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For use in the public comment period on DOE’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Nov.-Dec. 2008
Compiled by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear
For more information: kevin@beyondnuclear.org, www.beyondnuclear.org, (301) 270-2209x1
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 28, 2008
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, cell: 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org
Defense Sec. Robert Gates Declares Reducing Nuclear Weapons
Not Possible Without Building New Design Weapons
Santa Fe, NM: Today, exactly one week before the November 4 presidential elections, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made a strong pitch for new-design nuclear weapons, the so-called Reliable Replacement Warheads (RRWs), which the Bush Administration has repeatedly pushed for. In August 2007 the candidate now projected as the frontrunner for the presidency, Barack Obama declared, “I believe the United States should lead the international effort to deemphasize the role of nuclear weapons around the world. I also believe that our policy towards the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) affects this leadership position. We can maintain a strong nuclear deterrent to protect our security without rushing to produce a new generation of warheads. I do not support a premature decision to produce the RRW.”
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October 24, 3008
“This is the EIS to nowhere,” said Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. “Congress has made it clear that it will not be funding a new weapons complex without a comprehensive assessment of US nuclear policy and strategy. NNSA has chosen to rush this document to completion without waiting for that review, even though a bipartisan commission has been formed and is meeting. The SPEIS represents an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars. It’s dead on arrival.”
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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: Susan Gordon: 505-577-8438
Nickolas Roth: 202-544-0217
For immediate release: , October 23, 2006
On Friday, October 24, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability admonished the Department of Energy (DOE) for recommendations in a newly released report mapping out the future of nuclear weapons production in the United States.
The report titled, Final Complex Transformation Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, drew unprecedented attention last year as part of a legally required public comment period in which more than 100,000 letters were sent to DOE opposing their plan to revamp the industrial infrastructure responsible for building and maintaining nuclear weapons. The plan referred to as “the Bombplex,” would ensure an indefinite reliance on nuclear weapons.
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Stop the Bombplex!
Bombplex = Nuclear Bombs Forever
The Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) wants to refurbish the industrial infrastructure responsible for building and maintaining nuclear weapons. DOE originally called this plan Complex 2030; they have now changed the name to Complex Transformation. We are calling it the Bombplex because it will ensure that the U.S. continues building new nuclear weapons indefinitely. The Bombplex is expensive ($150 billion) and dangerous.
Bombplex = Proliferation
Among other things, the Bombplex will give DOE the capacity to build new nuclear weapons. This will hinder international non-proliferation initiatives and cripple international nuclear disarmament efforts. If the DOE is designing new nuclear weapons and improving its ability to make them, the U.S. will not be able to convince other countries to abandon their nuclear weapons programs. "Do as we say, not as we do" is not good foreign policy. The Bombplex will result in more countries with nuclear weapons and ultimately jeopardize national security.
Help Stop the Bombplex: No Nukes is Good Nukes!
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), DOE has just released their final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement which maps out their plan for the Bombplex. There is still a brief window where DOE is required to accept and consider comments on the Bombplex. This is your chance to be part of a growing movement! More than 120,000 comments have already been submitted-a record for DOE! Tell your government to abandon their Bombplex plan and instead work towards eliminating nuclear weapons.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has released its Final Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Complex Transformation. This postcard will allow you to send responses to DOE about their plan. Click here to see the postcard.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2008
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org
Citizens’ Victory! NNSA Decides to Not Expand
Plutonium Pit Production at LANL
Santa Fe, NM: For nearly two years the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, has been seeking to raise the level of plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the presently sanctioned level of 20 pits per year to 50 to 80 pits per year. Plutonium pits are the crucial nuclear cores that “trigger” modern thermonuclear weapons. To meet the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirement for public review of proposed major federal actions NNSA was pushing expanded production through a “Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement” (“CT SPEIS”). More than 100,000 citizens and organizations, including Nuclear Watch New Mexico, submitted comments on the draft.
Yesterday NNSA released a final Complex Transformation SPEIS summary that states:
NNSA’s summary of the Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is available at http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/defense_programs/documents/Final_SPEIS_Summary.pdf
The decision to limit plutonium pit production is stated on page S-13.
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Although the Department of Energy (DOE) has not provided a life-cycle cost estimate for GNEP, the National Academy of Sciences estimated in 1996 that a reprocessing project like GNEP could cost more than $500 billion. Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office has stated that "Reprocessing of U.S. spent fuel would cost 25 percent more than plans for direct disposal" in a permanent repository. Under the current plan for GNEP, the taxpayer and rate-payers, not the nuclear power industry, would bear this cost.
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By KEVIN COLLISON
October 1, 2008
A Kansas City Council committee delayed its recommendation on a proposed new nuclear weapons plant following a lengthy session during which peace activists described the project as immoral.
The Planning and Zoning Committee decided to hold off consideration for two weeks to learn more details about the $500 million redevelopment plan. It calls for the city to provide more than $40 million in tax incentives to build infrastructure for the 1.5-million-square-foot complex proposed for Missouri 150 and Botts Road.
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