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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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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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December 2, 2009
Originally
appeared at
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/12/02/02climatewire-yucca-mountain-nuclear-disposal-site-is-dead-59660.html?pagewanted=print
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire
Former
Sen. Pete Domenici, a longtime advocate of nuclear power, said
yesterday that it is time to give up attempts to create a permanent
disposal site for the nation's nuclear waste fuel at Yucca Mountain in
Nevada. He urged the Obama administration to move ahead with a planned
blue-ribbon commission to find an alternative.
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By Karen Dillon
The Kansas City Star
7/9/09
Kansas City is on the short list to become the Yucca Mountain for mercury.
And that’s not a list some officials want to be on.
A
new law requires that all of the nation’s waste mercury — now estimated
at about 10,000 tons — must be stored in one facility, or at most, just
a few facilities by 2013.
So the Department of Energy has
selected seven potential sites to be the national facility for mercury
just as Nevada’s Yucca Mountain was once designated to become the
storage location for radioactive waste.
The Energy Department
has pinpointed the Kansas City Plant, formerly AlliedSignal, on
Bannister Road. The massive plant, with its thick concrete walls and
floors and 500-year flood protections, has manufactured non-nuclear
components for nuclear weapons for half a century.
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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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2009 Fact Sheet New Reactors Too Expensive and Unnecessary | |
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Nuclear Power Will Not Solve Climate Crisis
In terms of both monetary cost and time, nuclear power is ineffective at solving the climate crisis. Dr. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, in his 2008 analysis The Nuclear Illusion, has shown that energy efficiency is seven to ten times more cost effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while renewable sources such as wind are significantly faster and less expensive to deploy than nuclear power. In his 2007 book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Dr. Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), has shown that both fossil fuels and nuclear power can be phased out of the American economy by mid-century and completely replaced with efficiency and renewables
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: Reactors5 final.pdf
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Grassroots Groups by Nuclear Site | |
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The Department of Energyís (DOE) proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program to restart nuclear waste reprocessing in the United States, poses a threat to local communities and to global security. Instead of pursuing this environmentally destructive, dangerous, and exorbitantly expensive GNEP program, DOE should store nuclear waste at reactor sites and safeguard it from terrorist attack.
The analysis provided in the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) is appallingly inadequate. Despite its legal mandate to analyze the full socio-economic and environmental impacts of GNEP, this document this PEIS does not include a complete life cycle cost analysis, fully addressing environmental or nonproliferation impacts. Furthermore, it inadequately addresses the full extent of health impacts from reprocessing.
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Press Release Template for Organizations to use regarding Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
____________________ 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.
Download Document in Word: GNEP Template for Press Release.doc
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