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Grant Finks
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
6/27/2009
www.santafenewmexican.com
As one of the "public interest advocacy groups" mentioned in The New
Mexican's editorial of June 20 ("LANL's contaminated history is a
product of a different time"), Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
takes issue with two of the principal points made in that piece.
We
agree that the release of the Centers for Disease Control historical
review of Los Alamos National Laboratory activities is a significant
event. The CDC document makes fascinating reading. Through hundreds of
pages of committee-speak prose punctuated by scientific charts and
graphs, there emerges a story that is by turns exciting, terrifying,
tragic and even occasionally comical.
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17 Groups Urge Senate to Change CEDA Bill
06/25/2009
SustainableBusiness.com News
In
a letter to the members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, 17 major groups--including the Union of Concerned
Scientists, the League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club--warned
that the proposed Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) in the
American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 will not "reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in the most efficient, environmentally sound
manner possible."
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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for Disease Control and Prevention released the final draft of a 558-page report 10 years in the making, the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project.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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Oppose Additional F-22s Paid for with Environmental Cleanup Funds
June 23, 2009
Dear Representative:
Please support any amendment to the FY10 defense authorization bill, H.R. 2647, to eliminate funds for advance procurement of 12 F-22 Raptor fighter jets and restore the money for environmental cleanup.
Defense Secretary Gates requested four additional F-22 fighters in the FY09 Supplemental Appropriations Act, completing the fleet at 187 planes and ending production. Money to purchase those final four aircraft has already been appropriated. We oppose the additional twelve aircraft sought by the Committee in the FY10 defense authorization at a cost of $369 million for FY10.
The funds for F-22s were taken from money intended for cleanup of nuclear weapons sites, and we believe this is unwise. More than six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy sites contaminated by radioactive and hazardous waste. The contamination threatens workers, communities, and the environment,
including major water supplies. Cleaning up that contamination should remain a priority for Congress and the administration. Inadequate funding in 2010 can lead to missing legally obligated cleanup milestones, allows contamination to spread, and can result in additional spending to pay fines and penalties. Funding shortfalls in one year also require additional spending in future years.
If you would like your organization to sign onto the letter, email nroth@ananuclear.org with your name, title, organization's name, and state.
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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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World's largest fusion facility today celebrates long, difficult road to
official opening
Contra Costa Times | Bay Area News Group
By Suzanne Bohan
The challenging pursuit of fusion is nothing new to Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory scientists. In the lab's early days in the 1950s, weapons
designers successfully developed the fearsome hydrogen - or fusion - bomb,
many times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World
War II. In 1952, the lab joined a program called Project Sherwood that
attempted to control the force of fusion to create a virtually unlimited
source of electrical energy.
Today, the lab enters the newest chapter in its fusion quest with the
official opening of the multipurpose National Ignition Facility, 15
contentious years after the project's approval. The massive, dark building
on the eastern edge of Livermore - not far from hillsides dotted with
grazing cows - covers the footprint of three football stadiums. With 192
lasers, it ranks as the world's largest laser fusion facility.
For more information on the National Ignition Facility, go to http://www.trivalleycares.org/nixnif.htm
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By Kimberly Kindy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 18, 2009
A private company was being paid $300 million by the federal government
to clean up radioactive waste at two abandoned Cold War plants in
Tennessee when an ironworker crashed through a rotted floor. That
prompted a major safety review, which ended up forcing work to an abrupt
halt, and the project was shut down for months. The delay and a host of
other problems caused cost estimates to rise, eventually hitting $781
million.
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Press Advisory
Environmental Coalition Launches International Project
to Explore the Impacts of the Nuclear Age
for further information contact:
Tom Carpenter
206.419.5829
tomc@hanfordchallenge.org
Susan Gordon
505.577.8438
sgordon@ananuclear.org
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Global Nuclear Legacy Project shines a light on the human and environmental
legacy of six decades of nuclear weapons and energy.
An international coalition of nuclear oversight groups is convening in Budapest, Hungary to launch the Global Nuclear Legacy Project on May 28. Their goal is explore the worldwide health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons and energy production and explore safe paths forward.
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Radioactive Waste
Congress Asked to Eliminate Subsidies
For Nuclear Power, Fund More Cleanup Work
BY JANICE VALVERDE
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is asking Congress and the federal government to eliminate funding for nuclear fuel recycling research, to ban
importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste, and to make public all contracts for cleanup of defense related nuclear waste, according to alliance leaders who spoke April 27 at a press briefing.
‘‘Atomic energy is too costly, slow, and risky to solve a climate crisis,’’ the alliance said in a summary of its positions. It advocates ‘‘carbon-free and nuclear-free energy . . . that is technically and economically attainable by 2050.’’
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Media Release
For Immediate Release
May 6, 2009
Contact:
Nickolas Roth, Program Director
914-673-6666
Susan Gordon, Director
505-577-8438
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability finds Congressionally mandated Nuclear Posture Report supports more money and less accountability.
The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released a report today that fails to support President Obama’s commitment to move towards a world free of nuclear weapons and contains proposals that would undermine his vision and nonproliferation efforts.
While the Commission endorsed positive steps like a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, the idea of reducing the nuclear stockpile, and strengthening nonproliferation efforts, it failed to endorse the necessary steps the United States must take to lead the way. Notably, the report did not endorse deep stockpile reductions and also failed to endorse ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
The report endorsed the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) unnecessary proposal for Complex Transformation and stated that NNSA’s stance that Complex Transformation will not require increased funding is patently wrong. In fact, the Commission calls on Congress to guarantee a steady stream of money at higher levels than in the past.
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