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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
for further information, contact:
Susan Gordon: (206) 547-3175
or local contacts listed at end of advisory.
for immediate release, Thursday, October 4, 2007
NUCLEAR EXPERTS AND ACTIVISTS FROM ACROSS
THE NATION CONVENING IN KANSAS CITY:
Key Facility in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex within City Limits
In the third week of October, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a network of national and grassroots organizations whose members live downwind and downstream of the major U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, will be meeting in Kansas City to raise awareness about the importance of the Department of Energy’s Kansas City Plant in the production of new nuclear weapons.
On October 17, ANA will be conducting a rare tour of the Kansas City Plant (KCP). In addition to ANA members and local legislative officials, three openings are being held for members of the press. Contact Susan Gordon if interested in participating in the tour.
The Kansas City Plant, which has seen large increases in recent output, produces all of the non-nuclear components in a nuclear warhead. Even more production is slated for KCP as the Energy Department plans on a new generation of nuclear weapons manufactured in a completely rebuilt weapons complex it calls “Complex 2030.”
On October 19, PeaceWorks Kansas City and ANA will host a public forum on the various national security and environmental impacts of a proposed new weapons facility to replace the current Kansas City Plant. Beginning at 7pm in the Conover Room of the Unitarian Church (4501 Walnut Street), the forum will include presentations by experts who live near the Los Alamos and Livermore weapons laboratories in New Mexico and California. They will discuss the Kansas City Plant’s central role in the nationwide network of weapons facilities and the future of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. See flyer for details.
The proposed new Kansas City Plant will be a $500 million facility built on undeveloped land and financed by private corporate money. Despite the fact that KCP is a crucial link in the Energy Department’s Complex 2030 plan, the facility has been excluded from ongoing review and analysis of transforming the nuclear weapons complex through a national “Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.” The new KCP will only be subject to a far less rigorous “Environmental Assessment,” which will not consider the new plant in a national context. In contrast, all other Energy Department nuclear weapons sites are included in the full Complex 2030 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement that is now underway.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability expects that the tour and public forum will increase public and media awareness of the role played by the Kansas City Plant in some of the largest national security and environmental issues facing America.
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Additional Contacts:
Donna Constantineau, PeaceWorks Kansas City
Kansas City, MO – (913) 281-5499
Jay Coghlan, Executive Director, Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM – (505) 989-7342
Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Livermore, CA – (925) 443-7148
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