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| | | published Monday, October 15, 2007 | 3205 Views :: 0 Comments |
On Friday, October 19, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a
network of national and grassroots organizations whose members live
downwind and downstream from the major U.S. nuclear weapons facilities,
will host a public forum detailing the central role of the Kansas City
Plant in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
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| | | published Thursday, October 04, 2007 | 2929 Views :: 0 Comments |
NUCLEAR EXPERTS AND ACTIVISTS FROM ACROSS
THE NATION CONVENING IN KANSAS CITY:
Key Facility in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex within City Limits
In the third week of October, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a network of national and grassroots organizations whose members live downwind and downstream of the major U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, will be meeting in Kansas City to raise awareness about the importance of the Department of Energy’s Kansas City Plant in the production of new nuclear weapons.
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| | | published Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 4696 Views :: 0 Comments |
 The
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 Friday, March 02, 2007 | 3884 Views :: 0 Comments |
New Nuclear Warhead Design Selected: Making the Worst of a Bad Situation
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| | | published Thursday, February 01, 2007 | 8705 Views :: 0 Comments |
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 | 3569 Views :: 0 Comments |
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 | 1702 Views :: 0 Comments |
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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| | | published Thursday, October 19, 2006 | 2718 Views :: 0 Comments |
“BOMBPLEX” PROMISES NEW, COLD WAR-SCALE NUCLEAR WEAPONS INDUSTRY
Today, the Department of Ener gy (DOE) is releasing a Notice of Intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for 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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| | | published Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
Plutonium pits — carefully fabricated spheres of metal — and high explosives, are the “triggers” for modern thermonuclear weapons. Until 1989, the U.S. manufactured pits at the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver. That year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the facility to investigate environmental crimes, effectively ending industrial-scale plutonium pit production in the United States.
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| | | published Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | 0 Views :: 0 Comments |
In 1992, the United States adopted the Nuclear Testing Moratorium Act. While that law represents a major advance for public health and the environment, it did not stop the nuclear weapons designers from continuing their deadly pursuits.
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