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Radioactive Waste
Congress Asked to Eliminate Subsidies
For Nuclear Power, Fund More Cleanup Work
BY JANICE VALVERDE
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is asking Congress and the federal government to eliminate funding for nuclear fuel recycling research, to ban
importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste, and to make public all contracts for cleanup of defense related nuclear waste, according to alliance leaders who spoke April 27 at a press briefing.
‘‘Atomic energy is too costly, slow, and risky to solve a climate crisis,’’ the alliance said in a summary of its positions. It advocates ‘‘carbon-free and nuclear-free energy . . . that is technically and economically attainable by 2050.’’
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2009 Fact Sheet New Reactors Too Expensive and Unnecessary | |
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Nuclear Power Will Not Solve Climate Crisis
In terms of both monetary cost and time, nuclear power is ineffective at solving the climate crisis. Dr. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, in his 2008 analysis The Nuclear Illusion, has shown that energy efficiency is seven to ten times more cost effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while renewable sources such as wind are significantly faster and less expensive to deploy than nuclear power. In his 2007 book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Dr. Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), has shown that both fossil fuels and nuclear power can be phased out of the American economy by mid-century and completely replaced with efficiency and renewables
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Grassroots Groups by Nuclear Site | |
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| | | published Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 6663 Views :: 1 Comments |
The Department of Energyís (DOE) proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program to restart nuclear waste reprocessing in the United States, poses a threat to local communities and to global security. Instead of pursuing this environmentally destructive, dangerous, and exorbitantly expensive GNEP program, DOE should store nuclear waste at reactor sites and safeguard it from terrorist attack.
The analysis provided in the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) is appallingly inadequate. Despite its legal mandate to analyze the full socio-economic and environmental impacts of GNEP, this document this PEIS does not include a complete life cycle cost analysis, fully addressing environmental or nonproliferation impacts. Furthermore, it inadequately addresses the full extent of health impacts from reprocessing.
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| | | published Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | 6900 Views :: 9 Comments |
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.
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| | | published Saturday, April 12, 2008 | 16 Views :: 0 Comments |
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.
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Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only site under consideration for disposal of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Congressional politics 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.
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| | | published Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | 7 Views :: 0 Comments |
Yucca Mountain, the proposed dump site for the country’s high-level radioactive waste, is located only 90 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. The dump is supposed to safely dispose of 77,000 tons of deadly radioactive waste. Yet the selection of Yucca Mountain and the process to open a repository there have been guided more by politics than science.
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Letter to Secretary Mike Leavitt, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
February 22, 2005
RE: Request to release the final version of the CDC-NCI report, A Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the United States and Other Nations
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