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Special section: Beyond September 11, 2001 Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS (April 30, 2008) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS - Complex 2030 (Jan. 17, 2007) Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Sept. 20, 2006) Press Statement of Arjun Makhijani on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (March 3, 2006) Gorbachev and the U.S. People: Uncelebrated Victories in the Struggle for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, Mar. 2005) Call for October 2 Actions (radio commentary, July 2004) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York (radio commentary, May 2004) NATO and Nuclear Disarmament: An Analysis of the Obligations of the NATO Allies of the United States under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (IEER report, October 2003) IEER Comments on the Draft EIS for a Modern Pit Facility (Also press release, July 16, 2003) Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory, Facility Would Also Violate U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Commitments (June 26, 2003 press release) Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear PITS Facilities (May 2003 radio commentary) Nuclear targeting: The first 60 years (article in May/June 2003 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists & press release) Nuclear targeting turns 60 (April 30, 2003 radio commentary) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in Geneva (April 16, 2003 radio commentary) Ignoring North Korea now would be big mistake (article in The Progressive, March 2003) Open letter from people in the United States to people all over the world (January 2003) Languages:     (Arabic)       (Chinese)       Deutsch (German)       English       Español (Spanish)       Français (French)       Hebrew       Hindi       (Japanese)       (Korean)       (Russian)       Urdu Letter to the United Nations Security Council based on the Open Letter (February 13, 2003) What is Precision Bombing? (radio commentary, KUNM, February 24, 2003) War Will Not Stop Nuclear Proliferation (radio commentary, KUNM, February 10, 2003) Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm (newsletter article, February 2003) Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework (Briefing Paper, January 24, 2003) IEER Comments on the Modern Pit Facility Notice of Intent (November 2002) Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation: The Russian Perspective (newsletter article, August 2002) Rule or Power or Rule of Law? U.S. Compliance with Security-Related Treaties (newsletter article, August 2002) Treaty Overview: A Summary of U.S. Compliance with Nine Security-Related Treaties (newsletter article, August 2002) Undermining Nuclear Security Agreements (newsletter article, August 2002) A Road Map To Peace (Op-ed in The Hindu, May 31, 2002) Russian and U.S. Experts Respond to Summit, press release with Back From the Brink (Moscow, May 21, 2002) Past and Future of Nuclear War (Transcript of a talk given at American University, April 29, 2002) Nuclear Dangers and the State of Security Treaties (IEER Conference at the United Nations, April 2002) Danger of Nuclear Exchange in South Asia Greater Than Ever Before (Press release, Statement of Admiral Ramdas, February 2002) De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers (by the Institute of International Economy and Foreign Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001) De-alerting Statement of Endorsement (Signed by 20 Russian NGOs, November 2001) Nuclear Law: Excerpts from Legal Documents Relevant to Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Sharing in NATO: Is it Legal? (by Otfried Nassauer, newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Weapons and International Law (by Merav Datan, newsletter article, May 2001) A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense by Dingli Shen (February 2001) Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia by Admiral L. Ramdas, ret. (May 2000) Nuclear Disarmament, the NPT, and the Rule of Law (IEER Conference at the United Nations, April 2000) The Clinton visit & disarmament (op-ed in The Hindu, March 18, 2000) Nuclear Defense and Offense: An Analysis of US Policy (newsletter article, February 2000) Rule of Law or Nuclear Chaos? (newsletter article, February 2000) The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Where Do We Go From Here? (newsletter article, February 2000) IEER Recommendations to the 2000 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (newsletter item, February 2000) Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on National Missile Defense Deployment (November 1999) Nuclear Dangers in Light of the Balkan Crisis by Vladimir Iakimets (newsletter article, July 1999) Evaluation of NPT Compliance and the Review Process To Date (May 1999) Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (newsletter article, October 1998) IEER's Disarmament Plan (newsletter article, October 1998) De-Alerting Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, October 1998) "'Always' the Target?" (article in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 1995) Nuclear Power (in reverse chronological order) Calculate CO2 Emissions from Nuclear Power (Uranium Enrichment by Gaseous Diffusion) (Atomic Puzzler, April 2008) Statement of Principles to Achieve a Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free U.S. Energy System by 2050 (March 2008) - Sign on here! Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site (report, March 24, 2008) France's Nuclear Fix? (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) Nuclear Power Costs: High and Higher (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Summer 2007-Winter 2008 (Full study; Press Releases: July 2007 | December 2007 | March 2008; Executive Summary; Science for Democratic Action special issue) U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (Arjun Makhijani interview on PBS NewsHour, Oct. 16, 2007) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2007) Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors (Nov. 2006) Nuclear Power and Global Warming, video of Arjun Makhijani interview, Chicago Access Network TV, 29 min 8 sec (Oct. 6, 2006) Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility (13 Sept. 2006) Insurmountable Risks: Can Nuclear Power Solve the Global Warming Problem? (newsletter article, Aug. 2006) The return of the nuclear messiahs (newsletter editorial, Aug. 2006) Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change (IEER Press and RDR Books, 2006) Memo on Tritium, Review of Braidwood Generating Station Groundwater Issue: Frequently Asked Questions (March 20, 2006) Press Statement of Arjun Makhijani on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (March 3, 2006) Statement on Tritium (February 2006) The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Arjun Makhijani's interview with India Abroad, Dec. 28, 2005) Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet? (Interview with Arjun Makhijani in the New Hampshire Sierran, Fall 2005) Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans (IEER press release, October 24, 2005) Costs and Risks of Depleted Uranium from a Proposed Enrichment Facility (newsletter article, June 2005) Uranium Enrichment: Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (newsletter article, Mar. 2005) Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES: Press release (in 8 languages) | Nov. 2004 Report | Jul. 2005 Update to Report Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why Nuclear Power Is a Poor Way to Meet Energy Needs (Article in Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2004) Uranium Enrichment: Just Plain Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (Report, Oct. 2004) PDF only, 2MB IEER Comments on the NRC Notice of Intent re: the Proposed Uranium Enrichment Facility (Mar. 2004) IEER Comments on the proposed uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico (Jan. 7, 2004) Wall Street Nixes Nukes? (June 2003 radio commentary) The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable (newsletter article, Aug. 2001) Cheney Energy Plan, Press release and IEER critique (Aug. 2001) Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (newsletter article, Aug. 2001) Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program (press release, May 2001) Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor (op-ed in The Hindu, Apr. 2001) Nuclear Plant Risk Studies: Dismal Quality (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) Nuclear Power: A Cold War Propaganda Tool (newsletter article, May 2000) Annual Radioactive Waste Generation Per Reactor (newsletter article, May 2000) Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power (newsletter article, May 2000) Japan's Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Nuclear Incident (press release, Oct. 1999) Nuclear Power Deception (book, 1999, and technical report, 1996) Nuclear Power and its Role in Global Electricity (newsletter article, Sept. 1996) Comparison of Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power (newsletter article, Sept. 1996) Basic Characteristics of Reactor Types (1996) Nuclear Reactor Accidents (1996) Radioactive Waste (in reverse chronological order) Yucca Mountain: A Bad Repository Choice (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard, submitted for Senate Env. and Public Works Committee hearing, Oct. 31, 2007 Comments on Disposal of Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste, September 21, 2007 Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2007) Notice of Intent to File Suit for Safe Drinking Water Act Violations, Letter to EPA, January 16, 2007 Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors (Nov. 2006) Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site (newsletter article, Nov. 2006) Environmental Transport of Radium and Plutonium (newsletter article, Nov. 2006) Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility (13 Sept. 2006) Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of the K-65 Silos and Silo 3 Remediation and Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site, IEER Report, Aug. 2006 Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex - A list of resources (updated Aug. 2006) The Environmental Transport of Radium and Plutonium: A Review, IEER Report, June 23, 2006 International Experience with Reprocessing (Fact Sheet, Jan. 2006) [Print version] Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France (newsletter article, Jan. 2006) PDF 530kB, 12 pages Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos Soil and Waste: Environmental, Health, and Security Implications (IEER report, Nov. 29, 2005) PDF 1.6MB, 72 pages IEER Comments on EPA's Proposed Rule for Yucca Mountain, Nov. 21, 2005 (Also in PDF) Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans (press release, Oct. 24, 2005) EPA Proposed Rule on High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Would Seriously Undermine Public Health (press release, Aug. 9, 2005) Bad to the Bone: Analysis of the Federal Maximum Contaminant Levels for Plutonium-239 and Other Alpha-Emitting Transuranic Radionuclides in Drinking Water, Aug. 3, 2005 (Report, Press release, Letter to the EPA, Newsletter-PDF) Costs and Risks of Depleted Uranium from a Proposed Enrichment Facility (newsletter article, June 2005) Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES: Press release (in 8 languages) | Nov. 2004 Report | Jul. 2005 Update to Report Examen critique du programme de recherche de l'ANDRA pour determiner l'aptitude du site de Bure au confinement geologique des dechets a haute activite et a vie longue Rapport Final, 27 decembre 2004 Assessing Uranium-Related Radiation Issues (Power Point Presentation for Colorado Citizens Against ToxicWaste, Inc., October 30, 2004) What the DOE Knows it Doesn't Know about Grout (Briefing Paper, October 18, 2004) PDF only (188kB) Los Alamos Immense Plutonium Discrepancy: 150 Bombs Worth (Press release, August 2004). Also see Letter to LANL Director and IEER radio commentary Energy Dept. "Rushing Ahead with Defective Yucca Mountain Design" Says Former NWTRB Member (Press release, June 14, 2004) Rush to Judgment at Yucca Mountain (newsletter article, June 2004) PDF only (383kB) The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed (Press release and Analysis, May 17, 2004) Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site (SRS) (Report and press release, March 11, 2004) Yucca Mountain: An Example Not to Follow, Paper for presentation to a Greenpeace Briefing in Italy (December 2003) Comments on the proposed rule on "controlling the disposition of solid materials" (June 27, 2003) IEER Appointed to Review French Research Program on Geologic Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste, Press release (En français), June 10, 2003 Congressional Testimony on Secure Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel [HOSS] (March 2003) Independent Institute Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan (Press release, June 4, 2002) Cleanup Standards for Future Generations (in Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 3, May 2002) [PDF; 317KB] A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste (Washington Post op-ed, February 2002) President Bush Makes Historic, But Wrong, Choice on Nuclear Waste (IEER press release, February 2002) Energy Dept. 'Cleanup' Program Invites Lax Standards, Threatens Crucial Water Resources (Press release, February 4, 2002) Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 radio, February 2002) click here to listen (requires RealPlayer) Department of Energy Makes the Wrong Choice by Selecting Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a Suitable Nuclear Waste Repository, IEER press release (January 10, 2002) Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations: The Scientific Basis of Subsistence Farmer Scenario and Its Application to the Estimation of Radionuclide Soil Action Levels (RSALs) for Rocky Flats (Report, December 2001) "If not Yucca Mountain, then what?" - An alternative plan for managing highly radioactive waste in the United States, IEER/ANA fact sheet (December 2001) Recommendations for Protecting the Snake River Plain Aquifer (November 2001) Perspective of a Former Idaho Trout Farmer (Newsletter article, November 2001) Poison in the Vadose Zone: An examination of the threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (Report, October 2001; Newsletter article, November 2001) EPA's Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards (IEER press release, June 2001) Letter to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board re: Yucca Mountain (May 15, 2001) Cogéma on Trial for Illegal Radioactive Waste Storage (in Science for Democratic Action vol. 9 no. 3, May 2001) Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program (IEER press release, May 2001) Your Very Own Cold War Souvenir: What to do with the country's radioactive legacy (article in tompaine.com, December 2000) Letter from IEER to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board about Buried TRU Waste (November 20, 2000) Incineration of Radioactive and Mixed Waste (fact sheet), updated Aug. 1996 and Nov. 2000 Letter re: Buried Transuranic Waste, IEER's reply to DOE (October 13, 2000) Accelerator Transmutation of Waste ("Dear Arjun," September 2000) Letter re: Buried Transuranic Waste, from DOE to IEER (July 18, 2000) Annual Radioactive Waste Generation Per Reactor (May 2000) Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power (May 2000) Waste Transmutation: The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble (article, May 2000) The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble: An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy (technical report, May 2000) Comments on Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project RCRA/TSCA Permit (February 2000) Comments on the Draft EIS on the Yucca Mountain Repository (February 2000) Nuclear Wastelands (book, 2000) Comments on the draft EPA standards for Yucca Mountain (November 1999) Letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Release of Radioactively Contaminated Materials (November 1999) Deep Underground Storage in France? by Mary Davis (July 1999) Liquid Radioactive Wastes in Russia by Valery Bulatov (July 1999) Comments on the Draft Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rule on Disposal Of High-Level Radioactive Wastes (June 1999) Considering the Alternatives: Creating a framework for sound long-term management of highly radioactive wastes in the United States (May 1999) Institutional Reform for Long-Term Nuclear Waste Management (May 1999) Recommendations for Highly Radioactive Waste Management (May 1999) Short and Medium-Term Management of Highly Radioactive Wastes in the United States (May 1999) Some Evidence of Yucca Mountain's Unsuitability as a Repository (May 1999) Shell Game with Plutonium-Contaminated Waste A Poor Policy (March 1999 press release) Comments on the Savannah River Site High Level Waste Tank Closure Environmental Impact Statement (February 1999) Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (January 1999) Commercial and Military Nuclear Waste (January 1999) The Department of Energy-IEER Dialog on Clean-Up (January 1999) Recommendations on Clean-Up and Waste Management (January 1999) Fire, Cement, and Plutonium-Laced Solvents at the Savannah River Site (January 1999) Radium- and Thorium-Contaminated Waste at Fernald (January 1999) High-Level Waste Tanks at Hanford (January 1999) Transuranic Waste: TRU and Consequences (January 1999) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): No TRU Solution (January 1999) Fluid Inclusion Studies at Yucca Mountain (technical report), December 1998 Comments on Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project Draft EIS (August 1998) Review of documents relating to the proposed shipments of LANL TA-55-43 Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (IEER report, June 5, 1998) Comments on Depleted Uranium PEIS (March 1998) Containing the Cold War Mess (technical report), October 1997 Recommendations on Nuclear Waste Management and Disposal (May 1997) The Regulatory Mess (May 1997) Road to Yucca Mountain, a chronology (May 1997) The Curious Case of Curium (May 1997) Transmutation: Not an Alternative (May 1997) Yucca Mountain: Needless Rush (May 1997) Yucca Mountain Standards (May 1997) Radioactive Waste Classification (April 1996) High-Level Dollars Low-Level Sense (book excerpts), Oct. 1991 Energy Issues (in reverse chronological order) (Also see "Nuclear Power") Calculate CO2 Emissions from Nuclear Power (Uranium Enrichment by Gaseous Diffusion) (Atomic Puzzler, April 2008) Statement of Principles to Achieve a Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free U.S. Energy System by 2050 (March 2008) - Sign on here! Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site (report, March 24, 2008) France's Nuclear Fix? (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) Nuclear Power Costs: High and Higher (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Summer 2007-Winter 2008 (Full study; Press Releases: July 2007 | December 2007 | March 2008; Executive Summary; Science for Democratic Action special issue) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2007) Calculate CO2 Emissions from a Natural Gas Fired Power Plant (Atomic Puzzler, Feb. 2007) Calculate CO2 Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant (Atomic Puzzler, Nov. 2006) Nuclear Power and Global Warming, video of Arjun Makhijani interview, Chicago Access Network TV, 29 min 8 sec (Oct. 6, 2006) Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility (13 Sept. 2006) Insurmountable Risks: Can Nuclear Power Solve the Global Warming Problem? (newsletter article, August 2006) Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change (IEER Press and RDR Books, 2006) Press Statement of Arjun Makhijani on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (March 3, 2006) The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Arjun Makhijani's interview with India Abroad, Dec. 28, 2005) Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet? (Interview with Arjun Makhijani in the New Hampshire Sierran, Fall 2005) Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans (IEER press release, October 24, 2005) Costs and Risks of Depleted Uranium from a Proposed Enrichment Facility (newsletter article, June 2005) Uranium Enrichment: Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (newsletter article, March 2005) Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES: Press release (in 8 languages) | Nov. 2004 Report | Jul. 2005 Update to Report Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why Nuclear Power Is a Poor Way to Meet Energy Needs (Article in Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2004) Uranium Enrichment: Just Plain Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (Report, October 15, 2004) PDF only, 2MB Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (newsletter, October 2004) PDF only (977kB) Call for October 2 Actions (radio commentary, July 2004) Oil and War or Wind? (radio commentary, April 2004) Is oil running out? part 1, part 2, part 3 (radio commentary, January 2004) Cash Crop on the Wind Farm: A New Mexico Case Study of the Cost, Price, and Value of Wind-Generated Electricity (report prepared for Western Governors' Association North American Energy Summit, April 15-16, 2004) Wall Street Nixes Nukes? (June 2003 radio commentary) The War IS About Oil, Here's What We Should Do (radio commentary, KUNM, March 10, 2003) Oil, GM, Chevron/Texaco and energy policy (April 2003 radio commentary, KUNM) Securing the Energy Future of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action (Newsletter article | Full report) (November 2001) Cheney Energy Plan, Press release and IEER critique, August 2001 The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable (Newsletter article, August 2001) IEER Energy Policy Recommendations (Newsletter feature, August 2001) Large-Scale Wind Energy Development in the United States (Newsletter feature, August 2001) Pebble Bed Modular Reactors, August 2001 Second Law of Thermodynamics (August 2001) Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers (Press release, May 2001) Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program (IEER press release, May 2001) Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor (Op-ed in The Hindu, April 2001) Saddam's Last Laugh: The Dollar Could be Headed for Hard Times if OPEC Switches to the Euro (article in tompaine.com, March 2001) Nuclear Power: A Cold War Propaganda Tool (May 2000) Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (newsletter article, November 1999) Japan's Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Nuclear Incident (Press Release, October 1999) Wind Power Versus Plutonium (technical report, January 1999) The Nuclear Power Deception: U.S. Nuclear Mythology from Electricity "Too Cheap to Meter" to "Inherently Safe" Reactors (book, 1999) A Gamble on Global Warming (November 3, 1998 op-ed) Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change (newsletter, March, 1998) Untapped Energy Efficiency (Letter to the The Washington Post, January 29, 1998) Crying Wolf About Kyoto (December 26, 1997 op-ed) The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (newsletter article, July 1997) Nuclear Power and Global Energy (newsletter article, February 1997) Comparison of Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power (February 1997) Plutonium as an Energy Source(February 1997) Mending the Ozone Hole (MIT Press, 1995) Draft Power in South Asian Foodgrain Production (September 1990) Reprocessing (in reverse chronological order) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2007) International Experience with Reprocessing (Fact Sheet, Jan. 2006) [Print version] Cogéma: Above the Law? Concerns about the French Parent Company of a U.S. Corporation Set to Process Plutonium in South Carolina (IEER/SECC report, May 2002) Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant (Joint Press Release of IEER and Citizen's Nuclear Information Center, September 2001) Cheney Energy Plan (Press release and IEER critique, August 2001) Rokkasho: A Troubled Nuclear Fuel Cycle Complex (newsletter article, August 2001) Cogéma on Trial for Illegal Radioactive Waste Storage (newsletter article, May 2001) Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers (Press release, May 2001) French Report Doubts Merits of Reprocessing and MOX (February 2001) Plutonium End Game: Stop Reprocessing, Start Immobilizing (newsletter article, February 2001) Plutonium End Game: Managing Global Stocks of Separated Weapons-Usable Commercial and Surplus Nuclear Weapons Plutonium (IEER report, January 2001) Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site (fact sheet, February 1999) The Economics of Reprocessing (newsletter article, October 1997) International Civilian Reprocessing (newsletter article, October 1997) International Implications of U.S. Reprocessing (newsletter article, October 1997) International Reprocessing Report (newsletter article, October 1997) Reprocessing and the Environment (newsletter article, October 1997) Reprocessing: Where and How (newsletter article, October 1997) DOE's Reprocessing Relapse (newsletter article, November 1996) The Purex Process (newsletter article, November 1996) Risky Relapse Into Reprocessing (technical report, January 1996) Fissile Materials (in reverse chronological order after list of basic information) Basics Properties of Plutonium Uranium: Its Uses and Hazards Health and Environmental Dangers of Fissile Materials (fact sheet) Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly (book) Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS (April 30, 2008) Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Sept. 20, 2006) Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex - A list of resources (updated August 2006) Unaccounted-for plutonium at Los Alamos (Arjun Makhijani interview with Progressive Radio, December 2005) Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos Soil and Waste: Environmental, Health, and Security Implications (PDF 1.6MB, 72 pages) IEER report, November 29, 2005 Emerging Picture of Uranium's Health Risks (newsletter article, June 2005) Uranium Enrichment: Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (newsletter article, March 2005) Uranium Enrichment: Just Plain Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (Report, October 15, 2004) PDF only, 2MB Los Alamos Immense Plutonium Discrepancy: 150 Bombs Worth (Press release, August 2004). Also see Letter to LANL Director and IEER radio commentary Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (July 2003) IEER Comments on the Draft EIS for a Modern Pit Facility (Also press release, July 16, 2003) Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel (June 2003) Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory (June 26, 2003 press release) Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear PITS Facilities (May 2003 radio commentary) IEER Comments on the Modern Pit Facility Notice of Intent (November 2002) Radiological Warfare Suspicions Point Up Need for Materials Accounting and Reporting to Enhance Security (Press release, June 10, 2002) Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant (Joint Press Release of IEER and Citizen's Nuclear Information Center, September 2001) Rokkasho: A Troubled Nuclear Fuel Cycle Complex (Newsletter article, August 2001) Plutonium End Game: Stop Reprocessing, Start Immobilizing, article in Science for Democratic Action (February 2001) French Report Doubts Merits of Reprocessing and MOX (February 2001) US-Russian Plutonium Disposition Agreement (February 2001) Plutonium End Game: Managing Global Stocks of Separated Weapons-Usable Commercial and Surplus Nuclear Weapons Plutonium (technical report, January 2001) Some Characteristics of Uranium and Thorium (December 2000) Japan's Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Nuclear Incident, Press Release (October 1999) Estimates of Global Plutonium Inventory Disposing of Fissile Materials: The Challenge Ahead DOE Assesses Dangers from its Plutonium Inventory Treaties, International Law (in reverse chronological order) Press Statement of Arjun Makhijani on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (March 2006) The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Arjun Makhijani's interview with India Abroad, December 2005) Freedom or Force on the High Seas? Arms Interdiction and International Law (newsletter article, June 2004) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York (radio commentary, May 2004) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in Geneva (radio commentary, April 2003) Broken Pledges (radio commentary, spring 2003) What is Precision Bombing? (radio commentary, KUNM, February 24, 2003) War Will Not Stop Nuclear Proliferation (radio commentary, KUNM, February 10, 2003) Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm (newsletter article, February 2003) Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework (Briefing Paper, January 2003) Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (Press release (2002) | Book (2003)) Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm: Two Case Studies of the Bombings of Industrial Facilities at Pancevo and Kragujevac During Operation Allied Force, Yugoslavia 1999 (Portions available in Serbian) (November 2002) Treaty Overview: A Summary of U.S. Compliance with Nine Security-Related Treaties (newsletter article, August 2002) Undermining Nuclear Security Agreements (newsletter article, August 2002) Rule or Power or Rule of Law? U.S. Compliance with Security-Related Treaties (newsletter article, August 2002) Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation: The Russian Perspective (newsletter article, August 2002) Multilateral Treaties Are Fundamental Tools for Protecting Global Security... (IEER/LCNP Fact Sheet, June 2002, based on Rule of Power or Rule of Law?) A Road Map To Peace (Op-ed in The Hindu, May 2002) Russian and U.S. Experts Respond to Summit, press release with Back From the Brink (Moscow, May 2002) Nuclear Dangers and the State of Security Treaties (IEER Conference at the United Nations, April 2002) Cheney Energy Plan (Press release and IEER critique, August 2001) Nuclear Law: Excerpts from Legal Documents Relevant to Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Sharing in NATO: Is it Legal? by Otfried Nassauer (newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Weapons and International Law by Merav Datan (newsletter article, May 2001) A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense by Dingli Shen (newsletter article, February 2001) A Global Truth Commission on Health and Environmental Damage from Nuclear Weapons Production (newsletter article, February 2001) Uranium and You: How Many Birth Defects and Cancers Should Be Allowed in the Name of National Security? (article in tompaine.com, February 2001) US-Russian Plutonium Disposition Agreement (newsletter article, February 2001) Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia by Admiral L. Ramdas, ret. (May 2000) Nuclear Disarmament, the NPT, and the Rule of Law (IEER Conference at the United Nations, April 2000) The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Where Do We Go From Here? (newsletter article, February 2000) Rule of Law or Nuclear Chaos? (newsletter article, February 2000) Nuclear Defense and Offense: An Analysis of US Policy (newsletter article, February 2000) IEER Recommendations to the 2000 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (newsletter article, February 2000) IEER Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on National Missile Defense Deployment (November 1999) Nuclear Dangers in Light of the Balkan Crisis by Vladimir Iakimets (newsletter article, July 1999) Update on Nuclear Treaties (newsletter article, July 1999) Evaluation of NPT Compliance and the Review Process To Date (Talk by Arjun Makhijani, May 1999) Fusion Research and the Test Ban Treaty (Letter to University of California Regents, February 1999) A Gamble on Global Warming (Washington Post op-ed, November 1998) Crying Wolf About Kyoto (Washington Post op-ed, December 1997) CTB: India's Options (editorial in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 1997) 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference (newsletter article, summer 1995 Extending the Non Proliferation Treaty (newsletter article, fall 1994) "Dear Arjun" columns (in reverse chronological order) Dear Arjun: Are you anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear? (Aug. 2006) Dear Arjun: Is oil running out? (October 2004) Dear Arjun: What is the difference between mini-nukes, low-yield nukes, and bunker busters? (September 2003) Dear Arjun: Could ionizing radiation really be good for you? (November 2002) Dear Arjun: Is radium a substance to be concerned about in uranium mining? What are the current largest uses of radium? (May 2002) Dear Arjun: What are the risks of protesting at the Nevada Test Site? (November 2001) Dear Arjun: What are PBMRs (Pebble Bed Modular Reactors)? (August 2001) Dear Arjun: What is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste? (September 2000) Dear Arjun: How can I compare nuclear power to fossil fuels or to renewable energy? (May 2000) Dear Arjun: What is the Linear No-Threshold Hypothesis (LNTH)? (November 1999) Dear Arjun: What is radiolysis and what does it have to do with nuclear waste? (January 1999) Dear Arjun: What is a 'z-pinch' and can it contribute to the development of nuclear weapons? (October 1998) Dear Arjun: What is the second law of thermodynamics and why is it important? (March 1998) Dear Arjun: What's the difference between a rad, a rem, and a roentgen? (November 1997) Dear Arjun: What is vitrification and does it work? (February 1997) Dear Arjun: What is a sievert? (October 1996) Dear Arjun: What is DUF6? (July 1996) Dear Arjun: What are clean-up standards? (Summer 1995) Dear Arjun: What is a nuclear test and why? (Spring 1995) Dear Arjun: What is risk analysis and how is it used? (Winter 1995) Dear Arjun: What is MOX fuel and why is it so costly? (Fall 1994) Dear Arjun: What is HEU and is it used in all reactors? (Spring 1994) Depleted Uranium (in reverse chronological order) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2007) Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site (newsletter article, Nov. 2006) Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility (Sept. 13, 2006) Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans (IEER press release, October 24, 2005) Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES (Feb. 2005 Press Release, in 8 languages) (Nov. 2004 Report) (Jul. 2005 Update to Report) Emerging Picture of Uranium's Health Risks (newsletter article, June 2005) Uranium Enrichment: Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power (Mar. 2005 newsletter article) (Oct. 2004 Report) IEER Comments on the NRC Notice of Intent re: the Proposed Uranium Enrichment Facility (Mar. 2004) IEER Comments on the proposed uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico (Jan. 7, 2004) Depleted Uranium Munitions (box in Science for Democratic Action vol. 11 no. 2, Feb. 2003) [PDF; 343KB] Some Characteristics of Uranium and Thorium (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) Comments on the Depleted Uranium PEIS (Mar. 1998) Uranium: Its Uses and Hazards

Calculate CO2 Emissions from Nuclear Power (Uranium Enrichment by Gaseous Diffusion) (Atomic Puzzler, April 2008) Statement of Principles to Achieve a Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free U.S. Energy System by 2050 (March 2008) - Sign on here! A Reliable Renewable Electricity Grid (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) France's Nuclear Fix? (newsletter article, Jan. 2008) Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Summer 2007-Winter 2008 (Full study, Press Releases: July 2007 | December 2007 | March 2008, Executive Summary, Science for Democratic Action special issue) Calculate CO2 Emissions from a Natural Gas Fired Power Plant (Atomic Puzzler, Feb. 2007) Calculate CO2 Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant (Atomic Puzzler, Nov. 2006) Nuclear Power and Global Warming, video of Arjun Makhijani interview, Chicago Access Network TV, 29 min 8 sec (Oct. 6, 2006) Insurmountable Risks: Can Nuclear Power Solve the Global Warming Problem? (newsletter article, August 2006) Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change (IEER Press and RDR Books, 2006) Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet? (Interview with Arjun Makhijani in the New Hampshire Sierran, Fall 2005) Rule or Power or Rule of Law? U.S. Compliance with Security-Related Treaties (in Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 4, August 2002) [PDF; 255KB] Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (Press release (2002) | Book (2003)) Cheney Energy Plan, Press release and IEER critique, August 2001 The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable (Newsletter article, August 2001) A Gamble on Global Warming (Washington Post op-ed, November 1998) Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change (newsletter) Untapped Energy Efficiency (Washington Post letter, January 1998) Crying Wolf About Kyoto (Washington Postop-ed, December 26, 1997) Mending the Ozone Hole (Book, 1995) Climate Change and Transnational Corporations (UN Report, 1992) Nuclear Testing (in reverse chronological order) Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS (April 30, 2008) French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara: Open the Files (newsletter article, April 2008) Complex Transformation: Nuclear Weapons Now, Nuclear Weapons Tomorrow, Nuclear Weapons Forever (newsletter article, April 2008) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS - Complex 2030 (Jan. 17, 2007) A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes (article for Arms Control Today, July/August 2005) Advocates Welcome NAS Study Recommending Expanded Compensation for Those Hurt by U.S. Nuclear Tests; Groups Call on Congress to Move Quickly to Help Victims (Press release, Apr. 2005) Gorbachev and the U.S. People: Uncelebrated Victories in the Struggle for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, Mar. 2005) Testimony before the NAS Committee on the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (November 11, 2004) IEER letter to National Academy of Sciences committee assessing the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program re: nuclear testing fallout (September 2, 2004) NATO and Nuclear Disarmament: An Analysis of the Obligations of the NATO Allies of the United States under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (IEER report, October 2003) Radioactive Milk in America (radio commentary, KUNM, February 17, 2003) IEER Letter to the National Academy of Sciences Committee Reviewing the Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests (September 12, 2002) Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps (February 2002) Fallout from Nuclear Testing Caused Cancers, U.S. Government Study Shows (Press release, February 2002) Fallout Maps and Progress Report (Official documents, February 2002) What are the risks of protesting at the Nevada Test Site? ("Dear Arjun," November 2001) A Global Truth Commission on Health and Environmental Damage from Nuclear Weapons Production, editorial in Science for Democratic Action (February 2001) Let Them Drink Milk: Iodine-131 Doses from Nuclear Weapons Testing (November 1997) Estimated Doses and Fatal Cancers from Nuclear Testing (August 1996) Known Nuclear Tests (newsletter article, Summer 1995) What is a Nuclear Test? (newsletter article, Spring 1995) Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (newsletter article, Spring 1995) Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth (book) Nuclear Weapons (in reverse chronological order) Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS (April 30, 2008) French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara: Open the Files (newsletter article, April 2008) Complex Transformation: Nuclear Weapons Now, Nuclear Weapons Tomorrow, Nuclear Weapons Forever (newsletter article, April 2008) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS - Complex 2030 (Jan. 17, 2007) Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Sept. 20, 2006) IEER Comments on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Draft Supplemental Site-Wide Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS (Apr. 30, 2004) Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear PITS Facilities (May 2003 radio commentary) Nuclear Sharing in NATO: Is it Legal? (newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Weapons and International Law (newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Law: Excerpts from Legal Documents Relevant to Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, May 2001) Nuclear Wastelands (book, MIT Press, 2000) Fusion Research and the Test Ban Treaty (1999 letter to Univ. of California regents) Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest (1998 technical report) Atomic Audit (book, Brookings Institution Press, 1998) Nuclear Safety Smokescreen (1996 technical report) Always the Target (newsletter article on targeting of Japan, summer 1995) Nuclear Weapons: The Haves and Have-Nots (newsletter article, summer 1995) Known Nuclear Tests (newsletter article, summer 1995) Chronology of Arms Control (newsletter article, summer 1995) What is a Nuclear Test? (newsletter article, spring 1995) Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (newsletter article, spring 1995) Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth (book, Apex Press, 1991) Health and Safety (in reverse chronological order) Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable mailed with more than 3,000 signatures. (IEER press release, Feb. 20, 2008) Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard, submitted for Senate Env. and Public Works Committee hearing, Oct. 31, 2007 Comments on Reference Man and Radiation Protection (on "Modifying EPA Radiation Risk Models Based on BEIR VII"), August 30, 2007 Healthy from the Start: Building a Better Basis for Environmental Health Standards-Starting with Radiation (newsletter article, Feb. 2007) Health Risks of Tritium: The Case for Strengthened Standards (newsletter article, Feb. 2007) Radiation Protection Standards in the U. S.: Some Nuts and Bolts (newsletter centerfold, Feb. 2007) Notice of Intent to File Suit for Safe Drinking Water Act Violations, Letter to EPA, January 16, 2007 Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site (newsletter article, Nov. 2006) Open Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable (Oct. 2006) - Sign on here! Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Environmental Health Standards to Protect Those Most at Risk (IEER report, Oct. 2006) Also: press release and statements Campaign to Include Women, Children, and Future Generations in Environmental Health Standards Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Sept. 20, 2006) Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility (13 Sept. 2006) The Environmental Transport of Radium and Plutonium: A Review, IEER Report, June 23, 2006 Statement on Tritium (February 2006) Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos Soil and Waste: Environmental, Health, and Security Implications (PDF 1.6MB, 72 pages) IEER report, November 29, 2005 IEER Comments on EPA's Proposed Rule for Yucca Mountain (PDF version), November 21, 2005 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans (IEER press release, October 24, 2005) A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes (article for Arms Control Today, July/August 2005) Bad to the Bone: Maximum Contaminant Levels for Plutonium in Drinking Water (newsletter, September 2005) [PDF, 370 kB] IEER Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems, 29 August 2005 EPA Proposed Rule on High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Would Seriously Undermine Public Health, Press release, August 9, 2005 Bad to the Bone: Analysis of the Federal Maximum Contaminant Levels for Plutonium-239 and Other Alpha-Emitting Transuranic Radionuclides in Drinking Water (Report, Press release, Letter to the EPA, Newsletter-PDF), August-September, 2005 BEIR VII: update on the risks of "low-level" radiation, July 19, 2005 (Requires Power Point software); IEER press release on BEIR VII Report, July 7, 2005 Emerging Picture of Uranium's Health Risks (newsletter article, June 2005) Advocates Welcome NAS Study Recommending Expanded Compensation for Those Hurt by U.S. Nuclear Tests; Groups Call on Congress to Move Quickly to Help Victims (Press release, Apr. 2005) Gorbachev and the U.S. People: Uncelebrated Victories in the Struggle for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (newsletter article, Mar. 2005) Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES: Press release (in 8 languages) | Nov. 2004 Report | Jul. 2005 Update to Report Testimony before the NAS Committee on the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (Nov. 2004) Assessing Uranium-Related Radiation Issues (Power Point Presentation for Colorado Citizens Against ToxicWaste, Inc., Oct. 30, 2004) What the DOE Knows it Doesn't Know about Grout (Briefing Paper, Oct. 2004) PDF only (188kB) IEER letter to National Academy of Sciences committee assessing the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program re: nuclear testing fallout (Sept. 2004) Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report, Prepared for Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (June 2004) The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed (Press release and Analysis, May 2004) Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site (SRS) (Report and press release, Mar. 2004) Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (July 2003) Comments on the proposed rule on "controlling the disposition of solid materials" (June 2003) Atomic Vets (radio commentary, May 2003) Depleted Uranium Munitions (box in Science for Democratic Action vol. 11 no. 2, Feb. 2003) [PDF; 343KB] Radioactive Milk in America (radio commentary, KUNM, Feb. 2003) Los Alamos National Laboratory Clean Air Act Audit: IEER Report on First Independent Audit (Apr. 2000) IEER Report on Second Independent Audit (Dec. 2000) Los Alamos Undergoes Clean Air Act Audits: First Independent Environmental Review of a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Plant (Newsletter article, Feb. 2002) Comments of the Monitoring Team on the Third Independent Audit of LANL for Compliance with the Clean Air Act (Oct. 2002) IEER Report on Third Independent Audit (Dec. 2002) Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant [PDF only; 343KB], article in Science for Democratic Action (Nov. 2002) IEER Letter to the National Academy of Sciences Committee Reviewing the Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests (Sept. 2002) BEIR VII (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) Committee of the National Academy of Sciences (IEER correspondence, Sept. 1999 to date) Cleanup Standards for Future Generations (in Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 3, May 2002) [PDF; 317KB] The Subsistence Farmer Scenario (in Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 3, May 2002) [PDF; 317KB] Radium in uranium mining ("Dear Arjun" column in Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 3, May 2002) [PDF; 317KB] Energy Dept. 'Cleanup' Program Invites Lax Standards, Threatens Crucial Water Resources (Press release, Feb. 2002) Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps (Feb. 2002) Fallout from Nuclear Testing Caused Cancers, U.S. Government Study Shows (Press release, Feb. 2002) Fallout Maps and Progress Report (Official documents, Feb. 2002) Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations: The Scientific Basis of Subsistence Farmer Scenario and Its Application to the Estimation of Radionuclide Soil Action Levels (RSALs) for Rocky Flats (Report, Dec. 2001) What are the risks of protesting at the Nevada Test Site? ("Dear Arjun," Nov. 2001) Government should bear the burden of proof in compensation cases (Op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 2001) Uranium Workers Subjected to Dangers Should Be Compensated and Treated Now (IEER press release, June 2001) EPA's Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards (press release, June 2001) A Global Truth Commission on Health and Environmental Damage from Nuclear Weapons Production, editorial in Science for Democratic Action (Feb. 2001) Uranium and You: How Many Birth Defects and Cancers Should Be Allowed in the Name of National Security? (Feb. 2001) Forgotten Exposures: Worker Doses at Three Nuclear Materials Processing Plants in the 1940s and 1950s (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) Some Characteristics of Uranium and Thorium (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) Congress Passes Nuclear Worker Compensation Legislation (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) IEER Testifies to Congress on Nuclear Worker Exposures (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) Summary of Historical Annual Regulatory Dose Limits for the United States (newsletter article, Dec. 2000) Your Very Own Cold War Souvenir: What to do with the country's radioactive legacy (Dec. 2000) Testimony of IEER on Nuclear Workers (To the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, Sept. 2000) Radiation Exposures to Early Nuclear Workers: USA Today live chat with Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Legacy (Sept. 2000) Radiation Exposures to Early Nuclear Workers (Press Release, Sept. 2000) Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units (newsletter article, Sept. 2000) Measuring Radiation: Devices and Methods (newsletter article, Sept. 2000) Glossary of Radiation-Related Terms Preliminary Partial Dose Estimates from the Processing of Nuclear Materials at Three Plants during the 1940s and 1950s (report, Aug. 2000) Nuclear Wastelands (book) Comments on the draft EPA standards for Yucca Mountain (Nov. 1999) Letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Release of Radioactively Contaminated Materials (Nov. 1999) Statement on Tritium (Oct. 1999) Paducah -- Never Again (op-ed, Aug. 1999)) Ecological and Health Implications of NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia (July 1999) Characteristics of Some of the Chemicals and By-Products Reportedly Present or Released as a Result of the NATO Bombing of Electrical Transformers and the Pancevo Petrochemical Complex in Yugoslavia (July 1999) Comments on the Draft Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rule on Disposal Of High-Level Radioactive Wastes (June 1999) "Rush to Rent": DOE's Leasing of Contaminated Facilities is Putting Workers at Risk (newsletter article, May 1999) Fire, Cement, and Plutonium-Laced Solvents at the Savannah River Site (newsletter article, Jan. 1999) Radium- and Thorium-Contaminated Waste at Fernald (newsletter article, Jan. 1999) Radiation Exposures in the Vicinity of the Uranium Facility in Apollo, Pennsylvania (report, Feb. 1998) Let Them Drink Milk: Iodine-131 Doses from Nuclear Weapons Testing (newsletter article, Nov. 1997) Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) Radiation Protection (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) Leukemia Clusters Near La Hague and Sellafield (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) Low-Level Radiation (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) NRC Air and Water Concentration Limits (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) Effective Dose Equivalent (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) Units of Radiation and Dose Radiation Doses (newsletter article, Oct. 1997) Dose Reconstruction and Epidemiological Studies Fernald Worker's Radiation Exposure Radiation Exposure at Fernald: The Dirty Details Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood Doses from Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste Estimated Doses and Fatal Cancers from Nuclear Testing Radiation: Natural and Manmade Risk Analysis Human Radiation Experiments (Winter 1994) Radiation Clean Up Standards (Winter 1994) Fissile Materials: Health and Environmental Dangers (factsheet) Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth (book) Press Releases & Commentary (in reverse chronological order) New Book Offers Roadmap to Zero-Carbon Energy Future (IEER press release, Mar. 11, 2008) Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable mailed with more than 3,000 signatures. (IEER press release, Feb. 20, 2008) New Book Shows U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Can be Completely Eliminated by 2050 (IEER press release, Dec. 20, 2007) Press Statement of Arjun Makhijani on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (March 3, 2006) The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Arjun Makhijani's interview with India Abroad, Dec. 28, 2005) Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans (IEER press release, October 24, 2005) EPA Proposed Rule on High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Would Seriously Undermine Public Health (Press release, August 9, 2005) US Drinking Water Standard for Plutonium 100X Too Weak; IEER Research Shows Current Level is Based on Obsolete Science; EPA Urged to Act Quickly to Tighten Maximum Contaminant Limits (Press release, Aug. 2005) Cancer Risks for Women and Children Due to Radiation Exposure Far Higher Than for Men; BEIR VII Report Raises Major Issues for Radiation Protection (Press release, July 7, 2005) Advocates Welcome NAS Study Recommending Expanded Compensation for Those Hurt by U.S. Nuclear Tests; Groups Call on Congress to Move Quickly to Help Victims (Press release, Apr. 2005) Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES: Press release (in 8 languages) | Nov. 2004 Report | Jul. 2005 Update to Report Los Alamos Immense Plutonium Discrepancy: 150 Bombs Worth (Press release, August 2004). Also see Letter to LANL Director and IEER radio commentary Call for October 2 Actions (radio commentary, July 2004) Energy Dept. "Rushing Ahead with Defective Yucca Mountain Design" Says Former NWTRB Member (Press release, June 14, 2004) G-8 and Global Apartheid (radio commentary, June 2004) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York (radio commentary, May 2004) Oil and War or Wind? (radio commentary, Apr. 2004) Is oil running out? part 1, part 2, part 3 (radio commentary, Jan. 2004) Nuclear Waste Mismanagement Would Create High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump in Savannah River Watershed (March 11, 2004) Money, Oil, and Security (radio commentary, December 1, 2003) Occupation of Iraq (radio commentary, October 2, 2003) Drought threatens nukes (radio commentary, September 2003) The great north east blackout (radio commentary, September 2003) Radiation and health - The proposed plutonium bomb plant and worker health (radio commentary, July 2003) Potential Accidents at New Plutonium Bomb Factory Would Violate Radiation Protection Standards (July 16, 2003) Anniversary of the First Nuclear Test (radio commentary, July 15, 2003) Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel (radio commentary, June 2003) Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory (June 2003 press release) Wall Street Nixes Nukes? (radio commentary June 2003) Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear PITS Facilities (radio commentary May 2003) Nuclear targeting: The first 60 years (article in May/June 2003 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists & press release) Atomic Vets (radio commentary May 14, 2003) Nuclear targeting turns 60 (radio commentary Apr. 30, 2003) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in Geneva (radio commentary April 16, 2003) Oil, GM, Chevron/Texaco and energy policy (radio commentary) Broken Pledges (radio commentary) The War IS About Oil, Here's What We Should Do (radio commentary, March 10, 2003) History Offers Insights in North Korea Nuclear Dispute (radio commentary, March 4, 2003) What is Precision Bombing? (radio commentary, Feb. 24, 2003) Radioactive Milk in America (radio commentary, Feb. 17, 2003) War Will Not Stop Nuclear Proliferation (radio commentary, February 10, 2003) Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm: Two Case Studies of the Bombings of Industrial Facilities at Pancevo and Kragujevac During Operation Allied Force, Yugoslavia 1999 (Portions available in Serbian) (Nov. 2002) Radiological Warfare Suspicions Point Up Need for Materials Accounting and Reporting to Enhance Security (Press release, June 10, 2002) Independent Institute Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan (Press release, June 4, 2002) A Road Map To Peace (Op-ed in The Hindu, May 2002) President Bush Makes Historic, But Wrong, Choice on Nuclear Waste (IEER press release, February 2002) A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste (Washington Post op-ed, February 2002) Fallout from Nuclear Testing Caused Cancers, U.S. Government Study Shows (Press release, February 2002) Department of Energy Makes the Wrong Choice by Selecting Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a Suitable Nuclear Waste Repository, IEER press release (January 10, 2002) Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant (Joint Press Release of IEER and Citizen's Nuclear Information Center, September 2001) Cheney Energy Plan, Press release, August 2001 Government should bear the burden of proof in compensation cases (Op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 2001) EPA's Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards (IEER press release, June 2001) Uranium Workers Subjected to Dangers Should Be Compensated and Treated Now (IEER press release, June 25, 2001) Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program (IEER press release, May 2001) Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers (Press release, May 2001) Discover Dialogue: Arjun Makhijani The Nuke Slayer (April 2001 interview in Discover Magazine) Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor (The Hindu, April 2001) Saddam's Last Laugh: The Dollar Could be Headed for Hard Times if OPEC Switches to the Euro (March 2001) A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense by Dingli Shen (February 2001) A Global Truth Commission on Health and Environmental Damage from Nuclear Weapons Production, editorial in Science for Democratic Action (February 2001) Uranium and You: How Many Birth Defects and Cancers Should Be Allowed in the Name of National Security? (February 2001) Your Very Own Cold War Souvenir: What to do with the country's radioactive legacy (December 2000) Nuclear Power: A Cold War Propaganda Tool (May 2000) Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia by Admiral L. Ramdas, ret. (May 2000) The Clinton visit & disarmament (March 18, 2000) The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Where Do We Go From Here? (February 2000) Rule of Law or Nuclear Chaos? (February 2000) Japan's Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Nuclear Incident (Press Release, October 1999) BEIR VII (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) Committee of the National Academy of Sciences (IEER Sign-On Letter and Press Release, September 1999) Paducah -- Never Again (August 1999) NATO Bombing in Balkans Could Result in Widespread Ecological Disaster (press release, May 1999) DOE Plutonium Fuel Contract Award Inappropriate and Pre-mature (press release, March 23, 1999) Shell Game with Plutonium-Contaminated Waste A Poor Policy (press release, March 25, 1999) Sign the CTBT and Speak with Authority (The Times of India, December 1, 1998) A Gamble on Global Warming (The Washington Post, November 3, 1998) Untapped Energy Efficiency (The Washington Post, January 29, 1998) Crying Wolf About Kyoto (The Washington Post, December 26, 1997) Identify Groups of Workers at Risk (November 1997) India's Options (The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 1997) Nix MOX (newsletter article, February 1997) Will Disposition be the Road to a Plutonium Renaissance? (newsletter article, 1997) Heading off the Plutonium Peril (The Washington Post, December 5, 1996) A Durable, Stable, Nuclear Test Ban (newsletter article, July 1996) IEER Recommendations on Plutonium Management (newsletter article, 1996) "'Always' the Target?" (article in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 1995) Testimony, Technical Comments (in reverse chronological order) Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS (April 30, 2008) Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard, submitted for Senate Env. and Public Works Committee hearing, Oct. 31, 2007 Comments on Disposal of Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste, September 21, 2007 Comments on Reference Man and Radiation Protection (on "Modifying EPA Radiation Risk Models Based on BEIR VII"), August 30, 2007 Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2007) Comments on DOE's Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS - Complex 2030 (Jan. 17, 2007) Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Sept. 20, 2006) Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility (13 Sept. 2006) Memo on Tritium, Review of Braidwood Generating Station Groundwater Issue: Frequently Asked Questions (March 20, 2006) Statement on Tritium (February 2006) IEER Comments on EPA's Proposed Rule for Yucca Mountain (PDF version), November 21, 2005 Letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding its draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan (September 27, 2005) IEER Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power