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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. Juni 2011 / Time Line June 14, 2011
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Production or Destruction?
By April Avant
http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/blog/production-or-destruction.html
Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, Physicians for Social Responsibility Kansas City leader and her colleagues, the KC Peace Planters, collected over 4,000 signatures to stop the building of a new nuclear weapons production facility city in Kansas City, Missouri. The compound, funded by the city, is a replacement for the 62 year-old Honeywell Nuclear Weapons Compound located just down the Street.
June 8, 2011, Suellentrop, met with the Kansas City Council’s Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee to discuss the health hazards that are inevitable with construction of the new nuclear weapons facility. The petition promotes an initiative to convert the plant into a green manufacturing facility that would stimulate the lagging Kansas City economy, with sustainable green jobs.
Its predecessor the Honeywell Compound is highly contaminated with Polychlorinated Biphenyls, (PCB’s) and volatile organic compounds resulting in fatal illnesses among its workers, families, and members of surrounding communities. The EPA’s Hazard Ranking System has listed the Honeywell facility as a “super fund,” - a site so polluted it now requires federal funding for its cleanup...
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