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On September 13th, Mycle Schneider, International Consultant on Energy and Nuclear Policy, gave a fascinating presentation on the Status and Trends of the World Nuclear Industry. To see Mycle's text analysis published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, click here. To see Mycle's powerpoint presentation
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Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability met in Oak Ridge this week for their annual strategizing session.
Susan Gordon, staff director of the Alliance since 1995, said they went over goals and accomplishments for 2008 and began formulating plans for 2009. I asked Gordon if the group achieved its 2008 goals, and she replied with a hint of humor: "Some of them. Did we get rid of nuclear weapons? No."
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Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
The Kansas City Plant is located in the Bannister Federal Complex near Holmes and
Bannister Road and is run by Honeywell under NNSA, the National Nuclear Security Administration. It makes over 85% of the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, averages over 5000 shipments a month of nuclear weapons parts and is having its busiest workload in 20 years even in this post-Cold War era!
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Associated Press -- August 16, 2008
by Lisa Cornwell
The Fernald Preserve and its visitors center make their public debut Wednesday at the former site of the government facility that processed uranium metal for nuclear weapons from 1952 to 1989
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Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only U.S. site under consideration for disposal of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Congress singled out Yucca Mountain in the 1987 amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for implementing the program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets radiation exposure standards, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for licensing the repository.
Download PDF: ANA Yucca final.pdf
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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 PDF: ANA cleanup final.pdf
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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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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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Plutonium pits are the “triggers” for modern thermonuclear weapons. The U.S. manufactured pits at the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver until 1989, when he FBI raided the facility to investigate environmental crimes. That raid effectively ended industrial-scale plutonium
pit production in the United States.
Download PDF: Pu FS 2007.pdf
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| | | published Thursday, April 12, 2007 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only site under consideration for disposal of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Congressional politics singled out Yucca Mountain in the 1987 amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for implementing the program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets radiation exposure standards, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for licensing the repository.
Download PDF: Yucca FS 2007.pdf
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