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Why should kids care about the West Valley Nuclear Waste Site? Powerpoint presentation by NIRS’ Diane D’Arrigo to Park School students, Buffalo, NY February 2015
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NIRS’ executive director Tim Judson’s third testimony to Washington DC Public Service Commission on proposed Exelon/Pepco merger focuses on reactor decommissioning liabilities Pepco ratepayers could be exposed to if merger were approved.
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Presentation from Steve Frishman of Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects: The Role of Geology at the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.
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Report from four Illinois state agencies on the implications of shutdown of some Exelon reactors. Exelon, and some state legislators, had hoped this report would lay the groundwork for a ratepayer bailout of the utility’s uneconomic nukes, but it falls far short of that intent.
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Testimony of NIRS’ executive director Tim Judson before Washington DC Public Service Commission in opposition to proposed Exelon/Pepco merger.
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A major new report from Institute for Local Self Reliance: "Beyond Utility 2.0 to Energy Democracy." Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the changes that are rapidly transforming the electric utility industry and how to make those changes both democratize production, delivery and use of energy as well as usher in a clean energy system.
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Sens. Boxer and Markey blast NRC for U.S.collaboration with Russia to gut international post-Fukushima nuclear safety rules.
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NIRS’s Mary Olson speaks on the impact of radiation on girls and women at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons.
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