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Latest Updates

• March 1, 2003

  NIRS comments to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services in opposition to nitrogen oxide trading credits for the operation of the Seabrook nuclear power station.

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• February 1, 2003

  NIRS presented to the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission its concerns with the near-miss accident of the Davis-Besse nuclear power station and the agency’s abandonment of its safety principles for an industry production agenda.

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• January 1, 2003

  “Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Gordon Tompson. Institute for Resource and Security Studies. Focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations  to terrorism and what we can do about it. Executive Summary and Full report.

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• January 1, 2003

  Nuclear Monitor article () focuses on US Nuclear Regulatory Commission denies NIRS et al security contentions at re-licensed nuclear power stations citing terrorism as “speculative.”

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• January 1, 2003

  Executive Summary of “Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Institute for Resource and Security Studies () focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations  to terrorism and what we can do about it.

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• January 1, 2003

  Full report of “Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Neglected Issue of Homeland Security”, Institute for Resource and Security Studies () focuses on the vulnerability of irradiated fuel stored at the nation’s nuclear power stations  to terrorism and what we can do about it.

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• December 30, 2002

  Office of Inspector General Report on NRC/First Energy deficiences at Davis-Besse,

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• December 17, 2002

  U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Order () issued denying State of Utah the right to raise security contentions in a nuclear licensing proceeding on Private Fuel Storage.  Order cites terrorism as too “speculative” to be considered under any public hearing as required under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Order was separately applied to three other NRC licensing proceedings including security contentions raised by NIRS in the Duke Power license extension application for the Catawba and McGuire nuclear power stations.

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• December 1, 2002

  Information for Yucca Mountain whistleblowers.

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• December 1, 2002

  Avoidable Tragedy post-Chernobyl. A Critical Analysis. Article by Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Journal of Humanitarian Medicine,

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