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…
An excerpt from the Statement of Michael Mariotte, Executive Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, on S. 608, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, Before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, “YUCCA MOUNTAIN IS UNSUITABLE AS A PERMANENT NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Environmental and consumer organizations called today for Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to disqualify Yucca Mountain as the proposed site of a nuclear waste repository. The data within the Department of Energy’s Viability Assessment (VA), released today, confirm that the site must be disqualified. Furthermore, the VA snubs necessary public involvement. In the…
November 18, 1998 Mr. Bill Richardson Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, D.C. 20585 Dear Secretary Richardson: The undersigned organizations, on behalf of our combined memberships, request that you immediately disqualify the Yucca Mountain, Nevada site and declare it unsuitable for further consideration as a high-level nuclear waste repository.…
Nuclear Power and Global Warming (from Friends of the Earth Scotland),
In a stunning rebuke to the House Commerce Committee, the House Resources Committee today issued an unfavorable report on the Mobile Chernobyl bill, HR 1270 (officially the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997). This legislation would repeal existing high-level nuclear waste laws and replace them with an ill-advised industry sponsored mandate to start shipping high-level…
NIRS gives President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott 40,000 “Don’t Waste America” petition signatures. Press release,
Seventy-six years ago, on July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb in the world was exploded in the desert of New Mexico by U.S. military scientists and officials. 40,000 people lived within 50 miles of the blast, many living self-sustained off the landscape. As soon as the bomb went off, the fallout began. Over many…
This week is the 75th anniversary of the first uses of nuclear weapons in warfare: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, and of Nagasaki on August 9. The horrific suffering and loss of life continue to this day, even as the numbers of survivors—the Hibakusha—who lived to testify to the reality of nuclear…
EXPERTS: NUCLEAR BAILOUT COULD COST UP TO $17 BILLION A YEAR AND “DESTROY” RENEWABLES INDUSTRY IN U.S.