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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) are each threatening to introduce…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 25, 2011 – Three groups — Friends of the Earth (FOE), the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) – announce…

Columbia, S.C.—In an annual report released on March 8, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmed that four of seven operating nuclear reactors in South Carolina were at a “degraded” leve…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday extended the operating license of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor plant, even though the plant has leaked radioact…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Several national watchdog and environmental groups today sent President Obama a letter urging him to release information about radioactive contamination stemming from the nucl…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the reactor crisis in Japan escalated toward worst-case scenarios, President Obama was rebuked today for reiterating his support for dangerous reactors in the U.S.

U.S. Reactors Pose Risks.

FINANCIAL ANALYSTS DOWNGRADE NUCLEAR POWER IN WAKE OF JAPAN CRISIS “Standard and Poor’s warned clients that the risk of cancellations or delays for existing and future nuclear projects has inc…

Fukushima Daiichi reactor number 3 – one of the reactors in Japan that has suffered a partial meltdown and that remains endangered – is using an unusual, highly volatile form of reactor fuel…

WASHINGTON, D.C.///March 14, 2011///The following points were made today by nuclear experts on the implications for the U.S of the rapidly evolving Japanese reactor crisis.