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for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
for immediate release: February 1, 2010
ADMINISTRATION BUDGET PLAN CONTRADICTS OBAMA PLEDGE
TO REDUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREAT
Billions to be spent on new nuclear weapons production facilities.
Washington, DC - The Administration’s budget,
released today, contradicts President Obama’s pledge to reduce the
nuclear weapons threat by working toward their elimination, according
to a national network of groups in communities downwind and downstream
from U.S. nuclear sites. Instead, the spending plan boosts funding for
nuclear weapons production facilities by $625 million from last year.
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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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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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New Government Report Challenges Justification for New Warheads and Production Facilities
For Immediate Release:
November 19, 2009
Contact:
Nickolas Roth
914-673-6666
Susan Gordon
505-577-8438
A new government report released today refutes arguments that new nuclear warheads or weapons production facilities are needed.
Since 2005, both Air Force and Department of Energy officials have claimed that new design nuclear warheads were necessary because of diminishing confidence in the nuclear stockpile. At the centerpiece of plans for building new warheads are new weapons production facilities proposed for Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
In the report, the JASONs group, an independent panel of scientists contracted by the government to evaluate issues related to the nuclear stockpile, affirmed that current methods used by DOE were adequate for extending the lifetime of the nuclear stockpile.
It also found no evidence to support claims that changes to the stockpile as a result of refurbishments have increased risks to the reliability of the arsenal.
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Sandia Director Makes $1.7 million
By John Fleck
Thursday, 05 November 2009 19:16
Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter makes $1.7 million per
year, according to data made public this week.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio makes $800
thousand per year. The numbers became public this week when the labs reported them as one of
the conditions of accepting money under the federal stimulus program.
The compensation triggered outrage from critics of the nuclear weapons
research centers.
Originally Published in the Albuquerque Journal.
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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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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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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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FOR RELEASE, April 8, 2009 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505-989-7342 cell 505.920.7118 jay@nukewatch.org
Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex
For Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
“…as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act... So today, I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” President Barack Obama, April 5, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.
Washington, DC - - Today, April 8th, in the nation’s capital, Nuclear Watch New Mexico and the Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network released a major report outlining how the President’s vision of a nuclear weapons-free world can begin to be concretely realized in the near-term. First, the United States must declare that its strategic stockpile exists for only one purpose — to deter the use of nuclear weapons by others until the world is free of nuclear weapons. For that interim deterrence, a total stockpile of 500 warheads is more than sufficient, and the nuclear weapons complex can be downsized from eight sites to three.
Maintaining a Potent Deterrence
The U.S. stockpile has been extensively tested. Further, recent lifetime studies have shown it to be even more reliable than previously thought. The stockpile can be maintained through a nuts-and-bolts “curatorship” program, instead of the expensive and speculative “Stockpile Stewardship” Program that erodes confidence by intentionally introducing changes to existing nuclear weapons. Under a minimalist (but still extremely potent) nuclear deterrent, U.S. strategic forces can be progressively reduced step-by-step and the weapons complex downsized accordingly, in alignment with the President’s stated national goal of a world free of nuclear weapons.
Re-focusing Research Critical for the 21st Century
Our plan is the plan that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under the Bush Administration should have proposed for its misnamed “Complex Transformation” – but did not. NNSA’s archaic plan is dead on arrival in the Obama Administration, while our plan sets a reasonable path for 21st Century security on which the U.S. can and should embark. Our plan takes the Lawrence Livermore Lab out of nuclear weapons programs and directs it toward the energy, environmental and global climate change research that our country so desperately needs. It also ends NNSA control of the Sandia Lab in California and the Nevada Test Site by 2012, and ends weapons work at the Kansas City Plant by 2015. As the arsenal is reduced toward 500 warheads, the Savannah River Site near Aiken, SC, and then the Y-12 Site near Oak Ridge, TN, would also cease to be part of the nuclear weapons complex.
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The time is now: take a new path citizen action to call for nuclear disarmament.
1 April 2009. For immediate release.
“Abolition grows closer every day,” says Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
The growing global movement for nuclear disarmament comes to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, home of the Y12 National Security Complex, on Saturday, April 4. Three events sponsored by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance will highlight the increasing pressure on leaders to comply with the requirements of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
“Today the President of the United States and the President of the Russian Federation released a joint statement that reads: ‘We committed our two countries to achieving a nuclear free world.’” said Ralph Hutchison, OREPA’s coordinator. “The time is now. Achieving a nuclear weapons free world is possible if the world’s citizens insist on it. The April 4 Nonviolent Action for Peace and Disarmament is an important way for everyone who shares this vision to stand and be counted.”
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