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The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) objects to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)’s support for reprocessing of high level radioactive waste. As stated in the draft PEIS, GNEP intends to provide nuclear power that is safe, secure and economical while “reducing the impacts associated with spent nuclear fuel disposal and reducing proliferation risks.” ANA, however, finds that the GNEP proposal would actually exacerbate the inherent proliferation, cost, safety, waste, and security risks associated with nuclear power.
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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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2008 Sample Complex Transformation Action Alert | |
| | published Friday, October 24, 2008 | 113 Views :: 0 Comments |
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 Energyís (DOE) proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program to restart nuclear waste reprocessing in the United States, poses a threat to local communities and to global security. Instead of pursuing this environmentally destructive, dangerous, and exorbitantly expensive GNEP program, DOE should store nuclear waste at reactor sites and safeguard it from terrorist attack.
The analysis provided in the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) is appallingly inadequate. Despite its legal mandate to analyze the full socio-economic and environmental impacts of GNEP, this document this PEIS does not include a complete life cycle cost analysis, fully addressing environmental or nonproliferation impacts. Furthermore, it inadequately addresses the full extent of health impacts from reprocessing.
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GNEP Hearing Schedule November 17- December 9, 2008 | |
| | published Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 91 Views :: 0 Comments |
Location and times of GNEP Hearings to be held beginning on November 17, 2008 through December 9, 2008. Please download the attached file for more information
Download PDF: GNEP DRAFT PEIS HEARING SCHEDULE.pdf
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February, 2008
Check with your newspaper for guidelines regarding submitting Letters to the Editor.
This letter is 142 words.
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To the Editor:
Now is the time for the public to comment on the Department of Energy’s $150 billion proposal to rebuild the US nuclear weapons production complex. Called “Complex Transformation,” this plan is intended to upgrade the massive industrial infrastructure needed to build new generations of atomic bombs.
It doesn’t make sense that the strongest conventionally armed nation on earth says to the world that we need nuclear weapons, while at the same time telling other countries that they should not have such weapons.
Congress has mandated that the role of nuclear weapons in our nation’s military strategy be studied and updated. And how will we satisfy our Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty obligations to get rid of our nuclear weapons?
Shouldn’t we get these answers before starting such a provocative, expensive and dangerous new project?
The public comment period is open until April 10, 2008.
Name, Affiliation (if any)
Address
Phone
Download Doc: Bombplex Letter to the Editor template 08.doc
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Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons Oak Ridge, TN 2008 | |
| | published Friday, February 15, 2008 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
Oak Ridge Envirnonmental Peace Alliance
February 26, 2008
A Pivotal Moment for Peace
Even While Politicians fill the airwaves with great promises, our future is being written. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is proposing to build a new nuclear weapons complex with billions and billions of your tax dollars. This plan--called "Complex Tranformation" will maintain an enduring nuclear stockpile and build new bombs in Oak Ridge and around the country.
Download PDF: CTrans fact sheet web.pdf
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Local Residents Decry Plans for New U.S.
Nuclear Weapons “Bombplex”
Local residents are angry over the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) plans to build new bomb plants. They will attend a public hearing on [INSERT SCOPING HEARING DATE]. The NNSA, an agency within the Department of Energy, is holding a public scoping hearing at [INSERT LOCATION HERE] for the Notice of Intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for Complex 2030. NNSA’s plans under Complex 2030 include a massive reorganization and refurbishment of the nuclear weapons complex. This giant shift in operations is being offered as a supplemental environmental impact statement to the 1996 Stockpile Stewardship and Management PEIS in an attempt to mask the scale of the proposed changes.
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| | | published Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | 1 Views :: 0 Comments |
A helpful "how to" article on writing comments about a National Environmental Policy Act.
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