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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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| | | published Sunday, February 24, 2008 | 1622 Views |
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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| | | published Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | 890 Views |
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 | 1938 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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| | | published Friday, February 15, 2008 | 1230 Views |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Concerned Citizens of Wisconsin Hold Public Hearing on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy and Future of Nuclear Arsenal
Madison, Wisconsin (February 16, 2008)--On Saturday, February 16th at 10:00am, at the State Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will be co-sponsoring a hearing on U.S. nuclear weapons policy and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed nuclear weapons complex transformation.
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| | | published Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 1616 Views |
This
is a historic time for the public to speak out about nuclear weapons.
The U.S. government has proposed a plan called Complex Transformation,
which would refurbish the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, the eight sites
around the country that produce and maintain our nuclear weapons.
You
can comment on these plans and what they mean during the Public Comment
Period, which is open now and closes on APRIL 10, 2008.
Please comment
- every voice counts!
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| | | published Friday, February 08, 2008 | 1210 Views |
For many Americans, nuclear weapons bring up old memories and forgotten
associations -- the duck and cover drills of the 1950s, President
Reagan's exhortations against the "evil empire," and the plot lines of
countless straight-to-video political thrillers. It may then come as a
surprise that in 2008 the United States is considering a huge new
investment in nuclear weapons.
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| | | published Thursday, January 31, 2008 | 1282 Views |
For immediate release Thursday January 31, 2008
Susan Gordon, Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
(505) 473-1670
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
FY 2009 BUDGET REQUEST
The Department of Energy (DOE) FY 2009 budget request will be released on Monday, February 4, 2008. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a national network representing communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that spending on nuclear weapons and power will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, weapons dismantlement, and plutonium disposition.
ANA is concerned about the following likely FY 2009 budget proposals.
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| | | published Monday, October 15, 2007 | 3016 Views |
On Friday, October 19, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a
network of national and grassroots organizations whose members live
downwind and downstream from the major U.S. nuclear weapons facilities,
will host a public forum detailing the central role of the Kansas City
Plant in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
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| | | published Thursday, October 04, 2007 | 2780 Views |
NUCLEAR EXPERTS AND ACTIVISTS FROM ACROSS
THE NATION CONVENING IN KANSAS CITY:
Key Facility in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex within City Limits
In the third week of October, the Alliance for
Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a network of national and grassroots
organizations whose members live downwind and downstream of the major
U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, will be meeting in Kansas City to
raise awareness about the importance of the Department of Energy’s
Kansas City Plant in the production of new nuclear weapons.
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