UT President tries to brush off OREPA’s concerns about management bid for Y-12
Nearly two months after sending a letter to Randy Boyd, President of the University of Tennessee’s statewide system of campuses, Boyd responded. OREPA has annotated his response; click below to see it.
What does Y-12 do?

This fact sheet has basic information about the nuclear weapons work at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The University and the Bomb

Here is a fact sheet on the University of Tennessee’s plan to bid on the operations and management contract for the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, TN.
OREPA calls on University President to reconsider plan to build bombs
Immediate release, January 11, 2021 PEACE GROUP CHALLENGES UT PLAN TO MANUFACTURE NUCLEAR WEAPONS CALLS ON PRESIDENT RANDY BOYD TO RECONSIDER The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance today released a letter sent to University of Tennessee President Randy Boyd asking him to reconsider his decision to bid on the contract to manage and operate the […]
Faith Communities hail Ban Treaty: “We believe the possession, development and threat to use nuclear weapons to be immoral.”
More than 170 faith communities from around the world marked the January 22, 2021 entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by releasing a Joint Interfaith Statement. Below, the text of the statement at the current list of signers. Joint Interfaith Statement on the Entry into Force of the Treaty […]