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GNEP Hearing Schedule November 17- December 9, 2008 | |
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Location and times of GNEP Hearings to be held beginning on November 17, 2008 through December 9, 2008. Please download the attached file for more information
Download PDF: GNEP DRAFT PEIS HEARING SCHEDULE.pdf
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Press Release Template for Organizations to use regarding Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
____________________ opposes the reprocessing of nuclear waste under the Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), as recommended by the recent Department of Energy (DOE) report, entitled Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement [PEIS] for Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.
Download Document in Word: GNEP Template for Press Release.doc
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2008
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org
Citizens’ Victory! NNSA Decides to Not Expand
Plutonium Pit Production at LANL
Santa Fe, NM: For nearly two years the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, has been seeking to raise the level of plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the presently sanctioned level of 20 pits per year to 50 to 80 pits per year. Plutonium pits are the crucial nuclear cores that “trigger” modern thermonuclear weapons. To meet the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirement for public review of proposed major federal actions NNSA was pushing expanded production through a “Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement” (“CT SPEIS”). More than 100,000 citizens and organizations, including Nuclear Watch New Mexico, submitted comments on the draft.
Yesterday NNSA released a final Complex Transformation SPEIS summary that states:
NNSA’s summary of the Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is available at http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/defense_programs/documents/Final_SPEIS_Summary.pdf
The decision to limit plutonium pit production is stated on page S-13.
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Separating plutonium under GNEP would increase the production and stockpiles of nuclear weapons usable materials. Spent fuel that has not been reprocessed is considered “self protecting” because it is highly radioactive. Separated plutonium is a fine powder, and approximately 18 lbs. are required to make a bomb.
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Reprocessing has already failed in the United States: West Valley, New York is the site of the only commercial reprocessing plant that operated in the United States. From 1966 to 1972, West Valley ran at 18% capacity and accumulated 600,000 gallons of high-level waste onsite. The cleanup of West Valley will cost more than $5 billion.
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Although the Department of Energy (DOE) has not provided a life-cycle cost estimate for GNEP, the National Academy of Sciences estimated in 1996 that a reprocessing project like GNEP could cost more than $500 billion. Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office has stated that "Reprocessing of U.S. spent fuel would cost 25 percent more than plans for direct disposal" in a permanent repository. Under the current plan for GNEP, the taxpayer and rate-payers, not the nuclear power industry, would bear this cost.
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What is a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement?
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposal
document is a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), as
required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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NEPA, DOE is required to analyze the environmental and socio economic
impacts of any proposed actions. The NEPA processes allows for public
participation, by including two public comment periods.
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By KEVIN COLLISON
October 1, 2008
A Kansas City Council committee delayed its recommendation on a proposed new nuclear weapons plant following a lengthy session during which peace activists described the project as immoral.
The Planning and Zoning Committee decided to hold off consideration for two weeks to learn more details about the $500 million redevelopment plan. It calls for the city to provide more than $40 million in tax incentives to build infrastructure for the 1.5-million-square-foot complex proposed for Missouri 150 and Botts Road.
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On September 13th, Mycle Schneider, International Consultant on Energy and Nuclear Policy, gave a fascinating presentation on the Status and Trends of the World Nuclear Industry. To see Mycle's text analysis published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, click here. To see Mycle's powerpoint presentation
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