Category: Nuclear Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists Pushes Fuel Efficiency at Expense of Auto Safety (with additional commentary about nuclear plants and terrorism), by Christopher Burger

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 ...
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Stop Worrying About Yucca Mountain, by Gerald E. Marsh and George Stanford

National Policy Analysis #391 /
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 ...
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Spent Fuel Belongs in Yucca Mountain, by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford

National Policy Analysis #397 /
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." ...
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The Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems (STATS) Report: Implications for Nuclear Power Growth and Energy Sufficiency, by Charles E. Boardman, Carl E. Walter, Marion L. Thompson and Chester S. Ehrman

National Policy Analysis #396 /
(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 ...
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Opening the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Facility is Important to National Security; Action Would Eliminate the Only Serious Vulnerability of Nuclear Plants to Terrorism

Press Release /
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 ...
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President Bush Urges Senate to Approve Energy Bill to Protect Jobs, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
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 ...
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Yucca Mountain: The Right Place for Spent Nuclear Fuel, by Gerald E. Marsh and George Stanford

National Policy Analysis #383 /
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 ...
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Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository to Open, Says U.S. Energy Secretary, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
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 ...
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Integral Fast Reactors: Source of Safe, Abundant, Non-Polluting Power, by George S. Stanford, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #378 /
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 ...
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Rep. Markey Misses the Mark on Nuclear Safety by Christopher Burger

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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