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| | | published Thursday, May 31, 2007 | 4186 Views |
The National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) mandates that the public be allowed the opportunity to provide scoping comments on the federal government's Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement process.
 ANA has submitted their comments on the Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership plan which threatens to revive the practice of "reprocessing" spent nuclear fuel. Reprocessing is the technology which created the horrible environmental contamination at Hanford, WA, Savannah River Site, SC, West Valley, NY, and the Idaho National Laboratory.
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| | | published Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 7172 Views |
May 23, 2007
The House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee approved their spending bill for FY 2008, cutting all funds for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, reducing spending on nuclear reprocessing and plutonium reactor fuel programs, while restoring money for badly needed environmental cleanup of Department of Energy sites.
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| | | published Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 6941 Views |
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Department of Energy (DOE) FY 2008 budget request was submitted to
Congress on Monday, February 5, 2007. The Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability (ANA) is concerned that spending on nuclear weapons and
energy will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, radiation
health programs and plutonium disposition. The Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability opposes any attempt to cut funding for vital cleanup
programs while increasing spending on unnecessary weapons activities.
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| | | published Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 4145 Views |
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Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program is a congressionally created
plan “for improving the long-term safety, reliability, and security of
the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.” RRW was adopted by Congress to
reduce the need to return to full-scale nuclear weapons testing and
facilitate deep cuts to the stockpile.
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| | | published Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 3553 Views |
On October 19, 2006, the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency
within the Department of Energy (DOE), published a formal Notice of
Intent to build “Complex 2030,” the nuclear weapons complex of the
future. If allowed to move forward, this new Bombplex will design new
nuclear weapons and resume industrial-scale bomb production.
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| | | published Monday, April 23, 2007 | 6567 Views |
"Radioactive Report Card" flunks U.S. Nuclear Weapons Programs: ANA seeks new budget priorities; expert report blasts Global Nuclear Energy Partnership as "costly radioactive waste shell game."
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| | | published Friday, March 02, 2007 | 3652 Views |
New Nuclear Warhead Design Selected: Making the Worst of a Bad Situation
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| | | published Thursday, February 01, 2007 | 7924 Views |
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a national network representing communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that spending on nuclear weapons and energy will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, radiation health programs and plutonium disposition.
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| | | published Wednesday, November 29, 2006 | 3326 Views |
Independent Review of Department of Energy Study Undermines Need for New Nuclear Weapons; Groups call on Energy Department to abandon discredited “Complex 2030” Plan.
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| | | published Tuesday, October 31, 2006 | 1542 Views |
ANA sent a letter of request to DOE officials urging them to add public hearings
in the City of Livermore and Kansas City.
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