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Latest Updates

• February 3, 2010

  Experts: no good candidates exist for current nuclear reactor loan guarantee bailout funds, much less tripled amount under Obama budget plan. Press release in conjunction with telepressconference.

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• January 18, 2010

  Press Release from Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (UK) announcing Submission to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee: “Effective Arrangements for Waste from New Reactors Do Not Exist”.

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• January 15, 2010

  Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (UK) report to House of Commons.

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• January 15, 2010

  Reps. Markey, Hall and Adler request GAO investigation of leaky pipes at nuclear reactors.

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• January 12, 2010

  Comments of Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and seven other groups (including NIRS) on NRC’s proposed Generic Environmental Impact Statement on reactor license renewal.

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• January 12, 2010

  Bacchus Exhibit D. LNP Adverse Environmental Water Impacts. Bacchus Exhibit D1a. Multibasin watersheds LNP DEIS Fig 2-7 Bacchus Exhibit D1b. Sub-basin coastal discharges LNP DEIS Fig 2-8 Bacchus Exhibit D1e. SRWMD Water Supply Assessment Report 2010 Bacchus Exhibit D1f. FDEP Withlacoochee impaired verified-c2. Bacchus Exhibit D1g. FDEP Waccasassa impaired waters. January 15, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit D2. Giant Holes in flood plain MIT Technology Review. November 12, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit D3. Critical Wildlife Habitat Levy County Bacchus Exhibit D4. Baseline Conditions GWRC S1-95 Bacchus Exhibit D5. Passive dewatering 2006

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• January 7, 2010

  Ruling by Nuclear Regulatory Commission upholding NIRS, Green Party, Ecology Party as interveners and confirming admission of three contentions in Levy County nuclear license challenge, striking down the Progress Energy appeal.

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• January 6, 2010

  NIRS, WISE, CNIC (Japan) urge Vietnam to re-examine suspiciously low nuclear reactor cost estimates. Press Release. Letter to Vietnamese officials.

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• January 1, 2010

  Greenpeace fact sheet on Vermont Yankee relicensing. The Vermont legislature will be determining the fate of this reactor soon. Act now!

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• December 31, 2009

  National and grassroots clean energy groups call NRC to ensure independent study of cancers and other health effects around nuclear reactors. Letter to NRC Chair Greg Jaczko.

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