January 29, 2019 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 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 Albuquerque, NM — Ten organizations* and two industry groups** blasted…
Testimony of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Before the Connecticut General Assembly – Energy and Technology Committee
More West Valley Resources Background and Historical Footage Historical footage on West Valley – site opened in the 1960s and closed in 1970s Regulatory Background There are many state and federal “regulatory” agencies with authority over aspects of the West Valley site. More on West Valley NIRS archive of West Valley updates Background on West…
Let us be clear: without Michael Mariotte’s decision in the mid 1980’s to devote his talents to stopping the nuclear industry, many things would be very different today. Michael could not do what he did without Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), and the many thousands of people who work with NIRS could not have…
Are you in the evacuation zone of a nuclear reactor? Should you be? Find out here with this interactive map from Physicians for Social Responsibility. April 30, 2014. NRC cannot provide documentation of its claim in denying NIRS EPZ petition that “majority” of emergency exercises include natural disaster as initiating or concurrent event. Emergency…
NIRS is launching a new campaign today, called #NuclearIsDirty. Over the next twelve weeks, we will be rolling it out through a series of online events, publications, and social media forums. #NuclearIsDirty is a forum to inform the public of the real environmental impacts of nuclear power, from the mining of uranium and production of…
Georgia is one state that you would think would be wary of nuclear power economics. The first two reactors at Georgia Power’s Vogtle site, which came online in the late 1980s, were a record 800% over budget. That is a number that is almost impossible to grasp. Nothing goes 800% over budget–in the real world,…
Yesterday, the new Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority gave its preliminary approval for restart of Kyushu Electric’s two Sendai reactors. In response, seven Japanese clean energy groups issued the statement below, challenging that approval on several grounds. The draft approval does not necessarily guarantee a speedy restart; there are several more step in the process. As…
What the nuclear and fossil fuel industries have most in common is that they are “extractive” industries–their basic business is extracting energy sources from our earth (coal, uranium, oil, gas) and using that fuel to provide electricity and transportation–causing enormous radioactive, carbon, and other pollution. What the clean energy industries have in common is that…
Nuclear Power New confirmation. New study: wind, solar power is cheaper than new nuclear. A new European study confirms what by now almost everyone except the U.S. Congress and White House seem to know: renewables are cheaper than new nuclear power–20% cheaper, even if construction of natural gas backup plants were to be required. Renewables…