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Small Modular Reactors: No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power. A Fact Sheet from IEER and the Physicians for Social Responsibility, by Arjun Makhijani and Michele Boyd. (September 29, 2010)

Thorium Fuel: No Panacea for Nuclear Power. A Fact Sheet from IEER and the Physicians for Social Responsibility, by Arjun Makhijani and Michele Boyd. (January 2009) (PDF 151kB)

Radiological and Chemical Fact Sheets to Support Health Risk Analyses for Contaminated Areas (from Argonne National Laboratory, 2007) (PDF 2.4MB)

International Experience with Reprocessing and Related Technologies (January 2006) (Print version, PDF 33kB)

What the DOE Knows it Doesn't Know about Grout (PDF 188kB)
Serious Doubts Remain About the Durability of Concrete Proposed to Immobilize High-Level Nuclear Waste
in the Tank Farms at the Savannah River Site and other DOE Sites
(Briefing paper, October 18, 2004)

Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework
(Briefing paper, January 2003)

Multilateral Treaties Are Fundamental Tools for Protecting Global Security... (October 2002)

Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps (February 2002)

"If not Yucca Mountain, then what?" - An alternative plan for managing highly radioactive waste in the United States

Fissile Material Basics

Fissile Material Health and Environmental Dangers

Incineration of Radioactive and Mixed Waste

Physical, Nuclear, and Chemical Properties of Plutonium

Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site

Uranium: Its Uses and Hazards


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Updated October 12, 2010