Radioactive Waste Archives · Page 10 of 25

April 1, 2007

NIRS salutes the determined activists of South Carolina who have been waging a campaign to close the Barnwell "low-level" nuclear waste dump. A first step was accomplished in April when the South Carolina House committee on Agriculture and Environmental Affairs voted unanimously (with only 2 abstentions, including the bill sponsor) against a bill that would…

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January 1, 2007

Independent investigative journalist Mike Hopping’s article "For Lack of a Database" on the North Carolina uranium truck roll-over on an I-40 entrance ramp.

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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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January 26, 2006

28 groups write to all 535 Members of Congress urging opposition to the reprocessing relapse

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January 18, 2006

Public interest and environmental groups thank U.S. Senator Reid of Nevada for his efforts in support of the Cedar Mountains Wilderness Act, blocking the preferred rail route PFS would need to deliver irradiated nuclear fuel to the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation.

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