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Latest Updates

• September 22, 2005

  Nuclear Power and Hurricanes. NIRS Advisory.

  Update

• September 1, 2005

  Nuclear Power: The Next De-Generation. Nuclear provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

  Fact Sheet

• August 12, 2005

  NIRS comments to the California Energy Commission on Nuclear Power in California; calling for opposition to relicensing of Diablo Canyon and San Onofre and discussion of nuclear power/global warming.

  Update

• July 20, 2005

  Letter from environmental groups to Congressional energy bill conferees urging no nuclear subsidies in energy bill.

  Update

• July 12, 2005

  NRC letter in response to NIRS request for reconsideration and reversal of the agency’s denial of an emergency enforcement petition requesting backup power to public notification sirens.  In the meantime, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton introduces legislation in US Senate to require backup power to emergency notification systems.

  Update

• July 7, 2005

  On behalf of the millions of members our 437 organizations represent (31 Native American, 26 national, 366 regional/state/local, and 15 international organizations), we urge you not to approve the license application by Private Fuel Storage, LLC (PFS) to open an "interim storage site" for commercial irradiated nuclear fuel at the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah. This letter was delivered to the NRC Commissioners on But on September 9, 2005, by a split 4 to 1 decision, the NRC Commissioners voted to issue PFS a construction and operating license.

  Update

• July 1, 2005

  US Radiation Panel Recognizes No Safe Dose of Radiation ()

  Update

• June 29, 2005

  NRC Proposed Director’s Decision to the Nuclear Security Coalition August 10, 2004 emergency enforcement petition regarding the structural vulnerability of GE Boiling Water Reactor Mark I and II elevated nuclear waste storage ponds.

  Update

• June 14, 2005

  Environmental group letter opposing funding for Yucca Mountain.

  Update

• June 14, 2005

  NIRS and Public Citizen have compiled two timelines — one on the targeting of Native American tribes in general, and the other on the targeting of the Skull Valley Goshutes of Utah in particular, for high-level radioactive waste dumps — plus a backgrounder on why the Private Fuel Storage dump is all of a sudden on the fast track. The History of Targeting Native American Communities with High-Level Atomic Waste Dumps Skull Valley Goshutes/PFS Timeline Why is the Nuclear Industry Pushing for Private Fuel Storage (PFS)?

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