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January 20, 2012
By Todd Jacobson From the Nuclear Weapons & Materials Monitor
With less than a month remaining before the Obama Administration’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget release, Los Alamos National Laboratory officials are bracing for what is expected to be a massive cut to its biggest project: the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility. The multi-billion-dollar project that will replace the lab’s aging Chemistry and Metallurgy Research facility has come under fire in recent months, both from Congress and from government watchdog groups like the Project on Government Oversight and the Los Alamos Study Group. Although lab and NNSA officials haven’t said anything publicly about the project, lab officials are privately expecting the worst when it comes to funding for the project, which is estimated to cost between $3.7 and $5.8 billion. “We’re not expecting funding for CMRR,” one official told NW&M Monitor. “Right now, we’re planning to go without.”
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The following Jul. 30, 2011 article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram highlights the work of ANA member group Peace Farm and quotes former ANA board member Mavis Belisle.
AMARILLO -- Deep in the Texas Panhandle, farmland sprawls as far as the eye can see, dotted by the occasional wind farm and herd of cattle. It feels like the heart of the middle of nowhere. Tucked away in the vastness is one of the nation's most heavily secured facilities, an 18,000-acre complex that houses thousands of the most dangerous weapons ever made.
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May 27, 2011
By Phil Parker From the Albuquerque Journal
Warnings of death and devastation echoed Thursday night as dozens of speakers took turns decrying Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plan to construct a new plutonium lab.
“I feel like I’m standing on a train track, and the train is coming full speed ahead,” said Santa Fean Adele Caruthers.
Officially, the meeting held at Santa Fe Community College for public comment was a federally mandated part of the supplemental environmental impact study being conducted by the National Nuclear Security Administration as it prepares to build a Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility at LANL.
The building is projected to cost $5.8 billion and scheduled to be completed sometime after 2020.
The meeting was the last of four such meetings held around the state this week, and almost every one of the dozens of speakers Thursday was against the lab.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2011
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org <mailto:jay@nukewatch.org>
Santa Fe, NM -
In his April 2009 Prague speech President Barack Obama called for a
nuclear weapons-free world, for which in part he was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. Today he has released his Administration’s FY 2012
Congressional Budget Request that follows up on the deal made to placate
a Republican minority in the Senate for ratification of the New
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. In exchange, Obama
pledged to increase funding for new U.S. nuclear weapons production
facilities and massive improvements to the nuclear arsenal. These
increases total $85 billion over the next decade to “modernize” the
nuclear weapons research and production complex, and $100 billion for
new heavy bombers, ballistic missiles and strategic submarines.
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We are pleased to announce that the classic Facing Reality series of guides for grassroots advocates seeking to understand and engage our nation's nuclear weapons complex is now available online!
This series of guides grew out of an April 1991 meeting of members of the Military Production Network (now known as the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)),
other groups concerned with nuclear weapons issues, and a wide variety
of funders, hosted by the Tides and W. Alton Jones Foundations, the
Rockefeller Family Fund and the North Shore Unitarian Universalist
Society/Veatch Program.
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November 19, 2010
Cost and Goals at Center of Arms Treaty Debate
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The standoff this week over ratification of a new arms control treaty
centers on a simple phrase: nuclear modernization. Those two words conceal a
little known, enormously ambitious plan to do nothing less than rebuild the
nation’s atomic complex for the 21st century.
At stake in the stalled negotiations between the White House and Senate
Republicans is not only how much money to spend on the project but, more
philosophically, what purpose should be served by building new complexes
that can pump out more nuclear arms than ever.
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For Immediate Release September 16, 2010
Contact: Susan Gordon 505-473-1670
ANA APPLAUDS SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE
ON NEW START TREATY: WARNS INCREASED WEAPONS SPENDING
WILL UNDERMINE NATIONAL SECURITY AND WASTE BILLIONS
Today’s vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to move the New START Treaty out of committee is a positive step in arms reductions, according to a national network of nuclear weapons watchdog groups. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), said the full Senate should now move quickly to ratify the treaty to protect U.S. security. There has been strong bipartisan support for New START, demonstrating the importance of further reductions in nuclear weapons stockpiles in the United States and Russia.
While ANA applauds today’s vote, it is still only a step toward securing treaty ratification. ANA is appalled, however, at the demands made to secure the votes. Several Senators have called for further increases in spending for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in order to expand U.S. capacity to produce nuclear weapons.
The Obama Administration’s 2011 budget called for $80 billion to be spent over the next ten years to rebuild the nuclear weapons complex including three new production facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory in NM, the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, TN and the Kansas City Plant. This is a 14% increase over the past year’s budget.
Despite this pledge by the Administration, a handful of Senator’s continue to demand even more money for NNSA claiming a $10 billion shortfall for construction of new production plants.
“The Obama Administration has provided more than enough money for NNSA. We have yet to see justification that large investments in nuclear weapons are needed,” said Susan Gordon, ANA director. “In addition, Obama is playing a dangerous game that trades expanding nuclear weapons production capacity to securing treaty ratification. Spending more money on nuclear weapons programs sends the wrong message to other nations, and undermines U.S. leadership in calling for a nuclear weapons-free world.”
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is a national network of three-dozen grassroots and national groups representing the concerns of communities near U.S. nuclear weapons sites that are directly affected by 65 years of nuclear weapons production and waste contamination.
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: June 8, 2010
ANA applauds Senate Panel for Requiring Common Sense Accountability within the Department of Energy
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) applauds the
Senate Armed Services Committee for creating legislation requiring
transparency and accountability in Department of Energy (DOE) budgeting.
The Committee approved legislation that would require DOE to report cost
and schedule overruns for warhead Life Extension Programs, defense
funded construction projects, and environmental management programs.
Over the past decade the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has
repeatedly cited DOE for failing to establish realistic cost estimates
for environmental cleanup and construction projects.
This increased scrutiny of major DOE construction and cleanup programs
is particularly important right now. The Obama administration has asked
Congress to approve the largest nuclear weapons budget in history.
Additionally, the administration recently released a report detailing
their plan to spend more than $80 billion over the next 10 year on major
facility construction projects and significantly modified nuclear
warheads.
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Nickolas Roth | Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability
2010 NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference
At the panel discussion titled “Nuclear Weapons Production in the
Age of Obama: Community Experts Reporting on Continuing U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Production,” members of directly affected communities discussed
environmental, health, legal, and international security impacts of
warhead production in the United States. Three speakers of the speakers
came from communities in the United States that are home to nuclear
weapons production facilities.
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5/4/10
NEW YORK -- Japanese survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki joined anti-nuclear rallies and demonstrations in New York on Sunday, ahead of the opening of the review conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Some 25,000 people, including members of peace organizations and A-bomb survivors, joined the march on Sunday, which went for about two kilometers from downtown New York to a square in front of United Nations headquarters, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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