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In spite of a decade of work on its program to eliminate surplus weapons plutonium, not a single gram has been disposed by the Department of Energy (DOE). By any standard, the program is a failure. Left unchanged, it will continue to suffer from chronic bad management, escalating costs, and technical uncertainties. A better alternative is for Congress and a new administration to put the disposition program onto the safer and less costly vitrification track.
Download PDF: ANA MOX final.pdf
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has asked Congress for $302 million in fiscal year 2009 for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), which it also calls the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI). GNEP is a Bush Administration scheme to revive the dangerous practice of reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel. GNEP would endanger the environment, encourage nuclear bomb-making, squander U.S. taxpayer dollars, and deepen the nuclear waste problem.
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The Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program is a plan developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) “for improving the long-term safety, reliability, and security of the nuclear weapons stockpile.” It has been used to justify a massive overhaul of the nuclear weapons production facilities now called “Complex Transformation.”
Last year, Congress zeroed out funding, clearly stating that it was “prohibiting” the development “of a Reliable Replacement Warhead until the President has a post Cold War strategic nuclear weapons plan necessary to guide transformation and downsizing of the stockpile and nuclear weapons complex.” Despite that message the administration came back with a budget request for FY 2009 that includes more than $40 million of funding connected to the RRW.
Download PDF: ANA RRW 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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NEW PRESIDENT MUST OVERHAUL U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM; “REPORT CARD” FINDS ENERGY DEPT. IS “OUT OF CONTROL”
“DOE and its National Nuclear Security Agency are out of control,” said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). “They are ignoring instructions from Congress to end wasteful projects, hiding money for new weapons in the budget, and failing to heed many environmental requirements. A new administration must reign in this rogue agency.”
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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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By Kevin Welch
Amarillo Globe-News
Publication Date: 02/29/08
About 40 people, including Pantex and National Nuclear Security Administration staff attended a Thursday night public hearing on the proposal at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
One part of the plan calling for increased manufacture of new nuclear pits, the core of nuclear warheads, drew the most criticism.
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