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Latest Updates

• September 5, 2008

  The Brave New World of Nuclear Power Economics, an article by NIRS executive director Michael Mariotte

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• July 24, 2008

  FoE, NC WARN Urge NC and SC Commissions to Revoke Duke Nuclear Cost Approvals Due to Design Problems, Delays. Press release with links to filings.

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• July 22, 2008

  Presentation from Synapse Energy Economics on water, climate change and risk in electricity planning.

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• July 17, 2008

  Powering Maryland’s Future, a new report from Maryland PIRG, shows that the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 reactor would be too slow and too expensive to meet Maryland’s electricity needs, which can be generated more safely, cleanly, faster and cheaper from renewable energy sources and an aggressive energy efficiency program. Every state should have a report like this one!

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• July 16, 2008

  Testimony of Richard Webster, Legal Director for Eastern Environmental Law Center, before Senate Environment Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. The testimony argues that the NRC’s relicensing process is deficient and there are severe weaknesses in the oversight of reactor safety.

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• July 1, 2008

  Mothers for Peace and NRC face off at rare Commissioners’ hearing on dry casks and threat of terrorism.

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• July 1, 2008

  New study (which reviews 103 previous studies and finds nearly all lacking) concludes that nuclear power is not carbon-free, and its carbon emissions, while far lower than all fossil fuels, are higher than renewable sources of energy. Published in Energy Policy, by Benjamin Sovacool, University of Singapore & Virginia Tech.

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• July 1, 2008

  Research Report No. 5, International Panel on Fissile Materials. The Legacy of Reprocessing in the United Kingdom. Martin Forwood.

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• July 1, 2008

  Testimony of David Schlissel, Synapse Energy Economics, before the Maryland Public Service Commission, on the extraordinarily high cost estimates for new nuclear reactors. While this was prepared for hearings on the proposed Calvert Cliffs EPR, most of this testimony will be useful to anyone looking at nuclear power economics for any proposed reactor.

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• July 1, 2008

  This new version of False Promises produced by NIRS examines many of the false propaganda claims made by the nuclear industry and carefully rebuts each one, supplemented with extensive footnotes. You’ll find information on nuclear safety, economics, radioactive waste, sustainable energy, radiation and health and much more. You can download it free here. Printed copies are available from NIRS for $15 (includes priority mail postage and handling). Send a check to NIRS, 6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912.

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