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Thursday
Dec012016

Pre-event Webinars: information on how to register, and how to access recordings

[See the full description of the Dec. 2-4 national grassroots radioactive waste strategy meeting, and how you can take part, here.]

The Webinars, presented live, are now available in recordings posted online:

(1) 

Nuclear Power and Fuel Chain - Intro.                            

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016  8pm to 9:30pm Eastern 

[The recording of this Webinar is now posted here:

https://www.nirs.org/category/media/video/]

Presenter: Diane D'Arrigo, NIRS

This webinar could also be titled "Nuclear Power and Fuel Chain 101," for folks who usually only focus on only one part, including Targeted Sites for Proposed Centralized Storage and Disposal - Yucca Mountain, Native American reservations, Waste Control Specialists (WCS, Texas), Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA, New Mexico), Savannah River Site (SRS, South Carolina), Idaho, Illinois, etc., and Transportation Issues, etc.

(2) 

Centralized ‘Interim’ Storage [CIS] and  Nuclear Transport Dangers                                                

Thurs, Nov. 10, 2016  8 pm to 9:30pm Eastern

[This Webinar's recording is also now posted here:

https://www.nirs.org/category/media/video/

Also see Beyond Nuclear's Power Point Presentation, and our congressional testimony from a year ago, upon which the presentation was based.]

Presenters: Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition TX, Arjun Makhijani, IEER, Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear

(3)

 Irradiated (‘Spent’) Nuclear Fuel                                       Thurs, Nov. 17, 2016  8pm -9:30pm  Eastern

High “Burnup”, Aging Fuel, Characteristics and Dangers of Pools and Casks, Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS), Reprocessing     

[This Webinar will be posted here in the near future:

https://www.nirs.org/category/media/video/]

Presenters: Dr. Gordon Thompson, IRSS, Donna Gilmore, San Onofre Safety