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PRESS RELEASE ATTACHED
For Immediate Release
August 17, 2010
Contacts:
Jim Dougherty: 202-488-1140
Louis Zeller: 336-977-0852
Arnold Gundersen: 802-865-9955
David Kyler: 912-638-3612
Bobbie Paul: 678-938-2598
Corrosion, Cracks in Nuclear Reactor Building Would Make Plant Unsafe
Groups File New Legal Challenge at Plant Vogtle
Last week three Georgia groups revealed new public safety hazards in their ongoing campaign against nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle. On August 12, 2010 the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, the Center for a Sustainable Coast and Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions filed a legal challenge based on potential radioactive emissions from the proposed nuclear reactors. The specific flaw they identified is that corrosion will cause holes or cracks in the containment structure of the two reactors, allowing uncontrolled radioactive emissions during an accident.
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AOL News
(Aug. 4) -- Activists questioning the thoroughness of the cleanup at an old nuclear weapons plant northwest of Denver say they have found particles of weapons-grade plutonium in air samples taken near the site. Part of the site is a national wildlife refuge that is slated to open for public recreation.
The federal Department of Energy declared in 2005 that its decontamination of the Rocky Flats facility was complete, after a 10-year effort that cost $7 billion (although the DOE originally thought the project would take 65 years and $37 billion). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to allow public recreation at a national wildlife refuge established in 2007 on part of the site.
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: June 8, 2010
ANA applauds Senate Panel for Requiring Common Sense Accountability within the Department of Energy
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) applauds the
Senate Armed Services Committee for creating legislation requiring
transparency and accountability in Department of Energy (DOE) budgeting.
The Committee approved legislation that would require DOE to report cost
and schedule overruns for warhead Life Extension Programs, defense
funded construction projects, and environmental management programs.
Over the past decade the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has
repeatedly cited DOE for failing to establish realistic cost estimates
for environmental cleanup and construction projects.
This increased scrutiny of major DOE construction and cleanup programs
is particularly important right now. The Obama administration has asked
Congress to approve the largest nuclear weapons budget in history.
Additionally, the administration recently released a report detailing
their plan to spend more than $80 billion over the next 10 year on major
facility construction projects and significantly modified nuclear
warheads.
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Originally posted on Budget Insight: A Stimson Center Blog on National Security Spending
By Stephen I. Schwartz
As part of its push to secure Senate
ratification of the New START arms reduction agreement, the Obama
administration recently revealed its intention to spend more than
$180,000,000,000 “over the next decade” to sustain and modernize U.S.
nuclear weapons delivery systems and the nuclear weapons production
complex. With Senate Republicans insisting for months that support for
the treaty hinges in large measure on a specific plan to invest in the
future of the nuclear arsenal—and in particular the facilities that
design, test, and manufacture nuclear warheads—such a move was not
surprising, although the actual figure was higher than many expected.
Even
in Washington, D.C., $180 billion is a great deal of money, in both
absolute and relative terms. But there two key questions: How does this
compare to spending in previous years, and how much would have been
spent absent a new master plan and efforts to obtain 67 votes and secure
passage of New START and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?
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UK GOV'T REVEALS SIZE OF ITS NUCLEAR STOCKPILE
Associated Press
-- May 26, 2010
By Danica Kirka and Edith M. Lederer
London --
Britain offered its first accounting of its nuclear arsenal
Wednesday,
revealing that it has a stockpile of 225 warheads in a move
that
offers transparency to non-nuclear states in hopes of winning
stricter
global controls on the spread of atomic weapons.
The
announcement, made without fanfare in the House of Commons, follows
the
Obama administration's disclosure that the United States has
stockpiled
5,113 nuclear warheads and "several thousand" more retired
warheads
awaiting the junk pile — the first description of the secretive
arsenal
born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org
Obama Bails Out Chance for Arms Reduction Treaty by Dramatically Increasing Nuclear Weapons Budgets
Santa
Fe, NM – Yesterday President Obama submitted the new bilateral
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, which makes modest
reductions to the two countries’ nuclear weapons stockpiles, to the
Senate for ratification. At the same time he submitted a modernization
plan required by Congress that “includes investments of $80 billion to
sustain and modernize the [U.S.] nuclear weapons complex over the next
decade.” Given that two-thirds of the Senate is required for treaty
ratifications a large political fight was always expected over a second
attempt at ratifying the previously rejected Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty (CTBT). However, last December all 40 Republican senators plus
one independent wrote to President Obama demanding modernization of
both the stockpile and complex as a condition for New START
ratification. Meanwhile, the prospects for ratification of the CTBT
(first proposed by Prime Minister Nehru of India in 1954) look
increasingly dim.
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Nickolas Roth | Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability
2010 NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference
At the panel discussion titled “Nuclear Weapons Production in the
Age of Obama: Community Experts Reporting on Continuing U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Production,” members of directly affected communities discussed
environmental, health, legal, and international security impacts of
warhead production in the United States. Three speakers of the speakers
came from communities in the United States that are home to nuclear
weapons production facilities.
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Source URL:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-04-27/nuclear-study-will-assess-cancer-risk
By
Rob Pavey
Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Plant
Vogtle and Savannah River Site should be included in a new national
study of cancer risks for people living near nuclear facilities,
according to environmental groups.
"It's exactly what we've been
asking for -- for years," said Bobbie Paul, the executive director of
Georgia Women's Action for New Direction, which has lobbied for more
radiological monitoring in the area.
On Tuesday, the National
Academy of Sciences affirmed an April 7 request from the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to update the 1990 National Institutes of Health
and National Cancer Institute report, Cancer in Populations Living Near
Nuclear Facilities .
The 20-year-old study, which examined deaths
from 16 types of cancer, found no increased risk of death among people
living in 107 counties containing or adjacent to 62 nuclear facilities.
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By KAREN DILLON
The Kansas City Star
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it may put the Bannister Federal Complex on a priority list for cleanup. Two decades ago, the agency left the site off that special Superfund list, but now it will reassess that decision.
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for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan
Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: April 6, 2010
GROUPS
IN COMMUNITIES WITH U.S. WEAPONS FACILITIES
RAISE CONCERNS OVER
OBAMA NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW
The Obama Administration’s nuclear
weapons strategy, made public today in the new Nuclear Posture Review
(NPR), is “a mixed bag of inconsistent policies,” according to the
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA).
“ANA applauds the NPR
for opposing development of new nuclear weapons, endorsing further
reductions in the stockpile, and limiting the role of nuclear weapons.
These policies will help reduce the global threat,” said, ANA director
Susan Gordon. “But, several parts of the NPR appear to contradict
President Obama’s pledge to pursue a world without nuclear weapons.”
ANA member group Press Releases
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Peace Works, Kansas City
Peace Action
Tri Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA
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