Tell the Supercommittee no bucks for bombs!
Oct 24, 2011 No Comments ›› orepaNOW IS THE TIME to send a message to the Budget Supercommittee to tell them to cut funding for the new bomb plant in Oak Ridge. Here is the info you need—including a quick link to the Supercommittee's contact page. United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka The Budget Supercommittee) The committee is charged with issuing ...
Continue ReadingReport on NNSA Tritium expansion meeting
Oct 21, 2011 1 Comment ›› orepaFirst Report on the Scoping meeting for the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Expanding Tritium Production and Increasing Tritium Releases to the Environment 20 October 2011 Athens, Tennessee Cooperating agencies present: National Nuclear Security Administration (Curtis Chambellin) and Tennessee Valley Authority (Dan Stout) Agencies not cooperating and not present: Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Dan ...
Continue ReadingMessage to Budget Super Committee — Stop Wasting on Nukes
Sep 29, 2011 No Comments ›› orepaThe Budget Super Committee is looking for places to save money, and OREPA has found a whopper! How about saving 85 billion over the next ten years by NOT MODERNIZING our already modern nuclear weapons? Representative Ed Markey has drafted a letter to the Super Committee that calls for some fiscal restraint on nuclear weapons—it doesn't ...
Continue ReadingNNSA ANNOUNCES PLAN FOR MORE TRITIUM PRODUCTION
Sep 29, 2011 No Comments ›› orepaThe National Nuclear Security Administration has published a Notice of Intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on expanding the production of tritium for nuclear weapons in the Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear reactors in Tennessee. The NOI includes a startling revelation: current tritium production operations are releasing three to four times the amount of ...
Continue ReadingUpdate on Y12 Resisters
Sep 23, 2011 1 Comment ›› orepaUpdate on the Y12 Resisters last update: Friday, January 13, 2012 On January 6, Steve Baggarly, Mike Walli and Bonnie Urfer were released from prison after serving 8 months for their July 10, 2010 action at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Their co-defendant, Father Bill Bichsel, remains in custody in SeaTac Federal Prison ...
Continue ReadingYouth Declaration for A Safer World • April 2011
Here is the text of the Youth Declaration for A Safer World Is Our Right:
Footprints for Peace
