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December 5, 2007

NIRS statement at Department of Energy SEIS hearings on proposed Yucca Mountain waste site; in Washington DC.

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October 5, 2007

DOE proposes doubling Yucca Mountain Capacity. DOE Press Release, NEPA Documents for Public Comment

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July 10, 2007

NIRS expresses its deepest sympathy and condolences at the passing of Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone Indian spiritual leader, and leader of the resistance to nuclear weapons testing and radioactive waste dumping on Western Shoshone lands in Nevada. Link to public statement by Corbin’s immediate family. Photos of Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney leading sacred ceremonies during the 2000 Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp

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July 2, 2007

NIRS comments to NRC on its woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment and entirely unacceptable Finding of No Significant Impact regarding terrorist attack risks at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant High-Level Radioactive Waste Dry Cask Storage Installation.

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October 20, 2006

Current list of over 100 national, regional, state-wide and local organizations calling for high-level radioactive waste storage pools and outdoor dry casks to be “hardened” or fortified against terrorist attacks.

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September 7, 2006

10 Attorneys General oppose Senate’s high-level waste interim storage bill. Letter. Press Release.

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September 7, 2006

Hard Won Victory Against Environmentally Racist Nuke Waste Dump Targeted at Native Lands!

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September 1, 2006

The C-10 Education and Research Foundation and Citizens Awareness Network’s joint presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security: The Case for Hardened Storage” of high-level radioactive waste onsite at nuclear power plants (a 10 minute presentation).

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June 29, 2006

In one day, 80+ organizations signed this letter to Senate Appropriations Committee opposing centralized “interim” surface storage of high-level radioactive waste.

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June 28, 2006

New report from Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads Campaign: Is a Mobile Chernobyl converging on the Southeast? The Bush administration’s GNEP project could bring high-level waste–from all across the world–to the South, with the Asheville, North Carolina area in the center of the crosshairs.

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May 08, 2023
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…

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December 13, 2022
NIRS Statement on 12/13/22 DOE Nuclear Fusion Announcement Today, the US Department of Energy announced what scientists consider a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. In the DOE’s press release, they celebrate “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean…

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June 10, 2022
News from Beyond Nuclear, For Immediate Release Contacts: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, kevin@beyondnuclear.org, (240) 462-3216;Michael Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes and Don’t Waste Michigan, mkeeganj@comcast.net, (734) 770-1441;Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, dianed@nirs.org, (301) 270-6477 ext. 3,;Terry Lodge, environmental coalition legal counsel, tjlodge50@yahoo.com, (419) 205-7084Iris Potter, Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, b.irispotter@gmail.com,…

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March 30, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2022 GROUPS DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN URANIUM Activists gathered near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to demand President Biden and Congress Ban Imports of Russian Uranium into the United States U.S. CORPORATIONS BUYING RUSSIAN URANIUM ARE FUNDING PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE Washington D.C. – Activists affiliated…

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March 29, 2022
NIRS has joined our counterparts in Ukraine, calling for sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry, including a ban on imports of uranium from Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear conglomerate. Doing so should not depend on there being no impact on the U.S. economy–we should have the courage of our convictions, and bringing an end to the wanton…

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March 29, 2022
It is increasingly urgent to do all we can to end Russia’s war on Ukraine and achieve a peaceful withdrawal of Russian forces from the country. Untold thousands of civilians have now been killed. Over one-fourth of Ukraine’s population–more than 10 million people–have been displaced from their homes and cities, many of which have been…

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