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August 26, 2011 (after 4:30 PM)
Press Release Kansas City Peace Planters Contact: Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D. (Plaintiff in the lawsuit), Phone: (816)753-2057 Ann Suellentrop, (913)271-7925 On the petition for “Production of Nuclear Weapons Components Prohibited,” Judge Edith Messina has granted us an order to put our measure on the ballot -- a “Preliminary Writ of Mandamus.” Being preliminary means that the hearing already scheduled for next Monday will determine whether it will become permanent, but it also means that the City Council has to defend its actions because the default position is with the petitioners. It is not simply a two-sided matter where each side presents its case and gets equal consideration.
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Press Release Kansas City Peace Planters August 26, 2011
Contact: Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D. (Plaintiff in the lawsuit), Phone: (816)753-2057 Ann Suellentrop, (913)271-7925 At its regular legislative session August 25, the City Council voted (with only one dissenter) to keep the initiative petition entitled "Production of Nuclear Weapons Components Prohibited" off the ballot. Accordingly, we are filing today with the court for a Writ of Mandamus to safeguard our rights as citizens according to the City Charter to have it put on the November 8 ballot. All legal requirements were met:
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| | | published Monday, June 27, 2011 | 2200 Views :: 0 Comments |
For immediate release, Friday, June 24, 2011
For more information, contact Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925/443-7148 Scott Yundt, Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925/443-7148
Federal Audit Reveals Safety Gaps, Cites Management Failure to Follow-up on Mandated "Corrective Actions"
LIVERMORE - The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the Inspector General (IG) published the results of a major federal investigation this week. The audit, titled, "Implementation of Beryllium Controls at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" (DOE/IG-0851) was released June 22, 2011. In it, the IG found that "actions necessary to resolve previously observed weaknesses had not been completed."
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| | | published Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | 2555 Views :: 1 Comments |
For immediate release: May 11, 2011
Contacts: Rachel MacNair, rachel_macnair@yahoo.com; Ann Suellentrop, annsuellen@gmail.com
Some 4,959 KC voters have signed a petition to prohibit the city’s involvement in supporting production of parts for nuclear weapons and instead to recommend support for green-energy jobs. Putting the petitionon the Nov. 8 ballot requires 3,572 verified signatures.
The KC Peace Planters* will sponsor a news conference about the petitiontomorrow, May 12, in Ilus Davis Park at 9th and Locust at 12:30 p.m. The petition focuses on the new nuclear weapons plant being constructed on Mo. Hwy. 150 between Botts Road and Prospect Avenue, close to Grandview. The new plant is designed to replace the current Kansas City Plant at Bannister Federal Complex. After the news conference, the KC Peace Planters will march to City Hall to deliver the signed copies of the petition (see below).
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For Immediate Release: May 5, 2011
Contact: Scott Kovac, Nuclear Watch NM (505) 989-7342, scott@nukewatch.org
Joni Arends, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (505) 986-1973, jarends@nuclearactive.org
Susan Gordon, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (505) 473-1670, sgordon@ananuclear.org
Santa Fe- Following the release this week of the Department of Energy's
(DOE) draft Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement
Project-Nuclear Facility Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
thirty non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from New Mexico and around
the country wrote to DOE calling for three additional public hearings,
and an extension of 75 days for the comment period past the proposed
June 13 Deadline. New Mexico Senators and Representatives have been
approached for assistance with the requests.
Because billions of dollars will be needed for the proposed construction
of a Nuclear Facility, funding for the nuclear weapons complex and the
CMRR–NF in particular has been a central focus of a significant national
debate. Currently only three public hearings are scheduled for Los
Alamos, Espanola and Santa Fe, beginning May 24. The letter demands
additional public hearings in Albuquerque, Taos, and Washington, DC.
Citing the growth in project size, construction options and complexity,
and the overlapping conflict with another DOE public hearing process,
the NGOs insist it is absolutely necessary for NNSA to grant a 75-day
extension for the comment period
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April 22, 2011
MEDIA ADVISORY:
Contact Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South, 404-378-4263
Atlanta, GA: The federal register today published an opportunity for
public hearing about proposed changes at the MOX plutonium fuel factory
already under construction at Savannah River Site. Shaw Areva MOX
Services (SHAMS) has filed a request to redesign the factory for which
construction authorization was given in 2005 by the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission. Construction began in 2007 and is supposedly 40%
complete despite its unfinished design and unlicensed operation.
Plutonium disposition watchers see SHAMS request to redesign the mammoth
project as a desperate attempt to salvage a beleaguered U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) program that was recently spotlighted by Union of
Concerned Scientists as "The Factory to Nowhere." Nuclear Watch South
and others have a legal intervention before the NRC where the groups’
legal challenges to the adequacy of SHAMS’ plutonium accounting program
were recently accepted for a public hearing.
The troubled MOX plutonium fuel program is over 10 years behind schedule
and costs have ballooned from $1 billion to $5 billion. The program
proposed to convert up to 50 metric tons of excess U.S. weapons
plutonium into reactor fuel as a so-called safeguards method was
delivered a game-changing setback with the failure of MOX plutonium fuel
tests in Duke Power reactors in 2008 and the subsequent withdrawal of
Duke from the controversial MOX program.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2011
Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342 jay@nukewatch.org
Santa Fe, NM - Tomorrow, Friday April 22, is both Earth Day and Good
Friday. During this extended Easter weekend some 10,000 pilgrims walk
many miles to the famous Catholic Santuario in Chimayo as both penance
and in celebration of the Peacemaker’s resurrection. Twenty-five miles
to the west and a 1,000 feet higher sits the Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL). An official has stated that on Good Friday and Earth
Day the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will release an
environmental impact statement for a huge new plutonium facility at
LANL. This facility will be the keystone of an expanded production
complex for plutonium pit “triggers” for nuclear weapons.
At issue is the “Nuclear Facility” that is part of the Chemistry and
Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Project. LANL and NNSA have
repeatedly claimed that the Nuclear Facility is not a plutonium pit
production plant. That is narrowly correct, but misleading. Its primary
mission will be to provide the “materials characterization” and
“analytical chemistry” that are integral to plutonium pit production.
The Nuclear Facility will be located next door to PF-4, LANL’s existing
plutonium pit production facility, and the two will be physically linked
to each other via underground tunnel. The Nuclear Facility will also
have a vault to store up to six metric tons of plutonium, which will
supply both it and PF-4.
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For immediate release: April 7, 2011
Contact: Arjun Makhijani 301-270-5500
Takoma
Park, Maryland - Total releases of radioactive iodine-131 and
cesium-137 from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan now
appear to rival Chernobyl. As a result, there is now fallout through the
northern hemisphere, with hot spots appearing due to rain. For
instance, rainwater in Boise, Idaho, on March 22, 2011, was reported by
the Environmental Protection Agency at 242 picocuries per liter, about
80 times the U.S. drinking water standard if the level persisted for a
prolonged time. The drinking water standard is a common reference number
for water purity, even if the water is not used for drinking.
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For release Wednesday, April 4 For further information: Bob Schaeffer (239) 669-0468
Despite federal budget constraints and lessons from the Japanese disaster, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) continues to pursue risky nuclear programs, which will cost taxpayers more than $100 billion, according to a report released today.Nuclear Reality Check$: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Most Dangerous, Budget Busting Proposals, analyzes nine high-risk projects. They include subsidies for reactor construction, financing for new plutonium and uranium production plants, and development of new nuclear weapons. Many of these projects are far behind schedule with large cost overruns.
Members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a network of organizations from communities near U.S. nuclear facilities, authored the report. ANA leaders spoke at a National Press Club news conference launching their 23rd annual “DC Days.” Scores of activists from across the country will hold more than 125 meetings with Obama Administration and Congressional officials.
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For Immediate Release: March 30, 2011
For further information contact:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 / (239) 699-0468
WHAT: News briefing to release Nuclear Reality
Check$: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Most Dangerous, Budget Busting
Proposals, a new report analyzing reactor subsidy, weapons production
and clean-up projects characterized by major environmental and safety
dangers as well as mammoth cost overruns.
WHEN: Monday, April 4, 2011 - - 9:30am
WHERE: National Press Club – Zenger Room, 529 14th St. N.W., Washington, DC
WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a
national network of organizations representing the concerns of people
living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing,
production and waste disposal facilities
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