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March - April 2008
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Speak up against bomb testing at Site 300
Lawrence Livermore Lab has placed "on hold" (but not withdrawn) its request for an air-pollution permit to increase open-air high-explosives testing at Site 300 east of Livermore near Tracy. These tests would use up to 8,000 pounds of explosives per year, including large quantities of depleted uranium, tritium (radioactive hydrogen), and approximately 60 other radioactive and/or hazardous materials.
Lab officials attributed the delay to the Lab's recent change from public to private management and uncertainty regarding future plans for Site 300.
Various options for the site's future are included in the Department of Energy's "Complex Transformation" plan to revitalize the nuclear weapons complex. One alternative included in the document would appear to phase out bomb testing at the site, but then the agency proposes conducting the same kinds of bomb blasts under the department's "work for others" budget line, working for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
WhatYouCanDo
Come to a public hearing on visions for Site 300 and the future of nuclear weapons in the United States:
Tue., March 18, 6 - 10 pm
Holiday Inn Express, Tracy
Wed., March 19, 11 am - 3 pm and 6 - 10 pm
Robert Livermore Community Center, Livermore.
Written comments may be submitted to:
Theodore A. Wyka
Complex Transformation SPEIS Manager
Office of Transformation, NA-10.1
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585
Tell the Department of Energy to phase out all bomb testing activities at Site 300, including "work for others".
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