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Radioactive Waste from IEER

  • Nuclear Waste Management: Alan Stahler Interviews Arjun Makhijani March, 2013
  • Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry January, 2013
  • Comments to the NRC on low-level waste disposal January, 2013
  • NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments) January, 2013
  • Follow-up Memo to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane November, 2012
  • Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360) August, 2012
  • IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I” June, 2012
  • Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel February, 2012
  • IEER reacts to Blue Ribbon Commission’s final Report to the Secretary of Energy January, 2012
  • New LLRW EIS needed for NRC’s Volume Reduction and Blending Policy: IEER Comments October, 2011
  • BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER October, 2011
  • Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…” July, 2011
  • BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments July, 2011
  • DOE’s Greater-Than-Class C Waste Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER June, 2011
  • Unique Waste Streams Rulemaking (10 CFR Part 61) – including Depleted Uranium Disposal: IEER Comments to the NRC June, 2011
  • The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English) April, 2011
  • Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission August, 2010
  • Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations May, 2010
  • Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results March, 2010
  • Hanford Site Tank Closure and Waste Management Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER March, 2010
  • DOE, Take Back Depleted Uranium Sent to Utah and Send No More February, 2010
  • Depleted Uranium Waste, NRC is on the Wrong Track: IEER Comments October, 2009
  • Depleted Uranium Waste Rulemaking: Notes from the Sept. 2009 NRC Workshop September, 2009
  • The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change April, 2009
  • Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs) March, 2009
  • DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3) April, 2008
  • DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41) April, 2008
  • Italian radioactive waste: its classification and proposed disposal in Utah March, 2008
  • Comments on Disposal of Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste September, 2007
  • Cotter/Lincoln Park Superfund Site: Health and Environment Report and Document Review June, 2007
  • Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Transport (Issue #37) November, 2006
  • Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Environmental Transport (Vol. 14, No. 3) November, 2006
  • Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide EIS September, 2006
  • Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2) August, 2006
  • Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Issue #35) April, 2006
  • Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Vol. 14, No. 1) April, 2006
  • Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Vol. 13, No. 4) January, 2006
  • Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Issue #34) January, 2006
  • Soil Cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory: Sediment Contamination in the South Fork of Acid Canyon November, 2005
  • Bad to the Bone, Drinking Water Standards for Plutonium (Vol. 13, No. 3) September, 2005
  • Bad to the Bone: Plutonium Drinking Water Standards in the U.S. (Issue #33) September, 2005
  • EPA Proposed Rule on Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste Would Seriously Undermine Public Health August, 2005
  • Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2) June, 2005
  • Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32) June, 2005
  • Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES November, 2004
  • What the DOE Knows it Doesn’t Know about Grout October, 2004
  • The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed May, 2004
  • Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site March, 2004
  • The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4) September, 2003
  • Comments on the proposed rule on “controlling the disposition of solid materials.” June, 2003
  • LANL Clean Air Act Audits: IEER Monitoring Team Reports December, 2002
  • Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Vol. 10, No. 3) May, 2002
  • Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21) May, 2002
  • Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 Radio) February, 2002
  • If not Yucca Mountain, then what? December, 2001
  • Poison in the Vadose Zone October, 2001
  • U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4) August, 2001
  • Law and the Nuclear Establishment (NATO; COGEMA) (Vol. 9, No. 3) May, 2001
  • Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17) May, 2001
  • Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2) February, 2001
  • Plutonium End Game (Issue #16) February, 2001
  • Your Very Own Cold War Souvenir: What to do with the country’s radioactive legacy December, 2000
  • Incineration of Radioactive and Mixed Waste November, 2000
  • Ionizing Radiation / Uranium (Vol. 8, No. 4) September, 2000
  • Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14) September, 2000
  • Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3) May, 2000
  • The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble May, 2000
  • Energy for Peace (Issue #13) May, 2000
  • Comments on the Draft EIS on the Yucca Mountain Repository (DOE/EIS-0250D) February, 2000
  • Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Department of Energy Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility RCRA and TSCA Permit February, 2000
  • Comments on the draft EPA standards for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository November, 1999
  • Letter to the NRC re: Release of Radioactively Contaminated Materials November, 1999
  • Comments on the Draft NRC Rule on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in a Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada June, 1999
  • Alternative Plan for Highly Radioactive Waste Management in the United States (Vol. 7, No. 3) May, 1999
  • IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9) May, 1999
  • Shell Game with Plutonium-Contaminated Waste a Poor Policy March, 1999
  • Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8) January, 1999
  • Comments on DOE Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project Draft EIS August, 1998
  • WIPP: Shipments of LANL Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant June, 1998
  • Comments on Long-Term Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride March, 1998
  • Radiation Exposures in the Vicinity of the Uranium Facility in Apollo, Pennsylvania (1998) February, 1998
  • Worker Radiation Dose Records Deeply Flawed / Let Them Drink Milk (Iodine-131) (Vol. 6, No. 2) November, 1997
  • Containing the Cold War Mess October, 1997
  • The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2) January, 1997
  • Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood (Vol. 5, No. 3) October, 1996
  • Comments on DOE Notice of Intent on Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride March, 1996
  • Human Radiation Experiments / Radiation Clean-up Standards (Vol. 3, No. 1) January, 1994
  • Radioactive and Mixed Waste Incineration June, 1993
  • Report on Chelyabinsk (Vol. 1, No. 3) October, 1992
  • High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense April, 1992
  • Low-Dose Radiation Exposure / Clean-up of Contaminated Sites (Vol. 1, No. 2) April, 1992
  • Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository January, 1991
  • Deadly Crop in the Tank Farm July, 1986

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