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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oak Ridge Envirnonmental Peace Alliance
February 26, 2008
A Pivotal Moment for Peace
Even While Politicians fill the airwaves with great promises, our future is being written. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is proposing to build a new nuclear weapons complex with billions and billions of your tax dollars. This plan--called "Complex Tranformation" will maintain an enduring nuclear stockpile and build new bombs in Oak Ridge and around the country.
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Nearly 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted worldwide. The U.S. alone conducted 217 above-ground tests, about half of them at the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site (NTS), from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Atmospheric fallout from these tests, and from the 30 underground tests known to have “vented” significant radiation, contained harmful radionuclides and was carried thousands of miles from the test site. At the time, the U.S. government assured the American public that testing was safe and necessary to protect them.
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Plutonium pits are the “triggers” for modern thermonuclear weapons. The U.S. manufactured pits at the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver until 1989, when he FBI raided the facility to investigate environmental crimes. That raid effectively ended industrial-scale plutonium
pit production in the United States.
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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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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has asked Congress for $405 million in fiscal year 2008 for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a Bush Administration scheme to revive the dangerous practice of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. If it goes forward, GNEP will endanger the environment across the globe, encourage nuclear bomb-making around the world, squander U.S. taxpayers’ money, and deepen the nuclear waste problem.
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