BACKGROUND: The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a report on February 2, 2002 claiming that our nuclear power plants are vulnerable to terrorist attack and saying that increasing domestic oil production won't lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It ...
The opposition to opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is not about public safety. It is about nuclear power. We know this because there are already far more plutonium and fission products under the ground - with no special ...
In approving Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham's recommendation to open Yucca Mountain as the nation's first long-term nuclear repository, President George W. Bush says that moving ahead with the repository "is necessary to protect public safety, health, and the nation's security." ...
(Note: For otimum viewing, we recommend the pdf version of this paper. To immediately download the pdf version, click here.) As part of the re-examination of Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems (STATS), the Department of Energy requested the National Research ...
Moving America's nuclear waste to a safe storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada - as was proposed January 10 by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham - would make an important contribution to national security according to a study, "Terrorism and Nuclear ...
BACKGROUND: President Bush, speaking January 22 at a factory in Belle, West Virginia, emphasized the need for quick passage of the energy bill being held up in the Senate by Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). The President said, "This nation ...
In proposing to finalize Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the site of the nation's spent nuclear fuel repository, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has made the right choice. This would be true on either side of September 11th, but on ...
BACKGROUND: U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced today that he is recommending to President Bush that the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository be opened for storing the nation's nuclear waste waste that currently is now in nearly 100 locations ...
What is the IFR? You mean, "What was the IFR?" O.K., what was the IFR? IFR stands for Integral Fast Reactor. It was a power-reactor-development program, built around a revolutionary concept for generating nuclear power - not only a new ...
BACKGROUND: Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) has made misleading statements regarding the resistance of U.S. nuclear power plants to terrorist attacks. Rebuttal statements come from a National Center for Public Policy Research paper written by nuclear scientists Gerald E. Marsh and ...
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