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Op-Ed from Dan Yoken
On February 4, 2010, Secretary of Energy Chu testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to discuss the President’s FY2011 budget request. While we agree with many of Chu’s commitments to clean energy and environmental cleanup, the focus on nuclear energy projects, the imbalance of the Nuclear Waste Panel and the hefty commitment to MOX in the Nonproliferation budget present problems that could lead to debilitating results in coming years.
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
http://www.ananuclear.org
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory
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.
Items of interest:
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Beyond Nuclear Bulletin
January 21, 2010
“The Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Costs
of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee”
Background:
Despite assuring the State of Vermont for more than a year that it had
no buried pipes carrying radioactivity, Entergy Nuclear’s Vermont
Yankee reactor has revealed it is leaking radioactive tritium, almost
certainly from underground pipes that it now admits do exist. In fact,
Vermont Yankee has even announced the discovery of “highly radioactive
water,” 50 times more radioactive than would be allowed in drinking
water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Nuclear expert Arnie
Gundersen has made clear that Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee has indeed
lied about the existence of buried pipes over the course of many months.
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December 2, 2009
Originally
appeared at
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/12/02/02climatewire-yucca-mountain-nuclear-disposal-site-is-dead-59660.html?pagewanted=print
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire
Former
Sen. Pete Domenici, a longtime advocate of nuclear power, said
yesterday that it is time to give up attempts to create a permanent
disposal site for the nation's nuclear waste fuel at Yucca Mountain in
Nevada. He urged the Obama administration to move ahead with a planned
blue-ribbon commission to find an alternative.
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October 09, 2009
The Snake River Alliance, Idaho's anti-nuclear watchdog, turns 30
BY ROCKY BARKER - rbarker@idahostatesman.com
Copyright: © 2009 Idaho Statesman
The anti-nuclear Snake River Alliance got its start on a bench at Boise's Julia Davis Park
None of its founders can remember the actual date of the Snake River Alliance's first meeting in 1979.
It was in the spring, soon after the Three Mile Island Reactor in Pennsylvania partially melted down, raising fears nationwide about nuclear power. A report by U.S. Geological Survey scientist Jack Barraclough had just been made public showing iodine 129 in concentrations more than 25 times the allowable standards for drinking water near a well at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho. Dorian Duffin, a Rupert farm boy and a student at Boise State University, was meeting on campus with other students to form a group to do something about the waste. Across the Boise River, other people, including pregnant mother Diane Jones, were meeting at the same time on a Julia Davis Park bench after answering a classified ad about forming an anti-nuclear group.
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Sixty-four
years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we host a
roundtable discussion on the present nuclear landscape. We speak with
nuclear physicist and disarmament activist Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace
activist Frida Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who
leaked the Pentagon Papers. Over the next year, Ellsberg will release
regular installments of his insider’s memoir of the nuclear era, “The
American Doomsday Machine.”
Frida Berrigan, Peace activist
and senior program associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the
New America Foundation. Previously, she served for eight years as
deputy director and senior research associate at the Arms Trade
Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New
York City.
Daniel Ellsberg, the
country’s best known whistleblower. In 1971 he leaked the Pentagon
Papers to the New York Times and the Washington Post. .
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Nuclear physicist and
disarmament activist. He is chair of the Physics Department at the
Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.
Fuel Video can be seen at: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/10/for_the_64th_time_no_more
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Sante Fe Reporter: Toxic Potpourri with Joni Arends
By: Corey Pein 06/24/2009
This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the final draft of a 558-page report 10 years in the making, the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project. It found dangerous “airborne releases” from Los Alamos National Laboratory “were significantly greater than has been officially reported,” and that “exposure rates in public areas from the world’s first nuclear explosion”—the 1945 Trinity test—“were measured at levels 10,000 times higher than currently allowed.” SFR spoke to Joni Arends, executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety—which watchdogs the environmental and health effects of the work done at LANL—about the report. The CDC will hold a public meeting on the report at 5 pm Thursday, June 25 at the Hilton at Buffalo Thunder.
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By DEBORAH DANIELS
PDT Staff Writer
June 21, 2009
Pike
County Commissioner Teddie West said he’s supportive of the newly
proposed nuclear power plant that may be constructed on the Department
of Energy site at Piketon.
Duke Power Corporation, French-owned
nuclear reactor vendor AREVA and USEC Inc. announced Thursday, along
with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and other officials, that a portion of
the DOE site will be transitioned into a 21st-century clean energy
production center. Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative is the
local agency planning to build the nuclear power plant.
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Nuclear Power Will Not Solve Climate Crisis
In terms of both monetary cost and time, nuclear power is ineffective at solving the climate crisis. Dr. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, in his 2008 analysis The Nuclear Illusion, has shown that energy efficiency is seven to ten times more cost effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while renewable sources such as wind are significantly faster and less expensive to deploy than nuclear power. In his 2007 book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Dr. Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), has shown that both fossil fuels and nuclear power can be phased out of the American economy by mid-century and completely replaced with efficiency and renewables
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: Reactors5 final.pdf
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a notification in the Federal Register today that it is extending the comment period on the Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) by 90 days. The public comment period will now end on March 16, 2009.
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