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Costs for the Department of Energy’s MOX program are increasing at an alarming rate. The estimated cost of MOX plant construction at the Savannah River Site has increased from $1.6 billion in FY2004 to the current $4.9 billion. The DOE’s FY2013 overall request for MOX and associated plutonium disposition programs is $887 million and the budget indicates a funding request of $3.6 billion from FY2014 to FY2017.
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March 20, 2012
WASHINGTON — A nuclearwatchdog group released a report in Washington on Monday that celebrates thesuspension of a multibillion-dollar plutonium project at Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and suggests even deeper cuts to federal weapons budgets.
The Alliance forNuclear Accountability’s report — titled “Nuclear Budget Busters” — outlinesmore than $55 billion in nuclear weapons projects that it contends are overbudget and behind schedule. The report focuses on seven nuclear programs itdeems especially irresponsible in today’s severely strained federal budgetclimate.
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March 15th, 2012
By Bob Schaeffer
Scores of activists from across the nation, along with several Russian environmental counterparts, will present their concerns about U.S. nuclear weapons, cleanup and reactor spending policies in dozens of meetings with leaders of Congress and the Obama Administration from March 19 - 21 as part of ANA’s 24th Annual DC Days.
Also, on Tuesday March 20 at 5:30pm, ANA will host an Awards Reception honoring leaders in the movement for more responsible nuclear policies. Awardees include: U.S. Representatives Loretta Sanchez and Ed Markey, “downwinders” advocate Mary Dickson; and Russian environmental organizer Oleg Bodrov. The event will take place in Rayburn House Office Building Room B339.
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April 7, 2011
Edited by Tony Rutherford
From Huntington News
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has recommended that Congress
either pull the plug or re-examine nine projects labeled as the
Department of Energy's Most Dangerous Budget Busting Projects.
Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security
(PRESS) is a member of ANA.
A nationwide network of organizations working to address nuclear weapons
production and nuclear waste clean up issues, ANA characterizes these
programs as characterized by runaway costs and unacceptably high risks
in terms of public health, safety, the environment and nuclear
proliferation.
Current program costs for the high-risk DOE projects profiled in this
report total more than $100 billion. That figure includes more than $40
billion in estimated construction spending for nuclear weapons research
and production facilities, $9 billion for nuclear bomb and warhead Life
Extension Programs, and nuclear reactor loan guarantees of $54.5
billion.
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April 4, 2011
From Agence France Presse
WASHINGTON — US anti-nuclear groups Monday condemned a project to build a
plant where plutonium from weapons would be reprocessed into fuel for
nuclear power plants, saying the plan was costly, dangerous and would
benefit mainly the French group, Areva.
A mixed-oxide, or MOX, plutonium reprocessing plant that is being built
in South Carolina has become "an expensive effort that enriches
contractors, led by the French government-owned company Areva," Tom
Clements of Friends of the Earth said at the launch of a report by an
anti-nuclear alliance.
"In my opinion, it is primarily because of Areva's influence inside the
Department of Energy that the US is pursuing a plutonium fuel program
and it's because of Areva's influence that there's a push for the US to
also reprocess commercial spent fuel to remove plutonium, like France
does," he said.
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For release Wednesday, April 4 For further information: Bob Schaeffer (239) 669-0468
Despite federal budget constraints and lessons from the Japanese disaster, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) continues to pursue risky nuclear programs, which will cost taxpayers more than $100 billion, according to a report released today.Nuclear Reality Check$: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Most Dangerous, Budget Busting Proposals, analyzes nine high-risk projects. They include subsidies for reactor construction, financing for new plutonium and uranium production plants, and development of new nuclear weapons. Many of these projects are far behind schedule with large cost overruns.
Members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a network of organizations from communities near U.S. nuclear facilities, authored the report. ANA leaders spoke at a National Press Club news conference launching their 23rd annual “DC Days.” Scores of activists from across the country will hold more than 125 meetings with Obama Administration and Congressional officials.
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For Immediate Release: March 30, 2011
For further information contact:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 / (239) 699-0468
WHAT: News briefing to release Nuclear Reality
Check$: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Most Dangerous, Budget Busting
Proposals, a new report analyzing reactor subsidy, weapons production
and clean-up projects characterized by major environmental and safety
dangers as well as mammoth cost overruns.
WHEN: Monday, April 4, 2011 - - 9:30am
WHERE: National Press Club – Zenger Room, 529 14th St. N.W., Washington, DC
WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a
national network of organizations representing the concerns of people
living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing,
production and waste disposal facilities
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Temporary Full Time Job Opening –
DC Days Coordinator
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Join
a national grassroots network working to change environmental and
national security policy on nuclear weapons and waste issues. The
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) seeks a coordinator for our
national DC Days, in our Washington, DC office. DC Days, which will be
held from March 20-14, will feature four days of training, education,
and political advocacy that bring activists from around the country to
Washington. The DC Days Coordinator will work to coordinate logistics of
this event and recruit participants locally and nationally. The
Coordinator will also attend meetings and hearings, assist in tracking
legislation, and report to ANA member groups.
Click here for full description.
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for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 cell
(239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to
address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
* * * M E D I A A D V I S O R Y * * *
WHAT: News briefing to release 1st Year Radioactive Report Card on
President Obama and his Administration to grade their performance on
policies on nuclear weapons production, waste cleanup and reactor
funding.
WHEN: Monday, March 15, 2010 - - 10:00am
WHERE: Room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a
national network of organizations representing the concerns of people
living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing,
production and waste disposal facilities
- Michele Boyd, Director, Safe Energy Program, Physicians for Social
Responsibility -- taxpayer subsidies for new reactors, radioactive waste
disposal, and nuclear contamination cleanup
- Ralph Hutchison, Coordinator, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
-- new Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear production plants, the next
generation of weapons they may help support, and the implications for
U.S. treaty obligations
- Nick Roth, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability --
performance of President Obama and his Administration during its first
year in office and changes that must be made to improve its grades.
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Washington, DC Full-time Intern Job
Description
The full-time intern will be hired for a six-month term, beginning in October and ending in March, and based in the Washington, DC office of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). The Intern will work under the direct supervision of the Program Director, and will make periodic reports to the Director. The Intern’s primary responsibility will be to support ANA in the organizing of its annual DC Days. In general, the intern’s responsibilities will be to support the work of ANA and its member organizations and assist the Program Director in the daily and program operations of the DC office.
Key Responsibilities
DC Days (70%). The Intern will be given extensive responsibilities for assisting in organizing ANA’s annual DC Days, including:
* Coordinate DC Days planning committee
* Arrange logistics
* Facilitate grassroots activist participation
* Take lead in scheduling Congressional and Administration meetings
Issue Work (20%)
* Attend NGO meetings and Congressional hearings
* Assist in tracking legislation and reporting to ANA members
* Conduct research and write reports, as needed
Administrative Work (10%)
* General office administration tasks
* Assist with maintenance of ANA website
Salary: $1600 per month salary for six months. No benefits are provided for this position.
To apply: Send a letter of interest, resume, three references, and a short (2-4 pages) recent writing sample by email to: nroth@ananuclear.org
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