Be there, comment at DOE meetings to stop global mobile Chernobyl!
STOP Global Mobile Chernobyl!
ATTEND Public meetings! (schedule below)
MAKE Comments** by 4/4/07 to GNEP-PEIS@nuclear.energy.gov to stop revival of centralizing the high-level waste, reprocessing, and nuclear power
Please forward.
George Bush's Department of Energy is attempting to put together an over-the-top nuclear theme park plan, the centerpiece of which would relieve US nuclear reactor owners of the burden of their high-level radioactive waste, even though we have together fought off the plan to take the waste to the Goshute Reservation in Utah, and have forestalled Yucca Mountain nearly indefinitely...
Now the plan is to move the high-level waste to one (or more) of the communities named below — and to also bring radioactive waste from all over the world to the same site(s) for eventual reprocessing. For more information on these programs, please visit the links at the end of this ALERT. Please do not for a moment forget that the #1 reason that these corporations want to move this waste is so that they can make more — Wall St. has said that moving the waste is a priority if there is going to be more private investment in new nuclear power reactors. Most of the new reactors are slated as additions to existing reactor sites.
What is needed is ACTION — the Department of Energy is planning 11 public meetings THIS MONTH (see the table below). Because the DOE is handing out money to these communities, the local press is covering these meetings. WE NEED TO BE THERE! Bring everyone...it is a great place for children and elders...boring for them, but a good reminder for the DOE!
Sorry for the short notice. We need to show up and be heard. Comments will be "on the record" — though it seems that the style of the meeting will be a little different—instead of long presentations theater-style they are doing "workshops" where people will engage in small groups with DOE staff. If you are comfortable with making your opposition VISIBLE (T-shirt or arm band), this will help others attending to know they are not alone... The DOE nearly always offers table space for groups to bring handouts. We recommend you contact them (info below) and do that.
If you have questions feel free to contact NIRS staff — Kevin Kamps (kevin@nirs.org or 301-270-6477, ex 14) or Mary Olson in the NIRS Southeast Office (nirs@main.nc.us or 828-675-1792). Please help spread the word!
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Date: February 13, 2007
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Double Tree Hotel
215 South Illinois Avenue
Time: 6:00-9:30pm |
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Date: February 15, 2007
North Augusta, South Carolina
North Augusta Community Center
495 Brookside Avenue
Time: 6:00-9:30pm |
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Date: February 22, 2007
Joliet, Illinois
Barber Ober-Wortmann Horticultural Center
227 North Gougar Street
Time: 6:00-9:30pm |
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Date: February 26, 2007
Hobbs, New Mexico
Lea County Event Center
5101 N Lovington-Hobbs Hwy
Time: 6:00-9:3Opm |
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| Date: February 27, 2007
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Pecos River Village Conf. Center
Carousel House
711 Muscatel Avenue
Time: 9:00am-12:30pm |
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Date: February 27, 2007
Roswell, New Mexico
Best Western Sally Port Inn & Sts
2000 N. Main Street
Time: 6:00-9:30pm |
| Date: March 1, 2007
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Hilltop House Best Western
400 Trinity Drive (at Central)
Time: 6 00—9:3Opm |
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Date: March 6,2007
Paducah, Kentucky
Executive Inn Riverfront
One Executive Boulevard
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm
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Date: March 8, 2007
Piketon, Ohio
Ohio State University Endeavor Center/Rm. 160
1862 Shyville Road
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm
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Date: March 13, 2007
Pasco, Washington
Red Lion Hotel
2525 N. 20th Avenue
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm
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Date: March 15, 2007
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Red Lion Hotel on the Falls
475 River Parkway
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm
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Date: March 19, 2007
Washington. D.C.
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Time: 1:00-5:00pm
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** COMMENT BY APRIL 4, 2007 to
Mr. Timothy A. Frazier GNEP PEIS Document Manager, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-0119, or via telephone: 866-645-7803, Fax: 866-645-7807, or by e-mail at GNEP-PEIS@nuclear.energy.gov. Additional information on GNEP may be found at www.gnep.energy.gov.
Same contact for additional information on meetings and the PEIS process and project.
For More Information on GNEP — visit the official site above, and check out:
http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/pdf/HouseBriefing10March06rev2.pdf
Reprocessing: http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/reprocessisnotsolution.pdf
And http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/reprocessing/reprocesshome.htm
List of award winners:
1. Atomic City, Idaho, EnergySolutions, LLC $915,448
2. Barnwell, EnergySolutions, LLC $963,151
3. Hanford Site, Wash., Tri-City Industrial Development Council/Columbia Basin Consulting Group $1,020,000
4. Hobbs, N.M., Eddy Lead Energy Alliance $1,590,016
5. Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, Regional Development Alliance, Inc $648,745
6. Morris, Ill., General Electric Company $1,484,875
7. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee $894,704
8. Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ky., Paducah Uranium Plant Asset Utilization, Inc. $664,600
9. Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ohio, Piketon Initiative for Nuclear Independence, LLC $673,761
10. Roswell, N.M., EnergySolutions, LLC $1,134,522
11. Savannah River National Laboratory, Economic Development Partnership of Aiken and Edgefield Counties $468,420
TOTAL: $10,458,242
- Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, www.nirs.org
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