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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).
Under
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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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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Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
The Kansas City Plant is located in the Bannister Federal Complex near Holmes and
Bannister Road and is run by Honeywell under NNSA, the National Nuclear Security Administration. It makes over 85% of the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, averages over 5000 shipments a month of nuclear weapons parts and is having its busiest workload in 20 years even in this post-Cold War era!
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Associated Press -- August 16, 2008
by Lisa Cornwell
The Fernald Preserve and its visitors center make their public debut Wednesday at the former site of the government facility that processed uranium metal for nuclear weapons from 1952 to 1989
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Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only U.S. site under consideration for disposal of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Congress singled out Yucca Mountain in the 1987 amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for implementing the program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets radiation exposure standards, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for licensing the repository.
Download PDF: ANA Yucca final.pdf
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U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy (DOE) sites polluted with massive amounts of radioactive and hazardous wastes. Most DOE sites are now on the Superfund list of the nation’s most environmentally dangerous facilities. Their contamination threatens millions of people living near the sites or along major waste transportation routes. Some of the nation’s most important water resources are endangered.
Download PDF: ANA cleanup final.pdf
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The Department of Energy has a sinister plan to ensure that nuclear weapons will be the capstone of U.S. foreign policy forever. We’ll be the empire over all. The king of the hill. The plan is called, “Complex Transformation,” and it is the latest scheme to “revitalize” and rebuild the U.S. nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production complex of the future. It involves eight locations across the nation, and will result in new facilities to build new nuclear weapons.
This scheme is being commented on by the public at 19 hearings near nuclear weapons production sites from now through April. Trouble is, people around all of the nuclear sites depend on the work at these sites for jobs and economic stability in their areas. Most sites date from the 1940’s and 1950’s and have shaped the lives of countless scientists, engineers and the thousands of support workers, families of all of them, the infrastructure of their towns—hospitals, schools, police, fire, everybody. The people who are impacted directly by any change in their facility naturally have a tendency to cling to the status quo of their sources of livelihood and pride. These people have made plenty of money making bombs—hard to give that up. Isn’t there a way to preserve jobs and bow to the inevitable?
Download PDF: Judith Mohling Nuclear Complex Transformation.pdf
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Estimated future environmental liability costs for the Pantex Plant top
$400 million, according to government figures obtained by a New Mexico
environmental group, but a Pantex official said the estimates are a few
years old and that such costs are expected to drop over time.
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