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Latest Updates

• December 11, 2009

  Taxpayer-Backed Loan Guarantees for New Reactors to Companies in MD, SC, GA and TX are a Risky Venture Lacking Accountability, Must be Halted; environmental group statement.

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• December 2, 2009

  Letter from 22 environmental groups urging Energy Secretary Steven Chu to suspend loan guarantees for EPR reactors due to unresolved safety and economic concerns.

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• November 16, 2009

  Presentation on nuclear waste processing and landfill disposal in TN to Tennessee State House of Representatives 2009 summer study committee, on behalf of Tennessee Conservation Voters, Tennessee Environmental Council and Citizens to End Nuclear Dumping in Tennessee and Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

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• November 13, 2009

  Letter to Secretary Chu calling for inclusion of independent experts in the Department of Energy’s Radioactive Waste Advisory Panel work.

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• November 1, 2009

  All Risk, No Reward. New study from Marc Cooper of Univ. of Vermont on why Wall Street refuses to take the risk of investing in new reactors, and why Congress and States shouldn’t expose taxpayers to those risks.

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• October 13, 2009

  NRC Commissioners order hearing on foreign ownership/domination issues in Calvert Cliffs-3 case and uphold rights of people within 50 miles of any reactor to participate in licensing decisions. NRC rejects all arguments from nuclear utility UniStar Nuclear in appeals case.

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• October 1, 2009

  New study reveals French nuclear construction costs tripled per kilowatt/installed from 1970-2000. So much for a learning curve.

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• September 28, 2009

  NRC list of expected new reactor applications 2007-2008 , updated

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• September 22, 2009

  Comments By Texans For A Safe Energy Policy, Beyond Nuclear, Friends Of The Earth, Nuclear Information And Resource Service, Public Citizen Texas, Physicians For Social Responsibility, and Union Of Concerned Scientists on proposed changes to DOE nuclear loan guarantee program.

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• September 17, 2009

  WISE-Paris evaluation of the French nuclear programme: "Lessons to be learnt from the French nuclear program – From dreams to promises… of disillusions", presentation by Yves Marignac, Executive Director of WISE-Paris, in Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY.

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