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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.
read more...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."
read more...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for Disease Control and Prevention released the final draft of a 558-page report 10 years in the making, the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project.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.
read more...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.
read more...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.read more... |
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