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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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Audio transcripts of GNEP hearing in Bolingbrook, Illinois provided by IndyMedia reporter and Greens candidate Rita Sand Maniotis
http://chicago.indymedia.org/media/all/display/31025/index.php
http://chicago.indymedia.org/media/all/display/31026/index.php
http://chicago.indymedia.org/media/all/display/31027/index.php
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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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The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) objects to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)’s support for reprocessing of high level radioactive waste. As stated in the draft PEIS, GNEP intends to provide nuclear power that is safe, secure and economical while “reducing the impacts associated with spent nuclear fuel disposal and reducing proliferation risks.” ANA, however, finds that the GNEP proposal would actually exacerbate the inherent proliferation, cost, safety, waste, and security risks associated with nuclear power.
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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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To the Editor:
The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a report recommending that, after a 30 year hiatus, the United States should restart reprocessing of nuclear waste under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). The report, titled Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, does not provide any economic or environmental analysis and does not mention the security risks of reprocessing.
The reality is that reprocessing poses a threat to both local communities and to global security. Right now DOE is holding hearings around the country and considering comments from the public on the proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). We need to be telling DOE that, instead of pursuing this environmentally destructive, dangerous, and exorbitantly expensive $700 billion program, they should store nuclear waste at reactor sites and safeguard it from terrorist attack.
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11/3/2008
Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Energy
1000 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20585
The.secretary@hq.doe.gov
Dear Secretary Bodman,
On behalf of our members, the undersigned 48 local and national environmental, peace and security, taxpayer and public health organizations, we request a 120-day extension to the comment period for the Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) currently scheduled to end on December 16, 2008, before the final PEIS is released.
We believe this extension is warranted because (1) Department of Energy (DOE) failed to provide analysis of nonproliferation impacts within the draft PEIS even though DOE had indicated that this important assessment would be made available in conjunction with the PEIS, (2) online accessibility to reference materials cited in the draft PEIS was delayed by more than a week, and is still not available for many documents, (3) the proposal is technically complex with national implications, and (4) the comment period coincides with the upcoming Presidential elections, and holidays, which may make it more difficult for the public to review and comment on the draft PEIS.
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For Immediate Release
Nov. 6, 2008
Contact: Andrea Shipley
(208) 344-9161
(208) 514-8713 Cell
Email: ashipley@snakeriveralliance.org
Elmore County Planners: Reject AEHI Nuke Plant
Elmore County officials delivered a serious blow to developers of a proposed nuclear reactor near Mountain Home Wednesday night, recommending against rezoning more than 1,300 acres of Snake River farmland for use as the reactor site.
This is a huge victory for the people of Elmore County who spoke so eloquently and forcefully to defend Elmore County from this outlandish nuclear reactor scheme,” Snake River Alliance Executive Director Andrea Shipley said. “We congratulate them for their passionate defense of their cherished way of life and the land and water that is so vital to these communities and to all of Idaho.”
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Judith Mohling,
Friday, October 17, 2008
Is a revival of nuclear power an answer? No, for many reasons. Here are two of them.
Nuclear power is not democratic. The entire nuclear cycle, from uranium mining, to nuclear power or weapons production damages the health of communities. It's all lethal.
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