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NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WASTE AND ENERGY PRESS RELEASES 1999-2006
11/9/06 - Online Satellite Map, New Article Track Thousands of Nuclear Weapons Still in U.S. Arsenal, 15 Years after the End of the Cold War
10/13/06 - NRDC Releases New Satellite Photo of North Korean Nuclear Test Site
9/27/06 - Domenici Yucca Mountain Bill Would 'Short-Circuit' Licensing Process, Says NRDC
8/3/06 - Nuclear Repository Bill Is Fatally Flawed
7/12/06 - Exporting Spent Nuclear Fuel to Russia Requires Stringent Safeguards
4/4/06 - NAS Report Criticizes DOE's High-level Radioactive Waste Cleanup Program
2/17/06 - Elusive Chinese Nuclear Submarine Tunnel Photographed; Satellite Images Help Put Chinese Nuclear Arsenal in Perspective
11/15/05 - Congress Approves Funding For Nuclear Spent Fuel Reprocessing Projects
5/6/05 - Support Growing for Removing U.S. Nuclear Weapons From Europe
3/1/05 - Energy Department Cannot Leave Highly Radioactive Waste In Tanks Without EPA Or NRC Approval, National Academy Of Sciences Panel Says
2/9/05 - United States Still Deploys Some 480 Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Report Finds
10/21/04 - Conservation Groups, Joined by L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Sue Bush Administration Over Contaminated Santa Susana Nuclear Meltdown Site
10/8/04 - Backroom Deal: Congress OKs Abandoning Highly Radioactive Waste in South Carolina and Idaho, Threatening Drinking Water Supplies
9/21/04 - Administration's Nuclear Weapons Policies are Dangerous, Misguided, and Counterproductive, New NRDC Report Concludes
7/19/04 - Public Health Groups Announce Plans to Sue Energy Department for Failing to Clean Up Simi Valley, California, Nuclear Site
6/3/04 - Senate Passes Graham Amendment to Reclassify Radioactive Waste to Avoid Cleaning It Up
4/13/04 - Bush Administration Wasting Billions on Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Research and Production, Report Charges
2/25/04 - Soviet Missile Defense System Prompted Massive U.S. Nuclear Strike Plan, Upcoming Story in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Reveals for the First Time
2/12/04 - The Bush Proposals to Curb Nuclear Proliferation
11/13/03 - IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program Available on NRDC Website
7/17/03 - DOE Asks Congress to Reverse Recent Court Decision on High Level Waste
7/3/03 - Court Rules Energy Department Reclassification of Nuclear Waste Illegal
6/4/03 - NRDC Alert: Energy Bill Encourages Nuclear Proliferation
3/13/03 - Consequences of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction in a U.S.-Iraqi War
2/5/03 - How to Fix the Moscow Treaty
2/4/03 - Bush Plans Permanent U.S. Nuclear Advantage Under Moscow Treaty
2/3/03 - The Moscow Treaty's Hidden Flaws
10/1/02 - Federal District Court Rules that Energy Department Reviews of Fusion Laser Project Violated Open-Government Law
8/12/02 - Judge Allows Suit to Proceed Against Energy Department over Nuclear Waste
7/23/02 - The Proposed "Moscow Treaty" on Strategic Offensive Reductions
7/9/02 - The U.S. Senate Voted Wrong on Yucca Mountain
5/20/02 - Bush-Putin Treaty Will Prolong Nuclear Standoff
2/13/02 - Faking Nuclear Restraint: The Bush Administration's Secret Plan For Strengthening U.S. Nuclear Forces
6/18/01 - NRDC Report Finds Current U.S. Nuclear War Plan Main Barrier to Reducing Stockpiles
2/1/01 - Public Interest Groups Seek Court Injunction to Bar Use of Biased Report on Massive Fusion Laser Project
12/13/99 - Article Reveals New Information About U.S. Nukes in "Non-Nuclear" Japan During the 1950s and 1960s
10/20/99 - United States Secretly Deployed Nuclear Bombs In 27 Countries and Territories During Cold War
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