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August 11, 2009
By ROGER SNODGRASS, Monitor Editor
There are currently several nails in the coffin of a nuclear policy that has
strongly favored commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium. Ivan
Oelrich wants to make sure it doesn’t pop open again.
A recurring idea in the political tug-of-war between proponents and
opponents of nuclear energy, nuclear reprocessing is intended to achieving a
plutonium fuel cycle, and thereby provide a plentiful supply of nuclear fuel
and a more easily-stored waste product.
Originally published in the Los Alamos Monitor: http://www.lcni5.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?075+article+News+20090808213804075075001
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Press Advisory
Environmental Coalition Launches International Project
to Explore the Impacts of the Nuclear Age
for further information contact:
Tom Carpenter
206.419.5829
tomc@hanfordchallenge.org
Susan Gordon
505.577.8438
sgordon@ananuclear.org
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Global Nuclear Legacy Project shines a light on the human and environmental
legacy of six decades of nuclear weapons and energy.
An international coalition of nuclear oversight groups is convening in Budapest, Hungary to launch the Global Nuclear Legacy Project on May 28. Their goal is explore the worldwide health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons and energy production and explore safe paths forward.
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WIPP celebrating 10th anniversary
By Sue Major Holmes
Associated Press Writer
Posted: 03/25/2009 09:10:02 PM MDT
ALBUQUERQUE — A top scientist for the federal government's only nuclear
waste repository recalls the scene a decade ago when the first shipment
rolled through the gates - 300 to 400 area residents and workers
gathered in the predawn cold in the middle of nowhere, cheering.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the salt beds of southeastern New
Mexico turns 10 today, with its supporters hailing it as pointing the
way for the future of radioactive waste disposal in America, and its
critics questioning whether the dump can really do the job it was
designed for.
WIPP is meant for defense-related waste such as protective clothing and
tools, largely contaminated with plutonium, which remains radioactive
for tens of thousands of years.
But longtime critic Don Hancock, director of the nuclear waste safety
project at the Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque,
said the repository's mission is behind schedule and the problem is
getting worse as evidenced by fewer shipments last year.
"I think it's because the facility is in fact pretty old. ... A
10-year-old nuclear facility is not necessarily beyond its time, but
WIPP is having significant problems," Hancock said.
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2009 Fact Sheet Nuclear Weapons Environmental Cleanup | |
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Six decades of 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 2009 Fact Sheet: Cleanup5.1 final.pdf
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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 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.
Download PDF: ANA GNEP final.pdf
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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.
Download PDF: GNEP FS 2007.pdf
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