CCNS and EVEMG Mix CD Comments Regarding
The Notice of Intent to Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
CCNS and the Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group (EVEMG) submitted a mix CD titled "Apeman vs. GNEP" with liner notes as a part of our formal comments to the Department of Energy regarding . This mix CD is an official part of our comments; we requested, and eagerly await, a response in-kind from DOE.
Please listen to the songs below. These files are in MP3 format. The songs are intended for educational purposes and not distribution.
Apeman vs. GNEP Track List
Song Selection Made By Kalliroi Matsakis
Submited to the Department of Energy on June 4th, 2006
Track 1: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps,, Cake
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If you know what technology you are going to use, name it. If you don't, DOE confess. But please don't tell me perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
Track 2: Non Je Ne Regretter Rienf, Edith Pia
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N'oubliez pas ce que les Fran¨ais doivent regretter parce qu'ils emploient l'ˇnergie nuclˇaire.
Track 3: These Foolish Things Remind Me of You, Billie Holiday
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West Valley, which bears fast reactor traces,
The reprocessing waste in a myriad of places,
Though false promises have wings
These foolish things remind me of this half-baked proposal.
Track 4: Pirates, David Byrne
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What would be the impacts of a pirate attack during the international transportation of spent nuclear fuel? Please analyze specific accident scenarios, including where pirates attack transport ships causing spent nuclear fuel to sink into the deep.
Don't forget to take the ingenuous, ruthless and unpredictable nature of pirates into account.
Track 5: Trash, New York Dolls
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So there are millions of pounds of nuclear trash sitting all around the country and the federal government is unable to find a way to safely dispose of it. Is this proposal a way to get out of the spent nuclear fuel disposal/Yucca Mountain conundrum? Seems like it is.
Track 6: Accidents Never Happen, Blondie
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Let the Cerro Grande Fire serve as the voice of precognition in your ear. We recognize that that if the world were different, things wouldn't be the same, but please, take into account that Los Alamos National Laboratory isn't a perfect world and analyze for specific accident scenarios.
Track 7: Eisenhower Blues, Elvis Costello
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Atoms for Peace? Again? Dang, I got them Eisenhower Blues.
Track 8: Apeman, The Kinks
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Please analyze for the impacts of investing the same amount proposed for GNEP into energy conservation and renewable sources. If the GNEP proposal goes forward, I won't feel safe in this world no more. I don't want to die in a nuclear war. I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman.
Track 9: You Really Got a Hold on Me, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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Our enrichment plants are old, and getting older. They would get us through if we started phasing out nuclear energy now. But if we invest in additional infrastructure, the investment will either be lost or will locked into nuclear energy for years to come.
Track 10: Wade in the Water, Blind Boys of Alabama
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All I want you to do for me, and that's to evaluate the impacts to water. Also, the impacts to water, and water again.
Track 11: Jurassic Park Theme, John Williams
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The proposed Triassic Park site for GNEP makes me think of the film Jurassic Park. We learn an important lesson from this film that you must incorporate into your analysis, which is that you shouldn't mess with forces of nature and science that you can't control. . . or else.
DOE must heed the lessons learned from Jurassic Park, otherwise we are doomed to suffer the same fate only with nuclear power plants and proliferated nuclear weapon technology, rather than sweet, sweet (possibly evil) dinosaurs.
As Dr. Ian Malcolm said, "The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh...staggers me."
June 4, 2006
