Environmentalists Oppose Bush-Cheney Plan to Revitalize Nuclear Power Industry
Press Release on Bush-Cheney National Energy Tragedy, (NIRS and Environmental Advocates, )
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160+ U.S. organizations urge DOE to disqualify proposed Yucca Mountain waste site
160+ U.S. organizations urge DOE to disqualify proposed Yucca Mountain waste site; state outrage over leaked contractor memo stating that DOE documents are intended to “sell” Yucca Mountain project.
Nuclear Power Regulator Reply To Senate Y2K Special Committee Questions Further Undercuts Public Confidence in Nuclear Industry and Y2K
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), a watchdog group tracking the nuclear power industry, applauded the U.S. Senate’s Y2K Special Committee’s announced efforts to “encourage additional measures” and “afford an extra level of scrutiny” at the nation’s 103 operating reactors and 14 permanently closed reactors with onsite nuclear waste storage ponds, in order to protect…
CAN and NIRS Will Fight The Buy-Up Of Vermont Yankee and Nuclear Utility Mega-Mergers By Amergen
Citizen’s Awareness Network (CAN), Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone (CCAM) and Environmental Advocates will oppose the proposed sale of Vermont Yankee Nuclear power station to the controversial AmerGen, a multinational corporation comprised of British Energy and PECO. The sale has been the subject of negotiations between Vermont Yankee’s owners…
Amergen Partner Blasted By British Nuclear Inspectors; British Energy’s Downsizing Threatens Nuclear Safety
A report by the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII, the British equivalent of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has found that severe downsizing by British Energy, Ltd. is threatening nuclear safety at British atomic reactors. The report, which has never officially been made public, was obtained and released in England by Friends of the…
BRITISH ENERGY, AMERGEN, AND US NUCLEAR SAFETY–fact sheet 9251999
British Energy, Amergen, and U.S. Nuclear Safety,
U.S. Federal Regulator Rejects Y2K Compliance as Standard for 103 U.S. Power Reactors
Comment on DOE Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain
U.S. Federal Regulator Rejects Y2K Compliance as Standard for 103 U.S. Power Reactors
Relying on narrow and confusing definitions, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has officially asserted its decision to exempt the nation’s 103 large nuclear power reactors from a Y2K compliance standard. Y2K readiness is the NRC’s choice which allows for work-arounds and other short cuts. Testing of systems to show Y2K readiness is suggested, but not required.…
WHATS DECOMMISSIONING GOT TO DO WITH THE IRS?
What does the IRS have to do with decommissioning? A new tax bailout for nukes,
Group Calls for Reactor Closures Rather Than Tax Shelters
The groundwork is being laid for the emergence of super-electric utilities, as a strategy for an economically beleaguered nuclear industry to survive an increasingly competitive market by consolidating more reactors under fewer utilities. Nuclear utilities operating aging and historically poor performing nuclear power stations, often outside of federal safety regulations, are the first candidates for…