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published Tuesday, June 08, 2010  2472 Views :: 3 Comments

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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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published Tuesday, June 08, 2010  1638 Views :: 1 Comments

Originally posted on Budget Insight: A Stimson Center Blog on National Security Spending

By Stephen I. Schwartz

As part of its push to secure Senate ratification of the New START arms reduction agreement, the Obama administration recently revealed its intention to spend more than $180,000,000,000 “over the next decade” to sustain and modernize U.S. nuclear weapons delivery systems and the nuclear weapons production complex. With Senate Republicans insisting for months that support for the treaty hinges in large measure on a specific plan to invest in the future of the nuclear arsenal—and in particular the facilities that design, test, and manufacture nuclear warheads—such a move was not surprising, although the actual figure was higher than many expected.

Even in Washington, D.C., $180 billion is a great deal of money, in both absolute and relative terms. But there two key questions: How does this compare to spending in previous years, and how much would have been spent absent a new master plan and efforts to obtain 67 votes and secure passage of New START and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?

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published Monday, May 17, 2010  2058 Views :: 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010

Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org

Obama Bails Out Chance for Arms Reduction Treaty by Dramatically Increasing Nuclear Weapons Budgets

Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday President Obama submitted the new bilateral Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, which makes modest reductions to the two countries’ nuclear weapons stockpiles, to the Senate for ratification. At the same time he submitted a modernization plan required by Congress that “includes investments of $80 billion to sustain and modernize the [U.S.] nuclear weapons complex over the next decade.” Given that two-thirds of the Senate is required for treaty ratifications a large political fight was always expected over a second attempt at ratifying the previously rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). However, last December all 40 Republican senators plus one independent wrote to President Obama demanding modernization of both the stockpile and complex as a condition for New START ratification. Meanwhile, the prospects for ratification of the CTBT (first proposed by Prime Minister Nehru of India in 1954) look increasingly dim.

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published Tuesday, April 27, 2010  1461 Views :: 0 Comments

 By KAREN DILLON
 The Kansas City Star
 
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it may put the Bannister Federal Complex on a priority list for cleanup. Two decades ago, the agency left the site off that special Superfund list, but now it will reassess that decision.

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published Tuesday, April 06, 2010  3109 Views :: 2 Comments

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for immediate release: April 6, 2010
GROUPS IN COMMUNITIES WITH U.S. WEAPONS FACILITIES
RAISE CONCERNS OVER OBAMA NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW

The Obama Administration’s nuclear weapons strategy, made public today in the new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), is “a mixed bag of inconsistent policies,” according to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA).

“ANA applauds the NPR for opposing development of new nuclear weapons, endorsing further reductions in the stockpile, and limiting the role of nuclear weapons. These policies will help reduce the global threat,” said, ANA director Susan Gordon. “But, several parts of the NPR appear to contradict President Obama’s pledge to pursue a world without nuclear weapons.”

ANA member group Press Releases
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Peace Works, Kansas City
Peace Action
Tri Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA

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published Wednesday, February 24, 2010  1061 Views :: 2 Comments

February 22, 2010

Dr. Robert Civiak, physicist and former Budget Examiner for DOE nuclear security activities at the White House Office of Management and Budget, has prepared a detailed analysis of the Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for nuclear weapons activities. His analysis exposes the inherent inconsistency of a policy of increasing funds for nuclear weapons with the Administration's purported vision of a world without them. The report includes a number of important recommendations to Congress for savings in the budget that would not sacrifice the safety or reliability of the stockpile.

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published Tuesday, February 02, 2010  2099 Views :: 0 Comments

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
By Martin Matishak
Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a spending plan that would increase funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration to $11.2 billion in the next fiscal year (see GSN, Jan. 29).

The agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, would receive a 13.4-percent budget increase in fiscal 2011 to maintain the country's nuclear stockpile and conduct nonproliferation activities around the globe, according to the White House funding request.

More than $7 billion would be devoted beginning Oct. 1 to "weapons activities," which ensure the safety and performance of the nation's atomic stockpile. The amount is a $624 million increase from this year.

Another $2.7 billion would be funneled to the agency's Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation program, a hike of 25.8 percent above fiscal 2010. That effort seeks to secure nuclear materials around the globe that could be used for weapons and convert them for peaceful purposes.

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published Monday, February 01, 2010  3061 Views :: 7 Comments

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ADMINISTRATION BUDGET PLAN CONTRADICTS OBAMA PLEDGE
TO REDUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREAT
Billions to be spent on new nuclear weapons production facilities.

Washington, DC - The Administration’s budget, released today, contradicts President Obama’s pledge to reduce the nuclear weapons threat by working toward their elimination, according to a national network of groups in communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear sites. Instead, the spending plan boosts funding for nuclear weapons production facilities by $625 million from last year.

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published Monday, February 01, 2010  2179 Views :: 1 Comments

By JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Newspapers
Fri, Jan. 29, 2010

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them.

The administration argues that the boost is needed to ensure that U.S. warheads remain secure and work as designed as the arsenal shrinks and ages nearly 18 years into a moratorium on underground testing and more than two decades after large-scale warhead production ended.

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published Wednesday, January 27, 2010  4623 Views :: 7 Comments

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for immediate release Wednesday, January 27, 2010
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY FY 2011
NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET REQUEST


The FY 2011 budget request will be released on Monday, February 1, 2010. The Obama administration has laid out an aggressive nonproliferation agenda that includes deep reductions in nuclear stockpiles, ratification of a nuclear test ban, and decreased prominence for nuclear weapons in US defense policy. Despite this agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) budget request will ask Congress to significantly increase nuclear weapons activities, including funding for construction of new facilities that will expand U.S. warhead production capacity. The DOE request will not reflect recent independent scientific conclusions that existing nuclear weapons can be reliably maintained for decades under current, well-established programs.

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a national network representing communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that increased funding for nuclear energy and weapons research and production will rob precious resources for needed environmental cleanup and clean, sustainable energy solutions.

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DC Days 2010


The US Nuclear Weapons Complex


Concrete Treaty-Based Steps to Reduce the Nuclear Threat


Cleaning Up the Nuclear Legacy


No Nuclear Power Bailout


Reprocessing and Plutonium - Not the Basis for Clean Energy


DC Days 2009


-Complex Transformation Wrong Policy, Wrong Priority, Wrong Direction


-Halting Unnecessary Nuclear Weapons Production


-Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free World


-Reprocessing and Plutonium Fuel Are Not Clean Energy


-Cleaning up the Nuclear Weapons Legacy


-Protecting the Environment from Nuclear Waste and Power

 

-Plutonium "Triggers" for Nuclear Bombs

 

-Permanently Ending Nuclear Testing

 

-Plutonium Disposition Remains in Disarray

 

-Radiation Standards



DC Days 2008

-Environmental Cleanup of the Nuclear Weapons Complex

-Spent Fuel Reprocessing and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

-Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

-Plutonium Disposition: Vitrification vs. MOX Reactor Fuel

-The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program and "Complex Transformation"

-Nuclear Weapons Policy

-Life Extension Programs

-Plutonium "Triggers" for Nuclear Bombs


DC Days 2007

-DOE "Accelerated Cleanup":  Doesn't Meet Legal Requirements, Fails to Save Time and Money

-Complex 2030:  Undermines Security, Threatens Environment


-Global Nuclear Eneergy Partnership:  Environmental  and Security Risks


-Wanted:  Justice for Nuclear Testing Victims

-U.S. Plutonium Plans:  Weapons, Waste and Proliferation

-Nuclear Weapons Forever:  The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program

-Yucca Mountain Project:  Not the Solution to Nuclear Weapons


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