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Frank Munger
Knoxville News
Knoxville, TN
September 4, 2008
Ralph Hutchison, longtime coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, always speaks his mind, and by no means does he limit his voice to local protests and occasional trips to New York and Washington, D.C. 
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| | | published Tuesday, September 02, 2008 | 58 Views |
New Poll: Nuclear weapons for some encourage nuclear weapons for all
The Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World commissioned a Harris Interactive poll in August, and released the results August 28. Among 2,345 American adults surveyed, a full 68 percent believe possession of nuclear weapons by the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea encourages countries without nuclear weapons to develop them. Twenty-two percent of adults said it had no impact, and 11 percent said it discouraged development. In other words, "Americans understand that 'Do as I say, not as I do' is advice that is falling on deaf ears," said Susan Gordon, director of Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
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| | | published Thursday, August 28, 2008 | 0 Views |
Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
The Kansas City Plant is located in the Bannister Federal Complex near Holmes and
Bannister Road and is run by Honeywell under NNSA, the National Nuclear Security Administration. It makes over 85% of the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, averages over 5000 shipments a month of nuclear weapons parts and is having its busiest workload in 20 years even in this post-Cold War era!
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| | | published Saturday, August 16, 2008 | 238 Views |
The Fernald Preserve and its visitors center make their public debut Wednesday at the former site of the government facility that processed uranium metal for nuclear weapons from 1952 to 1989
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| | | published Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | 390 Views |
Albuquerque Journal
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
By Frida Berrigan and Susan GordonSixty-three years ago this week, the United States was the first (and last — so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two warheads in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Tens of thousands were killed instantly, and by the end of 1945 another 200,000 had died from radiation-related ailments
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| | | published Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | 0 Views |
America’s nuclear arsenal and the policies that govern its size and contents are at a critical crossroads as the Bush Administration reaches its final months. The U.S. Energy Department and its semi-autonomous weapons division, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), have pushed hard in recent years for
the go-ahead to produce new kinds of nuclear weapons, and for expensive new facilities in which to manufacture them.
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| | | published Monday, May 12, 2008 | 40 Views |
U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy (DOE) sites polluted with massive amounts of radioactive and hazaradous wastes.
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| | | published Monday, April 14, 2008 | 1672 Views |
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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| | | published Monday, April 14, 2008 | 1305 Views |
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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