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Catholic activists arrested at Kansas City nuclear weapons facility

By Joshua J. McElwee - NCR staff writer jmcelwee@ncronline.org

http://ncronline.org/news/peace/catholic-activists-arrested-kansas-city-nuclear-weapons-facility

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Singing choruses of “we shall not be moved” while
scattering sunflower seeds, 14 activists were arrested here Aug. 16
after blocking an earth moving vehicle on the site of a proposed
nuclear weapons manufacturing facility.

The acts of civil disobedience came at the end of a three-day
conference which drew peace activists here from around the nation. The
efforts were aimed at building awareness of and resistance to the
construction of the weapons plant, which will replace an existing
plant here.
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Corrosion, Cracks in Nuclear Reactor Building Would Make Plant Unsafe

PRESS RELEASE ATTACHED

For Immediate Release
August 17, 2010

Contacts:
Jim Dougherty: 202-488-1140
Louis Zeller: 336-977-0852
Arnold Gundersen: 802-865-9955
David Kyler: 912-638-3612
Bobbie Paul: 678-938-2598

Corrosion, Cracks in Nuclear Reactor Building Would Make Plant Unsafe
Groups File New Legal Challenge at Plant Vogtle

Last week three Georgia groups revealed new public safety hazards in their ongoing campaign against nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle. On August 12, 2010 the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, the Center for a Sustainable Coast and Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions filed a legal challenge based on potential radioactive emissions from the proposed nuclear reactors. The specific flaw they identified is that corrosion will cause holes or cracks in the containment structure of the two reactors, allowing uncontrolled radioactive emissions during an accident.
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Activists: Plutonium Traces in Air Near Rocky Flats

AOL News
(Aug. 4) -- Activists questioning the thoroughness of the cleanup at an old nuclear weapons plant northwest of Denver say they have found particles of weapons-grade plutonium in air samples taken near the site. Part of the site is a national wildlife refuge that is slated to open for public recreation.

The federal Department of Energy declared in 2005 that its decontamination of the Rocky Flats facility was complete, after a 10-year effort that cost $7 billion (although the DOE originally thought the project would take 65 years and $37 billion). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to allow public recreation at a national wildlife refuge established in 2007 on part of the site.

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