Stop Mobile Chernobyl
-
-
“Expedited motion” filed by a coalition of concerned citizens, environmental organizations, and Native American/First Nation tribes against U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson regarding the “Parallex” shipment of experimental weapons-grade plutonium mixed oxide fuel from Los Alamos Nuclear Lab in New Mexico, through Michigan, to Chalk River Nuclear Lab, Ontario, Canada,
Update
-
NIRS delivers signatures of 42,000+ people urging stop to Mobile Chernobyl bill (S. 1240) to Senate Energy Committee. Press release.
Update
-
Senate Gang of 4 releases waste bill encouraging "interim" storage. Bill text and other documents.
Link
-
The Senate Energy Committee has posted all of the comments (more than 3,000) it received on its draft radwaste bill.
Link
-
Four Senators (Senate Energy Committee Chair Wyden, Feinstein, Alexander and Murkowski) introduce "discussion draft" of major high-level radioactive waste bill. Includes "interim" storage which would unleash massive transport of radwaste across the country. The Senators also ask several questions for further discussion, and two (Alexander & Feinstein) propose accelerated "interim" storage. Link is to Senate Energy Committee site with draft and several related documents.
Link
-
-
-
New report from Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads Campaign: Is a Mobile Chernobyl converging on the Southeast? The Bush administration’s GNEP project could bring high-level waste–from all across the world–to the South, with the Asheville, North Carolina area in the center of the crosshairs.
Update
-