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BLUE RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE LEAGUE
www.BREDL.org
PO Box 88
Glendale Springs, North Carolina 28629
BREDL@skybest.com
(336) 982-2691 office (336) 977-0852 cell
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 16, 2008
CONTACTS:
Louis Zeller (336) 977-0852
Ross McCluney (321) 917-8292
GROUPS DISPUTE TVA COST FIGURES
NEW LEGAL CHALLENGE AT BELLEFONTE
Today citizens’ groups announced new cost arguments in their lawsuit against nuclear power at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bellefonte site. The December 15th filing charges that TVA provided inaccurate cost information in its environmental report. In an 18-page request to the three-judge licensing board, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, the Bellefonte Efficiency and Sustainability Team and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy charged that TVA violated the National Environmental Policy Act.
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Global Security Newswire
Nations Discuss Nuclear Power Expansion Plans
Friday, Dec. 12, 2008
Participants in a U.S.-led nuclear power expansion effort met this week in Austria to discuss ways to advance the initiative, the U.S. Energy Department announced. The two-day session focused on promoting technical education among the members and technologies to manage radioactive waste safely, according to a press release.
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December 9, 2008
Dear President-Elect Obama:
We are writing to urge you to eliminate both the Department of Energy’s
(DOE) Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), which has focused on
restarting nuclear waste reprocessing in the United States, and the
reprocessing research program in the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative
(AFCI). Reprocessing would cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of
dollars, undermine U.S. nonproliferation policy, pollute the
environment, and threaten public health. Moreover, reprocessing worsens
the nuclear waste problem, rather than solves it. Instead, your
administration should ensure that spent (irradiated) fuel at commercial
reactor sites is better protected to make it less vulnerable to attack.
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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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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Testimony by Susan Gordon
November 20, 2008
Global Nuclear Energy Partnership PEIS
The
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is a network of more than 36
local, regional and national organizations representing the concerns of
communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and
radioactive waste dumps. Many of our member organizations are in areas
targeted for reprocessing facilities and are gravely concerned that
their communities will become nuclear waste dumps just like West
Valley, New York, Pocatello, Idaho, Richland, Washington, and Aiken,
South Carolina.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For more information contact: Rachel Larson, cell 971.533.5380, office 503.274.2720 email: Rachel@oregon psr.org
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility opposes the reprocessing of nuclear waste under the Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), as recommended by the recent Department of Energy (DOE) report, entitled Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement [PEIS] for Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.
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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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COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel too risky
Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:20 AM
By Bob Alvarez
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push for new nuclear reactors became a top-tier issue in the
presidential race. Yet one aspect of the debate received little
attention: reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. This issue is especially
relevant to Ohio, where the U.S. Energy Department has considered
locating such a facility near Portsmouth.
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To the Editor:
The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a report recommending that, after a 30 year hiatus, the United States should restart reprocessing of nuclear waste under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). The report, titled Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, does not provide any economic or environmental analysis and does not mention the security risks of reprocessing.
The reality is that reprocessing poses a threat to both local communities and to global security. Right now DOE is holding hearings around the country and considering comments from the public on the proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). We need to be telling DOE that, instead of pursuing this environmentally destructive, dangerous, and exorbitantly expensive $700 billion program, they should store nuclear waste at reactor sites and safeguard it from terrorist attack.
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