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Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste from IEER

  • Comments on the “Design of a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste and Disposal Storage Facilities” August, 2016
  • Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani) March, 2016
  • Declaration in support to reopen the record of NRC license and re-licence proceedings September, 2014
  • Comments on the EPA Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations August, 2014
  • NRC Draft Waste Confidence Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Rule – Expert Declaration by Arjun Makhijani December, 2013
  • Removing fuel rods from Fukushima Unit 4 (Up Front interview with Arjun Makhijani) October, 2013
  • Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani) October, 2013
  • 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
  • Sûreté nucléaire en France post-Fukushima (Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France) February, 2012
  • Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel February, 2012
  • Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER October, 2011
  • BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER October, 2011
  • NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review July, 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
  • The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English), 2011 April, 2011
  • Spent nuclear fuel pools vulnerable to terrorist attacks (Kyodo News) March, 2011
  • Small Modular Reactors: Fact Sheet September, 2010
  • A US nuclear future?: Commentary in Nature. September, 2010
  • 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
  • The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing April, 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
  • A New Energy Model for Spain May, 2009
  • Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs) March, 2009
  • Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power March, 2009
  • Comments on the NRC’s Proposed Waste Confidence Rule Update February, 2009
  • Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard October, 2007
  • Resources related to the DOE’s Proposal for a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership June, 2007
  • Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) May, 2007
  • Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Environmental Transport (Vol. 14, No. 3) November, 2006
  • Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of the K-65 Silos and Silo 3 Remediation and Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site August, 2006
  • 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
  • What the DOE Knows it Doesn’t Know about Grout October, 2004
  • Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Vol. 12, No. 3) June, 2004
  • Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29) June, 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 Waste threatens water resources September, 2003
  • Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel June, 2003
  • Testimony of Arjun Makhijani on Secure Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations March, 2003
  • Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2) February, 2002
  • Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20) February, 2002
  • A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste February, 2002
  • DOE Accelerated Cleanup Program of the Nuclear Weapons Complex an Invitation to Lax Standard February, 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
  • Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers May, 2001
  • Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2) February, 2001
  • Plutonium End Game (Issue #16) February, 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 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
  • IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9) May, 1999
  • Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site February, 1999
  • IEER Comments on the Savannah River Site Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Draft EIS February, 1999
  • Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Vol. 7, No. 2) January, 1999
  • Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8) January, 1999
  • Containing the Cold War Mess October, 1997
  • The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3) July, 1997
  • Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1) May, 1997
  • Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4) February, 1997
  • The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2) January, 1997
  • Risky Relapse into Reprocessing January, 1996
  • 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
  • What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open April, 1995
  • Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air January, 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
  • To Reprocess or Not to Reprocess: The PUREX Question July, 1990
  • Heat, High Water, and Rock Instability at Hanford February, 1985

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