Radioactive Waste Archives · Page 16 of 25 · NIRS

June 24, 2002

Letter from concerned Michigan citizen to Michigan Attorney General [now Governor] Jennifer Granholm, and Granholm’s response, on the dangers of irradiated nuclear fuel storage in outdoor dry casks on the shorelines of the Great Lakes in both Canada and the U.S.,

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June 4, 2002

IEER’s proposal for hardened on-site storage of irradiated nuclear fuel at reactor sites as an alternative to the Yucca Mountain dump and for security against terrorist attack.

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June 2, 2002

National environmental group letter to U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in opposition to the Yucca Mountain dump.

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June 1, 2002

Great Lakes United on Expansion of High-Level Nuclear Waste Storage at the Bruce Nuclear Complex on the Shoreline of Lake Huron, Canada.

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June 1, 2002

Great Lakes United Resolution on Yucca Mountain

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June 1, 2002

Great Lakes United Resolution on the Transport of the Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste in Canada.

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May 26, 2002

Barge rams bridge in deadly Oklahoma interstate highway disaster. But what if high-level radioactive waste had been involved?

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May 22, 2002

Debunking the Myths: Rebutting Detroit Edison’s and Consumers Energy’s Facts’ About Yucca Mountain

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May 16, 2002

NIRS Fact Sheets: A Brief History of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Shipments: Atomic Waste Transport “Incidents” and Accidents the Nuclear Power Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About, and Hot Cargo!- Nuclear Waste Transportation

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May 8, 2002

Sample Community Resolution Opposing Nuclear Waste

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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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