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Japan Times, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009
By DAVID JEFFRIES
Kyodo News
HANFORD, Wash. (Kyodo) For Shirley Olinger, managing the cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site —part of the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state that produced the
plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 — is personal.
Despite these signs of progress, Tom Carpenter, executive director of
the Hanford Challenge, warns that the bulk of the work has yet to be
done.
"I call this 'stopping the bleeding' because it was damaging the
environment," Carpenter said. "But what can we really say about tank
waste? Ninety percent of the Hanford cleanup is this waste. And I think
they are stuck."
Originally published in the Japan Times: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090810a8.html
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By Nickolas Roth, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
August 6th, 2009
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anniversary of the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki serve as a reminder of the danger posed by nuclear weapons and
the need for this country to work in good faith toward their
elimination. The bombings killed more than 200,000 people and set in
motion an arms race that has resulted in several near brushes with
nuclear war.
There are more than 20,000 nuclear weapons in
existence today. The vast majority of these weapons are held by the
United States and Russia, with 9,400 and 13,000 respectively.
Originally published in the Los Alamos Monitor:
http://www.lcni5.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?075+article+Opinion+20090806145909075075001
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2009 Fact Sheet Nuclear Weapons Forever | |
| | published Monday, February 23, 2009 | 525 Views :: 0 Comments |
Life Extension Program
In the late-1980’s the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Rocky Flats Plant, which produced plutonium pits for nuclear warheads, was shut down after a raid by the FBI. Eventually, the plant was shuttered, disrupting the U.S. capacity for producing new warheads.
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: LEP2 final.pdf
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2009 Fact Sheet Nuclear Weapons Environmental Cleanup | |
| | published Monday, February 23, 2009 | 393 Views :: 0 Comments |
Six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy (DOE) sites polluted with massive amounts of radioactive and hazardous wastes. Most DOE sites are now on the Superfund list of the nation’s most environmentally dangerous facilities. Their contamination threatens millions of people living near the sites or along major waste transportation routes. Some of the nation’s most important water resources are endangered.
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: Cleanup5.1 final.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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Nearly 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted worldwide. The U.S. alone conducted 217 above-ground tests, about half of them at the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site (NTS), from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Atmospheric fallout from these tests, and from the 30 underground tests known to have “vented” significant radiation, contained harmful radionuclides and was carried thousands of miles from the test site. At the time, the U.S. government assured the American public that testing was safe and necessary to protect them.
Download PDF: Health FS 2007.pdf
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