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For LANL, past is present, and dangerous

Grant Finks
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
6/27/2009
www.santafenewmexican.com

As one of the "public interest advocacy groups" mentioned in The New Mexican's editorial of June 20 ("LANL's contaminated history is a product of a different time"), Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety takes issue with two of the principal points made in that piece.

We agree that the release of the Centers for Disease Control historical review of Los Alamos National Laboratory activities is a significant event. The CDC document makes fascinating reading. Through hundreds of pages of committee-speak prose punctuated by scientific charts and graphs, there emerges a story that is by turns exciting, terrifying, tragic and even occasionally comical.

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17 Groups Urge Senate to Change CEDA Bill

17 Groups Urge Senate to Change CEDA Bill

06/25/2009
SustainableBusiness.com News

In a letter to the members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, 17 major groups--including the Union of Concerned Scientists, the League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club--warned that the proposed Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) in the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 will not "reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the most efficient, environmentally sound manner possible."

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Sante Fe Reporter: Toxic Potpourri with Joni Arends

Sante Fe Reporter: Toxic Potpourri with Joni Arends

By: Corey Pein 06/24/2009

This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the final draft of a 558-page report 10 years in the making, the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project. It found dangerous “airborne releases” from Los Alamos National Laboratory “were significantly greater than has been officially reported,” and that “exposure rates in public areas from the world’s first nuclear explosion”—the 1945 Trinity test—“were measured at levels 10,000 times higher than currently allowed.” SFR spoke to Joni Arends, executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety—which watchdogs the environmental and health effects of the work done at LANL—about the report. The CDC will hold a public meeting on the report at 5 pm Thursday, June 25 at the Hilton at Buffalo Thunder.

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Letter to Congress: Oppose Additional F-22s Paid for with Environmental Cleanup Funds

Oppose Additional F-22s Paid for with Environmental Cleanup Funds

June 23, 2009
Dear Representative:

Please support any amendment to the FY10 defense authorization bill, H.R. 2647, to eliminate funds for advance procurement of 12 F-22 Raptor fighter jets and restore the money for environmental cleanup.

Defense Secretary Gates requested four additional F-22 fighters in the FY09 Supplemental Appropriations Act, completing the fleet at 187 planes and ending production. Money to purchase those final four aircraft has already been appropriated. We oppose the additional twelve aircraft sought by the Committee in the FY10 defense authorization at a cost of $369 million for FY10.

The funds for F-22s were taken from money intended for cleanup of nuclear weapons sites, and we believe this is unwise. More than six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy sites contaminated by radioactive and hazardous waste. The contamination threatens workers, communities, and the environment,
including major water supplies. Cleaning up that contamination should remain a priority for Congress and the administration. Inadequate funding in 2010 can lead to missing legally obligated cleanup milestones, allows contamination to spread, and can result in additional spending to pay fines and penalties. Funding shortfalls in one year also require additional spending in future years.

If you would like your organization to sign onto the letter, email nroth@ananuclear.org with your name, title, organization's name, and state.

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Portsmouth Daily Times: What's on the horizon for us?

By DEBORAH DANIELS

PDT Staff Writer
June 21, 2009

Pike County Commissioner Teddie West said he’s supportive of the newly proposed nuclear power plant that may be constructed on the Department of Energy site at Piketon.

Duke Power Corporation, French-owned nuclear reactor vendor AREVA and USEC Inc. announced Thursday, along with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and other officials, that a portion of the DOE site will be transitioned into a 21st-century clean energy production center. Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative is the local agency planning to build the nuclear power plant.
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