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| | | published Friday, October 24, 2008 | 501 Views :: 0 Comments |
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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October 16, 2008
The Department of Energy (DOE) this week is releasing the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) that promotes returning to “reprocessing” spent nuclear reactor fuel. Reprocessing, incorrectly referred to as “recycling,” extracts weapons-useable plutonium and is the fundamental link between a nuclear reactor and a plutonium bomb.
“GNEP would endanger the environment, encourage nuclear bomb-making, squander U.S. taxpayer dollars, and deepen the nuclear waste problem,” states Susan Gordon, director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. “Under the GNEP plan, some countries would supply and fuel nuclear reactors for other as-yet-unnamed countries that would agree to forgo uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing. Promoting “nuclear-have” countries and “nuclear-have-not” countries has proven to be a disaster for nonproliferation efforts.”
Download Press Release PDF: ANA GNEP release corrected.pdf
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| | | published Friday, October 10, 2008 | 541 Views :: 0 Comments |
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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NEW PRESIDENT MUST OVERHAUL U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM; “REPORT CARD” FINDS ENERGY DEPT. IS “OUT OF CONTROL”
“DOE and its National Nuclear Security Agency are out of control,” said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). “They are ignoring instructions from Congress to end wasteful projects, hiding money for new weapons in the budget, and failing to heed many environmental requirements. A new administration must reign in this rogue agency.”
Download PDF: DC Days 2008 Press Release.pdf
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Takoma Park, Md., February 20, 2008: More than 3,000 groups and individuals today sent a letter to President Bush urging him to shift the basis of many U.S. radiation health protection standards from an adult Caucasian male model, called "Reference Man," to those most at risk, specifically including children and pregnant women.
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| | | published Monday, October 15, 2007 | 3468 Views :: 0 Comments |
On Friday, October 19, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a
network of national and grassroots organizations whose members live
downwind and downstream from the major U.S. nuclear weapons facilities,
will host a public forum detailing the central role of the Kansas City
Plant in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
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NUCLEAR EXPERTS AND ACTIVISTS FROM ACROSS
THE NATION CONVENING IN KANSAS CITY:
Key Facility in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex within City Limits
In the third week of October, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a network of national and grassroots organizations whose members live downwind and downstream of the major U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, will be meeting in Kansas City to raise awareness about the importance of the Department of Energy’s Kansas City Plant in the production of new nuclear weapons.
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New Nuclear Warhead Design Selected: Making the Worst of a Bad Situation
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| | | published Thursday, February 01, 2007 | 9183 Views :: 0 Comments |
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a national network representing communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that spending on nuclear weapons and energy will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, radiation health programs and plutonium disposition.
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| | | published Wednesday, November 29, 2006 | 3826 Views :: 0 Comments |
Independent Review of Department of Energy Study Undermines Need for New Nuclear Weapons; Groups call on Energy Department to abandon discredited “Complex 2030” Plan.
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