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Telebriefing: Celebrating Four Decades of No Nukes Activism!
NIRS held a special edition of our quarterly telebriefing series, to commemorate our 40th anniversary with leaders in the anti-nuclear movement that NIRS has had the privilege to work with.
- Harvey Wassserman – Solartopia
- Michael Keegan – Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes and Don’t Waste Michigan
- Deb Katz – Citizens Awareness Network
- Karen Hadden – SEED Coalition
The briefing was hosted by Allison Fisher, Outreach Director for Public Citizen’s Energy Program and NIRS Board Member.
You can listen to the briefing below. And if you’re inspired to celebrate NIRS and help us make the vision of a nuclear-free, carbon-free world a reality in our lifetime — please visit our 40th Anniversary page.
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Maryland’s Renewable Grid of the Future. Presentations given at symposium at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. All files are pdf.
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Webinar on the grid of the future in Maryland, with Dr. Arjun Mahkijani of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Corey Ramsden of Maryland SUN, and Jessica Azulay of Alliance for a Green Economy; moderated by Tim Judson of NIRS. How we can build a statewide grid that can support a system run on renewables and increased energy efficiency.
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New report by Germany's Prognos AG for Agora Energiewende: Comparing the Cost of Low-Carbon Technologies: What is the Cheapest Option? Concludes, based on current experience in Germany and the UK, that a reliable system based on solar and wind with gas backup is 20% cheaper than a system with nuclear and gas backup.
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Important new report from Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School's Mark Cooper: Power Shift: The Deployment of a 21st Century Electricity Sector and the Nuclear War to Stop It. Describes how the nuclear power industry is seeking consumer bailouts for its uneconomic reactors while working to undermine adoption of clean renewable energy.
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148 groups, thousands of individuals, tell EPA to remove nuclear power support from Clean Power Plan Proposal. Comments. Press Release. Additional technical comments submitted by NIRS.
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