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The news story focuses on a document obtained by Tri-Valley CAREs through the Freedom of Information Act that outlines horrific and recent exposures of Livermore Lab workers and contractors to Beryllium, a toxic metal used in nuclear weapons. It opens with a moving interview with Joyce Brooks, who is one of the participants in the TVC-facilitated "sick worker support group" for workers made ill by on the job exposures at Livermore Lab and other facilities.
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Global Security Newswire
Nations Discuss Nuclear Power Expansion Plans
Friday, Dec. 12, 2008
Participants in a U.S.-led nuclear power expansion effort met this week in Austria to discuss ways to advance the initiative, the U.S. Energy Department announced. The two-day session focused on promoting technical education among the members and technologies to manage radioactive waste safely, according to a press release.
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December 9, 2008
Dear President-Elect Obama:
We are writing to urge you to eliminate both the Department of Energy’s
(DOE) Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), which has focused on
restarting nuclear waste reprocessing in the United States, and the
reprocessing research program in the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative
(AFCI). Reprocessing would cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of
dollars, undermine U.S. nonproliferation policy, pollute the
environment, and threaten public health. Moreover, reprocessing worsens
the nuclear waste problem, rather than solves it. Instead, your
administration should ensure that spent (irradiated) fuel at commercial
reactor sites is better protected to make it less vulnerable to attack.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a
notification in the Federal Register today that it is extending the
comment period on the Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) by 90 days. The
public comment period will now end on March 16, 2009.
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| | | published Monday, December 01, 2008 | 286 Views :: 0 Comments |
Contact Information:
Heart of America Northwest Office: (206)382-1014
Gerald Pollet, JD; Executive Director (cell: 206-819-9015)
For Release: November 25, 2008
The northwest's leading watchdog organization on Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup is applauding Governor Christine Gregoire and Attorney General Rob McKenna for the lawsuit they will file tomorrow to force more and faster cleanup at Hanford.
"Filing this lawsuit is the only way to get this deadly waste out of the tanks before they leak," says Gerald Pollet, executive director of Heart of America Northwest. "Contrary to what the critics are saying, this is not going to slow down cleanup, it is going to speed up cleanup. And whatever the outcome of the lawsuit, we're certain it will prompt emptying of the tanks sooner than the 140 years that the current administration envisions."
"Negotiations have gone on for more than two years while the contamination has spread and DOE has gotten it's way. The only thing that will move cleanup forward on an acceptable timetable is going to court," Pollet said
He noted that evidence also continues to mount that leaks from Hanford's high level nuclear waste tanks is spreading much more rapidly than the energy department claimed was possible while they have spent years slowing down cleanup and dragging their feet
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Federal Plan to Double Nuclear Power Relies on Dumping More Highly Radioactive Waste at Hanford Energy Department Hearings This Week Exclude Seattle, Portland and Spokane – only NW hearings to be in Tri-Cities (Monday) and Hood River (Tuesday)
Download pdf: Heart of America Northwest Press Release 08.11.17.pdf
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Testimony by Susan Gordon
November 20, 2008
Global Nuclear Energy Partnership PEIS
The
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is a network of more than 36
local, regional and national organizations representing the concerns of
communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and
radioactive waste dumps. Many of our member organizations are in areas
targeted for reprocessing facilities and are gravely concerned that
their communities will become nuclear waste dumps just like West
Valley, New York, Pocatello, Idaho, Richland, Washington, and Aiken,
South Carolina.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For more information contact: Rachel Larson, cell 971.533.5380, office 503.274.2720 email: Rachel@oregon psr.org
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility 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.
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COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel too risky
Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:20 AM
By Bob Alvarez
The
push for new nuclear reactors became a top-tier issue in the
presidential race. Yet one aspect of the debate received little
attention: reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. This issue is especially
relevant to Ohio, where the U.S. Energy Department has considered
locating such a facility near Portsmouth.
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For use in the public comment period on DOE’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Nov.-Dec. 2008
Compiled by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear
For more information: kevin@beyondnuclear.org, www.beyondnuclear.org, (301) 270-2209x1
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