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Catholic activists arrested at Kansas City nuclear weapons facility

published Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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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.

published Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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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.

published Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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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.

published Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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LIVERMORE -- The Fiscal Year 2011 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (colloquially known as the "Green Book"), obtained recently by Tri-Valley CAREs, reveals that the U.S. Dept. of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) foments internal plans significantly at variance with the agency's public pronouncements and the Nation's disarmament goals.

"The document demonstrates that the NNSA will reach deeper and deeper into the taxpayers' pockets in the coming decades, even as it jettisons scientific objectives and delivers less," charged Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore-based nuclear weapons watchdog organization. " What the plan reveals about the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is shocking." (See attached analysis for details.)

published Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2010
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has prepared but not publicly released a FY 2011 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan. NNSA describes it as “an unprecedented and comprehensive effort to detail the plans for managing the Nation’s nuclear deterrent in the coming decades.” Other than some incremental arms reductions, conspicuously lacking are planned concrete steps toward reaching the nuclear weapons-free world that President Obama claimed as a long-term national security goal in his now-famous April 2009 Prague speech.

published Wednesday, July 07, 2010

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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Roughly 200 people turned out at the Y-12 National Security Complex on Sunday as part of a three-day ceremony marking 30 years of nuclear resistance, an organizer said.

The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, which organizes regular anti-nuclear weapons events, including those outside Y-12, was asked to join the celebration by Nuclear Resister in Arizona and Nukewatch in Wisconsin, and the three groups collaborated in setting up the ceremony, OREPA member Mary Dennis Lentsch said.

published Tuesday, June 08, 2010

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

for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-473-1670

for immediate release: June 8, 2010
ANA applauds Senate Panel for Requiring Common Sense Accountability within the Department of Energy

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) applauds the Senate Armed Services Committee for creating legislation requiring transparency and accountability in Department of Energy (DOE) budgeting.

The Committee approved legislation that would require DOE to report cost and schedule overruns for warhead Life Extension Programs, defense funded construction projects, and environmental management programs. Over the past decade the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has repeatedly cited DOE for failing to establish realistic cost estimates for environmental cleanup and construction projects.

This increased scrutiny of major DOE construction and cleanup programs is particularly important right now. The Obama administration has asked Congress to approve the largest nuclear weapons budget in history. Additionally, the administration recently released a report detailing their plan to spend more than $80 billion over the next 10 year on major facility construction projects and significantly modified nuclear warheads.

What Price Deterrence?

published Tuesday, June 08, 2010

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Originally posted on Budget Insight: A Stimson Center Blog on National Security Spending

By Stephen I. Schwartz

As part of its push to secure Senate ratification of the New START arms reduction agreement, the Obama administration recently revealed its intention to spend more than $180,000,000,000 “over the next decade” to sustain and modernize U.S. nuclear weapons delivery systems and the nuclear weapons production complex. With Senate Republicans insisting for months that support for the treaty hinges in large measure on a specific plan to invest in the future of the nuclear arsenal—and in particular the facilities that design, test, and manufacture nuclear warheads—such a move was not surprising, although the actual figure was higher than many expected.

Even in Washington, D.C., $180 billion is a great deal of money, in both absolute and relative terms. But there two key questions: How does this compare to spending in previous years, and how much would have been spent absent a new master plan and efforts to obtain 67 votes and secure passage of New START and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?

published Monday, May 17, 2010

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010

Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org

Obama Bails Out Chance for Arms Reduction Treaty by Dramatically Increasing Nuclear Weapons Budgets

Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday President Obama submitted the new bilateral Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, which makes modest reductions to the two countries’ nuclear weapons stockpiles, to the Senate for ratification. At the same time he submitted a modernization plan required by Congress that “includes investments of $80 billion to sustain and modernize the [U.S.] nuclear weapons complex over the next decade.” Given that two-thirds of the Senate is required for treaty ratifications a large political fight was always expected over a second attempt at ratifying the previously rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). However, last December all 40 Republican senators plus one independent wrote to President Obama demanding modernization of both the stockpile and complex as a condition for New START ratification. Meanwhile, the prospects for ratification of the CTBT (first proposed by Prime Minister Nehru of India in 1954) look increasingly dim.

published Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Nickolas Roth | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
2010 NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference

At the panel discussion titled “Nuclear Weapons Production in the Age of Obama: Community Experts Reporting on Continuing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production,” members of directly affected communities discussed environmental, health, legal, and international security impacts of warhead production in the United States. Three speakers of the speakers came from communities in the United States that are home to nuclear weapons production facilities.

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