NEIS sponsors a week of activities against premature, hazardous radioactive waste transport through Illinois NEIS hosted a week of events and activities in response to recent House Congressional legislation that would prematurely place hazardous high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) on our roads, build expensive and unnecessary HLRW storage facilities in Texas and New Mexico, and would […]
August 16, 2018 Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus of Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Yuki Miyamoto, ethicist and professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University are interviewed by Jerome McDonnell on his “Worldview” program, on WBEZ-FM 91.5 public radio Chicago. The Japanese Government has been engaged in a program to dismantle […]
It’s August already. They don’t call this time of year “the dog days” for nothing. After a pretty frenetic Spring, things have slowed down a bit. But that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. We at NEIS are using this relatively “slow(er)” time to re-group, plan, groom and educate those who are in need of […]
A new NEIS “Know Nukes” program made its debut this August 6th at the Chicago Hiroshima Anniversary Observance, held at the site of the Henry Moore Sculpture to Nuclear Power on the campus of the University of Chicago. The site – memorialized by the world-famous sculpture — is the exact location where the Nuclear Age […]
Congressional Briefing: “Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants: What Congress, Federal Agencies and Communities Need to Know” WHEN: Monday, July 16 2018 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Live webcast will be streamed at: www.eesi.org/livecast WHERE: Room HC-8, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. WHO: Mayor Al Hill, of Zion, Illinois, home of the decommissioned Zion Nuclear […]
Written By Kari Lydersen, Energy News Network, July 13, 2018. Members of Congress are scheduled to receive a briefing next week from nuclear energy experts and watchdogs on pending nuclear waste storage proposals and the decommissioning of nuclear plants that have closed or could soon. Among the organizers of the July 16 briefing and a […]
When he was 11, my stepson taught me one of the most valuable Life-lessons I’ve learned when he said, “You know Dave, man isn’t a “rational” animal. He’s a “rationalizing” one!” Truer words have never been spoken when examining the nonsense rationalizations being paraded around by execs of unprofitable electric utilities and their governmental […]
S.1903 – The Stranded Act Of 2017 NEIS would like to commend IL Sen. Tammy Duckworth and IL Rep. Brad Schneider for introduction of S.1903 and H.R. 3970 respectively – the “Stranded Act of 2017;” and acknowledge State Sen. Melinda Bush and Zion Mayor Al Hill for their tireless efforts to obtain much deserved community […]
Our friend Leona Morgan a fellow speaker of truth about nuclear energy protesting in Poland today! What a surprise it was to see her this morning on the live broadcast of the Trump Administration’s meeting in Poland to promote nuclear and coal energy. We are proud of Leona and all those who disrupted the meeting to speak truth to power.
You can hear the speaker promote nuclear and coal energy at the 5 min. mark and the protest starts at around the 5:30 mark.
Democracy Now!
BREAKING: Young climate activists have disrupted the Trump administration's panel promoting coal and fossil fuels at the U.N. climate talks today in Poland.
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Warning: Adorable animal photos included in our end-of-the year fundraising appeal. We would go nuts for your support to help us usher in a nuclear-free, carbon-free renewable energy future!
Here’s the plan...
From NIRS, Since the nuclear industry can't figure out how it can shut down its increasingly dirty, old, dangerous, expensive reactors without making the climate crisis worse ... well, it was up to us to show them.
NIRS just put out a plan for how to do just that. If states take a few, proactive steps, we can ramp up renewables, phase out nuclear and fossil fuels, and accelerate the transition to a nuclear-free, carbon-free world.
www.nirs.org/nirs-publishes-white-paper-on-reactor-shutdowns-and-phaseout-plans/