Environmental Coalition Objections to Resumption of Military Depleted Uranium Production at Piketon, Ohio
February 25, 2020
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See the letter, signed by 38 organizations. The letter was submitted by attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

The letter begins:

Veterans For Peace, Beyond Nuclear, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee, Nuclear Information Resource Service, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign, Alaska's Big Village Network, ANSWER Coalition, Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination, Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Citizens' Resistance at Fermi 2, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy, Don't Waste Michigan, Ecological Options Network, Erwin Citizens Awareness Network, Inc., Friends of Bruce, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, Full Circle EcoHouse of Prayer, Great Lakes Environmental Alliance, Lone Tree Council, Mid-Missouri Peaceworks, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Nuclear Issues Study Group, The Nuclear Resister, Nuclear Watch South, Nukewatch, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles, Portsmouth-Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security/National Nuclear Workers for Justice, San Clemente Green, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, and Uranium Watch hereby demand that the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (“DOE/NNSA”) immediately suspend plans to produce depleted uranium (“DU”) as a commodity for use in machine gun ammunition, tank artillery shells, bunker-buster bomb components and armor for military vehicles, and further, that DOE/NNSA formally supplement the “Final Environmental Impact Statement for Construction and Operation of a Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facility at the Portsmouth, Ohio, Site” (“FEIS”) (DOE/EIS–0360) and consider permanent abandonment of all military applications of DU.

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