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Tri-City Herald By Annette Cary, Herald staff
writer
The Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability gave the Department of Energy a failing grade Monday for its
budget proposals for environmental cleanup at Hanford and other nuclear
sites. The alliance, which includes
Heart of America Northwest, held a news conference in Washington,
D.C.
“DOE is simply not up to the task
of running the nation’s largest cleanup program,” Gerald Pollet, executive
director of Heart of America, said in a statement.
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Dayton Daily News By Jessica
Wehrman | Monday, April 14, 2008, 01:39 PM
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability - a network of organizations that
opposes new nuclear weapons production and advocates a speedier cleanup - took
the Department of Energy to task Monday, saying that when it sped up cleanup of
the former Mound, Fernald and Rocky Flats nuclear sites, it broke a promise to
spend extra money on cleanup of other former nuclear sites.
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CQ HOMELAND SECURITY
April 14, 2008 – 8:19 p.m. By Matt Korade, CQ Staff
The Bush administration’s reliable replacement warhead program and plans to
overhaul nuclear weapons production facilities earned a “D” in a report from the Alliance on Nuclear Accountability.
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WHAT: Briefing on
"Nuclear Weapons Reform: Agenda for the Next Administration" based on aDepartment of Energy (DOE) Radioactive Report Card compiled by
leaders of groups from communities located in the shadows of U.S. nuclear
weapons sites.
WHEN: Monday, April 14, 2008 - -10:00am
WHERE: Room485 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
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By Kevin Welch
Amarillo Globe-News
Publication Date: 02/29/08
About 40 people, including Pantex and National Nuclear Security Administration staff attended a Thursday night public hearing on the proposal at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
One part of the plan calling for increased manufacture of new nuclear pits, the core of nuclear warheads, drew the most criticism.
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Comments given by ANA Director Susan Gordon at the Pantex hearing in Texas.
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Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Tri-City Herald
By Annette Cary, Herald senior writer
The Department of Energy budget request for Hanford and other nuclear
waste sites is $1.1 billion short, said senators in an appeal Wednesday
to the Senate Budget Committee.
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By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER - Associated Press Writer
http://www.thestate.com/312/story/323827.html
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. --
Protesters bearing posters of nuclear bomb-blasted Hiroshima and Nagasaki greeted Department of Energy officials who came to South Carolina on Thursday to get public comments on the agency's plans to revamp the nation's nuclear weapons facilities.
"Stop the insanity! Slow down our nuclear weapons production!" said Henry Gurr, a retired physics professor from nearby Aiken.
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Takoma Park, Md., February 20, 2008: More than 3,000 groups and individuals today sent a letter to President Bush urging him to shift the basis of many U.S. radiation health protection standards from an adult Caucasian male model, called "Reference Man," to those most at risk, specifically including children and pregnant women.
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| | | published Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | 1126 Views |
Estimated future environmental liability costs for the Pantex Plant top
$400 million, according to government figures obtained by a New Mexico
environmental group, but a Pantex official said the estimates are a few
years old and that such costs are expected to drop over time.
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