The administration wants to help nuclear energy companies by reprocessing their waste. Reprocessing it means taking their waste and turning it into plutonium for mixed oxide fuel for reactors (MOX) and lots of highly radioactive liquid waste.

Besides the reprocessing, the Bush administration is promoting the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) which will mean the US will take nuclear waste from partnering countries around the world and ship it here to reprocess.

(from Mary Olson of NIRS )

ALERT - STOP Global Mobile Chernobyl -

ATTEND Public meetings! (schedule below)

MAKE Comments** by 4/4/07 to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to stop revival of centralizing the high-level waste, reprocessing, and nuclear power

Now the plan is to move the high-level waste to one (or more) of the communities named below - and to also bring radioactive waste from all over the world to the same site(s) for eventual reprocessing. For more information on these programs, please visit the links at the end of this ALERT. Please do not for a moment forget that the #1 reason that these corporations want to move this waste is so that they can make more - Wall St. has said that moving the waste is a priority if there is going to be more private investment in new nuclear power reactors. Most of the new reactors are slated as additions to existing reactor sites.

What is needed is ACTION - the Department of Energy is planning 11 public meetings THIS MONTH (see the table below). Because the DOE is handing out money to these communities, the local press is covering these meetings. WE NEED TO BE THERE! Bring everyone...it is a great place for children and elders...boring for them, but a good reminder for the DOE!

Sorry for the short notice. We need to show up and be heard. Comments will be "on the record" - though it seems that the style of the meeting will be a little different-instead of long presentations theater-style they are doing "workshops" where people will engage in small groups with DOE staff. If you are comfortable with making your opposition VISIBLE (T-shirt or arm band), this will help others attending to know they are not alone... The DOE nearly always offers table space for groups to bring handouts. We recommend you contact them (info below) and do that.

If you have questions feel free to contact NIRS staff - Kevin Kamps ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 301-270-6477, ex 14) or Mary Olson in the NIRS Southeast Office ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 828-675-1792). Please help spread the word!

** COMMENT BY APRIL 4, 2007 to

Mr. Timothy A. Frazier GNEP PEIS Document Manager, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-0119, or via telephone: 866-645-7803, Fax: 866-645-7807, or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Additional information on GNEP may be found at www.gnep.energy.gov.

Same contact for additional information on meetings and the PEIS process and project.

For More Information on GNEP - visit the official site above, and check out:

http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/pdf/HouseBriefing10March06rev2.pdf

Reprocessing: http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/reprocessisnotsolution.pdf

And http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/reprocessing/reprocesshome.htm

GNEP Grant Awards 2007

Contact Philip Lord at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

List of award winners:

1. Atomic City, Idaho, EnergySolutions, LLC $915,448

2. Barnwell, EnergySolutions, LLC $963,151

3. Hanford Site, Wash., Tri-City Industrial Development Council/Columbia

Basin Consulting Group $1,020,000

4. Hobbs, N.M., Eddy Lead Energy Alliance $1,590,016

5. Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, Regional Development Alliance, Inc

$648,745

6. Morris, Ill., General Electric Company $1,484,875

7. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., Community Reuse Organization of

East Tennessee $894,704

8. Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ky., Paducah Uranium Plant Asset

Utilization, Inc. $664,600

9. Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ohio, Piketon Initiative for Nuclear

Independence, LLC $673,761

10. Roswell, N.M., EnergySolutions, LLC $1,134,522

11. Savannah River National Laboratory, Economic Development Partnership of

Aiken and Edgefield Counties $468,420

TOTAL: $10,458,242

n Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, www.nirs.org