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Op-Ed from Dan Yoken
On February 4, 2010, Secretary of Energy Chu testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to discuss the President’s FY2011 budget request. While we agree with many of Chu’s commitments to clean energy and environmental cleanup, the focus on nuclear energy projects, the imbalance of the Nuclear Waste Panel and the hefty commitment to MOX in the Nonproliferation budget present problems that could lead to debilitating results in coming years.
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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.
Items of interest:
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Monday, Sep. 14, 2009
By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald staff writer
Making Hanford the nation's storage site for tons of excess mercury
could interfere with environmental cleanup of the site, according to
government agencies.
The states of Washington and Oregon, the Hanford Communities and the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation each have
submitted written comments to the Department of Energy outlining their
concerns.
"It is unacceptable for the nation's leadership to consider sending
12,000 tons of elemental mercury to Hanford when it will be another 50
years before existing waste is cleaned up," the tribes said in a letter
to DOE.
DOE is looking across the nation for mercury storage sites after the
Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 prohibited the export of mercury
beginning in 2013 and required the agency to have facilities ready to
manage and store mercury generated in the United States.
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August 11, 2009
By ROGER SNODGRASS, Monitor Editor
There are currently several nails in the coffin of a nuclear policy that has
strongly favored commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium. Ivan
Oelrich wants to make sure it doesn’t pop open again.
A recurring idea in the political tug-of-war between proponents and
opponents of nuclear energy, nuclear reprocessing is intended to achieving a
plutonium fuel cycle, and thereby provide a plentiful supply of nuclear fuel
and a more easily-stored waste product.
Originally published in the Los Alamos Monitor: http://www.lcni5.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?075+article+News+20090808213804075075001
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Japan Times, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009
By DAVID JEFFRIES
Kyodo News
HANFORD, Wash. (Kyodo) For Shirley Olinger, managing the cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site —part of the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state that produced the
plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 — is personal.
Despite these signs of progress, Tom Carpenter, executive director of
the Hanford Challenge, warns that the bulk of the work has yet to be
done.
"I call this 'stopping the bleeding' because it was damaging the
environment," Carpenter said. "But what can we really say about tank
waste? Ninety percent of the Hanford cleanup is this waste. And I think
they are stuck."
Originally published in the Japan Times: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090810a8.html
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a notification in the Federal Register today that it is extending the comment period on the Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) by 90 days. The public comment period will now end on March 16, 2009.
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Audio transcripts of GNEP hearing in Bolingbrook, Illinois provided by IndyMedia reporter and Greens candidate Rita Sand Maniotis
http://chicago.indymedia.org/media/all/display/31025/index.php
http://chicago.indymedia.org/media/all/display/31026/index.php
http://chicago.indymedia.org/media/all/display/31027/index.php
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Testimony by Susan Gordon
November 20, 2008
Global Nuclear Energy Partnership PEIS
The
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is a network of more than 36
local, regional and national organizations representing the concerns of
communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and
radioactive waste dumps. Many of our member organizations are in areas
targeted for reprocessing facilities and are gravely concerned that
their communities will become nuclear waste dumps just like West
Valley, New York, Pocatello, Idaho, Richland, Washington, and Aiken,
South Carolina.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For more information contact: Rachel Larson, cell 971.533.5380, office 503.274.2720 email: Rachel@oregon psr.org
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility opposes the reprocessing of nuclear waste under the Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), as recommended by the recent Department of Energy (DOE) report, entitled Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement [PEIS] for Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.
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The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) objects to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)’s support for reprocessing of high level radioactive waste. As stated in the draft PEIS, GNEP intends to provide nuclear power that is safe, secure and economical while “reducing the impacts associated with spent nuclear fuel disposal and reducing proliferation risks.” ANA, however, finds that the GNEP proposal would actually exacerbate the inherent proliferation, cost, safety, waste, and security risks associated with nuclear power.
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