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Oppose Additional F-22s Paid for with Environmental Cleanup Funds
June 23, 2009
Dear Representative:
Please support any amendment to the FY10 defense authorization bill, H.R. 2647, to eliminate funds for advance procurement of 12 F-22 Raptor fighter jets and restore the money for environmental cleanup.
Defense Secretary Gates requested four additional F-22 fighters in the FY09 Supplemental Appropriations Act, completing the fleet at 187 planes and ending production. Money to purchase those final four aircraft has already been appropriated. We oppose the additional twelve aircraft sought by the Committee in the FY10 defense authorization at a cost of $369 million for FY10.
The funds for F-22s were taken from money intended for cleanup of nuclear weapons sites, and we believe this is unwise. More than six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy sites contaminated by radioactive and hazardous waste. The contamination threatens workers, communities, and the environment,
including major water supplies. Cleaning up that contamination should remain a priority for Congress and the administration. Inadequate funding in 2010 can lead to missing legally obligated cleanup milestones, allows contamination to spread, and can result in additional spending to pay fines and penalties. Funding shortfalls in one year also require additional spending in future years.
If you would like your organization to sign onto the letter, email nroth@ananuclear.org with your name, title, organization's name, and state.
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Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility 4554 12th Ave. NESeattle, WA 98105 (206) 547-2630 September 14, 2007
Greater-Than-Class C Low-Level Radioactive Waste EIS Scoping
James Joyce
Office of Regulatory Compliance (EM-10) U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue,SW. Washington, DC 20585–0119
Comments submitted via www.gtcceis.anl.gov/involve/comments/index.cfm.
Deadline September 21, 2007
Dear James Joyce:
We appreciate the opportunity to submit comments on the subject EIS Scoping. We also
appreciate the measures taken by the Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate public comments, by allowing electronic submittal and by placing relevant documents on a publicly available web site. Below please find comments from the Hanford Task Force of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Download PDF: GTCC/0709gtccscopingcomm_wpsr.pdf
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New Mexico May Be the Dump for DOE’s Catch-all Category of Radioactive Wastes
The United States has a lot of nuclear waste that we don’t know what to do with. For one type of waste, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed solution is sadly, once again, to bury it in the ground -- perhaps in New Mexico. After 20 years of essentially ignoring “Greater Than Class C” (GTCC) waste, DOE is now giving the public a chance to comment on its disposal plans.
Download PDF: GTCC fact sheet CCNS NWNM.pdf
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Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC) wastes are the most radioactive form of Low-Level Waste (LLWand are dangerous for hundreds of years. DOE will be choosing one or more locations to bury GTCC radioactive wastes using one or more disposal methods. These radioactive wastes must be handled in a manner that is safe and secure for future generations. Environmental Impact Statements are required by NEPA for all major proposed federal actions. This is your chance to comment on the Department of Energy’s latest proposal to handle GTCC radioactive wastes.
Suggested sample comments follow.
• Analyze hardened on-site storage (HOSS): GTCC radioactive wastes must be safely
stored
Download PDF: GTCC/GTCC Sample Comments NWNM.pdf
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The following principles are based on the urgent need to protect the public from the threats posed by the current vulnerable storage of commercial irradiated fuel. The United States does not have a near-term solution for the permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste. The proposed Yucca Mountain site is unsafe for geologic storage of nuclear waste and the program remains mired in bad science, mismanagement, and yet another design overhaul. Even if licensed, Yucca Mountain could not legally contain all of the waste produced by existing reactors. Under the U.S. Department of Energy’s unrealistically optimistic scenario, Yucca Mountain is not predicted to begin receiving waste until at least 2017 and transporting waste to the site would take more than 30 years. Meanwhile, irradiated fuel at reactor sites remains vulnerable to accidents and attacks
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