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Nuclear Waste Repositories from IEER

  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis, The New Yorker (2016) December, 2016
  • Comments on the “Design of a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste and Disposal Storage Facilities” August, 2016
  • NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste August, 2015
  • Spent Fuel and Reprocessing Myths and Realities March, 2013
  • Nuclear Waste Management: Alan Stahler Interviews Arjun Makhijani March, 2013
  • Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry January, 2013
  • NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments) January, 2013
  • Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER October, 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
  • The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English), 2011 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
  • Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs) March, 2009
  • Nuclear Power Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Vol. 15, No. 2) January, 2008
  • Nuclear Power – Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Issue #40) January, 2008
  • Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard October, 2007
  • 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
  • Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts November, 2005
  • Comments on the U.S. EPA Proposed Rule for the Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain November, 2005
  • EPA Proposed Rule on Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste Would Seriously Undermine Public Health August, 2005
  • Examen critique du programme de recherche de l’ANDRA pour determiner l’aptitude du site de Bure au confinement geologique des dechets a haute activite et a vie longue (2004) December, 2004
  • Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Vol. 12, No. 3) June, 2004
  • Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29) June, 2004
  • Energy Department rushing ahead with defective Yucca Mountain design June, 2004
  • Yucca Mountain – An Example Not to Follow December, 2003
  • Independent Institute Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan June, 2002
  • President Bush Makes Historic, But Wrong, Choice on Nuclear Waste February, 2002
  • A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste February, 2002
  • Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 Radio) February, 2002
  • Department of Energy Makes the Wrong Choice by Selecting Yucca Mountain January, 2002
  • If not Yucca Mountain, then what? December, 2001
  • EPA’s Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Seriously Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards June, 2001
  • Letter from IEER to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on the suitability of proposed Yucca Mountain repository May, 2001
  • Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program May, 2001
  • Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3) 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 on the draft EPA standards for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository November, 1999
  • Radioactive Waste Management in Russia and France / Reflections on the NATO Bombing (Vol. 7, No. 4) July, 1999
  • Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10) July, 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
  • Fluid Inclusion Studies of Samples from the Exploratory Study Facility, Yucca Mountain, Nevada December, 1998
  • Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1) May, 1997
  • Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1) January, 1996
  • Analysis of National Academy of Sciences Report on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste (Vol. 4, No. 4) October, 1995
  • High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense April, 1992
  • Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository January, 1991
  • Heat, High Water, and Rock Instability at Hanford February, 1985

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