Archive for October 9th, 2008

Suit Challenges Legality of Proposed Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Plant

October 9th, 2008 by TVC Administrator from Press Room

Federal agencies charged with evading cleanup of existing site while pursuing illegal "third-party" financing for new bomb plant

Citizens Groups Allege "Sinkhole in a Soybean Field" for Taxpayers

WASHINGTON, DC — In response to a joint refusal by the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to consider the significant environmental impacts of moving a critical nuclear weapon production facility to a new location, yesterday a coalition of environmental and peace organizations asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. to set aside the new plant project and direct the agencies to prepare a new environmental analysis of site-cleanup and relocation alternatives for the existing Kansas City Plant (KCP).


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