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• Press Release: Senators Kirk and Durbin "Grill" Regulators
  March 25, 2011
  Study to "know"? or, dog-and-pony show?
  CHICAGO-As Illinois' two Senators prepare to question federal and state regulators about conditions at Illinois reactors and our preparedness to meet emergencies, Illinois' nuclear watchdog organization remains skeptical, and asks - is this an earnest attempt to enact meaningful changes? Or a political grandstanding event to assuage the growing alarm and recent negative turn un public opinion against nuclear power?


• Press Release: Japanese nuclear emergency - implications for Illinois, Nuclear Renaissance.
  March 11, 2011
  Current accidents conditions worsening; residents around stricken reactor evacuated.


• Press Release: IL EPA fails to make 10 inspections of nuclear plants in 2009-10, Auditor General reports.
  February 24, 2011
  Inspection lapse calls into question legislative push to repeal nuclear moratorium.


• Press Release: Illinois Nuke Plant Can’t Take the ‘Global Warming’ Heat – Automatically Shuts Down.
  August 13, 2010
  "As if more evidence were needed that the Nuclear Renaissance is a mirage, Exelon’s LaSalle 1&2 reactors automatically shut themselves down on one of the hottest days of the summer, according to NRC reports."


• Another Major Setback for "Nuclear Renaissance": Industry Goes 0-6 in 2009 Efforts to Overturn State Bans on New Nuclear Reactors.
  August 27, 2009
  The nuclear power industry has been shut out across the board in 2009 in its efforts in all six states where it sought to overturn what are either explicit or effectively bans on construction of new reactors, including Illinois.
  (From a press conference in which NEIS and NIRS were among the participants; this release is on the NIRS site)


• Beware of Putting Too Many Energy Eggs in the Nuclear Basket
  July 3, 2009
  Sure, sometimes it's dark or the wind is calm - concerns for solar and wind energy. But, the problem with nuclear power plants - especially in Illinois - is that global warming will make them impossible to use, and already has at times.
  


• Toronto Blade Wrong about needing new Nuclear Plants, Fermi 3
  May 16, 2008
  A rebuttal to the editorial "Rethinking nuclear power", published in the Toronto Blade on May 16, 2009
  


• Nuclear Renaissance a Fraud, Safe-Energy Groups Charge
  May 5, 2008
  Safe Energy Groups label the "Nuclear Renaissance" trumpeted by the Nuclear Industry a fraud, propose safer and less costly solutions.


• Duke CEO Jim Roger’s Talks a Good Line on Global Warming, Yet He Continues to Pursue a Build and Burn Energy Policy
  April 8, 2008
  Comment about the policies being pursued by Duke Energy Corporation


• Letter to the Editors of "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"
  March, 2008
  In rebuttal to an article in The Bulletin calling for more nuclear plants ...


• Cook County Board Unanimously Rejects DOE’s GNEP Nuclear Plans
  May 16, 2007
  In a stunning and emphatic rebuff to the wishes of the federal Department of Energy (DOE) and the nuclear industry, the Cook County Board voted unanimously Tuesday to reject potential DOE plans to site as many as two new nuclear facilities – including a power reactor -- in Illinois. The plan is called the Global NuPartnership (GNEP). “It is commendable that these elected officials saw through the dangerous PR veneer that GNEP is, and voted to protect their constituents ...


• Department of Energy GNEP Plans Dangerous Leap Backwards, Citizens Groups Warn
  February 22, 2007
  Plans by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) to resurrect the reprocessing of spent nuclear reactor fuel represent a dangerous policy leap backward. The plan, called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), could involve a reprocessing plant in Illinois.


• NRC Rulemaking on Terror Attacks a Deliberate and Institutionalized Threat to Illinois
  January 29, 2007
  Reversing the policy under which current nuclear reactors were designed, the NRC's new rule on reactor security no longer calls for designs that can withstand the deliberate or accidental impacts from commercial jets. With several reactors just minutes from O'Hare, one of the world's busiest airports, this decision is a clear and present danger to Illinois.


• Illinois Activists Tell NRC: Pull Plug Early on Exelon's New Nuke Plans
  November 8, 2006
  Exelon's Clinton I reactor accounts for half of infant mortality in downwind counties; now they want to site another! NEIS calls for a halt to this Kangaroo "licencing procedure" giving the appearance of regulation.


• NEIS Presents Petition Signatures Calling for Increased Reactor Security
  September 11, 2006
  NEIS presents Illinois Governor Blagovitch with thousands of signatures calling for increases in reactor security.
  


• NEIS Joins Calls for Hardened Storage of Nuclear Waste vulnerable to Terrorists
  September 7, 2006
  NEIS joins congressman Ed Markey and numerous groups in calling for reducing the risk of terrorist attacks on spent fuel at Nuclear Reactors.
  


• Hot Weather Overheats Reactors
  August 7, 2006
  The recent heat wave forced several of Exelon's reactors to cut back power output to avoid excessive heat buildup; similar problems have occured in Europe. This just shows that not only can't we "nuke" global warming - we are already reaching a point where reactors are becoming unuseable.
  


• Rebutting the New York Times' Apologia for Nuclear Power (.pdf)
  May 2, 2006
  Mr William Sweet of the New York Times has again repeated the Nuclear Industry's consistant but false message that accident's can't happen here, and that Nuclear power can magically solve the problem of global warming.
  


• You Can't Nuke Global Warming (.pdf)
  April 21, 2006
  If there is one energy message the public needs to hear this Earth Day it's that "You Can't 'Nuke' Global Warming!" ...
  


• Tritium Leaks from Exelon
  February 17, 2006
  It has now emerged that Exelon has been steadily leaking radioactive Tritium, for several years at several locations. Read NEIS director Dave Kraft's letter to the editors of the Chicago Tribune about this mess ...
  


• National Energy Legislation
  June 29, 2005
  The Senate passed "National Energy Legislation". In the opinion of NEIS director David Kraft, this bill does little to address America's energy problems, and instead represents the squandering of an opportunity to pass meaningful legislation.
  


• National Academy of Science Reports on Low Dose Radiation Exposure Should be Final Blow to Industry's
  Self-Proclaimed "Nuclear Renaissance"
  June 29, 2005
  A NAS report affirms that even extremely low doses of ionizing radiation pose a health and cancer risk, and that there is no such thing as safe levels of radiation. This should help spell the doom of the "nuclear renaissance" advocated by energy companies, who have been trying to spin nuclear power as a "green" technology.
  


• NEIS Rebuts Nicholas Krystof's NY Times Editorial
  April 10, 2005
  NEIS rebuts Mr. Krystof's contentions that we need nuclear power and that it is an environmentally friendly source of power.
  


• NEIS Letter to the Editors r.e. NAS report on Spent Fuel Safety
  April 8, 2005
  The NAS report Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage is now out. Exelon plans to ignore its recommendations.
  


• NEIS Demands NRC Release Study Showing Current Waste Policy Unsafe
  March 31, 2005
  NEIS and a coalition of concerned organizations called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to release a National Academy of Sciences' unclassified report showing that current methods of storing nuclear waste (used fuel pools) are unsafe and at risk from terrorism; the report suggests that other currently existing methods (dry cask storage) be used instead.
  


• Coalition Demands Solution to Terrorism Vulnerability at Nuclear Reactors
  August 10, 2004
  A coalition of national, regional, and local environmental, public interest, and nuclear watchdog organizations petitioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to hold emergency enforcement hearings on a significant structural vulnerability to terrorism existing at 32 U.S. commercial nuclear power reactors located in 15 states. Learn More
  


• Nuclear Industry Requests $400 Million Subsidy; more ($6 Billion More) to follow
  April 29, 2004
  NuStart Energy Development group asked U.S. taxpayers for $400 million to pay for licence applications on new power plants. They also want $6 Billion to build these plants. No market forces at work here as three companies try forcing taxpayers to buy reactors for them! Caveat Emptor!
  


• Group Opposes License Renewal
  Jan 15, 2004
  Local groups oppose 20-year renewal of operating licenses at Exelon’s aging Dresden and Quad Cities nuclear reactors.
  


• Reactors still unsafe 2 years after 9/11
  September 11, 2003
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has failed to publicly answer one of the most important questions coming out of the 9-11 attack: can nuclear reactors withstand a crash – terrorist or accidental -- involving today’s commercial or military aircraft without releasing large amounts of radiation?
  


• Stop New Clinton Reactor--Pass the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
  June 5, 2003
  David Kraft counters lavish taxpayer-funded nuclear welfare with Illinois' "renewable energy portfolio standard" legislation.(which would require utilities to buy 5% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2010 and 15% by 2020)
  

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- Archive -

Title and Topic	Date	Type
Radioactive Roads and Rails Convoy Returns to Chicago	June 14, 2002	Press Advisory
Mock Radwaste Transport Casks Cross USA to Warn Citizens About "Radioactive Roads & Rails "	June 10, 2002	Press Release
Nuclear Free Great Lakes Action Conference; Radioactive Roads & Rails Wagon Train of Conscience	June 2, 2002	Revised Press Advisory
Bush Breaks Campaign Promise, Selects Flawed Yucca Mt. Waste Dump Site; Chicago Tribune Refuses to Correct Factual Errors or to Debate its Yucca Mt. Stance	February 15, 2002	Press Release
Potassium Iodide Use and Distribution : Around Nuclear Facilities	February 10, 200	Press Release
NEIS Challenges Chicago Tribune to Debate on Yucca Mt.	February 02, 2002	Letter to Chicago Tribune
Haste Makes Waste	November 19, 2001	Letter to the Editor
Nuclear Watchdog Calls on Congress for Reactor Security Changes - Report Released	October 22, 2001	Press Release
Truth Becomes a Casualty of War: Terrorist Victorious Again as NRC Uses 9/11 for Pretext to Keep the Public in the Dark.	October 12, 2001	Press Release
National Energy Policy Op-Ed	June 2001	Letter to the Editors
Bush Energy Policy -the Same Old Flawed Approach	May 2001	Press Statement
Response to Chicago Sun Times Article "Our Energy Needs Can Wait No Longer"	May 6, 2001	Letter to the Sun Times Editors
Bush Energy Policy:   George II Rewards Campaign Contributors, Repeats George I Mistakes	April 17, 2001	Press Release
ComEd Shareholders' Resolution	February 24,2001	Press Release
Clinton Policy on Global Warming takes Orwellian Turn	October 27, 2000	Letter to the Editors
Sen Fitzgerald (R IL) urged to s upport "Clean Energy NOW"	May 23, 2000	Press Release
Proposed NRC Policy to Allow Radioactive Waste in Consumer Goods	December 8, 1999	Press Release
Better Business Bureau Call Nuclear Industry Ads Misleading	December 9, 1998	Press Release
Study Finds Major Flaw with Proposed Nuclear Waste Dump at Yucca Mt, Nv.	December 1, 1998	Press Release
NRC Challenged to Uphold the Law in Yucca Mt. Process	Nov. 18, 1998	Press Release
Illinois Utilities Attempt $14.6+ Billion Consumer Ripoff	September 29, 1998	Press Release
Regulators Fail to do their Job; Nukes Deteriorate	August 6, 1997	Press Release
ComEd Efficiency Plan for Show; Utility still opposed to common sense	July 14, 1998	Press Release
Letter to the Editors	May 28, 1998	Letter to the Editors
Poor Performance Brings Illinois Reactos Extra Scruitiny from NRC	January 29, 1997	Press Release
Illinois Nukes, NRC "Watch List": Cause for Guarded Optimism, Healthy Skeptecism	July 27, 1997	Press Release