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WHAT: News briefing to release 1st Year
Radioactive
Report Card on President Obama and his Administration to grade their performance on policies on nuclear weapons production, waste cleanup and reactor funding.
WHEN: Monday, March 15, 2010 - - 10:00am
WHERE: Room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a national network of organizations representing the concerns of people living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing, production and waste disposal facilities
- Michele Boyd, Director, Safe Energy Program, Physicians for Social Responsibility -- taxpayer subsidies for new reactors, radioactive waste disposal, and nuclear contamination cleanup
- Ralph Hutchison, Coordinator, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance -- new Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear production plants, the next generation of weapons they may help support, and the implications for U.S. treaty obligations
- Nick Roth, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability -- performance of President Obama and his Administration during its first year in office and changes that must be made to improve its grades.
WHY: Scores of activists from across the nation will present their concerns about U.S. nuclear weapons, cleanup and reactor spending policies in dozens of meetings with leaders of Congress and the Obama Administration from March 15 - 17 as part of ANA’s 22nd Annual DC Days.
Click here to download ANA's Radioactive Report Card for President Obama
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Also, on Tuesday, March 16 at 6:00pm, ANA will host an Awards Reception honoring leaders in the movement for more responsible U.S. nuclear policies. Awardees include U.S. Representative Pete Stark, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force leaders Judy Treichel and Steve Frishman, and Ira Shorr of Physicians for Social Responsibility. The event will take place in Room B-354 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
- an ANA briefing kit on current nuclear weapons issues is available on request -