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Grassroots Groups by Nuclear Site | |
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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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How to Stop a Bombplex by Tri-Valley CAREs | |
| | published Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
Tri-Valley CAREs
Livermore, CA
January, 2008
Just before Christmas 2007, the Department of Energy(DOE) National Security Administration(NNSA) held a press conference to announce the latest in a series of deadly, irresponsible schemes to "revitalize" and rebuild the U.S. nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production complex of the future.
Download PDF: How to Stop a Bombplex.pdf
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Talking Points by 2020 Vision | |
| | published Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
Tom Z. Collina
Executive Director
2020 Vision Education Fund
January 15, 2008
"The Bush administration and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) are proposing to spend an estimated $150 billion to
rebuild the US nuclear weapons complex to “transform the nuclear stockpile through
development of Reliable Replacement Warheads.” This renovated complex would
include a major new facility—the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement
(CMRR) at Los Alamos National Lab—to build 50-80 warhead cores (plutonium “pits”)
per year, and the future nuclear arsenal would include new Reliable Replacement
Warheads (RRWs) with “enhanced safety, security, and use-control features.”
Download PDF: 2020V sample testimony 08.pdf
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New Mexico May Be the Dump for DOE’s Catch-all Category of Radioactive Wastes
The United States has a lot of nuclear waste that we don’t know what to do with. For one type of waste, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed solution is sadly, once again, to bury it in the ground -- perhaps in New Mexico. After 20 years of essentially ignoring “Greater Than Class C” (GTCC) waste, DOE is now giving the public a chance to comment on its disposal plans.
Download PDF: GTCC fact sheet CCNS NWNM.pdf
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