[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Kansas City Plant (MO) - non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Suit Challenges Legality of Proposed Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Plant
Federal agencies charged with evading cleanup of existing site while 
pursuing illegal "third-party" financing for new bomb plant


Kansas City infoZine
October 11, 2008

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - A coalition of environmental and peace 
organizations asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. to set aside 
plans for a new nuclear weapons plant and direct the agencies to prepare 
a new environmental analysis of site-cleanup and relocation alternatives 
for the existing Kansas City Plant (KCP). The lawsuit was filed 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.

For more than fifty years the Department of Energy (DOE) has used the 
current KCP - located in the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, 
Missouri - to manufacture and procure the non-nuclear components of 
nuclear weapons, which comprise approximately 85% of the total parts in 
each weapon. The suit alleges that decades of DOE activities at the KCP 
have generated significant amounts of hazardous contamination that must 
be properly treated and remediated to protect the local environment, 
especially groundwater. The KCP is located in a flood plain at the 
confluence of Indian Creek and the Blue River, and the plant's southern 
boundary has to be protected by a flood wall. Fish in the area are so 
full of polychlorinated biphenyls ("PCBs") from the plant that the State 
of Missouri warns fisherman not to eat them.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/31283/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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