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 Olive Branch Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
Did you know that Kansas City has a Nuclear Weapons Plant?
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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Tri-City Herald By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability gave the Department of Energy a failing grade Monday for its budget proposals for environmental cleanup at Hanford and other nuclear sites. The alliance, which includes Heart of America Northwest, held a news conference in Washington, D.C.
“DOE is simply not up to the task of running the nation’s largest cleanup program,” Gerald Pollet, executive director of Heart of America, said in a statement.
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Dayton Daily News By Jessica
Wehrman | Monday, April 14, 2008, 01:39 PM
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability - a network of organizations that
opposes new nuclear weapons production and advocates a speedier cleanup - took
the Department of Energy to task Monday, saying that when it sped up cleanup of
the former Mound, Fernald and Rocky Flats nuclear sites, it broke a promise to
spend extra money on cleanup of other former nuclear sites.
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The Reliable Replacement Warhead(RRW) Program is a plan developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) "for improving the long-term safety, reliability and security of the nuclear weapons stockpile."
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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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Comments given by ANA Director Susan Gordon at the Pantex hearing in Texas.
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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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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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For immediate release Thursday January 31, 2008
Susan Gordon, Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
(505) 473-1670
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
FY 2009 BUDGET REQUEST
The Department of Energy (DOE) FY 2009 budget request will be released on Monday, February 4, 2008. 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 power will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, weapons dismantlement, and plutonium disposition.
ANA is concerned about the following likely FY 2009 budget proposals.
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