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Nuclear Risks at the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)
Since Russia first took over the ZNPP on March 4, 2022, there has been major concern over the safety of the plant and the risk of a potential nuclear incident that could result in the release of radiation in Ukraine and elsewhere.
Letter on Nuke Subsidies in the Build Back Better Act
Letter signed by PSR and partner groups to the Senate Finance Committee, asking them to remove the $35 billion nuclear production tax credit from the Build Back Better Act.
Webinar: Health Risks of Nuclear Power
In the transition to clean renewable energy, some are proposing nuclear power be considered a renewable energy source. This webinar explores exactly why nuclear is not clean, not safe and not renewable.
30 Years Living with Chernobyl, 5 Years Living with Fukushima
This report, co-released by PSR and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, provides detailed and sobering updates of these two sentinel events.
Nuclear Power: Not a Healthy or Safe Solution for the Clean Power Plan
PSR is strongly opposed to nuclear power as an answer to the climate change threat for the following reasons.
Costs and Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster
The destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, resulted in massive radioactive contamination of the Japanese mainland.
Nuclear Power and Public Health: Lessons from Fukushima, Still Dangerously Unprepared
The United States is still unprepared to react to a disaster on a similar scale to the Fukushima crisis.
The Lessons of Fukushima and Chernobyl Briefing Book
PSR provides this Briefing Book to help educate the public, the press and policymakers of the public health issues regarding nuclear reactor accidents in light of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster as well as the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.