Nuclear Policy
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Watchdog Groups Blast White House-Backed Nuclear Cleanup Study
nextgov.com reports.
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White House Supports Rollback of Cleanup Standards for Nuclear Incidents
In a stunning reversal, it appears that the Obama Administration is poised to rollback cleanup standards for nuclear incidents: The White House has endorsed a plan to relax long-held standards...
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San Onofre’s Troubles Deepen
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the repair costs for San Onofre are exploding. Meantime, after years of employee complaints, KPBS reports that federal regulators are now looking into claims...
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CBG Releases 2012 Annual Report
Below you will find a link to CBG’s 2012 annual report as well as a link to our annual report archive. The annual report discusses CBG’s work for the year....
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EPA Inspector General Criticizes EPA Radiation Monitoring Network
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General confirms CBG Criticisms of EPA Radiation Monitoring Network Large Fraction Broken During Fukushima Crisis. In January 2009, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued...
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Nuclear Power: Ethical and Policy Implications
A lecture presented by CBG’s Dan Hirsch on the ethical and policy implications of nuclear power.
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CBG’s Presentation to EPA on Efforts to Weaken Radiation Standards after Fukushima
Bridge the Gap’s presentation to the EPA Deputy Administrator and other senior EPA officials on efforts to weaken radiation standards and failures in EPA’s radiation monitoring system in the U.S....
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CBG, Enviro Groups Write EPA About Efforts to Relax Radiation Standards and Problems with U.S. Fukushima Radiation Monitoring
CBG along with other environmental groups wrote to eputy Administrator Perciasepe, General Council Fulton, Assistant Administrators McCarthy and Stanislaus, and Acting Assistant Administrator Stoner regarding a series of radiation protection...
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Extraordinary AP Series on NRC Lax Regulations of U.S. Nuclear Safety
This series of articles by AP reporters discuss the loosening of safety rules for aging nuclear reactors, the the presence of radioactive tritium leaks at 48 US nuke sites, US...
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Japan crisis reminds us plutonium, CO2 not the only choices
Sacrament Bee OpEd by S. David Freeman and Dan Hirsch in which Mr. Freeman and CBG’s Dan Hirsch contend that the energy policy debate in America was, sadly, incomplete before...
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CBG, Sierra Club, NIRS Comments on NRC Proposed Revisions to Radiation Standards
At the heart of what should be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s prime mission is protection of the public and nuclear workers from exposure to radiation. Unfortunately, current NRC radiation protection...
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CBG Leads Effort to Get Obama EPA to Block Pending Proposals to Relax Radiation Protections
A whole range of proposals left over from the Bush Administration to markedly relax standards for radiation protection remain pending before the new leadership at EPA. In August, CBG led...
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Bush EPA Plans For Dramatically Relaxing Radiation Protection Before Leaving Office
10/30/2008: Plans to greatly increase permissible public exposures from a wide range of events resulting in release of radioactivity were condemned today by scores of organizations and individuals in a letter...