This could lower stockpile confidence since the modified pits cannot be full-scaled tested because of the current testing moratorium, or alternatively could prompt the U. Their letter concludes:.
To correct their violations of NEPA, the agencies must prepare a new or supplemental PEIS in association with their decision to expand plutonium pit production by producing pits at multiple sites.
We are sending a clear message: No agency, much less one that controls nuclear weapons, has the right to run roughshod over the law. Internationally the Trump Administration is breaking arms control treaties and starting a new nuclear arms race while at home it is gutting environmental regulations. Through our actions to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act we hope to help guarantee that American taxpayers have their legally required opportunity to raise their voices against unnecessary, expensive and provocative plutonium pit bomb core production.
The ANA letter cites an April 1 letter from the chairs of fourteen committees of the House of Representatives that was followed by a letter signed by 24 Senators asking for the same consideration. The Senate letter says:. The public is an invaluable source of expertise for agency decision-makers, and their ability to weigh in on agency decisions advances the good government goals of accountability.
Yet, such meaningful participation is an impossibility for tens of millions of Americans during this pandemic emergency period. We cannot reasonably expect the public to redirect attention from protecting themselves and families to comment on federal agency rules and proceedings that while important, are not related to the crisis at hand or its response.
The NNSA has received requests for extension of at least three currently active public comment periods; it has responded to two of the requests, granting an additional fifteen days.
The letter requests a response within seven days. The letter from ANA can be found here. The letter from 14 House Chairs can be found here. The letter from 24 Senators can be found here. Additional contacts:. Ralph Hutchison, , orep earthlink. Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Tom Clements, , tomclements cs. Savannah River Site Watch. Virtual public hearing scheduled for April 30; comment period extended 15 days for Environmental Impact Statement on Plutonium Pit Production for nuclear weapons at Savannah River Site.
Jay Coghlan, , jay nukewatch. Nuclear Watch New Mexico. Today, in the middle of the growing coronavirus pandemic, the U. In contradiction to this, in independent scientists found that pits last at least a century, with no fixed end date the average age of pits is less than 40 years.
Enhanced safety can be better achieved operationally while handling nuclear weapons, whereas major design changes to pits could undermine reliability and push the U.
Given this year is the 75th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and the 50th anniversary of the Non-Proliferation Treaty - and its failed disarmament commitments - the groups contend that real national security does not consist of more unneeded and costly nuclear weapons but more protection against such things as the pandemic that now threatens us.
Absent a substantive assessment of the difficulties in converting the MOX building into a Plutonium Bomb Plant, NNSA is setting the project up for the usual delays, cost overruns and eventual failure, while risking more plutonium being stranded at SRS. The DEIS dodges the question altogether, thus fatally flawing the analysis under the law. Pursuit of a costly new Plutonium Bomb Plant once again demonstrates the inability of the Department of Energy to provide real leadership in the face of the real national security threat, the coronavirus pandemic.
If so, what is the true need for this new-design warhead? Does the NNSA budget disclose the role, cost and reliability risks of its novel-design plutonium pit? Why is expanded plutonium pit production needed to begin with when the U. Will Congress investigate the fraud and mismanagement of 8 billion taxpayer dollars that led to the cancellation of the MOX program?
DOE has never provided such cost estimates, which would demonstrate that the budget request is many tens of millions of dollars short of what is required by legal agreements with host states.
For each of the last three years the Trump budget has included funding for this technically flawed site that is strongly opposed by the public and Nevada officials and for which Congress has refused to appropriate funds. Previous Trump budgets have included that money even though DOE funding of private storage sites is prohibited by federal law and Congress refuses to appropriate the funds. For information about specific DOE nuclear weapons sites and programs, contact:.
Livermore Lab and Life Extension Programs-. Uranium Processing Facility and Dismantlements -. Jay Coghlan, Tom Clements, Reportedly, the increase is earmarked principally for modernization programs for warhead design and plutonium pit manufacturing facilities.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a nationwide coalition of grassroots watchdog groups from every major US nuclear weapons facility, notes that the current US nuclear stockpile has been certified reliable and is expected to be reliable for at least forty more years. ANA released a letter to Congressional leadership calling for a hard look at the budget request when it arrives, scheduled for February 10, and encouraging House and Senate members to reject the increase as unjustified and unwise.
Rather than speed the design and production of new warheads, such as the W, the country would be better served by cleaning up the contamination impacting our communities from the first cold war. ANA has tracked spending on nuclear weapons programs for more than thirty years. It is a brazen attempt by the NNSA and its contractors to exploit the last year of the Trump Administration; they want to gorge on taxpayer dollars while the trough is controlled by Republicans.
The increase in spending would be used in part to fund new bomb production facilities, including two new facilities to produce plutonium pits—one at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and one at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico. ANA members point out that funding these facilities in the FY budget is premature.
Clearly they are setting the taxpayer up for another boondoggle on the scale of the failed MOX project at Savannah River. And we depend on Congress to spend our money wisely.
Natural Resources Defense Council. As background, U. At that time, the agency explicitly capped production at 20 pits per year.
At the same time, LANL has had chronic nuclear safety problems that shut down operations at its main plutonium facility for three years - - the same facility now slated for expanded operations. Yet the Defense Department and NNSA have never explained why expanded plutonium pit production is necessary to begin with.
Independent experts have concluded that plutonium pits have reliable lifetimes of at least years the average pit age is less than 40 years old , with no specified end date. Crucially, there is no pit production scheduled to maintain the safety and reliability of the existing nuclear weapons stockpile. Instead, proposed future pit production is for speculative new-design nuclear weapons. Both proposed new-design nuclear warheads were subsequently canceled.
That could adversely impact national security because newly produced plutonium pits cannot be full-scale tested given the global nuclear weapons testing moratorium, or alternatively could push the U. The National Environmental Policy Act NEPA clearly requires that proposed major federal actions be subject to public environmental review, which federal executive agencies must undertake early in their decision-making processes. This perhaps explains why NNSA now refuses to prepare a new supplemental programmatic environmental impact statement for expanded pit production.
And above all is the clear requirement in the court order that DOE must prepare a supplemental PEIS when it plans on producing more than 80 pits per year. Moreover, use of a speculative untested pit in a new Livermore Lab-design warhead will degrade, not enhance, the safety and reliability of the U. My group stands ready to uphold NEPA and the specific court order. There is a Federal Court order that directly addresses this issue.
We have yet to see a meaningful response by NNSA to that order. Pursuit of the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS is not only on shaky legal ground but the authorization and funding by Congress of all new pit production will be challenged this year and in subsequent years.
The repurposing of the poorly constructed MOX plant for nuclear weapons production is guaranteed to run off the rails as DOE has repeatedly demonstrated that it is incapable of properly managing the budgets and schedules of such complex projects. Unnecessary expanded production of questionable plutonium bomb cores is not the way to do it.
Instead of aggressively modifying nuclear weapons the U. It provides succinct background. Pena, 20 F. If the agencies continue on their current trajectory, we will have no choice but to evaluate all our options to enforce compliance with federal environmental laws. As background, on May 10, , the Departments of Defense and Energy jointly announced that plutonium pit production would be expanded from the currently sanctioned level of 20 pits per year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL in northern New Mexico to at least 30 pits per year, plus redundant production of at least 50 pits per year at the Savannah River Site SRS in South Carolina, which would be a completely new mission there.
Expanded plutonium pit production is NOT to maintain the safety and reliability of the existing nuclear weapons stockpile. The potential danger is that national security will be degraded because these pits cannot be full-scale tested given the global testing moratorium, or alternatively could prompt the U. Perhaps most significant of all, the Natural Resources Defense Council pointed to a court order that it had secured while representing more than 60 citizen organizations that requires DOE to prepare a supplemental PEIS when the Department begins to plan for more than 50 pits per year with a single work shift, or more than 80 with multiple work shifts.
On the other, there is also a federal court order that mandates a PEIS in the present circumstance. Following that, given the massive changes proposed for LANL due to expanded pit production, NNSA will also have to prepare a new site-specific site-wide environmental impact statement for the Los Alamos Lab.
All three groups are members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a grassroots network of public interest groups that addresses Department of Energy issues nationwide. Media Advisory - for immediate release…. The rally will expose the humanitarian consequences of the bomb with first-hand testimony from a survivor.
Livermore Lab is designing Armageddon. It is imperative to gather at Livermore Lab on the date a nuclear weapon was first used in war to stop the creation of new warheads proposed by President Trump.
Rally at AM see below. Those who choose will peaceably risk arrest. The march will go southward down Vasco Road to Westgate Drive. His mother and sister died from illnesses linked to radiation poisoning and his brother died at age 39 from premature aging associated with fallout from the bomb. Hanaoka is a retired minister in the United Methodist Church, who came to the U. He has settled in the Bay Area where he speaks, writes and teaches on topics of peace and human rights.
Sharat G. Lin will speak on current nuclear flashpoints. Lin writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, social movements, and public health. Last August he delivered an apology from the American people to the Japanese people for the U.
A medical radiation scientist by training, Lin has connections to the nuclear energy programs in Iran and India, providing him with inside knowledge of the decision-making behind those programs. His insights on the nuclear calculations of Iran and North Korea are reinforced by personal visits to these countries, and provide a vision for denuclearization. Congress, the California Legislature and the National Academy of Sciences, among other deliberative bodies.
She has lived in Livermore since His poetry and academic articles appear in reviews and anthologies in the U. She is a retired Judge who has worked and lived in Indian Country and seen firsthand the impacts of sacrifice zones created by the development of nuclear weapons.
Roxanne first came into contact with nuclear issues in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, which moved her to pursue graduate studies in renewable energy alternatives to the pollution, destruction and terror that nuclear weapons inflict.
They represent the fresh, dynamic leadership of young adults in the peace movement. Kodama is an educator, artist, and organizer born and raised in Walnut Creek, California.
After working for the Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center for two years doing community outreach he recently transitioned into the role of Executive Director in June. As Director, she amplifies youth and minority voices while honing in on the grassroots success that local activists before her have fought for and achieved.
WHY : O ur world is facing numerous nuclear flashpoints within global conflicts and crises that could catastrophically escalate at any moment. Under Trump, the U. Russia, China, France, U. While halting talks with North Korea have commenced, the Trump Administration has scuttled the Iran nuclear deal and is escalating pressure on the Iranian regime.
Following the U. We may be heading into new, unpredictable rounds of arms racing. The average age of the Hibakusha now exceeds It is our strong desire to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world in our lifetime so that succeeding generations of people will not see hell on earth ever again.
There will be signs and banners. Call for details. Carolina, The detailed letter warns the nuclear agency to not proceed with aggressive plans to expand plutonium pit production without first meeting its legal requirements for timely public review and comment under the National Environmental Policy Act. The three nuclear watchdog groups met with members of Congress and key committees to discuss the pit production issue at the national Alliance for Nuclear Accountability DC Days in mid-May.
Nearly 70 activists from a dozen states hosting nuclear weapons sites held more than 90 meetings with members of Congress and executive branch offices during the 3-day event. At SRS, plutonium pit production would be an entirely new mission. Moreover, federal proposals requiring implementation over broad geographic areas and long time frames, such as expanded pit production at multiple sites, must be analyzed in a programmatic environmental impact statement PEIS.
Should they fail to respond, the three organizations will consider concrete next steps available through both the law and the congressional appropriations process.
The forum will be held in the Aiken Municipal Building auditorium from 7 p. Gordon-Hagerty is available from the nuclear watchdog organizations.
You will find it on the Nuclear Watch New Mexico website at. Media Advisory. May 13, Columbia, SC — The controversial proposal by the U. The event is free and open to all members of the public. The vague proposal is far from finalized and is unauthorized and unfunded by Congress. When: Friday, June 14, , 7 p. The order, first announced by DOE in April, , has drawn scrutiny from members of Congressional committees with oversight over the Energy Department.
DOE Order Members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a national network of organizations that addresses nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup issues, hail the work of the DNFSB as a critical guard against DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration efforts to cut corners on safety. The role of the Safety Board should be expanded, not curtailed.
I have spent 35 years monitoring Livermore Lab. I can tell you that workers and community members rely on the Safety Board to do its job—every day! Two months later, ANA has received no response—not even an acknowledgement of our letter—from the Department. Their reports provide a window into the operations at sites across the country. Too often, they tell us of problems and incidents that pose risks to workers and potentially to the public.
We are grateful for the technical expertise and the transparency that are the hallmarks of the work of DNFSB. This effort to constrain them is wrongheaded and dangerous. In a letter dated November 27, , ANA wrote to Congressional committee leaders asking for Congressional action to compel DOE to meet its obligations and provide unfettered access to DNSFB to information, documents, personnel and defense nuclear facilities across the weapons complex.
Under the revised order, the Safety Board is prohibited from talking to contractor employees—the people closest to the work—without getting authorization from managers and DOE. That is unacceptable. Tom Carpenter, Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, noted numerous instances of Safety Board intervention that identified serious safety concerns.
They have also tagged issues at the Waste Treatment Plant, including criticality control, flaws in the design and construction of electrical systems, and erosion and corrosion in the pulse jet mixer system for high-level waste. The Board identified major issues with the potential releases of ammonia at the Waste Treatment Plant as well as design flaws that could deliver fatal doses to workers in some parts of that facility. ANA groups charge that many hazards identified by the DNFSB across the nuclear weapons complex would not have otherwise been brought forward or corrected, creating unacceptable safety conditions that would present a menace to human health, safety, and the environment.
NNSA refused—the result was a financial disaster that cost taxpayers more than half a billion dollars. Kelley agreed. The job of the Board is set out in the congressional legislation that created it in The letter requests a response from NNSA within 30 days.
Gordon-Hagerty testified that expanded plutonium pit production was her number one priority. In the Department of Energy formally relocated the pit production mission to LANL after completing a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement that specifically capped production at 20 pits per year.
NNSA is now moving ahead with plans to quadruple that rate while establishing redundant production at the Savannah River Site, which would be a completely new mission at that site. The National Environmental Policy Act clearly requires that proposed major federal actions be subject to public environmental review, which federal executive agencies must undertake early in their decision-making processes.
Moreover, the now-planned 80 pits or more per year will establish production at a second site more than 1, miles from LANL. Following that review the groups note that NNSA must also complete required site-specific analyses. The current limit of 20 pits per year is more than sufficient for that task.
This new-design was originally envisioned as a first-ever warhead that would be interchangeable for land-based and submarine-based missiles. However, the U. Navy has refused to support it. It is, in a word, unnecessary. This make-work program should be canceled. And, absent a genuine technical driver, the production of plutonium bomb cores should remain limited to the current cap of 20 per year.
Independent experts have found that pits last at least a century. Future production will not manufacture exact replicas of existing, previously tested pits. The MOX Program was designed to convert 34 metric tons of military plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel, but the project was plagued by never-ending cost overruns.
There is no current legal basis for repurposing the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility for a plutonium pit production mission, so that work cannot now proceed. Gordon-Hagerty is available from the three organizations.
Click here for the demand letter to NNSA. Kathy Crandall Robinson will speak at the hearing. Members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability , a national network of organizations that addresses nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup issues, hail the work of the DNFSB as a critical guard against DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration efforts to cut corners on safety. Tom Carpenter , Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, noted numerous instances of Safety Board intervention that identified serious safety concerns.
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Fact Sheet. Media Advisory - for immediate release August 3, California organizations will mark the 73 rd anniversary of the U.
We will expose the humanitarian consequences of the bomb with first-hand testimony. At AM , participants will march to the Lab West Gate, where a Japanese bon dance and the chalking of bodies on pavement will commemorate the vaporized remains found after the atomic bombings. Influenced by the Fukushima disaster, she began working with San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace in California and the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes in Japan, as well as other groups fighting for a nuclear-free world.
He has authored numerous publications on the health impacts of nuclear weapons and the role of health professionals in promoting environmental health, peace and justice for all. She has worked for more than 35 years to ensure that the sacred system of life continues in a manner that is safe, sustainable and healthy.
She brings 34 years of research, writing and facilitating public participation in decisions regarding the Livermore Lab and the U. Kelley has testified before the U. Cabasso is a leading voice for nuclear weapons abolition, speaking regularly at events and conferences in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
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