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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 Tuesday, June 30, 2009  103 Views

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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published Friday, June 26, 2009  181 Views

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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published Friday, June 26, 2009  196 Views

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for Disease Control and Prevention released the final draft of a 558-page report 10 years in the making, the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project.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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published Thursday, June 25, 2009  172 Views

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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published Monday, June 01, 2009  566 Views

World's largest fusion facility today celebrates long, difficult road to
official opening

Contra Costa Times | Bay Area News Group
By Suzanne Bohan

The challenging pursuit of fusion is nothing new to Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory scientists. In the lab's early days in the 1950s, weapons
designers successfully developed the fearsome hydrogen - or fusion - bomb,
many times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World
War II. In 1952, the lab joined a program called Project Sherwood that
attempted to control the force of fusion to create a virtually unlimited
source of electrical energy.

Today, the lab enters the newest chapter in its fusion quest with the
official opening of the multipurpose National Ignition Facility, 15
contentious years after the project's approval. The massive, dark building
on the eastern edge of Livermore - not far from hillsides dotted with
grazing cows - covers the footprint of three football stadiums. With 192
lasers, it ranks as the world's largest laser fusion facility.

For more information on the National Ignition Facility, go to http://www.trivalleycares.org/nixnif.htm


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published Monday, May 18, 2009  955 Views

By Kimberly Kindy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 18, 2009

A private company was being paid $300 million by the federal government
to clean up radioactive waste at two abandoned Cold War plants in
Tennessee when an ironworker crashed through a rotted floor. That
prompted a major safety review, which ended up forcing work to an abrupt
halt, and the project was shut down for months. The delay and a host of
other problems caused cost estimates to rise, eventually hitting $781
million.

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published Thursday, May 14, 2009  1266 Views

Press Advisory

Environmental Coalition Launches International Project
to Explore the Impacts of the Nuclear Age

for further information contact:
Tom Carpenter
206.419.5829
tomc@hanfordchallenge.org

Susan Gordon
505.577.8438
sgordon@ananuclear.org

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Global Nuclear Legacy Project shines a light on the human and environmental
legacy of six decades of nuclear weapons and energy.

An international coalition of nuclear oversight groups is convening in Budapest, Hungary to launch the Global Nuclear Legacy Project on May 28. Their goal is explore the worldwide health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons and energy production and explore safe paths forward.


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published Friday, May 08, 2009  1191 Views

Radioactive Waste

Congress Asked to Eliminate Subsidies
For Nuclear Power, Fund More Cleanup Work

BY JANICE VALVERDE

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is asking Congress and the federal government to eliminate funding for nuclear fuel recycling research, to ban
importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste, and to make public all contracts for cleanup of defense related nuclear waste, according to alliance leaders who spoke April 27 at a press briefing.

‘‘Atomic energy is too costly, slow, and risky to solve a climate crisis,’’ the alliance said in a summary of its positions. It advocates ‘‘carbon-free and nuclear-free energy . . . that is technically and economically attainable by 2050.’’




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published Wednesday, May 06, 2009  1501 Views

Media Release
For Immediate Release
May 6, 2009
Contact:

Nickolas Roth, Program Director
914-673-6666
Susan Gordon, Director
505-577-8438

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability finds Congressionally mandated Nuclear Posture Report supports more money and less accountability.

The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released a report today that fails to support President Obama’s commitment to move towards a world free of nuclear weapons and contains proposals that would undermine his vision and nonproliferation efforts.

While the Commission endorsed positive steps like a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, the idea of reducing the nuclear stockpile, and strengthening nonproliferation efforts, it failed to endorse the necessary steps the United States must take to lead the way. Notably, the report did not endorse deep stockpile reductions and also failed to endorse ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The report endorsed the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) unnecessary proposal for Complex Transformation and stated that NNSA’s stance that Complex Transformation will not require increased funding is patently wrong. In fact, the Commission calls on Congress to guarantee a steady stream of money at higher levels than in the past.



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published Monday, April 27, 2009  1702 Views

Nuclear budget watchdogs call on U.S. Energy Department to slash spending on weapons programs and reactor subsidies, increase cleanup funding transparency and accountability

for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 April 26-29, 2009 (202) 544-0217 x2501

Representatives of communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons production and radioactive waste storage sites today urged the Obama Administration and Congress to eliminate spending for new nuclear weapons from the Department of Energy (DOE) budget, be more open with data about cleanup funding plans, and end multi-billion dollar taxpayer subsidies of new reactor development. At a Capitol Hill news conference today, leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) laid out the DOE reform agenda six dozen activists from across the country will pursue in Washington, D.C. this week.


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