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published Monday, November 17, 2008  53 Views :: 0 Comments

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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published Monday, November 17, 2008  54 Views :: 0 Comments

COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel too risky
Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:20 AM
By Bob Alvarez

The 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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published Friday, November 14, 2008  124 Views :: 0 Comments

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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published Monday, November 10, 2008  196 Views :: 0 Comments

11/3/2008
Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Energy
1000 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20585
The.secretary@hq.doe.gov

Dear Secretary Bodman,

On behalf of our members, the undersigned 48 local and national environmental, peace and security, taxpayer and public health organizations, we request a 120-day extension to the comment period for the Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) currently scheduled to end on December 16, 2008, before the final PEIS is released.

We believe this extension is warranted because (1) Department of Energy (DOE) failed to provide analysis of nonproliferation impacts within the draft PEIS even though DOE had indicated that this important assessment would be made available in conjunction with the PEIS, (2) online accessibility to reference materials cited in the draft PEIS was delayed by more than a week, and is still not available for many documents, (3) the proposal is technically complex with national implications, and (4) the comment period coincides with the upcoming Presidential elections, and holidays, which may make it more difficult for the public to review and comment on the draft PEIS.


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published Monday, October 20, 2008  1 Views :: 0 Comments

Judith Mohling,
Colorado Daily
Friday, October 17, 2008

Is a revival of nuclear power an answer? No, for many reasons. Here are two of them.

Nuclear power is not democratic. The entire nuclear cycle, from uranium mining, to nuclear power or weapons production damages the health of communities. It's all lethal.



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published Wednesday, October 15, 2008  588 Views :: 0 Comments

 Press Release Template for Organizations to use regarding Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

____________________ 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.

Download Document in Word:  GNEP Template for Press Release.doc

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published Wednesday, October 08, 2008  613 Views :: 0 Comments

 Reprocessing has already failed in the United States: West Valley, New York is the site of the only commercial reprocessing plant that operated in the United States. From 1966 to 1972, West Valley ran at 18% capacity and accumulated 600,000 gallons of high-level waste onsite. The cleanup of West Valley will cost more than $5 billion.
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published Wednesday, October 08, 2008  708 Views :: 0 Comments

 
Although the Department of Energy (DOE) has not provided a life-cycle cost estimate for GNEP, the National Academy of Sciences estimated in 1996 that a reprocessing project like GNEP could cost more than $500 billion. Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office has stated that "Reprocessing of U.S. spent fuel would cost 25 percent more than plans for direct disposal" in a permanent repository. Under the current plan for GNEP, the taxpayer and rate-payers, not the nuclear power industry, would bear this cost.

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published Wednesday, October 08, 2008  573 Views :: 0 Comments

What is a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement?

The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposal document is a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Under NEPA, DOE is required to analyze the environmental and socio economic impacts of any proposed actions. The NEPA processes allows for public participation, by including two public comment periods.

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published Saturday, April 12, 2008  0 Views :: 0 Comments

2008 Fact Sheet Plutomium Disposition 
 

In spite of a decade of work on its program to eliminate surplus weapons plutonium, not a single gram has been disposed by the Department of Energy (DOE). By any standard, the program is a failure. Left unchanged, it will continue to suffer from chronic bad management, escalating costs, and technical uncertainties. A better alternative is for Congress and a new administration to put the disposition program onto the safer and less costly vitrification track.


Download PDFANA MOX final.pdf


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