for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 cell (239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502

A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup

WHAT: News briefing to release 1st Year Radioactive Report Card on President Obama and his Administration to grade their performance on policies on nuclear weapons production, waste cleanup and reactor funding.

WHEN: Monday, March 15, 2010 - - 10:00am

WHERE: Room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a national network of organizations representing the concerns of people living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing, production and waste disposal facilities

- Michele Boyd, Director, Safe Energy Program, Physicians for Social Responsibility -- taxpayer subsidies for new reactors, radioactive waste disposal, and nuclear contamination cleanup

- Ralph Hutchison, Coordinator, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance -- new Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear production plants, the next generation of weapons they may help support, and the implications for U.S. treaty obligations

- Nick Roth, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability -- performance of President Obama and his Administration during its first year in office and changes that must be made to improve its grades.

By BENJAMIN PIMENTEL
Found on WSJ.com; view here.

Livermore, home to two major U.S. weapons laboratories, existed as a city of fences and secrets during the Cold War and for years afterward. Now, some of those fences are receding.

Both of the city's weapons labs—Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories—are moving forward on plans to build a campus where government scientists and outside researchers can work together on clean-energy technology.

...

But the open campus also has attracted critics. Marylia Kelley, of Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, an advocacy group long opposed to the labs' nuclear-weapons development, says the project could be "a green-washing, public-relations move" meant "to give an imprimatur of environmental responsibility" to what she calls "the very dirty work of researching and developing new and modified nuclear bombs."

for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438

for immediate release: February 1, 2010

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.

for further information, contact:

Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory

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.”

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, Federation of American Scientists & the Bipartisan Security Group

Invite you to briefings

The New START Treaty: What Next for the Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure?

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Senate Dirksen G11

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1 pm – 2:00 pm, Rayburn B340

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Hans Bethe Center, 322 Fourth St. NE

With

Ambassador Robert Grey 


Director, Bipartisan Security Group

Former US Representative to the

Conference on Disarmament from 1998-2001

Ivan Oelrich, Ph. D.

Acting President, Federation of American Scientists

Former Senior Analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment

Ralph Hutchison

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability