Earth Week
NEIS events for Earth Week 2019 — April 22-27.
Workshop with noted activist/organizer/author George Lakey to promote his new book, “HOW WE WIN: A Guide to Non-Violent Direct Action Campaigning.
Entries by nuclear energy
Safe Energy Groups Call Out Lax Nuclear Oversight During Pandemic
Nuclear power plants appear to be sites of COVID-19 super-spreader events, but government regulators are ignoring the problem. So says a coalition of safe-energy advocates who have been tracking the situation. The groups obtained copies of social media reports by workers at one plant, describing unsafe working conditions, over 200 COVID infection cases, multiple hospitalizations, […]
NEIS President Gail Snyder Speaks on the 75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing – NEW
[NOTE: Due to COVID, event could not be held at the University of Chicago Campus ‘Nuclear Energy’ Statue so it was held online via Zoom conference.] Good Evening, Thank you all for your concern and time regarding this issue and thank you to Charles Strain for organizing this event as well as to Roberta Siegel, […]
“Where Are the People” shows hit the airwaves
TWO NEIS TV SHOWS FROM CAN-TV CHICAGO CAN-TV presents two shows sponsored by NEIS from the “Where Are the People: The Human Toll of the Nuclear Age, from Fermi to Fukushima” week, taped in Chicago as part of the observance of the 75th anniversary of the first human controlled nuclear chain reaction, Dec. 2, 2017. 1.) “The Human Toll […]
BGA Report, NEIS says “NRC=Nobody Really Cares”
CHICAGO– Two Better Government Association (BGA) reports on nuclear safety a year in the making document the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) systematic pattern of disregard for assertive and responsible regulation, and co-optation by the industry it is charged to regulate, asserts Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), a Chicago-based safe-energy, nuclear power watchdog organization. “These BGA […]
“Nuclear Hotseat” Skewers U OF C’s “Nuclear Reaction” Bubble-Babble
A week after the “Nuclear Reaction” party ended at University of Chicago, and the dusty fallout from the artsy multi-colored mushroom cloud simulation settled to the Earth, producer Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Hotseat show took the University to task for its infomercial promoting nuclear power: To observe the 75th anniversary of the Nuclear Age on Dec. […]
Nuclear Experts Ask: “Where Are the People?” as Nuclear Age Ends
NEIS’ “The End of the Nuclear Age: Where are the People?” week continued Thursday, Nov. 30th, featuring nuclear expert, engineer, and former nuclear utility vice-president Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp, and Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, as guests with Jerome McDonnell on WBEZ’s Worldview show. Sandwiched in between […]
IL Delegation: No to Yucca & CIS
The following letter and a supplemental packet of supportive information (see NEIS Literature page for some of these) was submitted by U.S. mail and e-mail to the entire Illinois Delegation to Congress today, urging them to oppose the re-start of the Yucca Mt. site, and “centralized interim storage” (CIS) of reactor spent fuel. NEIS urged […]
Stop H.R. 3053
ACTION ALERT: House vote expected next week on Shimkus Bill to Re-Start Yucca Mt. A vote is finally expected on the controversial H.R. 3053, the NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT AMENDMENTS OF 2017. This bill is authored by Rep. John Shimkus (D.16 IL.), and has 7 Illinois co-sponsors at present, mostly those with nuclear plants in […]
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Nuclear Waste on California coast.![]()
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“...we could have an unsurpassed disaster on our hands, an uncontrolled criticality,...“![]()
California grows a substantial amount of food for the whole country. A nuclear disaster there would be a disaster for the whole country.
The Infrastructure Bill includes $6 Billion to bailout old nuclear power plants that should be shutdown.![]()
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Another $6 Billion for the development of small modular nuclear reactors. ![]()
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That is $12 Billion that could have gone to renewable energy. The continued use and promotion of nuclear energy takes away from the advancement of building more renewable energy.