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Faithful Security: The National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger
A CALL TO ACTION:
Offering an Alternative Vision to the Nuclear Weapons Build-up
Nuclear Weapons: Moving in the Wrong Direction To the surprise of religious communities throughout the United States, our government is about to begin producing new nuclear weapons. On October 19, the Department of Energy released a Notice of Intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for “Complex 2030,” a multibillion-dollar program that would reorganize and consolidate nuclear weapons production facilities and build a major hydrogen bomb factory
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| | | published Friday, February 29, 2008 | 3056 Views :: 0 Comments |
By Kevin Welch
Amarillo Globe-News
Publication Date: 02/29/08
About 40 people, including Pantex and National Nuclear Security Administration staff attended a Thursday night public hearing on the proposal at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
One part of the plan calling for increased manufacture of new nuclear pits, the core of nuclear warheads, drew the most criticism.
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Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Tri-City Herald
By Annette Cary, Herald senior writer
The Department of Energy budget request for Hanford and other nuclear
waste sites is $1.1 billion short, said senators in an appeal Wednesday
to the Senate Budget Committee.
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| | | published Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 8 Views :: 0 Comments |
February 28, 2008
Pantex Hearing
Submitted by:
Susan Gordon
Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
The Draft Complex Transformation SPEIS released in December 2007 describes the history of the 1996 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program, which evaluated alternatives for maintaining the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The Record of Decision (61 FR 68014, December 26, 1996) documented the decisions related to fulfilling these requirements without underground testing. The ROD did not propose any new production facilities.
Download PDF: ANA Bombplex Comments 2-28-08.pdf
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By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER - Associated Press Writer
http://www.thestate.com/312/story/323827.html
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. --
Protesters bearing posters of nuclear bomb-blasted Hiroshima and Nagasaki greeted Department of Energy officials who came to South Carolina on Thursday to get public comments on the agency's plans to revamp the nation's nuclear weapons facilities.
"Stop the insanity! Slow down our nuclear weapons production!" said Henry Gurr, a retired physics professor from nearby Aiken.
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Takoma Park, Md., February 20, 2008: More than 3,000 groups and individuals today sent a letter to President Bush urging him to shift the basis of many U.S. radiation health protection standards from an adult Caucasian male model, called "Reference Man," to those most at risk, specifically including children and pregnant women.
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Estimated future environmental liability costs for the Pantex Plant top
$400 million, according to government figures obtained by a New Mexico
environmental group, but a Pantex official said the estimates are a few
years old and that such costs are expected to drop over time.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Concerned Citizens of Wisconsin Hold Public Hearing on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy and Future of Nuclear Arsenal
Madison, Wisconsin (February 16, 2008)--On Saturday, February 16th at 10:00am, at the State Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will be co-sponsoring a hearing on U.S. nuclear weapons policy and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed nuclear weapons complex transformation.
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| | | published Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
Local Residents Decry Plans for New U.S.
Nuclear Weapons “Bombplex”
Local residents are angry over the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) plans to build new bomb plants. They will attend a public hearing on [INSERT SCOPING HEARING DATE]. The NNSA, an agency within the Department of Energy, is holding a public scoping hearing at [INSERT LOCATION HERE] for the Notice of Intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for Complex 2030. NNSA’s plans under Complex 2030 include a massive reorganization and refurbishment of the nuclear weapons complex. This giant shift in operations is being offered as a supplemental environmental impact statement to the 1996 Stockpile Stewardship and Management PEIS in an attempt to mask the scale of the proposed changes.
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