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• April 1, 2007

  NIRS salutes the determined activists of South Carolina who have been waging a campaign to close the Barnwell "low-level" nuclear waste dump. A first step was accomplished in April when the South Carolina House committee on Agriculture and Environmental Affairs voted unanimously (with only 2 abstentions, including the bill sponsor) against a bill that would…

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• January 19, 2007

  44 Groups Call on Congress to Eliminate DOE¹s Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program and Support Plutonium Immobilization in 2007 Budget.

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• October 20, 2006

  Current list of over 100 national, regional, state-wide and local organizations calling for high-level radioactive waste storage pools and outdoor dry casks to be “hardened” or fortified against terrorist attacks.

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• September 12, 2006

  Click here to hear a radio show broadcast on WPFW, Pacifica radio in Washington DC, on , on upcoming NGO report on World Bank energy lending policies. Guests include NIRS executive director Michael Mariotte.

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• September 1, 2006

  The C-10 Education and Research Foundation and Citizens Awareness Network’s joint presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security: The Case for Hardened Storage” of high-level radioactive waste onsite at nuclear power plants (a 10 minute presentation).

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• September 1, 2006

  The C-10 Education and Research Foundation and Citizens Awareness Network’s joint presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security: The Case for Hardened Storage” of high-level radioactive waste onsite at nuclear power plants (a 10 minute presentation).

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• June 1, 2006

  Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, Brice Smith, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. The large number of reactors required for nuclear power to play any meaningful role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions greatly complicates the efforts required to deal with its unique vulnerabilities including the potential for the nuclear fuel cycle to enable nuclear weapons proliferation, the risks from catastrophicreactor accidents, and the difficulties of managing long-lived and highly radiotoxic nuclear waste.

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• April 24, 2006

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• April 1, 2006

  For more information, see Group Letter, Bridge the Gap/Nuclear Information & Resource Service news release, DHS Federal Register notice, December 2004 Goup Letter to DHS and EPA

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• January 26, 2006

  28 groups write to all 535 Members of Congress urging opposition to the reprocessing relapse

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