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ANA Releases the Radioactive Report Card

Compiled by leaders of groups from communities located in the shadows of U.S. nuclear weapons sites. The report card grades looks to the future and lays out an agenda for the next administration.

2008 Radioactive Report Card Grade Book

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published Sunday, March 14, 2010  65 Views

for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 cell (239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup

for release at 10:00am, Monday March 15, 2010, 2322 Rayburn News Conference
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WATCHDOGS GIVE PRES. OBAMA MIXED GRADES
ON NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT, WASTE CLEANUP, & REACTOR FUNDING


President Barack Obama today received a mixed report card for his Administration’s first-year policies relating to nuclear weapons production, waste cleanup and reactor funding. Grades presented by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) at a Capitol Hill news conference ranged from an “A” for keeping his campaign promise to terminate the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump to an “F” for proposing to increase taxpayer subsidies for construction of new nuclear reactors. ANA is a national network of nearly three dozen groups representing the concerns of communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons sites.

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published Friday, March 12, 2010  186 Views

for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 cell (239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup

* * * M E D I A A D V I S O R Y * * *

WHAT: News briefing to release 1st Year Radioactive Report Card on President Obama and his Administration to grade their performance on policies on nuclear weapons production, waste cleanup and reactor funding.

WHEN: Monday, March 15, 2010 - - 10:00am

WHERE: Room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a national network of organizations representing the concerns of people living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing, production and waste disposal facilities

- Michele Boyd, Director, Safe Energy Program, Physicians for Social Responsibility -- taxpayer subsidies for new reactors, radioactive waste disposal, and nuclear contamination cleanup

- Ralph Hutchison, Coordinator, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance -- new Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear production plants, the next generation of weapons they may help support, and the implications for U.S. treaty obligations

- Nick Roth, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability -- performance of President Obama and his Administration during its first year in office and changes that must be made to improve its grades.

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published Thursday, February 25, 2010  234 Views

Livermore Opens Its Doors to Outsiders
Long-Secretive Weapons Labs to Build Energy Research Center Where Government Scientists, Businesses Can Collaborate

By BENJAMIN PIMENTEL
Found on WSJ.com; view here.

Livermore, home to two major U.S. weapons laboratories, existed as a city of fences and secrets during the Cold War and for years afterward. Now, some of those fences are receding.

Both of the city's weapons labs—Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories—are moving forward on plans to build a campus where government scientists and outside researchers can work together on clean-energy technology.

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But the open campus also has attracted critics. Marylia Kelley, of Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, an advocacy group long opposed to the labs' nuclear-weapons development, says the project could be "a green-washing, public-relations move" meant "to give an imprimatur of environmental responsibility" to what she calls "the very dirty work of researching and developing new and modified nuclear bombs."

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published Tuesday, February 02, 2010  758 Views

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
By Martin Matishak
Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a spending plan that would increase funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration to $11.2 billion in the next fiscal year (see GSN, Jan. 29).

The agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, would receive a 13.4-percent budget increase in fiscal 2011 to maintain the country's nuclear stockpile and conduct nonproliferation activities around the globe, according to the White House funding request.

More than $7 billion would be devoted beginning Oct. 1 to "weapons activities," which ensure the safety and performance of the nation's atomic stockpile. The amount is a $624 million increase from this year.

Another $2.7 billion would be funneled to the agency's Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation program, a hike of 25.8 percent above fiscal 2010. That effort seeks to secure nuclear materials around the globe that could be used for weapons and convert them for peaceful purposes.

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published Monday, February 01, 2010  886 Views

By JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Newspapers
Fri, Jan. 29, 2010

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them.

The administration argues that the boost is needed to ensure that U.S. warheads remain secure and work as designed as the arsenal shrinks and ages nearly 18 years into a moratorium on underground testing and more than two decades after large-scale warhead production ended.

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published Friday, January 29, 2010  1073 Views

for further information, contact:
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory
for immediate release Friday, January 29, 2010

BLUE RIBBON NUCLEAR WASTE COMMISSION IS SERIOUSLY IMBALANCED

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is disappointed that the Department of Energy did not follow our repeated requests to appoint a balanced Blue Ribbon Commission on nuclear wastes with a broad range of perspectives, including members from directly affected sites.

“The Commission faces a huge credibility problem. It includes no one from communities downstream and downwind of major nuclear weapons sites,” said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, “However, we are still hopeful that the Commission will find ways to consider a broad range of perspectives, including independent experts, public interest organizations, environmental and public health stakeholders, and impacted parties, including Native American Tribes.”


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published Friday, January 29, 2010  732 Views

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
January 29, 2010 8:02 a.m. EST

Hanford Nuclear Site, Washington (CNN) -- The federal government has set aside nearly $2 billion in stimulus funds to clean up Washington State's decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, once the center of the country's Cold War plutonium production.

That is more stimulus funding than some entire states have received, which has triggered a debate as to whether the money is being properly spent.

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published Friday, January 29, 2010  535 Views


By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer
January 27, 2010
http://www.hanfordnews.com/news/2010/story/14707.html

RICHLAND -- Speakers at a public hearing Tuesday night split their comments between calling for the Fast Flux Test Facility to be saved and worries that proposed cleanup plans for Hanford would not protect the environment and human health.

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published Wednesday, January 27, 2010  1547 Views

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
http://www.ananuclear.org

for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory

for immediate release Wednesday, January 27, 2010
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY FY 2011
NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET REQUEST


The FY 2011 budget request will be released on Monday, February 1, 2010. The Obama administration has laid out an aggressive nonproliferation agenda that includes deep reductions in nuclear stockpiles, ratification of a nuclear test ban, and decreased prominence for nuclear weapons in US defense policy. Despite this agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) budget request will ask Congress to significantly increase nuclear weapons activities, including funding for construction of new facilities that will expand U.S. warhead production capacity. The DOE request will not reflect recent independent scientific conclusions that existing nuclear weapons can be reliably maintained for decades under current, well-established programs.

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a national network representing communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that increased funding for nuclear energy and weapons research and production will rob precious resources for needed environmental cleanup and clean, sustainable energy solutions.

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published Monday, January 25, 2010  654 Views

Published on National Catholic Reporter
by Joshua J. McElwee

The Obama administration is moving ahead with the development of new nuclear weapons components at three key weapons facilities at the same time it is conducting a sweeping review of U.S. nuclear weapons policies that could lead to further slashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

For the moment, U.S. nuclear weapons policies appear to be running in contrary directions, and while some critics of U.S. nuclear policy are cautiously optimistic, they are also worried President Obama’s nuclear disarmament vision is not yet being supported by concrete policy actions.

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