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Prof. Robert B. Laughlin
Department of Physics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

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(Copied 23 Aug 09)

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Alerts
2009

August 19: Mark Your Calendars! Public Hearings on MD Energy Deal.
August 19: Please visit GrassRootsNucleus: YOUR new web site for nuclear-free/sustainable energy advocacy
July 22: Urgent. Act now to stop new reactors in Senate Climate Bill
June 30: Tell President Obama: Don't Let the Senate Climate Bill Get Hijacked by the Nuclear Power Industry!
May 21: Murkowski, Other Pro-Nuke Amendments Defeated in Senate Committee
May 20: Sign the petition. Tell Maryland PSC: No Deal on EDF/Constellation merger
May 14: Stop the "clean energy" bank--this is it folks!
March 26: Alert! Take Action Now! Let's All Act to End Nuclear/Coal Subsidies!
February 18: National Nuclear Lobby Day - February 27, 2009
February 12: Victory! You Did It!
February 2: Act now: Tell NRC we have no confidence in radioactive waste policy

2008

September 19: The Gang of 20 Energy Bill Will Not Be Introduced!
September 12: Gang of 10 Bill: Biggest Giveaway to Nuclear Power Industry Ever
National Call-in Day: Wednesday, September 17
August 14: Help Stop Nuclear Waste from Getting Out of Control - On Purpose
July 28: August 12 meeting in Baltimore: raise your voice on Calvert Cliffs-3
July 25: The Southeast Convergence for Climate Action (action camp) is coming FAST!
June 24: NIRS is pleased and proud to again be a co-sponsoring group of the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action
June 3: Nuclear Amendments to Climate Bill to Be Voted on Soon. Call Your Senators! Your Actions Will Make a Difference!
May 19: Sign-on Letter to Senate: Stop Nuclear Subsidies in Climate Legislation. Climate Focus Should be Energy Efficiency and Renewables.
May 12: Senate Climate Change Bill Could Give Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to the Nuclear Power Industry.
March 27: Stop the Import of Radioactive Waste! Support HR 5632 - Call Your Representative Now
March 6: Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Process for Calvert Cliffs-3.
March 2: Oppose License Applications to Import Massive Amounts of Nuclear Power Waste from Europe to Burn, Melt, Transport and Dump in the US!
February 20: Round 2 of Nuclear Loan Guarantee Battle About to Begin. Let's Stop Them Entirely This Time!
February 13: Stop the Lieberman/Warner Climate Change Bill!
February 8: Valentine's Day "No New Nukes" Action at Constellation Energy Headquarters
January 4: Comments on Yucca Mountain & High Level Radioactive Waste due Jan. 10
January 3: Groups File Petition to Halt NRC "Cut And Paste" Relicensing Tactics

2007

December 17: 500+ Organizations Sign Statement Rejecting Nuclear Power as a Solution to Climate Crisis
December 13: Nuclear Loan Guarantees: How Could It Get Worse?
December 7: You Kept Nuclear Loan Guarantees Out of the Energy Bill! Now, One More Time, Let's Stop Them Entirely!
November 26: Act Now In Nancy Pelosi's District Help Stop Loan Guarantees For New Nuclear Reactors!
November 14: This Thanksgiving, Talk Turkey To Your Congressmembers! Stop $50 Billion In Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees! Demand An Energy Bill That Promotes Renewables And Energy Efficiency!
November 2: Help Protect Those Most Vulnerable To Radiation. Sign The Open Letter To President Bush
October 17: Support Musicians And Others Working to Stop an Atomic Bailout! National Call-Congress Day: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
October 12: Support Musicians Acting to Stop New Reactors; New Info on Loan Guarantees/Energy Bill
September 10: Call Steny Hoyer, Then Your Own Congressmembers! No Taxpayer Loan Guarantees For New Reactors!
September 5: Sign on to support blockade of Canadian uranium mine
August 23: Two NRC meetings next week in S.C. to push new reactors
August 21: Sign on! A simple statement on nuclear power and the climate crisis
August 3: Urgent Letter from Bonnie Raitt/Jackson Browne/Graham Nash: Call Your Representative Today
July 30: August Events in Southeast: Action Camp and Energy Expo
July 26: Call to Action--No War, No Warming
July 13: Stop NC Senate Bill 3--Say No to Prepaid Nukes and Coal
July 10: Green and Nuclear Free -- A Community Gathering in Favor of Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Closing Vermont Yankee
July 10: No Nukes Rally Against Palisades Atomic Reactor!
June 26: NIRS' Beyond Nuclear project moves to NPRI in planned expansion of anti-nuclear movement
May 21: International Action Day on Belene, June 5
May 18: Radioactive Dairyland Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Pressure Vessel about to embark by train from near LaCrosse, WI to Barnwell, SC!
April 19: Take Action Chernobyl Day on IAEA/WHO
April 10: Help stop new atomic reactors in California
April 3: This Tax Day, Use Your Money Wisely: Call Congress!
March 3: Summer class: Chernobyl and Ukraine: Recovery from Catastrophe and the Renaissance of Nuclear Power
February 21: Demand radiation standards that follow the precautionary principle
February 5: Be there, comment at DOE meetings to stop global mobile Chernobyl!
January 25: Sign-on to Oppose Nukes in McCain-Lieberman Climate Change Bill!
January 16: Alert: Comment to NRC. Account For Children, Fetuses, & the More Vulnerable in Radiation Standards. Deadline: February 5, 2007

2006

October 20: Stop a Blank Check for High-Level Radioactive Waste Transport & Storage in Your State!
October 10: Help Stop the International Push for Deregulating Nuclear Waste!
September 12: Help Stop the International Push for Deregulating Nuclear Waste!
August 14: Public Comments sought on NRC's Plans for future management of Byproduct Materials
April 4: Department of Homeland Security Proposes Allowing Public Exposure to Massive Radiation Doses From "Dirty Bombs"
March 31: "Sample Public Comments" to NRC on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for 20 additional years of operations at Palisades. Deadline for public comment to NRC is May 18, 2006
March 24: Please spread the word! Update on Palisades nuclear power plant
February 10: Comment period on the Terrorist Threat to Nuclear Reactors Extended to February 22, 2006
January 13: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Proposed Rule Making on Nuclear Power Station Security

2005

October 13: Urge Congress to Stop Funding Dangerous Nuclear Energy + Weapons
October 5: Tell EPA its cancer-causing proposed Yucca Mountain radiation regulations are outrageous!
August 1: Congress passes energy bill
July 28: Final Energy Bill Vote Could Occur Friday!
July 18: JULY 25: Senate Call-in Day! Help Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, James Cromwell, Winona LaDuke and more to oppose the energy bill and Private Fuel Storage waste dump!
June 27: Vote on energy bill Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 9:45 AM. Call your senators (AGAIN) and tell them to vote against subsidies and tax breaks for nuclear power.
June 13: Energy Bill Reaches Senate Floor - Act NOW!!
June 3: Stop Radioactive Racism! Last chance to sign anti-PFS letter; Letter to Editor campaign to local papers
June 1: Tell Congress Nuclear Power Has no Role in Addressing Climate Change!
May 31: Help Stop the Nuclear Resurgence! Please support NIRS!
May 24: Urge your Member of Congress to oppose pro-reprocessing and Mobile Chernobyl language in the House Energy & Water Appropriations Bill by supporting the Markey-Holt-Inslee Amendments.
May 18: McCain May Add Nuke Subsidies to Climate Change Bill! Act Now to Prevent More Nuclear Pork and To Keep the Climate Bill Relevant!
April 22: House Passes Energy Bill! Time to take action in Senate!
April 15: The Energy Bill is Back! Contact Your Representative and Tell Him/Her You Oppose it!
February 24: NRC Licensing Board Today Ruled in Favor of Granting a License to the Private Fuel Storage Dump on Native Land in Utah. Sign on to Oppose This Project!
February 15: Sign on to oppose new reactor at North Anna
January 26: Contact NRC Right Away: No Nuke Waste on Native Lands!
January 24: Sign to Help Japan Stop Nuclear Waste Deregulation-"Recycling" into Household Items and more
January 24: Sign-on to stop US/EBRD funding of reactors in Eastern Europe
January 19: Urgent Action Needed to Protect Reactors from Terrorist Attack. NRC Comment Period Ends Monday, January 24.
January 5: Stop the new Energy bill! Sign the Sustainable Energy Petition Online!

2004

November 16: Comment now to improve security at nuclear reactors
November 16: URGENT--White House Attempt to Overturn Yucca Court Decision!
Contact your Senator Now!
November 5: Elections and Energy Bill--Let's Act Now
September 22: Call Senate now to stop tax credits for new nukes
August 5: Sign-on by August 31, 2004 to Letter to Congress on High-Level Waste in South Carolina/Great Lakes
April 26: Comments due May 17, 2004 on radioactive "recycling" proposal from EPA!

2003

December 2: NRC in Retreat from Enforcement Policy of Federal Fire Protection Law at U.S. Nuclear Power Stations
December 1: NIRS RADIATION ALERT AND UPDATE
November 24: Senate can't Stop Energy Bill Filibuster, but Another Vote Could Occur: "Thank and Spank" Your Senators
October 17: Energy Bill Update
October 3: Energy Bill Conference Update - October 3, 2003
August 1: Misguided Senate Passes Misguided Energy Bill
June 25: Last Chance to Tell NRC: No Nuclear Waste in the Marketplace!
June 4: The Senate Energy Bill, S 14, is Expected to Return to the Senate Floor Call Your Senator Now!
April 16: RadiationThreat: Nuke Waste to Make Toys, Toasters & Toothbrushes?!

2002

June 29: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump vote in U.S. Senate expected on July 9 or 10
April 30: The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Vote in Congress is Imminent!!!
March 15: Senate Energy Bill S 517: Still More Handouts for Dangerous Nuclear Power
February 8: Friday, February 8 National Call-in Day: Oppose the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump and the Mobile Chernobyls it Would Launch!

2001

December 6: Protest Yucca Mountain Nuke Waste Dump
November 30: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) changes its own rules in the middle of the game
October 11: Final Yucca Mountain Public Comment Period to Close on October 19th. Just One More Week to Submit Comments to U.S. Department of Energy.
September 17: U.S. Dept. of Energy says "speak now or forever hold your peace".
September 17: U.S. Dept. of Energy says "speak now or forever hold your peace". Only two and half weeks left to say NO!!! to Yucca Mountain.
July 30: Calls, letters, e-mail messages and faxes are URGENTLY NEEDED to members of Congress to DEFEAT PROVISIONS of a House energy bill
July 12: House Passes Price-Anderson Act; Help Stop it in Senate!
July 1: Here is our Chance to Tell DOE How Much Radioactive Contamination from Nuclear weapons sites should be Dispersed, "Recycled," Released into our Daily-use Items, Raw Materials, Regular Tr
June 27: Price-Anderson Alert!
June 5: Public Meetings on Bush Energy Plan Scheduled; Your Participation, Comment is Essential!!
May 16: Your Comments to NRC on production and use of weapons-grade plutonium
March 26: Stop Consumers Energy and American Electric Power from Dumping High-Level Radioactive Waste on Native Lands!

2000

October 24: Nuclear Waste + Native Lands= Environmental Racism
September 1: Act now to affect U.S. position on COP 6 meeting
March 7: DOE Attempting to Weaken the Rules on Yucca Mountain and Future High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories
March 4: Stop DOE From Changing the Rules in the Middle of the Game on the Proposed Yucca Mountain Dump
February 25: Last Chance to Comment on the Department of Energy's Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain.
February 2: Are Consumer Products Radioactive Now? What is Going on?

1999

December 10: Yucca Draft EIS hearings!
November 19: Protect present and future generations at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
October 29: Act now to stop the Plutonium Economy in its tracks!
October 26: Stop a Mobile Chernobyl! Stop the Atomic Waste Trains!
October 19: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Highly-Radioactive Nuclear Fuel Rod. Don't Let the Nuclear Industry Screw Us All Demand DOE & EPA Do the Right Thing!
September 10: S. 1287, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1999, may soon hit the U.S. Senate Floor. Register your opposition NOW by writing, faxing and phoning your U.S. Senators!
August 25: Yucca Mountain Environmental Impact Statement Meetings Pushed Back Major Transport Hub and California Site Added to Meeting List
June 27: Tell the NRC "Don't Screw Nevada!" Submit Your Comments on NRC Proposed Repository Licensing Rule for Yucca Mountain by June 30th
May 17: Atomic Issue Buffet
January 16: Mobile Chernobyl Alert!

1998

December 14: Help Stop the Khmelnitsky and Rivne Nuclear Reactors in Ukraine. Join the International Day of Protest
October 16: NRC Preparing to Issue New Rule on Yucca Mountain. First Info; We will be Providing More in Coming Weeks
October 15: How U.S. Groups can Help Stop Jabiluka Uranium Mine in Australia
October 1: Appeals from Finland and Romania--Sign-on Petitions
April 28: In Solidarity with the Rocky Flats 20th Anniversary Reunion: Stop Mobile Chernobyl
April 28: The US Congress is Considering One of the Biggest Nuclear "Bail-Outs" Ever, Your Action is Needed Now to Stop the Mobile Chernobyl Act � S 104 & HR 1270
April 26: Stop Mobile Chernobyl
March 26: Stop Mobile Chernobyl Action Day

1997

April 4: Have You ever called Congress? Call to Senators and reps Needed now!
February 3: Senate Energy Committee to Vote on Mobile Chernobyl Part II.
Likely Vote Date: February 12, 1997.
Let's kill this in Committee and save ourselves a lot of work!
January 16: DOE attempting to change (yet again!) rules for Yucca Mountain.
Your comments are needed!
January 16: Comments, Letters and Coordinated Press Work Needed

1996

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