2002

• 12/23/02 Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants Shows Aircraft Crash Would Not Breach Structures Housing Reactor Fuel
• 12/12/02 Nuclear Industry Commends Meserve As ‘Capable, Effective’ NRC Chairman
• 10/21/02 Nuclear Power Plant Security Praised By Coordinators of Terrorism Simulation
• 10/14/02 U.S. Electric Utilities Receive Peace Award At International Disarmament Forum
• 09/10/02 Nuclear Power Plants Increase Security Readiness in Response to Orange Threat Level
• 09/04/02 Nuclear - Energy For Sustainable Development: Press Statement From the Nuclear Trade Associations and Societies Regarding the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa
• 07/25/02 NEI Believes Nuclear Security Act Approved by Senate Panel Needs Additional Enhancements
• 07/23/02 NEI Hails President’s OK of Yucca Mountain, Denounces Sen. Reid’s Cut of FY ’03 Funding
• 07/09/02 Nuclear Energy Industry Salutes Senate For Approving Yucca Mountain
• 06/11/02 Used Nuclear Fuel Is Not a Radiation Source That Can Be Used for ‘Dirty Bomb’
• 06/05/02 NEI Applauds Energy Panel Vote Sending Yucca Mountain Suitability Decision to Senate Floor
• 05/16/02 Nuclear Industry Welcomes Decision to Restart Browns Ferry 1 as Part of Strategic Growth Plan
• 05/08/02 Bipartisan House of Representatives Vote Reaffirms Yucca Mountain Repository Site
• 05/03/02 Employees at Nuclear Management Co. Win 'Top Industry Practice' Award
• 05/03/02 Nuclear Plants Should Participate in Carbon Credit Program, Industry Executives Say
• 05/02/02 Nuclear Energy Industry Taking Steps To Fulfill Vision of New Plant Construction
• 05/02/02 Nuclear Energy Institute Re-Elects Poindexter Chairman, Adds Two Members to Executive Committee
• 04/26/02 NEI Applauds Senate Passage of Energy Bill
• 04/25/02 NEI Applauds House Energy and Commerce Committee Vote on Yucca Mountain
• 04/18/02 Nuclear Energy Industry Calls On Congress to Approve Yucca Mountain for Repository
• 04/11/02 Nuclear Energy Industry Achieves High Safety Levels in Another Record Production Year
• 04/10/02 Governors Urge Congressional Leaders To Follow Expedited Process on Yucca Mountain Resolution
• 04/08/02 With Nevada's Objection Filed, Nuclear Energy Industry Urges Congress to OK Yucca Mountain
• 03/07/02 NEI Applauds Senate Approval of Amendment To Renew Price-Anderson Act
• 03/05/02 Nuclear Energy Industry Welcomes DOE Initiative to Support Plant Construction by 2010
• 02/26/02 NRC Issues Requirements To Sustain Heightened Security at Nuclear Plants
• 02/15/02 DOE Recommends Yucca Mountain to the President For Underground Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel
• 02/15/02 President Bush OKs Recommendation of Yucca Mountain as Disposal Site for Nuclear Material
• 02/14/02 NEI Applauds President Bush's Recognition Of Nuclear Energy as Clean-Air Electricity Source
• 02/13/02 Nuclear Fuel Shipments Are a Tiny Fraction of Hazardous Materials Shipments That Occur Daily
• 02/12/02 Industry, NRC Take Steps For Long Term Security Measures at Nuclear Power Plants
• 02/01/02 Nuclear Power Plants Set Reliability, Output Records in 2001, Industry Tells Wall Street
• 01/24/02 NWTRB: No Scientific Factor Identified That Eliminates Yucca Mountain as Repository Site
• 01/10/02 DOE's Yucca Mountain Project Provides Energy and National Security Benefits
• 01/08/02 High-Caliber Security Forces Negate Need to Federalize Nuclear Plant Defenders, Report Shows
• 01/07/02 2001 Was Record Year of Nuclear Plant Capacity Uprates