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| | | published Thursday, August 28, 2008 | 0 Views |
 Olive Branch Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
Did you know that Kansas City has a Nuclear Weapons Plant?
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 | 131 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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YUCCA MOUNTAIN PROJECT: NOT THE SOLUTION FOR NUCLEAR WASTE
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only U.S. site under consideration for disposal of the nation's high-level nuclear waste.
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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 Thursday, May 31, 2007 | 4479 Views |
The National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) mandates that the public be allowed the opportunity to provide scoping comments on the federal government's Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement process.
 ANA has submitted their comments on the Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership plan which threatens to revive the practice of "reprocessing" spent nuclear fuel. Reprocessing is the technology which created the horrible environmental contamination at Hanford, WA, Savannah River Site, SC, West Valley, NY, and the Idaho National Laboratory.
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| | | published Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 7364 Views |
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Department of Energy (DOE) FY 2008 budget request was submitted to
Congress on Monday, February 5, 2007. The Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability (ANA) is concerned that spending on nuclear weapons and
energy will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, radiation
health programs and plutonium disposition. The Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability opposes any attempt to cut funding for vital cleanup
programs while increasing spending on unnecessary weapons activities.
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