September 16, 2010 NIRS press release: Industry-funded MIT study on nuclear future suffers from unsupportable reactor construction cost estimate; recommendation for more high-risk taxpayer subsidies to nuclear industry doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. Press Release
July 1, 2010 New NIRS report finds that foreign companies and workers would be the big winners from U.S. taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors. | Report. | Press release. | Audio recording of the press conference. Press Release
June 28, 2010 Intervenors Submit New Challenge to Calvert Cliffs-3 in NRC Licensing Hearing. NIRS Press Release. Press Release
May 13, 2010 It’s Not Just Vermont: State Lawmakers Do Not Share Congress’ Love for the Nuclear Industry, Which Gets Shut Out 0-8 in State Legislatures During 2010. NIRS Press Release. Click here for an audio recording of the press conference. Press Release
May 12, 2010 US, Canadian and Northern European groups oppose radioactive steam generator shipments from Great Lakes to Baltic Sea and oppose processing and radioactive release into the marketplace. Hundreds sign resolution to stop Bruce Nuclear Power waste shipments and release by Swedish radioactive waste company, Studsvik, into everyday commerce. Press Release. May 14, 2007: Major new report from NIRS finds that radioactive materials are being released from nuclear weapons facilities to regular landfills and into commercial recycling streams where they can be used to make everyday household items. Titled Out of Control—On Purpose: DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products, the report is available here. Read press release here. Press Release
April 16, 2010 West Valley Action Network groups outraged with dangerously inadequate, incomplete cleanup decision by DOE: Group Press Release re DOE Record of Decision on West Valley Nuclear Power, Weapons and Reprocessing Waste Site. (DOE decision is at www.westvalleyeis.com) Press Release
February 17, 2010 Nuclear Loan Guarantees Aren’t Just Guarantees: They are Actual Taxpayer Loans. NIRS Press Release. Press Release
February 14, 2010 After Calvert Cliffs Collapse: Two remaining top loan guarantee applicants… Press Release
January 30, 2010 Chu Panel Composition Squanders Opportunity to Develop Consensus Radioactive Waste Policy Press Release
