Yucca Mountain Nuke Dump Update
Yucca Mountain Nuke Dump Update, NIRS/WISE Nuclear Monitor newsletter article,
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Senate Energy Bills seek more nukes
Senate Energy Bills seek more nukes! Article, from Jan/Feb Nuclear Monitor. Text of Murkowski bill (500+k, ), introduced Summary of bill (prepared by Senate Energy Committee).
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S. 104 is this year’s “Mobile Chernobyl Act .” Article from Nuclear Monitor. Text of S.104.
Digital Campaigns Specialist
Nuclear Information and Resource Service is a national organization working for a nuclear-free, carbon-free world. We have been the national hub for grassroots activists opposing nuclear power and radioactive waste, and fighting for sustainable energy, since 1978. We are leading campaigns to phase out nuclear power; advance climate justice, energy democracy, and the transformation to…
Chernobyl Resource Page
A major television miniseries about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is showing on HBO, starting May 6, 2019. NIRS hopes that the series is true to the facts, experiences, and legacies of what remains one of the world’s worst industrial and environmental disasters. Unfortunately, many governmental and nuclear industry bodies continue to downplay and minimize the…
NIRS is Hiring – Digital Campaigns Specialist
NIRS is Hiring – Digital Campaigns Specialist
Michael Mariotte
The Staff of Nuclear Information & Resource Service Working for a Nuclear-Free World Michael Mariotte – Counterweight to Nuclear Energy 1952 – 2016 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…
Contact
NIRS is the information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues. NIRS P.O. Box 8 Mount Rainier, MD 20712 Tel: +1 301-270-NIRS (301-270-6477); Fax: +1 301-270-4291 E-mail: nirs@nirs.org Web: www.nirs.org NIRS has affiliated with WISE International (the World Information Service on Energy), our…
WISE
In the 1970s, the need for better cross-frontier contact and communication became increasingly obvious to many in the anti-nuclear and safe energy movement. The idea of a newsletter of some kind came up regularly at all the meetings. In November 1977, some 70 people met in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the project. Many of them…
Radiation
“There is no safe level of exposure and there is no dose of (ionizing) radiation so low that the risk of a malignancy is zero”–Dr. Karl Morgan, the father of Health Physics Radiation is energy that travels in waves. It includes visible light, ultraviolet light, radio waves and other forms, including particles. Each type of…