December 9, 2008: 50+ organizations urge Obama to end Bush’s GNEP and reprocessing programs. 
Research Report No. 5, International Panel on Fissile Materials. The Legacy of Reprocessing in the United Kingdom. Martin Forwood. July 2008.
Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty and Expensive; Why Extracting Plutonium from Nuclear Reactor Spent Fuel is a Bad Idea. Fact sheet from Union of Concerned Scientists. May 2008
A major new report on the French reprocessing program from the International Panel on Fissile Materials finds that it does not reduce volume of radioactive waste and would have to be half its current cost to be economically competitive with storage of the waste, thus undercutting the Bush administration’s major arguments for reprocessing. May 14, 2008.
March 31, 2008: New report slams President Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program,finding—among other problems–that no economic cost-benefit analysis has been done, the technologies proposed do not exist, and the program would be too slow and expensive to address climate change. Report is from Institute for Policy Studies, Friends of the Earth, Government Accountability Project and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
May 23, 2007: 30 minute television interview hosted by Dave Kraft of Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago, with guests Shaun Burnie (European nuclear waste consultant) and Aileen Mioko Smith (of Green Action in Kyoto, Japan) on the many risks of commercial nuclear waste reprocessing under the Bush Administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposal.
January 26, 2006: 28 groups write to all 535 Members of Congress urging opposition to the reprocessing relapse
January 23, 2006: Federal Decision Triples Radioactive Burden In Permanent Sacrifice Zone of the Southeast. NIRS Southeast press release.
January, 2006. Reprocessing is NOT the Solution to the Nuclear Waste Problem. NIRS factsheet.
October 20, 2005: Group Letter to Energy & Water Appropriations Conferees: Oppose Interim Storage & Reprocessing of Nuclear Waste.
Urge your Member of Congress to oppose pro-reprocessing and Mobile Chernobyl language in the House Energy & Water Appropriations Bill by supporting the Spratt and Markey-Holt Amendments. NIRS Action Alert. May 24, 2005.
Radioactive Waste Reprocessing. NIRS factsheet. May 2005.
Great Lakes United Resolution on West Valley Nuclear Wastes. June 2004
Natural Resources Defense Council letter to U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham ( 1,18Mb)(R-SC) urging him to desist from sponsoring DOE-written legislation enabling the abandonment of high-level radioactive waste from reprocessing in underground storage containers next to major rivers and above major aquifers, May 12, 2004
Related Links
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s web page has lots of info on DOE trying to abandon HLRW in South Carolina and Idaho (and maybe someday Washington and New York).
IEER – have done work on La Hague, France and Sellafield, UK (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environement, for example).
January 26, 2006: 20+ groups warn Congress against Bush Administration reprocessing initiative