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| | | published Sunday, March 14, 2010 | 79 Views :: 0 Comments |
for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773
cell (239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to
address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
for release at 10:00am, Monday March 15, 2010, 2322
Rayburn News Conference NUCLEAR WEAPONS WATCHDOGS GIVE PRES. OBAMA MIXED GRADES
ON NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT, WASTE CLEANUP, & REACTOR FUNDING
President Barack Obama today received a mixed report card for his
Administration’s first-year policies relating to nuclear weapons
production, waste cleanup and reactor funding. Grades presented by the
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) at a Capitol Hill news
conference ranged from an “A” for keeping his campaign promise to
terminate the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump to an “F” for
proposing to increase taxpayer subsidies for construction of new nuclear
reactors. ANA is a national network of nearly three dozen groups
representing the concerns of communities downwind and downstream from
U.S. nuclear weapons sites.
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| | | published Friday, March 12, 2010 | 198 Views :: 0 Comments |
for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 cell
(239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to
address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
* * * M E D I A A D V I S O R Y * * *
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.
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| | | published Wednesday, March 03, 2010 | 91 Views :: 0 Comments |
March 3 This piece is available at the Democratic Policy Committee website, here.
There is broad, bipartisan support among political leaders and national security experts for negotiating a follow-on START treaty with Russia. Further mutual reductions in U.S. and Russian Cold War-era nuclear arsenals are considered critical for maintaining strategic stability in our relations, enhancing the global nonproliferation regime, and, in effect, advancing U.S. security. Despite this widespread consensus in favor of a new START, some analysts have advanced unsubstantiated myths, unfounded concerns, and political slogans as negotiators have worked toward a treaty. With the Senate poised to consider the new treaty once finalized in the coming months, it is vital that these misleading and irresponsible claims be debunked, ensuring that the debate is grounded in the facts.
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New York Times Editorial February 28, 2010 Available here. Every four years the White House issues a “nuclear posture review.”
That may sound like an anachronism. It isn’t. In a world where the
United States and Russia still have more than 20,000 nuclear weapons —
and Iran, North Korea and others have seemingly unquenchable nuclear
appetites — what the United States says about its arsenal matters
enormously.
President Obama’s review was due to Congress in
December. That has been delayed, in part because of administration
infighting. The president needs to get this right. It is his chance to
finally jettison cold war doctrine and bolster America’s credibility as
it presses to rein in Iran, North Korea and other proliferators.
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Livermore Opens Its Doors to Outsiders
Long-Secretive Weapons Labs to Build Energy Research Center Where Government Scientists, Businesses Can Collaborate
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."
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| | | published Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | 197 Views :: 0 Comments | February 22, 2010
Dr. Robert Civiak, physicist and former Budget Examiner for DOE nuclear security activities at the White House Office of Management and Budget, has prepared a detailed analysis of the Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for nuclear weapons activities. His analysis exposes the inherent inconsistency of a policy of increasing funds for nuclear weapons with the Administration's purported vision of a world without them. The report includes a number of important recommendations to Congress for savings in the budget that would not sacrifice the safety or reliability of the stockpile.
To view the report, Click here.
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For Immediate Release: February 18, 2010 Peace Action is a member of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. This release can also be found here.
Washington, DC — In response to today’s speech on nuclear weapons by Vice President Biden at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, Peace Action’s — a group founded in 1957 to abolish nuclear weapons and the largest grassroots peace organization — policy director, Paul Kawika Martin, stated the following after attending the speech:
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| | | published Friday, February 12, 2010 | 394 Views :: 0 Comments | 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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| | | published Tuesday, February 02, 2010 | 760 Views :: 0 Comments | Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 By Martin Matishak Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON
-- The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a spending plan that
would increase funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security
Administration to $11.2 billion in the next fiscal year (see GSN, Jan.
29).
The agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, would
receive a 13.4-percent budget increase in fiscal 2011 to maintain the
country's nuclear stockpile and conduct nonproliferation activities
around the globe, according to the White House funding request.
More than $7 billion would be devoted beginning Oct. 1 to "weapons
activities," which ensure the safety and performance of the nation's
atomic stockpile. The amount is a $624 million increase from this year.
Another
$2.7 billion would be funneled to the agency's Defense Nuclear
Nonproliferation program, a hike of 25.8 percent above fiscal 2010.
That effort seeks to secure nuclear materials around the globe that
could be used for weapons and convert them for peaceful purposes.
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| | | published Monday, February 01, 2010 | 887 Views :: 0 Comments |
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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