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MOX Update from Nuclear Monitor: new consortia seek MOX contracts;…
MOX Update from Nuclear Monitor: new consortia seek MOX contracts; national NIX MOX conference September 27-28; grant money available for anti-MOXwork.
Nuclear Monitor article ] on projected nuclear power station decommissioning…
Nuclear Monitor article ] on projected nuclear power station decommissioning funding shortfalls.
Groups Call on NYS Elected Leaders to Make the West Valley Nuclear Site Clean-Up Safer
For Immediate Release September 2, 2022 Groups Call on NYS Elected Leaders to Make the West Valley Nuclear Site Clean-Up Safer Enclose Plutonium Building during Demolition and Report Offsite Radioactive Releases in Real Time Contacts: Diane D’Arrigo NIRS dianed@nirs.org; 301-270-6477×3 Charley Bowman WNY Drilling Defense, candabowman@protonmail.com, 716-908-8227 25 Western NY, NYS, and national organizations[i] called…
2021 West Valley Nuclear Series
This is a collection of Zoom meeting recordings of sessions held by the West Valley Action Network (NIRS is a part of this network), the Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Waste, and various partners including the Partnership for Public Good, Buffalo Commons and the Western New York Environmental Alliance. Thank you to all the organizations…
Nuclear Risks of the Ukraine Conflict and Why the U.S. MUST Sanction Russian Nuclear
It is increasingly urgent to do all we can to end Russia’s war on Ukraine and achieve a peaceful withdrawal of Russian forces from the country. Untold thousands of civilians have now been killed. Over one-fourth of Ukraine’s population–more than 10 million people–have been displaced from their homes and cities, many of which have been…
Put a Mask on the West Valley Nuclear Waste Site
New Yorkers own the West Valley Nuclear Waste Site which is upstream and upwind of Buffalo and the rest of NY, the Seneca Nation of Indians Territories and Canada. Highly radioactive nuclear power and weapons fuel was reprocessed there to extract plutonium and uranium, leaving one of the most intensely radioactive sites in the world.…
Safe Energy Groups Call Out Lax Nuclear Oversight During Pandemic
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…
Coronavirus and the Nuclear Industry
This page is an archive of news stories about the spread of coronavirus in nuclear facilities across the country. The table is sortable by title, date, state, and specific facility mentioned in the story (‘all’ means the story is national). Title Date State Facility Georgia nuclear project reports more than 800 COVID-19 cases to…
Nuclear workers are essential to nuclear safety. Tell our leaders to protect them.
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…