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All Deliberate Speed for Nuclear Reforms?

Groups step up call for NRC delay after Fukushima

Indian Point foes rally in Manhattan, aim to expand opposition

Multiple Legal Challenges: All Nuclear Reactor Licensing Must Be Delayed or Cancelled Due to Existing Federal Law

Not only should the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) slow down reactor licensing and relicensing in order to address a wide range of post-Fukushima health and safety concerns, but the reality is that the NRC is required to apply the brakes in order to comply with existing federal law, according to 19 separate legal challenges filed today by a total of 26 public interest groups and several individuals.

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Sierra Club Releases New Report on Giant Fish Blenders

the Sierra Club released a new report detailing the damage from outdated once-through cooling systems used by power plants in the Gulf of Mexico; the Mississippi River; the Hudson River, New York Harbor and Long Island Sound; the California Coast; the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay.

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Plant’s history, location bring calls for closure

NY debate: What if aging nuclear plant closes?

No to a fractured state

Riverkeeper Assails NRC Report on Nuclear Safety

Task Force Fails to Address Nuclear Waste Storage Risk and Inadequacy of 10 Mile Evacuation Zone

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Riverkeeper to NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Shutting Indian Point will lead to safer, cleaner, cheaper energy

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s position on the Indian Point nuclear power plant, as reported by the New York Times on July 7, boils down to this: no matter how old and dangerous Indian Point’s nuclear reactors may be, we’re stuck with them. We can do better than that. We need to do better than that. Perhaps the Mayor isn’t worried about Indian Point, but he should be. Indian Point is at the end of its 40 year design life cycle. It doesn’t measure up to over a hundred […]

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Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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