2001 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is engaged in a licensing process for a new nuclear fuel factory at the Savannah River Site in SC that would make experimental nuclear fuel from plutonium recovered from nuclear weapons (and residues from the bomb-making process) for use incommercial nuclear power reactors. NRC must do an environmental impact statement to “inform”their MOX licensing decision. NRC is now collecting public comments on the”scope” of this EIS. SHORT COMMENT PERIOD! To learn more about this issue and to find out where to send your comments go here. Meeting locations and times. There is a meeting on May 8 in Charlotte, NC! Press Release
April 16, 2001 Southeastern Public Interest Community Speaks Out Against Plutonium Fuel Plan () Press Release
March 26, 2001 “Plutonium Paul Revere” Rides Again! Mobile Chernobyl Tour Warns Michiganders about Atomic Waste & Environmental Racism Press Release
March 22, 2001 Little-noted accident at San Onofre nuclear plant exacerbates California blackouts. NIRS Press Release. Press Release
March 13, 2001 65 Environmental and Citizens Groups Urge Secretary of State Colin Powell to Reject Nuclear Energy as “Sustainable” in Upcoming United Nations Talks Press Release
