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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/1 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 01 Nov 2000 05:50:17 -0500

Washington Times Daybook, November 1, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000111211555.htm

    10 a.m. =97 Energy Issues News conference =97 National Press Club=
 Newsmaker
Program hosts a discussion of energy issues. Location: National Press Club,
West Room, 14th and F Streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.

    12:30 p.m. =97 International Studies lecture =97 The Johns Hopkins=
 University
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies presents "Plan=
 Colombia
and Prospects for the U.S. War Against Drugs." Location: SAIS, Nitze=
 Building,
1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Room 507. Contact: 202/663-5626.

    7 p.m. =97 Police brutality and public interest law speech =97=
 Georgetown
University Law Center hosts a speech on "Police Brutality and Public=
 Interest
Law." Location: Georgetown University Law Center, Moot Court Room, 600 New
Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/662-9259.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - Minnesota and Iowa
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
        1:40 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Sun Country Airline Hangar, 7701=
 26th
Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, [phone]
        5:05 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Duluth Entertainment Convention=
 Center
350 Harbor Drive, Duluth, MN 55802, [phone]
        8:30 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Valley High School, Bill Coldiron=
 Field
House, 1140 35th Street, Des Moines, Iowa, [phone]      =20

- Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
unknown

- Ralph Nader - Wisconsin
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
        7:00pm - Milwaukee, WI, Super Rally with guest John Anderson   Doors
open at 5:00pm, Milwaukee Auditorium, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. (corner of=
 Kilbourn
and 6th St.), Ticket & Volunteer Information
http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#WI

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Dick Cheney and DU:=20
        In an interview to Maggie Kane for Channel 4 UK in the 1996 film "
Riding the Storm": "DU is more of a problem than we thought when it was
developed. But it was developed according to standards and was stocked very
carefully. It turned out, maybe, to be wrong."
        Did any journalist asked Mr. Cheney what role he had in the choice
of DU
for Desert Storm? [From: Martin Meissonnier <[e-mail]> via Tara
Thornton <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Uranium day and presentation, 4 November
        In Italy, there will be a uranium day, i.e. in a few cities there=
 will
be a pacific march to protest against the use of DU weapons. The same day,=
 in
Assisi, PAX International, an organization of the franciscan order, will
present a Video on DU in iraq realized by Father Benjamin.
        At the same time, there will be the conference in Manchester where I
will attend. I have sent also an invitation to Gorbacev, at the Green Cross=
 [an
NGO where he is the president], because he protested against the use of DU=
 in
the Balcans. I hope he will join us in Manchester.
        From Green Cross International article, 5/19/00, "The balkans:
endangered environment IS A HUMANITARIAN CONCERN":
        ... In an article featured in the New York Times on June 14, 1999,
Mikhail Gorbachev appealed for the prohibition of the use of depleted=
 uranium
in  weapons. He wrote:  "we should prohibit weapons whose use may have
particularly dangerous, long-term and massive environmental and medical
consequences. In my view, weapons containing depleted uranium should be=
 among
the first considered for such a ban".=20
http://www.gci.ch/GreenCrossPrograms/legacy/yugoslavia/balkanposition.html

- Greetings. A friend passed on the following message, alas without=20
attribution. Does anyone know the source? We would like to quote it in=20
Peacework magazine, but we can't do that without some verification. Thank=20
you for whatever help you can offer. Patricia Watson, editor, Peacework
<mailto:[e-mail]> :
        'A directive from the US Department of Defense was sent to all Army
units in the field. It reads: "It is necessary for technical reasons that=
 these
warheads must be stored upside down, that is, with the top at the bottom and
the bottom at the top. To prevent anyone making a mistake, and in order that
there will be no doubt as to which is the bottom and which is the top, for
storage puirposes, it will be noted that the bottom of each warhead has been
labeled with the word 'Top.'"'=20

- You can know the outline of the Actions in Japan through our
homepage.(Japanese & English) http://ha5.seikyou.ne.jp/home/tokebi


>>>> "War does not determines who's right, war determines who's left." <<<<





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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) tapes and transcripts of last night's 60 Minutes II episode on Star Wars
Date: 01 Nov 2000 15:23:04 -0500

Dear Friends,

Tapes and transcripts of last night's 60 Minutes II segment on Star Wars
national missile defense titled "America's Dream Defense" are available
from CBS.  Call 800/934-6397 for videotapes, 800/777-8398 for written
transcripts. Tapes cost $29.99 plus shipping, and they say could take 4
- 6 weeks, though they were faster than that earlier this year with
tapes of the "Missiliers" episode, also from 60 Minutes II.

In case you missed it, last night's segment featured extensive
interviews with Star Wars critics Theodore Postel of MIT and Nira
Schwarz, the former TRW employee who blew the whistle on the contractor
for fudging test results.  The segment also had Dan Rather interviewing
Gen. Ron Kadish, the head of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization,
in the Pentagon command center during the last failed Star Wars test.
The show didn't get much into the political argumants against Star Wars,
but overall came across as very critical of national missile defense.
Postel, Schwarz and other critics didn't pull any punches, they came out
and accused the weapons contractors and the Pentagon of fraud in the
Star Wars testing program. All in all, the show could be a good resource
for grassroots education on Star Wars, to show at house parties, for
campus or church groups, etc.

Yours,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/2 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 02 Nov 2000 09:46:57 -0500

Washington Times Daybook, November 2, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000112235938.htm

    North Korea visit =97 10 a.m. =97 National Press Club Morning Newsmaker=
 Program
hosts a news conference by the secretary of state on her recent trip to=
 North
Korea. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW, ballroom.=
 Contact:
202/662-7593.

    Foreign policy forum =97 noon =97 Cato Institute presents a forum on=
 "Eight
Years of Clinton-Gore Foreign Policy: A Passing Grade?" Location: Cato
Institute, F.A. Hayek Auditorium, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact:
202/789-5229.

    International Law Society lecture =97 4 p.m. =97 Georgetown University=
 Law
Center's International Law Society presents a discussion by the person=
 leading
U.S. support for war crimes tribunals and U.N. negotiations to establish a
permanent International Criminal Court. Location: Georgetown University Law
Center, 600 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/662-9519.

      War crimes conference =97 4 p.m. =97 The International Law Society of
Georgetown University Law Center hosts David J. Scheffer,=
 ambassador-at-large
for war crimes, State Department. Location: Georgetown University Law=
 Center,
Room 205, McDonough Hall, 600 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/662-9519.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Thursday, November 2 - MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, AND WISCONSIN
Victory 2000 Rallies
        11:25 a.m. - The Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles,
Missouri, [phone]
         2:50 p.m. - PCollege of DuPage, Performing Arts Courtyard, (East=
 Side
of Campus between Performing Arts, Building and P.E. Center), 425 22nd=
 Street,
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137, [phone]
         7:40 p.m. - Wisconsin State Fair Park, Dairy Cattle Barn, 8100 West
Greenfield Avenue, West Allis,
Wisconsin 53214, [phone]

Friday, November 3 - MICHIGAN AND WEST VIRGINIA
Victory 2000 Rallies                 =20
11:00 a.m. - Cornerstone University, 1001 East Beltline Avenue, NE, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, [phone]                       =20

        1:50 p.m. - Saginaw Valley State University, Ryder Center, 210 Ryder
Center Road, University Center, Michigan 48710 - [phone]       =20
        TBA - Morgantown High School, 109 Wilson Avenue, Morgantown, West
Virginia

- Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
Travels to Scranton, Pa., and Chicago.

- Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
Thursday, November 2
        Seattle, WA
        12:00pm - 12:40pm - Rally, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue (8th and=
 Seneca)=20
        12:45pm - 1:30pm - Press Conference, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue
(8th and
Seneca)
        Denver, CO
        7:00pm - 7:45pm - Press Conference, The Paramount Theater, 1621=
 Glenarm
Place
        8:00pm - 10:00pm - Rally, The Paramount Theater,  1621 Glenarm Place=
=20

 Friday, November 3 -
        Los Angeles, CA
        5:00pm - 7:30pm - Buffet Supper with Ralph Nader,  Home of Ken and
Dottie Reiner, 1455 LaPerla Avenue Long Beach, CA
 Please RSVP to mailto:[e-mail]=20
        8:00pm - Nader Super Rally=20
 With Special Guests Phil Donahue, Patti Smith, and more
 Doors open at 6:00pm, Event Starts at=20
 Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd.
 Ticket & Volunteer Information=20

 Saturday, November 4 -
        Miami, FL
        4:00pm - 5:00pm - Press Conference, Radisson Center
 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), [phone]
        5:30pm - 6:30pm - Rally
 Radisson Center, 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), (305)
261-3800

Sunday, November 5 -
        Washington D.C.
        1:00 pm - Nader Super Rally, MCI Arena, 7th St., NW,With Special=
 Guests
Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, Randall Robinson, Danny Glover, Patti Smith,
Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Adam Yauch, and Rev. Raylan Hagler. Ticket=
 &
Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#DC
        5:00pm - 7:00pm - Reception with Ralph Nader and Citizen's Committee
members Patti Smith and Phil Donahue, Fado Irish Pub, 808 7th Street NW.=
 Please
RSVP to mailto:[e-mail]=20

- Re: DC Super Rally Sunday, November 5th 1 pm
        The Nader campaign is setting aside blocks of free tickets to people=
 or
groups who can distirbute them to low-income people or people who wouldn't
attend becuase the $10 ticket price is a barrier. Please let me know if you=
 can
distribute tickets to people in this category. Call me at 202-332-6558 or=
 email
mailto:[e-mail]. We can also sell reduced price tickets. The key
thing is that if you give out a free ticket, we want to make sure that it=
 goes
to someone who will definitely show up on Sunday. [From Martin Thomas]

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Nuclear Disarmament/New Agenda resolution adopted!
[From: John Burroughs <mailto:[e-mail]> - contact him for
actual New Agenda resolution.]=20
12:45 PM (NY Time), November 1, 2000
        The New Agenda resolution was overwhelmingly adopted today by a vote=
 of
146 to three with eight abstentions. All of NATO (except France) voted yes.=
 The
US, UK and China are in the "yes" column; Russia and France abstained. The
three "no" votes are from the non-NPT NWSs - India, Israel and Pakistan.=20
        The eight abstainers are: Bhutan, France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Mauritius, Monaco, Russia, Uzbekistan. Note most are countries closely tied=
 to
Russia, France or India.
        Amb. Henrik Salander of Sweden introduced the NA draft (L.4) on=
 behalf
of 60 co-sponsors on 23 October. He said the NA draft's co-sponsors "have
challenged complacency in the fulfillment of the obligation to advance the
pursuit of nuclear disarmament. They have insisted that each requisite step=
 in
this process be addressed within the perspectives of an unequivocal=
 commitment
to the total elimination of nuclear weapons." He also said the draft "sets=
 out
a comprehensive program of action . . . There is an imperative built into=
 this
approach that requires results in each of the segments of action. The
co-sponsors are determined to monitor the achievement of these results in=
 light
of the unequivocal commitment recently made."=20
        In a subtle rebuttal to the charge that the NA goes beyond the NPT
consensus, Salander said, "The Final Document is neither as far-reaching nor=
 as
detailed as the states parties were entitled to expect. The compromise it
represents reinforces the determination of the co-sponsors of this text that
the steps agreed at the Review Conference shall indeed be implemented=
 without
prevarication or delay."=20
        As of Friday, 27 October, it appears likely that the NA draft will=
 be
revised, with the new text changing some of the preambular language to make=
 it
more acceptable to the West. In particular, the preambular para on=
 "unequivocal
undertaking" would change from "underlining the fundamental significance=
 of..."
to something softer like "taking note of..." It would remain a preambular=
 para.
The important Operative Paragraph 18 (instruments or framework of=
 instruments)
remains.=20

- Tapes and transcripts of October 31, 2000 60 Minutes II segment on Star=
 Wars
national missile defense titled "America's Dream Defense" are available from
CBS. Call 800/934-6397 for videotapes, 800/777-8398 for written transcripts.
Tapes they say could take 4 - 6 weeks, though they were faster than that
earlier this year with tapes of the "Missiliers" episode, also from 60=
 Minutes
II.In case you missed it, last night's segment featured extensive interviews
with Star Wars critics Theodore Postel of MIT and Nira Schwarz, the former=
 TRW
employee who blew the whistle on the contractor for fudging test results.=
 The
segment also had Dan Rather interviewing Gen. Ron Kadish, the head of the
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, in the Pentagon command center=
 during
the last failed Star Wars test. The show didn't get much into the political
arguments against Star Wars, but overall came across as very critical of
national missile defense. Postel, Schwarz and other critics didn't pull any
punches, they came out and accused the weapons contractors and the Pentagon=
 of
fraud in the Star Wars testing program. All in all, the show could be a good
resource for grassroots education on Star Wars, to show at house parties,=
 for
campus or church groups, etc.  Kevin Martin, Project Abolition
<mailto:[e-mail]>=20

- The Secrecy Legacy
By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Novembwer 1, 2000 NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/opinion/02SAFI.html
        WASHINGTON =97 President Clinton has until Saturday to sign or veto=
 a
stealth attack on American freedom. On his desk is a bill to prosecute any
government whistle-blower who dares make public any corruption or abuses of
power any official stamps "classified."
        This assault on free speech under the phony cover of national=
 security
was conceived by a criticism-averse C.I.A., embraced by resentful=
 bureaucrats
at Janet Reno's Justice Department and rammed through by Congressional
intelligence chairmen Richard Shelby and Porter Goss without public hearings=
 or
a recorded vote.=20
        We already have anti-espionage laws on the books to prosecute
anyone who
willfully reveals national security secrets to aid a foreign power. But now,=
 to
cover up past blunders and egregious lapses in using those laws to protect=
 real
secrets, bureaucrats want to treat as a criminal anybody who publicly=
 discusses
anything that nervous officials consider "confidential."
        Can this be happening in America? Are we about to adopt the sort of
"Official Secrets Act" that lets British officials decide what news is=
 suitable
for the public? Is Congress handing the next president the weapon that so=
 many
dictatorships use to stifle dissent and hide misdeeds?
        If this law threatening whistle-blowers with jail had been in
effect, no
Pentagon Papers would have been published; no pressure would have been=
 applied
to investigate intelligence fiascoes in Iran or security lapses at Los=
 Alamos.
No heat would have forced Justice to look into illegal Asian campaign
contributions and their influence on arms transfers. =20
        Disclosure of personal interest: This affects every journalist, as=
 well
as every person in government fearful of getting fired or reprimanded for=
 going
to higher-ups with unwelcome news about embarrassing mistakes or outright
wrongdoing.=20


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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Play the DontBlowIt flash game!
Date: 02 Nov 2000 15:23:54 -0500

Electronic activism from our friends at DontBlowIt.org...

Dear Friends,

Got a minute? Play the DontBlowIt flash game and see what kind of future
we=92re creating for our kids. Check this out:

http://www.DontBlowIt.org/kflash

Got 20 more seconds? Send it along to your friends!

The Presidential Campaign is About the Future, Right? Then why isn't
anyone talking about the 36,000 nuclear weapons that exist today =96 and
that thousands of them are ready to be launched in minutes? The U.S.
arsenal alone has the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs,
costing taxpayers $30 billion a year!

Enough is enough!  We can do something to reduce nuclear weapons and
create a safer future.

Play the DontBlowIt flash game, then send your free postcard telling the
presidential candidates =93Don=92t Blow It!=94

http://www.DontBlowit.org/kflash

Please pass this on to your friends, and encourage them to pass it on as
well.  It=92s a fun way to learn more about nuclear dangers and to make
your voice heard.
For our kids=92 future, help make nuclear weapons a thing of the past!
If you don't have web access, just email [e-mail] for email
instructions.

Thanks,

Laura Kriv
DontBlowIt.org
[e-mail]

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Republicans Criticize DOE Waste
Date: 02 Nov 2000 14:32:10 -0500

>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:22:32 -0500
>Subject: Republicans Criticize DOE Waste
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>   Though the report is clearly partisan, I suspect it contains a large
>quantity of truty.
>
>     REPORT: ENERGY DEPT. WASTED $3.4B ON CLEANUP TECHNOLOGY
>              Associated Press -- November 1, 2000
>                       by H. Josef Hebert
>
>    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department has wasted much of the $3.4
>billion it has spent over the last decade on developing new technology
>for cleaning up nuclear weapons waste, says a report of the House
>Commerce Committee's Republican majority.
>    The report, released Wednesday, said the DOE's Office of Science and
>Technology has "squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on
>technologies that have not proved useful" in the massive cleanup effort.
>    Congress created the technology development program in 1989 in hopes
>that it would help the government deal with the environmental legacy
>left from a half-century of nuclear bomb making.
>    The cleanup and restoration is expected to cost almost $200 billion
>and take more than 70 years to complete.
>    Carolyn Huntoon, DOE's assistant secretary for environmental
>management, called the science and technology development program
>essential to the long-term cleanup effort and disputed claims that the
>program has not produced results.
>    "One out of five research and development projects have resulted in
>a viable technology being used by the department," she said in a
>statement in response to the Commerce Committee staff finding. The
>report was compiled by staff members of the committee's Republican
>majority with no participation by Democratic members.
>    Another senior department official, speaking on condition of
>anonymity, admitted that much of the early funding did not produce
>immediate payoffs in the highly complex cleanup effort that in many
>cases requires technology that is not readily available.
>    But the official insisted "we've turned the corner" with development
>of about 180 technologies that have been commercialized as a result of
>the DOE science and technology program, with many going into actual
>cleanup efforts.
>    This official cited, as examples, a new technology expected to save
>$3 billion in the cost of cleaning up contaminated groundwater at the
>Fernald weapons site in Ohio and a "sludge washing" technology expected
>to save $5 billion at the Hanford weapons facility in Washington state.
>    Nevertheless, the Commerce report said that if the nearly 1,000
>technologies developed by the program, few have yet been put to use.
>    It cited 80 technologies funded through the DOE program to try to
>deal with the cleanup of 177 tanks of toxic and hazardous waste at
>Hanford, perhaps the most perplexing and dangerous cleanup challenge
>facing the government.
>    Based on a survey by the committee last March, the 80 commercially
>available technologies "have provided no significant use for
>characterizing or stabilizing the Hanford tank wastes ... and are
>unlikely to be useful in the future."
>

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From: Suzanne <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) CCNS Search: Executive Director
Date: 02 Nov 2000 14:21:09 -0700


Notice:

CCNS, an established environmental/anti-nuclear non-profit organization, is
seeking an Executive Director with a degree in the sciences, economics, law,
business, or an environmental-related field to begin in January, 2001.  An
understanding of the nuclear weapons production complex and history of the
Department of Energy's nuclear programs is a plus.

For further information please call 505-986-1973



Suzanne Westerly
Acting Executive Director
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
107 Cienega St.
Santa Fe, NM  87501
[phone];   FAX [phone]
CCNS Hotline:  [phone] (local); 1-800-456-8863
[e-mail]
http://www.nuclearactive.org

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) tvc files 2 FOIA lawsuits
Date: 02 Nov 2000 23:38:51 -0800 (PST)

Greetings friends and colleagues.
As many organizations have trouble getting DOE and other agencies to
respond appropriately to Freedom of Information Act requests, I thought you
might be interested in this news release about the two FOIA suits we filed
today. The outcome of these two cases could have national implications.
Read on ...
 Peace, Marylia

for immediate release, November 2, 2000
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION NOT SO FREE AT ENERGY DEPARTMENT:
AGENCY VIOLATES LAW, KEEPS UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SECRET

LIVERMORE LAB "WATCHDOG" ORGANIZATION FILES 2 LAWSUITS TODAY;
CASES TO SET PRECEDENT WITH NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS AS PLAINTIFFS
ASK COURT TO RULE ON PATTERN OF ABUSE

LIVERMORE -- Today, Tri-Valley CAREs filed two lawsuits in federal court in
San Francisco against the Dept. Of Energy (DOE) for failing to provide
records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

One of the two cases involves the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a
nuclear weapons design project under construction at the Livermore Lab.

On September 1, 1999, Tri-Valley CAREs requested all documents involving
the NIF "Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) management meetings." ICF is the
nuclear fusion method to be used at the NIF mega-laser.

It was at the monthly ICF meetings that NIF's rapidly-slipping schedule and
other technical problems were discussed between managerial staff at
Livermore Lab, Los Alamos Lab, Sandia Lab and DOE Headquarters, among
others.

Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs' Executive Director explained, "It
follows, therefore, that the records from these meetings should shed some
light on the question of who knew what when about NIF's spiraling costs,
unresolved technical difficulties and schedule delays. This is unclassified
information to which the public has a right."

Under FOIA, the DOE had 20 days to respond.

"Instead, more than a year has passed while DOE has, in essence, thumbed
its nose at the law," said Kelley

First, DOE wrote Tri-Valley CAREs saying that it would not produce the ICF
managers' meeting notes taken by DOE and weapons lab personnel. The
Department claimed that the notes were not government business; that they
were the personal property of the employees-as if the meeting notes were
the same as grocery lists compiled on the employees' off-duty hours.

Tri-Valley CAREs appealed this decision to the DOE's Office of Hearings and
Appeals. The Office ruled that DOE had not adequately justified its
decision to withhold the meeting notes, and therefore remanded the matter
back to DOE for further consideration. DOE, however, proceeded to merely
reaffirm its earlier decision not to produce the notes.

Tri-Valley CAREs' suit challenges DOE's decision, and asks the court to
find the agency in violation of the law - and to require the release of the
meeting notes. Further, the suit seeks to command the DOE to produce
numerous, additional documents listed in the group's 1999 FOIA request that
the agency has similarly kept hidden from the public.

The group's second FOIA lawsuit, also filed today, involves documents
outlining a DOE plan to shift various nuclear weapons activities around the
country. This proposal, dubbed the mega-strategy by DOE, would dramatically
increase the plutonium work load at Livermore Lab.

Under the mega-strategy, Livermore  would take over the weapon re-design
work for the W80, a nuclear warhead originally developed at Los Alamos with
both sea and air-launched versions. Moreover, under this proposal Livermore
Lab would take over the entire nuclear stockpile plutonium pit surveillance
program from Los Alamos Lab. Both of these changes would result in more
plutonium coming to Livermore.

"The DOE has shrouded this plan in darkest secrecy, not because of genuine
national security concerns but, rather, to circumvent the community's right
to know," charged Kelley.

On September 15, 1999, Tri-Valley CAREs filed a FOIA request for all
documents pertaining to the DOE's so-called mega-strategy in order to
assure an adequate public understanding of the proposal. Again, more than a
year has elapsed since the FOIA request was filed-and DOE has still not
provided a single responsive document. The lawsuit asks the court to compel
production of the requested records.

"The DOE has exhibited a 'pattern and practice' of not responding to FOIA
requests in the manner prescribed by statute. Routinely, DOE has failed to
fulfill Tri-Valley CAREs' FOIA requests, and those of other organizations
and individuals, within the allotted timeframe," explained noted New Mexico
attorney Steve Sugarman.

"The DOE's conduct frustrates Tri-Valley CAREs' efforts to educate the
public regarding major activities at the DOE's Livermore Lab and throughout
the nuclear weapons complex," Kelley added.

Therefore, in both lawsuits, Tri-Valley CAREs also asks the judge to issue
a court order appointing a Special Counsel to investigate DOE's pattern of
failing to comply with the law. The Special Counsel would then determine
whether disciplinary action is warranted, and against whom. "A positive
ruling could set a precedent with national implications," said Sugarman.

Tri-Valley CAREs was forced to bring a similar FOIA lawsuit in 1998. Only
after the group filed a complaint did DOE begin to produce the requested
documents. Attorney Steve Sugarman handled the 1998 case for the
organization, and is lead attorney in the two current actions.

 "Tri-Valley CAREs should not be in the position where it has to file
lawsuits in order to obtain public information," Sugarman noted. "The
Freedom of Information Act was enacted specifically so organizations like
Tri-Valley CAREs would have free access to documents that disclose the
operations of the government. These two lawsuits are intended to vindicate
the public's right to stay informed about this country's nuclear weapons
programs and to understand the impact of those programs on their lives."

-- 30 --

The two lawsuit complaints filed today are available on Tri-Valley CAREs'
website at http://www.igc.org/tvc

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/3 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 03 Nov 2000 09:35:39 -0500

Washington Times Daybook, November 3, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000113212849.htm

    Third-party vice-presidential debate =97 2 p.m. =97 American=
 University's
history department presents a 90-minute debate among third-party
vice-presidential candidates. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F=
 streets
NW. Contact: 202/251-7014.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp

Friday, November 3 - MICHIGAN AND WEST VIRGINIA
Victory 2000 Rallies                 =20
11:00 a.m. - Cornerstone University, 1001 East Beltline Avenue, NE, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, [phone]                       =20
        1:50 p.m. - Saginaw Valley State University, Ryder Center, 210 Ryder
Center Road, University Center, Michigan 48710 - [phone]       =20
        7:30 p.m. - Morgantown High School, 109 Wilson Avenue, Morgantown,=
 West
Virginia

- Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
Saturday, November 4, 2000
        Washington, DC
        10 a.m. - Rally in Freedom Plaza, motorcade to Meridian Hill /
Malcolm X
park

- Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
 Friday, November 3 -
        Los Angeles, CA
        5:00pm - 7:30pm - Buffet Supper with Ralph Nader,  Home of Ken and
Dottie Reiner, 1455 LaPerla Avenue Long Beach, CA  Please RSVP to
mailto:[e-mail]=20
        8:00pm - Nader Super Rally=20
 With Special Guests Phil Donahue, Patti Smith, and more
 Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd.
 Ticket & Volunteer Information=
 http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#LA

Saturday, November 4 -
        Miami, FL
        4:00pm - 5:00pm - Press Conference, Radisson Center
 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), [phone]
        5:30pm - 6:30pm - Rally
 Radisson Center, 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), (305)
261-3800

Sunday, November 5 -
        Washington D.C.
        1:00 pm - Nader Super Rally, MCI Arena, 7th St., NW,With Special=
 Guests
Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, Randall Robinson, Danny Glover, Patti Smith,
Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Adam Yauch, and Rev. Raylan Hagler. Ticket=
 &
Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#DC
        5:00pm - 7:00pm - Reception with Ralph Nader and Citizen's Committee
members Patti Smith and Phil Donahue, Fado Irish Pub, 808 7th Street NW.=
 Please
RSVP to mailto:[e-mail]=20

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Dec. 2-3 Conference of Women for Responsible National Security, the=
 kickoff
event of a 2-year campaign of public education on nuclear weapons issues=
 that
Peace Links will be doing. Many other groups are involved as co-sponsors -
WAND, WILPF, PSR, etc., etc. Unfortunately, the event is costly ($150
registration fee), although there are scholarships available - just contact
Charolett Baker at D.C. Peace Links at [phone], ext. 14, or
<mailto:[e-mail]> for details.  [From: Sally Light
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Re: Dick Cheney and DU -=20
This quote, posted on DULINK at:
http://www.homepage.jefnet.com/gwvrl/du_link.htm
and originally found by Dan Fahey, should be attributed to Brent Scowcroft,
former National Security Advisor: "Depleted uranium is more of a problem=
 than
we thought when it was developed. But it was developed according to=
 standards
and was thought through very carefully. It turned out perhaps to be wrong."
(Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to President Bush, from a
British documentary titled "Riding the Storm," which aired on ITN TV, CH. 4,=
 in
the United Kingdom on January 3, 1996).  [From: Chris Kornkven
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- FREEDOM OF INFORMATION NOT SO FREE AT ENERGY DEPARTMENT:
Agency violates law, keeps unclassified documents secret.  Two lawsuit
complaints filed November 2, 2000 are available on Tri-Valley CAREs'
website at http://www.igc.org/tvc. [From:  Marylia Kelley
mailto:[e-mail]]

- Bush and Gore positions on top issues
USA: November 3, 2000 Reuters
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=3D8792
...=20
Defence:
        Gore would move ahead cautiously to examine limited missile defence
programme, streamline Pentagon and work for steady increase in military
spending. Would end "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals in=
 military
and allow homosexuals to serve openly.
        Bush would increase funding on high-tech weapons systems, increase
defence spending, give military personnel better pay and conditions. On=
 missile
defence, he would pursue ambitious programmes to protect the United States=
 and
allies from rogue nations, even if that meant withdrawing from=
 Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty with Russia. Would retain "Don't ask, don't tell."
...
Environment:
        Gore supports the Kyoto global warming treaty, would encourage new
energy technologies and provide tax breaks to companies and individuals
switching to environmentally friendly homes, cars and businesses. Would
preserve Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Preserve.
        Bush opposes the Kyoto treaty, would give tax breaks for ethanol
use and
supports state efforts to reduce pollution from coal-fired power stations.
Supports opening Alaska reserve toil and gas exploration.
...    =20
Foreign policy/trade:
        Gore backs free-trade agreements and international cooperation=
 through
the United Nations, supports the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
        Bush backs free trade but opposed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and=
 would
withdraw from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty if necessary to pursue missile
defence. Would reduce U.S. military involvement in international=
 peacekeeping,
take a tougher stance toward China, backs close defence ties with Taiwan.=
 Has
questioned U.S. military role in Bosnia.

- Contamination at Russian nuke weapons plant 'staggering'
By IAN TRAYNOR, The Guardian, November 02, 2000
http://insidedenver.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=3DRADIOACTIVE-11-02-00&cat=3DAS
        MOSCOW - Radioactive contamination of rivers around a top-secret
nuclear
weapons complex in Siberia has reached "staggering" levels, the worst ever
monitored, and is out of "rational control," a joint team of Russian and=
 U.S.
radiation monitors said Thursday.

- Can anyone give a source for the following Einstein quote? "The Splitting=
 of
the Atom has changed everything except our modes of thinking, and thus we=
 drift
towards unparalleled catastrophe." [From: George Farebrother
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Follow-up Story:
"New Agenda" Sets the Disarmament Agenda=20
        The New Agenda resolution was overwhelmingly adopted on 1 November=
 by a
vote  of 146 to three with eight abstentions: an obvious and unequivocal=20
endorsement. All of NATO (except France) voted yes. The US, UK and China are=
 in
the "yes" column; Russia and France abstained.=20
        The three "no" votes are from the non-NPT NWSs - India, Israel and
Pakistan.   =20
        The eight abstainers are: Bhutan, France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Mauritius,  Monaco, Russia, Uzbekistan. Most are countries closely tied to
Russia, France  or India.
        This overwhelming vote serves the dual goals of bringing the NPT
consensus  onto the broader international stage and solidifying the New
Agenda's role in  nuclear disarmament deliberations. In short, this is the=
 new
agenda. =20
        Several delegations, including the US and UK, said they were judging
First  Committee resolutions this year by the light of the 2000 NPT Review=
=20
Conference Final Document. In explaining their votes, the US said the NPT =
=20
Document "is our guiding light for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament=
=20
efforts" and the UK said First Committee drafts "should faithfully reflect =
 the
letter and spirit" of the NPT agreement.
        Amb. Robert Grey of the US said the draft "recognizes that nuclear=
=20
disarmament is a process that requires pragmatic proposals in a step-like=20
process, not political calls for impossible goals. We view the resolution in=
=20
this context, including the rather unclear and ambiguous operative paragraph=
=20
18, which should not be construed as in any way limiting the ways and means=
=20
available to pursue our shared goals."
        Paragraph 18 is the one that calls for "the underpinnings of a
universal
and  multilaterally negotiated legally binding instrument or a framework=20
encompassing a mutually reinforcing set of instruments."=20
        Amb. Ian Souter of the UK said, "We considered it particularly
important
that  resolutions emerging from this committee should faithfully reflect the
letter  and spirit [of the NPT Conference]... With that in mind, we are=
 pleased
to  have been able to vote in favor of this resolution. As we made clear in
May,  the United Kingdom is unequivocally committed to the global=
 elimination
of  nuclear weapons. We welcome the fact that the 2000 NPT Review Conference=
=20
endorsed the package of measures that are reflected in this resolution -=
 many=20
of which the United Kingdom has undertaken nationally."
        In explaining their abstentions, China said the draft should have=
 been
"more  explicit" on issues including preserving the ABM Treaty, no-first-=
 use,
and  the lead role that should be taken by the major nuclear powers in=20
disarmament; France said the text "does not fully satisfy the need for=20
fidelity" to the NPT consensus.=20
        There were two separate votes on paragraphs. PP 15, welcoming the
Final=20
Document of the NPT Conference, passed 151 to three (India, Israel, =
 Pakistan),
with one abstention (Cuba). OP 16, also on the NPT, passed 151 to  zero with
four abstentions (Cuba, India, Israel, Pakistan).
        OTHER DRAFTS
        The Japanese/Australian draft on "A path to the total elimination of
nuclear  weapons" (L.39/Rev. 1) was adopted 144 to one (India) with 12
abstentions  (including China, France, Russia and Pakistan). The abstainers
complained had  multiple complaints, largely stemming either from the way=
 the
draft  interprets the NPT Final Document or that it does not go far enough:
the  draft "departs markedly from the [NPT] consensus" (France); it
"selectively  cites provisions from the Final Document which violate the
fragile balance of  interests" in the Document (Russia); the text "have=
 certain
inadequacies"  such as the failure to reject deterrence (China); and it=
 places
"inordinate  emphasis on non-proliferation and not on nuclear disarmament"
(Pakistan).=20
        The ABM resolution (L.2/Rev. 1) was adopted 78 to three (US, Israel
and=20
Micronesia), with 65 abstentions. Abstainers pretty much split the=
 difference=20
on the issue: yes, we think the ABM Treaty should be preserved (in other=20
words, we don't like BMD), but no, it's not the business of non-states =
 parties
to tell states parties what to do with their treaty. Since the US  allies=
 could
easily have joined the US in voting no, we can look at this vote  as a=
 ringing
lack of endorsement for the US missile defense plans.
        The US has always opposed this resolution. Amb. Grey said the draft
has=20
"basic flaws" and that it "remains based on the premise that preserving and=
=20
strengthening the ABM Treaty is incompatible with amending it." He added,=20
"Questions about the ABM Treaty are for the Treaty parties to resolve. That=
=20
process will only be hindered by having the General Assembly take sides."
        Germany, speaking on behalf of 30 abstaining countries (NATO plus),
said
such  an issue "should have the support of the parties to the Treaty... We
have  underlined the need for consensus on this resolution. We regret that=
 it
was  not possible for the parties to reach an agreement, and we encourage=
 them
to  continue their discussions on the issue. We attach great importance to=
 the=20
ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability, contributing to the=20
broader disarmament and arms control process."
        Sweden gave an interesting addendum to this debate. Originally it=
 had
signed  up on the German statement, but withdrew in favor of a separate
statement.  While aligning itself with that group of states, Sweden said it
"does not  share the overriding preoccupation with 'strategic stability'
expressed in  the resolution. The concept of strategic stability is closely
linked with  cold war doctrines which... should in Sweden's view not be the
sole basis for  disarmament and non-proliferation in the post-cold war era."
This was the  only time in the five weeks of the First Committee that any=
 state
challenged  this new catchphrase.
        The resolution on the Fissile Materials Cut-Off Treaty talks (L.49/
Rev.
1)  was adopted by consensus. The revised text dropped the idea of=
 completing=20
negotiations within five years, thus aligning the draft with the language of=
=20
the CD consensus.
        Go to http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org for the revised texts,=
 voting
charts,  other resolutions and full texts of some of the explanation of=
 votes.=20
[2 November 2000 - Jim Wurst, UN Coordinator Middle Powers Initiative and
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy - From: John Burroughs
<mailto:[e-mail]>]


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/4 - Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 03 Nov 2000 21:08:54 -0500

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Victory 2000 Rallies=20
        9:45 a.m. - Ford Field, 22051 Cherry Hill Road, Dearborn, Michigan,
[phone]=20
        12:20 p.m. - USX Hangar #8, Pittsburgh International Airport,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, General Aviation Side, Sylvia [phone] -
parking for the general public will be available in the extended term=
 parking
lots 9, 10, 11. Shuttle busses will be on site for transportation to USX=
 site.=20
        3:45 p.m. - Town Square, Keswick Village, Keswick Avenue, Glenside,
Pennsylvania=20
        7:20 p.m. - Drew University, Drew University Field House, 36 Madison
Avenue, Madison, New Jersey 07940=20

- Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
Saturday, November 4, 2000
        Washington, DC
        10 a.m. - Rally in Freedom Plaza, motorcade to Meridian Hill /
Malcolm X
park

- Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
 Saturday, November 4 -
        Miami, FL
        4:00pm - 5:00pm - Press Conference, Radisson Center
 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), [phone]
        5:30pm - 6:30pm - Rally
 Radisson Center, 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), (305)
261-3800

Sunday, November 5 -
        Washington D.C.
        1:00 pm - Nader Super Rally, MCI Arena, 7th St., NW,With Special=
 Guests
Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, Randall Robinson, Danny Glover, Patti Smith,
Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Adam Yauch, and Rev. Raylan Hagler. Ticket=
 &
Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#DC
        5:00pm - 7:00pm - Reception with Ralph Nader and Citizen's Committee
members Patti Smith and Phil Donahue, Fado Irish Pub, 808 7th Street NW.=
 Please
RSVP to mailto:[e-mail]=20

- Super Rally March! "A dose of daily democracy."
        The Nader Super Rally will end at about 4:30 and a huge march for DC
Statehood will take place up to Malcome X Park on 16th Street. Along the way=
 we
will talk to voters we meet along the way about voting.=20
        Another rally organized by Arturo Griffiths of DC Statehood Green=
 Party
to get out the vote will then take place at the park.=20
        Please Make a Sign or banner and express your views!  [From: Adam
Eidinger <mailto:[e-mail]>]

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Al Gore on Nuclear Issues
Al Gore has a pretty strong pro-nuclear background. Some of this is=
 documented
on a new website (see below) about Al Gore's real record. Can anyone on this
list provide additional documentation on Gore and nukes? I've heard that=
 he's
in favor of the fast breeder reactor (I can only find evidence that his=
 father
was) and that he's in favor of nukes in space. [From: Mike Ewall
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- To: [e-mail]
        You listed Gore and Bush's position on certain issues. Here are=
 Ralph=20
Nader's:=20
        Nader would cancel all missile and space weapons work: Bush and Gore
would  continue space work. Bush would pull out of ABM; Gore would pull out=
 if
necessary (whatever that means--necessary to keep the wheels of the Star=
 Wars
contractors greased, probably.)=20
        Nader would support the CTB and an end to subcritical and virtual
tests.
Gore supports the CTB with $4.6 billion ($5.1 this year) per year for
subcritical and computer simulated virtual reality tests to enable our Dr.
Strangeloves to design new nuclear weapons. Bush does not support the=
 CTB.Nader
would cut military spending. Gore and Bush would raise it.
        Nader would cut arsenals to meet Putin's offer of 1500 and then go=
 to
1,000. He would then call on all countries to negotiate the abolition of
nuclear weapons. Bush and Gore won't even answer questions about this, when
asked in a Religious=20
Leader's Survey.=20
        Environment: Nader supports an end to nuclear power. Gore supports
having nuclear power classified as clean energy eligible for grants to
developing nations at the Kyoto hearings.=20

- 'Worst ever' radioactive leaks found in Siberia=20
Condemned weapons plants still spewing out poisons, say experts
 Ian Traynor in Moscow - The Guardian, Friday November 3, 2000=20
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,391940,00.html
        Radioactive contamination of rivers around a top-secret Russian=
 nuclear
weapons complex in Siberia has reached "staggering" levels, the worst ever
monitored, and is out of "rational control", a joint team of Russian and
American radiation monitors said yesterday.=20
        Following a monitoring expedition in July and August to the closed
plutonium complex at Seversk, near Tomsk in western Siberia, the Russian and
American nuclear watchdogs said they had registered alarming levels of
radioactivity in tributaries of the River Ob, a key Siberian waterway.
        "We've never encountered such radiation. It's the worst=
 contamination
we've found," said  Sergei Pashchenko, a Novosibirsk professor and=
 atmospheric
pollution expert who headed the Russian side of the survey carried out by
Siberian Scientists for Global Responsibility and Government Accountability
Project.
        The director of the American  watchdog, Tom Carpenter, said: "We=
 were
shocked at the levels of contamination."=20
        The environmentalists said they found levels of caesium and
strontium-90
vastly exceeding  safety levels in the rivers Tom and Romashka close to the
"Siberian Chemical Complex", a sprawling facility established by the former
Soviet Union in the 1950s to make weapons-grade plutonium for warheads.=20
        But even more disturbingly, said Mr Pashchenko, plant life in the
rivers
contained high levels of phosphorus-32 which decays within a couple of=
 weeks,
meaning that the radioactive effluent was of very recent origin whereas the
strontium and the caesium could date back to the 1960s.=20
        "The phosphorus-32 is a very short-lived isotope and this means
they are
very fresh," said Mr Pashchenko.=20
        The closed nuclear town of Seversk is effectively a suburb of Tomsk,=
 a
city with a population of half-a-million in western Siberia. Seversk was=
 born
in 1949, at the very onset of the superpowers' nuclear arms race.=20
        It ranked among the top three sites for the manufacturing of
weapons-grade plutonium and uranium enrichment for the Soviet Union's=
 nuclear
arsenal throughout the cold war.=20
        The plutonium was manufactured from five nuclear reactors=
 commissioned
between 1955 and 1967. "They are very old reactors and very unsafe," said=
 Igor
Forofontov, radiation specialist with Greenpeace in Moscow.=20
        The three oldest reactors were  closed between 1990 and 1992, and,
under
a 1992 agreement  between Moscow and Washington aimed at halting plutonium
production, all five reactors should have been closed down by this year.=20
        But two reactors are still operating, providing heating and=
 electricity
to Tomsk. "The authorities have no intention of closing them," Mr =
 Forofontov
said.=20
        An explosion ripped through the plant in 1993 which resulted in=
 large
amounts of radioactivity being emitted. Mr Forofontov also said lethal=
 amounts
of radioactivity were leaking into the soil and the water in the region=
 because
of the practice of storing waste from the reactors in liquid form which is=
 then
pumped deep below ground.=20
        Last summer, the Russian monitors spent two months touring the most
sensitive nuclear materials production installations - one of the most
dangerous legacies of the Soviet era - at Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk,
Novosibirsk, and Tomsk.=20
        But the environmentalists' findings in Tomsk were the most alarming.
"The nuclear waste is being piped straight into the environment," said Norm
Buske, one of the American researchers and an oceanographer and physicist.
"This has not been done anywhere in the world since the cold war."=20
        The monitors were unable to pinpoint the source of the pollution
because
they were not granted access to the secret plant. Mr Pashchenko and 10 of=
 his
colleagues were detained for six hours questioning by the FSB, the successor=
 to
the KGB, while carrying out research around Novosibirsk last summer.=20
        At Seversk they were told the town  was closed but that they could
carry
out research in the rivers a few miles away. The environmentalists found
contaminated fish with radioactivity more than 20 times the safety level,=
 they
said.=20

- Tell the Candidates to get Off the Hair-Trigger!=20
        With less than a week to go in the Presidential election, the time=
 to
act is now!! We need you help to get messages to the next President of the
United States urging them to take nuclear weapons off of hair-trigger alert.
        The Back From the Back Campaign has gotten over 25,000 post cards=
 sent
to the Bush and Gore campaign headquarters telling them that, if elected,=
 they
should move quickly to get all nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. As=
 you
know, there are some 5,000 nuclear weapons on hyper-alert status=97poised=
 for
launch at a moment=92s notice. This policy is an accident waiting to happen.=
=20
        Take look at our Flash file below and come to our new updated web=
 site
at http://www.backfromthebrink.org and send your own message to the
Presidential
candidates. And "flash" your friends. The more people that see this, the
message we will send to the candidates, and the less chance the missiles=
 will
really fly.
        PS =96 If you can=92t open the flash just press here:
http://backfromthebrink.policy.net/brinkfla.vtml
Ira Shorr  <mailto:[e-mail]>=20

- Part three of the DU articles originally printed in Japan.=20
        The third part of a great series of articles on DU by Japanese=
 writer
Akira Tashiro are now available on the Web. This is the English translation=
 of
the articles Akira wrote for the newspaper, The Chugoku Shimbun, one of the
most popular newspapers in Japan. You can reach to them by clicking the
following address:=20
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html  [From: Tara Thornton
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- The NRC is taking comments until Nov. 17th regarding their report on=
 reusing
radioactive soil (see the bottom of the article). Thanks to Jeff Schmidt for
passing this info along.=
 http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2000/2000L-10-19-15.html.=20
[From: Mike Ewall <[e-mail]]




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From: "David Rush" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Jinzaburo Takagi is gone
Date: 05 Nov 2000 08:06:31 -0500

Takagi was a real hero. We will all sorely miss him!

David Rush, MD
Professor of Nutrition, Community Health, and Pediatrics (emeritus), Tuft=
s
University
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:32 PM


Dear Friends,

Jinzaburo Takagi died on 8 October 2000 in Tokyo from cancer. On the requ=
est
of the Japanese Magazine Sekai, I have tried to write up a personal piece=
 in
his memory (see hereunder). A difficult, sometimes painful exercice. Plea=
se
feel free to pass it on to people who cared about Takagi-san or who shoul=
d
have known about him much earlier.

best regards,

Mycle


----------------


Jinzaburo Takagi - The Citizen Scientist is Gone

by Mycle Schneider
Director of WISE-Paris
Chief Editor of Plutonium Investigation

Paris, October 2000

"Even at this last moment, I have things to write and leave to younger
generations, and as far as my health condition allows me, I will try so f=
or
some time". Three weeks after having scribbled with a pencil this very la=
st
letter to me, Jinzaburo Takagi passed away. I'll never forget his skinny,
tired hand waving a slow, final, and the ultimate good-bye a few hours
before cancer cut his life line. He knew, I knew.

Japan lost a prolific writer and gifted teacher, a superb scientist and a=
cid
critic of the nuclear establishment. Democracy has to do without this
tireless visionary full of stinging questions and his very own personal
answers. Children wait in vain for new books. Activists, journalists,
politicians have to do without his pertinent analysis and thoughtful
comments. And beyond the loss of an irreplaceable colleague and advisor, =
I
mourn my friend.

We met for the first time in Vienna, Austria, in September 1986. Five mon=
ths
after the Chernobyl catastrophe, the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) had set up a big conference to report on the origins and consequen=
ces
of the disaster. We called this the nuclear lobby's "Whitewash Conference=
"
and shared the revolting sentiment over an unbelievable =AD but neverthel=
ess
enlightening - statement by Dr. Morris Rosen, then head of the department=
 of
nuclear safety of the IAEA: "Even if there was this type of accident ever=
y
year, (S) I would consider nuclear power to be a valid source of energy".
Takagi-san and myself were members of an international task force, on the
invitation of Greenpeace International, to give an independent review of =
the
state of nuclear safety in the world. The outcome, an impressive 600-page
report, was presented to the press in Vienna in parallel to the IAEA
conference and stirred up massive media attention. Takagi-san was deeply
shocked by the Chernobyl accident and continued to closely monitor the
health and social consequences of the tragedy.

From then on, we met on many occasions around the globe. Our cooperation
grew into a new dimension after Takagi-san had invited me to the Omiya
International Plutonium Conference in 1991, my first visit to Japan. (Whe=
n I
was brought from the airport straight to a press conference - forget abou=
t
jet-lag or fatigue - it became obvious immediately that time management i=
s
different in JapanS). The Omiya Conference became a milestone in the deba=
te
over the separation and use of plutonium. For the first time in Japan, th=
e
entire spectrum of implications of the plutonium industry had been openly
discussed with competence and independence. After this event we met in
places like Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, for a unique fuel cycle analysis
conference co-sponsored by the local authorities, the nuclear industry an=
d
various NGOs; in Darmstadt (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris, Kyo=
to
and Tokyo, to work on the International MOX Assessment (IMA); in London (=
UK)
on plutonium issues; in K=F6ln (Germany) where I interviewed him for Germ=
an TV
on the Monju accident; and we traveled Japan together on speaking tours m=
ore
than once.

Takagi-san was a gifted teacher. When one does not understand the languag=
e,
one tends to observe people much closer. With my zero knowledge of Japane=
se
language I had ample opportunity for observation during the speaking tour=
s,
on- and off-the-record meetings and press conferences with Takagi-san. Hi=
s
audiences were fascinated by his talks. He was never acting, he just had =
a
very intense way of speaking, often slowly and soft, sometimes affirmativ=
e
and loud, but always convinced and therefore convincing. After a question=
,
many times he would leave a blank, not for effect, but because he actuall=
y
thought before he spoke.

Jinzaburo Takagi grew up in a family where science became a common goal. =
His
elder brother by two years, Kojiro, Professor of Physics at the Toyama
University, a man with a great sense of humor and the corresponding broad
smile, says that his generation believed in science as a fundamental tool=
 to
build up a new Japan growing out of the ashes of the Second World War. Hi=
s
eldest brother Ryuro heads a Psychiatric Clinic in Kyoto and has been a
great supporter of the nine year younger brother; his eldest sister is a
medical doctor. Only his lovely younger sister Hide Miyagawa resisted the
call of science and entered the administration of a music school.

In 1962 Takagi-san purchased second hand Glen Seaborg's 1958 book entitle=
d
"The Transuranium Elements". Seaborg had synthesized plutonium for the fi=
rst
time in 1941 and his book has deeply influenced the early Takagi-san.
Seaborg wrote: "The story of plutonium is one of the most dramatic in the
history of science. It was discovered and methods for its production were
developed during the last war, under circumstances that makes a fascinati=
ng
and intriguing story. It is, of course, a continuing story, and added
chapters will have to be written at a later date." At the time, Takagi-sa=
n
had just started working at a laboratory of the nuclear industry, a young=
,
dynamic research and technology sector, representing Japan=B9s future, an=
d he
was certain: "I resolved firmly to add a new chapter to the science of
plutonium. I was 23 years old at that time." It was the intrinsic link
between civil and military applications and the fascination that scientis=
ts
developed for both ends which first made him raise his eye brows. He was
shocked that such an outstanding scientist as Glenn T. Seaborg, recalled
=B3many ingenious and brilliant ideas=B2 to build nuclear weapons.
The following 13 years, mainly in the nuclear industry and at Tokyo
Metropolitan University, served not only to complement his education as a
nuclear chemist but also to sharpen his view for the lack of independence
and social responsibility in science and technology. While working on
nuclear safety, he was surprised to find out =B3how little we nuclear che=
mists
knew about the behavior of radioactive substances=B2. That would not be a
problem as such as long as Oyou know what you don=B9t know=B9 and as long=
 as
uncertainty is appropriately taken into account in risk assessment and
management. Takagi-san realized that his colleague scientists and enginee=
rs
brushed off growing citizen concern without having the appropriate basis =
to
do so. That was the =B3turning point=B2 in Takagi-san=B9s life.
The time he spent as a guest scientist in Heidelberg, Germany, at the Max
Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in 1972-73 broadened his scientific
background and his cultural and linguistic knowledge. The Vietnam War too=
k a
significant place in the political debate of the time and Takagi-san beca=
me
a profound opponent of the war.

When he came back from Germany, Takagi-san went through a period of
difficult, sometimes painful, but decisive personal and professional
decisions. He quit his safe position as an associate professor for nuclea=
r
chemistry at the Tokyo Metropolitan University- and a top career -to set =
up
the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (CNIC). What over the years has
become the key reference for independent critical information on nuclear
issues in Japan - not only for journalists, scientists, politicians and
interested citizens in Japan but all over the world - was almost a
revolutionary idea 25 years ago. The initiative to establish high level
analysis capacity outside the industry, the elite science institutions an=
d
the government was seen by many as impossible, by some as treachery.
Takagi-san's partner Kuniko Takagi-Nakada ("Hari-san") became the central
moral and mental support of his initiatives and remained an essential sou=
rce
of inspiration until his end.

The key driving force behind Takagi-san's workaholic writing, travelling,
speaking, teaching and consulting activities was his insatiable hunger fo=
r
justice and truth. He continued to be outraged by the decision making
process on nuclear - and other - issues in Japan and believed that his ro=
le
as a "Citizen Scientist", a term invented by Professor Frank von Hippel w=
ho
heads the Center for Energy and Environment at Princeton University, was =
to
increase the level of democracy.  The broadening of the understanding of =
the
implications of decisions and the progressive modification of the rules w=
ere
the goals. The basis for credibility are competence and independence. The
long term guarantee for fundamental and sustainable change of society is
only provided by absolute integrity and public accountability. This is wh=
at
Jinzaburo Takagi represented. This is why his disappearance hurts so many
people so much.

In 1995 Professor John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell
Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, nominated Takagi-san
and myself jointly for the Right Livelihood Award. Gofman is also a medic=
al
doctor who has a PhD in nuclear/physical chemistry and shares patents on =
two
processes for separating plutonium from irradiated fuel and a patent on
fissionability of uranium-233 with Glen Seaborg. The US based Environment=
al
Research Foundation's publication Rachel's Health & Environment Weekly
called Gofman "one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century". We were
thrilled that this outstanding and gentle man nominated us for the award,
commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize (which he had received hims=
elf
in 1992). But it was only after the nomination had been re-introduced for
the third time  that the jury selected us for the award in 1997, recogniz=
ing
"a unique partnership in the struggle to rid humanity of the threats pose=
d
by the manufacture, transport, use and disposal of plutonium". The jury
stated that "they were honored for the scientific rigor of their research
and the effectiveness of their dissemination of its results, which have
served to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to hum=
an
life, and empowered many to resist the misinformation and the secrecy
whereby the plutonium industry imposes these dangers on the public". We w=
ere
enthusiastic about the award that we considered the most prestigious
recognition for our work.

The technical analysis is only the first step of the approach needed to
master a given problem. The development of policy implementation strategi=
es
remains the core of progress towards social change. We spend many hours
discussing political and institutional barriers in Japan and in France. I=
n
his Award acceptance speech, Takagi-san said: "There seems now no reasona=
ble
justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. One of the key
factors which keep the program alive is above all the huge bureaucratic
inertia. You can easily understand why the two countries with a very much
centralized bureaucratic system, i.e. France and Japan, are going to be
plutonium giants." Another barrier for change is the rigid elite system i=
n
both countries and the almost religious belief that top technocrats "don'=
t
make mistakes". In reality they have been making so many mistakes in the
past, in particular in the energy sector, that both countries have been
driven into a dangerous nuclear one-way street. The plutonium saga is onl=
y
the tip of the iceberg. Trillions of Yen have been and shall be spent on =
a
plutonium program that very clearly has failed to provide any net social
benefit. The findings of the major two year social impact assessment into
the use of plutonium fuels (MOX), directed by Takagi-san and myself, has
never been rebutted by the plutonium industry. Why should the industry do
so? No political decision making process forces the nuclear industry to
public accountability. The public inquiries prior to licensing in the
nuclear sector are a hoax, in Japan and in France, and are a shame for a
so-called democracy. And thus the autocratic machinery rambles on, beyond
political and citizen control. In Japan there seems to be an unhealthy
leftover of the Samurai tradition: carry on straight ahead and if you wer=
e
wrong commit harakiri. The recent banking crisis seems to recall this
mentality, no remediation measures until bankruptcy. But the plutonium
industry has been off-scale in this respect. They have been wrong in ener=
gy
consumption forecasts, on uranium price development, on cost estimates, o=
n
facility construction time evaluation, on spent fuel management schemes,
etc. But it simply does not matter. It just goes on. And it will go on, i=
n
Rokkasho-mura or elsewhere, as long as a truly democratic decision making
process does not force the lobby to face public scrutiny.

One week after Takagi-san went, the Japanese nuclear utilities declared
their intention to conclude further contracts for oversees reprocessing -=
 or
better plutonium production - with the French plutonium company COGEMA. T=
he
operational risks and the environmental pollution - the plutonium plant a=
t
La Hague discharges about 20,000 times as much radioactivity than an aver=
age
French nuclear power plant - stay in France. The nuclear risk export and =
the
illegal storage of Japanese wastes in France  shall continue.
For how long? Takagi-san's hope was always based on the young and future
generations. He consciously devoted a significant share of his efforts to
public education, whether in speaking or writing. Takagi-san published 58
books and co-authored 46 more. Two further books are not published yet; o=
ne
of which is his first short novel. Many were translated into several
languages, including some of his children's books (which my children enjo=
y
in French). The variety of his writings, whether novels, technical report=
s,
biographies or children's books reflect his broad based culture. It also
made it easier for him to navigate in this unofficial international netwo=
rk
of concerned scientists and citizens. This assisted him to make his scien=
ce
impeccable and his political efforts more efficient.

Takagi-san decided to use the Right Livelihood Award money to launch an
independent school to lead scientists in a non-academic way to system
analysis and accountability towards the citizen. In his last will he
confirmed this choice and calls for the creation of a Fund which will ser=
ve
to support young students. The great challenge will be to teach the teach=
ers
what Jinzaburo Takagi's ideas were all about. Because he is not there
anymore to guide or even answer a quick phone call or e-mail message. I m=
iss
him badly already.
Good bye, my friend.


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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Clinton vetoes secrets bill/hooray
Date: 05 Nov 2000 13:33:00 -0800 (PST)

Hi -- this article just in (and posted by one of our colleagues) updates a
"Print Bite" piece I wrote for our November newsletter, Citizen's Watch.
HOORAY, HOORAY for this veto. --mk

Clinton vetoes bill to tighten secrecy
By Deborah Charles
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., Nov 4 (Reuters)

President Bill Clinton vetoed legislation
on Saturday that could impose prison terms on officials who leak classified
information, a measure that had drawn fire from news organisations.

Dozens of news organisations wrote to the president to complain about the
bill, saying the language was too broad and that it violated the free speech
provision in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"Today I am disapproving H.R. 4392, the 'Intelligence Authorisation Act for
Fiscal Year 2001," because of one badly flawed provision that would have
made a felony of unauthorised disclosures of classified information."

The legislation, which was passed in Congress, was initially requested by
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Senate intelligence committee
inserted the anti-leak provision into the measure after closed hearings.

"Although well-intentioned, that provision is overbroad and may unnecessarily
chill legitimate activities that are at the heart of a democracy," Clinton
said.

While Clinton said he agreed that unauthorised disclosures could be
"extraordinarily harmful" to U.S. national security interests, he said the
free flow of information was essential in a democracy.

The CIA asked for the provision because it said it had lost agents and
sophisticated surveillance methods due to newspaper articles based on
leaks of classified information. The CIA has declined to comment on the bill.

"These leaks risk lives and endanger intelligence sources and methods --
sources and methods that may not be there to warn of the next terrorist
attack, crisis or war," Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican and
chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in reaction
to the veto.

Still, opponents of the legislation hailed Clinton's decision to veto the
legislation.

"The president has taken an important step toward protecting the rights of
all citizens to receive the information that keeps government accountable to
its people," said John Sturm, president and chief executive of the
Newspaper Association of America.

"Just the threat of criminal prosecution has a chilling effect on the free
flow of information to the public," he said in a statement.

Unlike many other countries, the United States has never had an official
secrets act.

Under current U.S. law, it is a crime to release classified information if it
helps a foreign power, exposes intelligence agents or relates to national
defence. The new bill appears to go beyond this, extending to virtually all
classified information.

The measure calls for criminal penalties for anyone who "knowingly and
wilfully discloses or attempts to disclose" any classified information.
Those found guilty could be imprisoned and pay a fine of up to $10,000.

Clinton said it was his obligation as president to protect the government's
vital information from improper disclosure but also to protect the rights of
citizens to receive the information necessary for democracy to work.

This legislation did not achieve the proper balance, he said.

"I deeply appreciate the sincere efforts of members of Congress to address
the problem of unauthorised disclosures and I full share their commitment,"
Clinton said.

The legislation as currently written could discourage government officials
from holding "legitimate" official activities like press briefings and public
discussions, he said.

"When the Congress returns I encourage it to send me this bill with this
provision deleted and I encourage the Congress as soon as possible to pursue
a more narrowly drawn provision tested in public hearings so that those they
represent can also be heard on this important issue," Clinton said.

In a recent appearance, U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen said the biggest
disappointment in his four years at the Pentagon was the constant leaks of
top secret government information to Washington newspapers.

The secretary lamented that he even read personal memos to him in the
newspaper before they reached his desk.

17:13 11-04-00

=========================================================

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
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CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
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U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Russian subcritical nuclear tests
Date: 05 Nov 2000 14:29:15 -0800


Thanks to Ross Wilcock (Canadian Physicians) for passing this on...

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2000/11/04/033.html
Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000.
Nuclear Weapons Tests
The Associated Press
Russia completed a series of subcritical test blasts of nuclear weapons on
the Arctic Novaya Zemlya archipelago this week, the Nuclear Power Ministry
said Friday.
The tests were successful and radiation levels were normal in the testing
area, said ministry spokesman Yury Bespalko.
Subcritical experiments - in which plutonium is blasted with explosives too
weak to set off an atomic explosion - are not prohibited by the
international Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Moscow says it will continue
the subcritical tests because they are necessary to ensure the safety of the
country's nuclear arsenal.
(c) 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.




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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/06
Date: 06 Nov 2000 12:06:55 -0500

Dear NucNews friends,

I'm not going to be able to be consistent in providing NucNews Briefs or
archives for the next few months.  We're involved in renovating larger Prop One
space, in addition to keeping the vigil for global nuclear disarmament going 24
hours a day outside the White House.  I hate to bow out, but must.  Continuing
to keep NucNews timely and available is up to you, now.

If you want to know what's going on in D.C., I've found much of the Briefs
information at the Washington Times/AFP Daybook.  If you want to check the
daybook yourself, go to NucNews Source Links at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm, then scroll down to
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(http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews), you can help everyone keep up to date
(including us).  I hope, if you've found NucNews to be helpful, that you'll be
an interactive member of the list.

Thanks for subscribing, I wish I could clone myself, but hopefully you'll
understand.  Volunteers welcome at the vigil or the renovation site, as well as
in collecting the news.  Please continue to keep us informed!

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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/06
Date: 06 Nov 2000 16:07:31 -0400

Dear Ellen Thomas,

Thank you for your hard work. The listings have been valuable, the work
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Subject: (abolition-usa) A2000 in Nagasaki
Date: 07 Nov 2000 10:01:37 -0800

Dear Friends and Activists,

On Friday, 17 November 2000, the Global Citizens Assembly to
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will begin in Nagasaki.  If you will be
attending the conference and have photographs or other historic
documents of any Abolition 2000 events and activities from the past,
please bring with you as we will be setting up an Abolition 2000
time-line display at the Assembly.  Thank you in advance for your
participation.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel
free to contact me at this address before 10 November at 6 pm PST.

With best regards,
Carah Ong
--


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000


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From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Bruce Gagnon in Hawaii!  Militarization of Outer Space talk
Date: 14 Nov 2000 17:42:47 PST



Aloha and greetings Abolitionists,

Bruce Gagnon is here in Hawaii and enjoying the beautiful weather that we
are having. The sun is warm and the day is just perfect. He is also on his
way to Japan where many of you will see him. The Pacific Islanders are
throwing a big luau party tonight for a "Decolonizing Pacific Islands
Studies" Conference, but it is wonderful to have Bruce come and speak to us.
  Wish you all were here!

Richard Salvador
Honolulu, Hawai`i

---

CC:  KMA <[e-mail]>, [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], Majid Tehranian <[e-mail]>
          (Bruce Gagnon)


Aloha, FYI:

Apologies for the delay. Please come and attend. Forward message to
interested peoples.

Mahalo nui loa,

Richard Salvador

--


        NUCLEARIZATION AND MILITARIZATION OF OUTER SPACE

        A Presentation by Bruce Gagnon

        Coordinator
        Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
        Gainesville, Florida

        Tuesday, November 14, 2000
        7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
        Campus Center Room 220     (Across from UH Bookstore)
        University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus
        Honolulu, Hawaii

        FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


The US military is blunt about its plans to control space and the Earth
below. "US Space Command - dominating the space dimension of military
operations to protect US interests and investment. Integrating Space Forces
into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict,"
trumpets the US Space Command in its report _Vision for 2020_. These words
in _Vision 2020_ --its cover a multi-colored depiction of a laser weapon
shooting its beams down from space, zapping a target below--are laid out
like the crawl at the start of the Star Wars movies.

They're not out of Hollywood, however, but in an official publication of the
US Space Command which "coordinates the use of Army, Naval, and Air Force
space forces," its website notes, and was set up by the Pentagon to "help
institutionalize the use of space."
(Karl Grossman, author of _The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear
Threat to Our Planet_).

In a recent story about his message concerning nuclearization and
militarization of space (US space defense policy) in _The Tampa Tribune_,
Mr. Bruce Gagnon expresses concerns about the negative impacts of the US'
multi-billion dollar space program on global peace and stability, saying,
"The policy today is to create a new arms race."  At the same time, Gagnon
added "the most vulnerable of citizens will be impoverished to pay billions
or trillions of dollars for projects like the International Space Station
and even more expensive plans to mine planets and asteroids." This
sophisticated militarization of space goes hand in hand with commercial
exploitation of space for the sole benefit of private American aerospace
corporations. Gagnon added, "I call it 'Pyramids to Heaven.' The aerospace
corporations are the pharaohs of the space age."  He warns "that once
billions have been spent to build elaborate space networks, the government
will turn the projects over to the corporations, leaving the taxpayers
nothing to show for their contributions."


On the other hand, there has been a growing popular movement in the United
States and around the world which has been mobilizing itself against more
militarization of space--reflected poignantly in the 1997 protests against
NASA's $3.4 BILLION Cassini space probe, powered by 72.3 pounds of
plutonium, that is planned to reach Venus.  This movement questions and
protests the nuclearization and militarization of space, demanding that
outer space be treated rightly as the "common heritage of human beings," as
elaborated by both the Moon Treaty and the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which
bans nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in space. Mr. Gagnon
was the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign that drew enormous support
and media coverage around the world and was featured on the TV program 60
Minutes.

Between 1983 - 1998 Bruce was the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition
for Peace & Justice and has worked on space issues for the past 13 years. In
1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida history when over
5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight
test of the Trident II missile. Project Censored (from Sonoma State
University, CA) named a story on space weaponization by Bruce as the 8th
Most Censored story in 1999.

Mr. Gagnon will speak on the topic of "Nuclearization and Militarization of
Space" on Tuesday, November 14 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  *


Co-Sponsors:  TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research; The
Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies; Student Peace Action
Network-University of Hawaii; Graduate Student Organization, University of
Hawaii at Manoa.


For More Information, Contact Richard Salvador,
Hague Appeal for Peace Pacific Forum 2000 Lecture Series) via
E-mail: [e-mail]

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From: "John E. Linker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Seeking WASTE Employment
Date: 15 Nov 2000 03:44:40 GMT

Dear Prospective WASTE EMPLOYER:

I have recently started work, as a Sanitary Engineer, with the CA Department
of Health ServicesÆ Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management.
  Although I am now working full-time, I am actively searching for some kind
of part-time telecommuting Nuclear Weapon/Waste Work that I could do for a
few hours per week in the evenings from home.  Would you please keep me in
mind, in the event that you should happen to hear of such a suitably
appropriate WASTE EMPLOYMENT opportunity?  Here is an up-to-date version of
my resume & SOQ.  I hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks sincerely,



John E. Linker
Member, American Nuclear Society
Environmental Engineer/Chemist
Santa Rosa, CA

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

RESUME

JOHN E. LINKER

P.O. BOX 5217, SANTA ROSA, CA 95402             Email:  [e-mail]
                   TELEPHONE  [phone]

    Mr. Linker's experience, in statutory (i.e., USC:CFR
10/14/21/22/29/32/34/40/42/44/49) operations, includes:  Chemical; Civil
(Architectural/Construction/Sanitary/Structural); Electrical (Control
Systems DCS/I&C/PLC/ RTU/SCADA); Mechanical (HVAC/Stress/Vibration); and
Nuclear (BWR/FBR/GCR/HWR/PWR Safety Systems Maintenance & Production
Compliance) Engineering.

9/5/00-Present    CA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICESÆ DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER
AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT.  Sanitary Engineer.
5/98 û 10/99    JOHNSON CONTROLS / E2 CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC.  Scientist III
in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Environmental Protection
Department, Haz Waste Mngmt Div, Waste Generator Services Group, Waste
Characterization Chemistry Team.  Duties involved: applying Federal, State
and internal codes to waste streams generated lab-wide; as well as
development of internal profiles for streams containing both hazardous and
radioactive components.
1/97 - 5/98    RGIS INVENTORY SPECIALISTS.  Inventory Audits at Commercial &
Gov't Facilities.
11/96 - 1/97    TARGET STORE OF ROHNERT PARK CA.  Seasonal Stock Clerk.
5/95 - 7/95    SONOMA COUNTY CA, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION.  Environmental
Health Specialist in the HazMat Generator and LUST Sections (Field
Inspections and Office Tasks).
8/91 - 2/92    NATIONAL INSPECTION & CONSULTANTS OF SC.  Statutory Compliance &
10-8 SRO NUCLEAR Enforcement:  K/L/P-Reactor(s) Startup Quality Assurance.
6/91 - 8/91    BELCAN TECHSERVICES OF OH.  Partitioning/Transmutation
MIL-STD-SNM-SIS FEMP-FMPC Refinery:  SARA NPDES, RCRA-RADWASTE (Dissolver
Rubble)  NUCLEAR Compliance.
1/91 - 2/91    WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION OF WA.  RCRA:  WASTE MIN &
Part B Analysis Plan(s) - WAC WAP WRAP, Nuclear Criticality Environmental
Safety & Health (EH&S).
7/90 - 9/90    RALPH M. PARSONS - ENGINEERING SCIENCE OF WA.  HANFORD NUCLEAR
ARMY, PDE-CFD-CERCLA-Finite-Element FS.  Monte Carlo NEPA-KENO.V.a, Modular
FUS/HAZWRAP EA WRAP FEAR Support.
9/89 - 5/90    MACDONALD STEPHENS SANITARY ENGINEERS OF CA.  Tertiary Advanced
Wastewater Treatment (AWT) Civil/I&C/SCADA CAC Electrical/Structural
SANITARY ENGINEERING Compliance.
9/88 - 8/89    FLUOR DANIEL - IRVINE NUCLEAR OPERATIONS CENTER.  Wackenhut
HANFORD Camp, KAPL GA Defense MOX-RADWASTE Vitrification Plant
(DWPF-WVDP-HWVP), PRA-HAZOP-FMECA, Unit Operable RTF SYREX/TRUEX B-Plant,
FB-NSR-Canyon, TOTAL Multiphasic Naval NUCLEAR Restoration, DCS Wasteform:
PROCESS ENGINEERING.
2/88 - 7/88    SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT.
ARCO/Chevron/Phillips/Shell/Texaco/UNOCAL and Vandenberg AFB Shuttle Complex
Quality:  Complex-21 NESHAPS Compliance.
11/87 - 3/88    HOLGUIN & FAHAN.  Port Hueneme, TOTAL Remediation:  MPP
CRAY-YMP Multiphasic Naval Restoration (TOTAL).
3/87 - 11/87    DANIEL GROSJEAN & ASSOCIATES (SCAQMD-CAARB).  Pt Mugu Pacific
Missile Test Station, Atmospheric Environmental Spectroscopic Aerosol
Chemistry Research.
6/84 - 7/86    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA.  NRC-ACRS FBR/GCR/
HWR/LWR Safety Systems Analysis Research.  MPP CRAY-YMP
BLEVE/COBRA/TRAC/RELAP5/MOD3/RETRAN/VIPRE LOCA/ECCS/HPIS/PTS MELCOR/SCDAP
Transient Multiphasic Thermalhydraulicist - Nuclearemedial Molten
Corium-Concrete Debris Bed Action.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
B.S. Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy - 1986
B.S. Chemical and Nuclear Engineering - 1986

Member: AIChE, American Nuclear Society, American Institute of Physics,
American Geophysical Union
Statement of Qualifications (4 pages) Available Upon Request
      1.    With the State of California Department of Health ServicesÆ Division
of Drinking Water and Environmental Management, John is currently employed
full-time as a Sanitary Engineer.

    2.    At LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY (LLNL), Mr. Linker worked with
JOHNSON CONTROLS WORLD SERVICES, INC (formerly with E2 CONSULTING
ENGINEERS), as a Waste Characterization Chemist (Scientist III) / Process
Engineer, in the LLNL Environmental Protection Department (EPD), Hazardous
Waste Management (HWM) Division, Waste Generator Services (WGS) Group, Waste
Characterization Chemistry (CC) Team.  Duties included use of the LLNL Total
Waste Management Systems (TWMS) Database, as well as interviews with Waste
Generators for the preparation of Wastestream Baseline Characterization
Evaluation (WSBCE) Forms, Waste Evaluation Forms (WEFs), Waste Disposal
Requisition (WDR) Templates, and Waste Characterization Summary Sheets.
Primarily, duties involved the development of Internal Profiles for
wastestreams coming from several different locations and programs.  This
included detailed characterization of wastestreams generated all over the
Lab, including streams containing both hazardous and radioactive components.
  These tasks included application of Federal, State and internal (LLNL)
codes to the generated waste. These functions included interface with
different departments: Environmental Analysts (EPD), Shipping (HWM), Hazards
  Control, HWM Field Personnel, Analytical Lab Personnel (Chemistry &
Materials Science (CMS)) and Lab Generators of Hazardous Waste. In addition,
QA/QC of the overall Waste Profile system was carried our in order for it to
pass State and internal inspections. These functions resulted in processing
the paperwork much faster thus giving more time to HWM Shipping to find a
suitable Disposal Facility.

    3.    With RGIS INVENTORY SPECIALISTS, of Santa Rosa, CA, Mr. Linker traveled
to Commercial and Governmental Facilities, to conduct inventory audits, as
an Inventory Auditor.

    4.    At TARGET STORE T-852, of Rohnert Park, CA, Mr. Linker acted as a
Seasonal Store Clerk, with the Flow Team.  At TARGET, Mr. Linker worked in
Warehouse Production and as a Shelf Stocker.

    5.    With the SONOMA COUNTY, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION, in Santa Rosa,
CA, Mr. Linker assisted with Field Inspections and Office Tasks, in the
HazMat Generator and Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Sections.

    6.    With NATIONAL INSPECTION & CONSULTANTS (NIC) - in the SAVANNAH River
Site, Reactor Restart Division, Reactor Operations Administration, Obedient
Compliance Arena (RRD-ROA-OCA) - Mr. Linker completed a negotiated Six (6)
Month Technical Contract assignmnent, with Disciplinary Multi-Act
DUPONT/WACKENHUT/WESTINGHOUSE United States Code (USC), ICBM and SLBM,
Tritium Production AP600 K/L/P-REACTOR(S), Nuclear Startup and TOTAL Quality
Assurance Procedures Editing - NQA-2, USC:CFR Titles 10/14/21/22/28/29/32/
34/40/42/44/49 Parts & Sections Inspection, Quality Area EH&S Matrix Audits
& Surveillance:  K-Reactor Startup Compliance Walkdown - Obedient Statutory
Commercial Administration Compliance & 10-8 SRO NUCLEAR Enforcement and
continuously monitored such  frequencies as 30.860, 42.100, 123.050,
147.285, 151.325, 154.430, 154.905, 155.475, 155.955, 161.670, 161.700,
164.250, 164.275, 154.375, 164.600, 164.650/ 165.375. 165.260, 167..825,
167.875, 167.975, 168.450, 160.975, 416.250, 416.400, 453.550, 453.750,
460.050/460.300/465.300, 460.175/460.250, 463.225 and 465.500 MHz.

    7.    On temporary contract to the Partitioning/Transmutation, BELCAN
TECHSERVICES, Military Standard, Special Nuclear Material, Special Isotope
Separation (MIL-STD-SNM-SIS) Fernald Environmental Management Project, Feed
Materials Production Center (FEMP-FMPC), in TOTAL Process SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT UNIT (SWMU) COMPLIANCE Enforcement Engineering Analysis, Mr.
Linker Assisted with CFR 40:271, RCRA-RADWASTE Complex-21 3Q-FMPC-FEMP,
HTGTR/HWR/LWBR Th228/U235 Fuel Fab & THORIUM Separations Refinery, CFR 10:20
- Appendix Part B EH&S, OR/SRL Ohio EPA Dissolver Rubble, Hanford 100H
THOREX Recycle, BNL/KAPL & West Valley Actinide Debris, TRU Environmental
Technology:  3D Safe Geometry.

    8.    As a Senior Nuclear Licensing & COMPLIANCE ENGINEER with the
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (WEC), Mr. Linker assisted with the WAC,
Parameters & Rationale Remote Control Systems, WASTE RECEIVING AND
PROCESSING (WRAP) FACILITY Appendix B, Waste Analysis Plan (WAP), WASTE MIN
initial CRAY-YMP KENO.V.a Criticality Playground Support, in recognition of
the RECUPLEX PLUTONIUM Finishing Plant (PFP) Final Safety Analysis Report
(FSAR), and the PLUTONIUM Reclamation Facility (PRF) - formerly Z-Plant,
under the direction of BATTELLE NORTHWEST.

    9.    Prior to having joined WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC, Mr. Linker served Duty
Station as Senior Engineer to the U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS with JMM-RMP
Parsons Engineering Science (Parsons-ES), under supportive
LATA-SAIC-SCIENTEC-TENERA, directional IFR
EBRII/PBF/PREPP/SL1/SPERT/SWEPP/ZEEP, Fast Breeder Blanket (FBB) guidance.
His work scope included technical support to Hanford's CRAY-YMP discretized
parabolic elliptical Partial Differential Equation, Computational Fluid
Dynamic WESTINGHOUSE PDE-CFD-ARMY, Title 42 USC PDE-CFD-CERCLA-Finite
Element, Fixation
DCM3D-DYNA3S-LSODES-MESOILT2-NEFTRANII-NWFT/DVM-PORFLO-SESOIL-SWIFT2-TAURUS-UCBNE10.4,
sizzling EM ASI-IT RI/FS Feasibility Study, Smoothest CHEM-NUC/S&W/MACTEC
Draft, in addition to the Modular FUS/HAZWRAP Hamiltonian, WESTINGHOUSE
ELECTRIC WRAP, Schrodinger Hartree-Frock Molecular MINDI MINDO Orbital
TRUMP-S. AMPX/MNMCP/SCALE YMP KENO.V.a-NEPA Remote Systems, Final
Environmental Analysis Report (FEAR), Operable Linear/Nonlinear AP600
Nuclearestoration WRAP.

    10.    As a "Permanent" full-time Civil/I&C/SCADA Project Engineer with the
civil sanitary engineering & Construction Management firm MacDonald Stephens
Sanitary Engineers, Mr. Linker's efforts reinforced proliferating activity
in Tertiary Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) plant modification to
several of the smaller municipal AWT Facilities in technical Southern
California.  His scope of work included BOD/COD Process Calculation;
Commercial Grade MCC, PLC, RTU, and Switchgear Generator Dedication;
Configuration Management; Obedient CWBS Contracts Administration;  MSDS
Strap-On; Corporate Communications; Critical Path Projects Cost Estimation;
Demographics; Construction Inspection; PERT General Planning; Engineering
Plans & New Improved Standard TECH SPECS; Quality Assurance; CEGA MIL-STD
EIR CAC EH&S Liaison Engineering Technology; and contractor submittal Shoppe
Drawing review.

    11.    With the ARMY Package Power Prototype, Rocky Flats, GCEP, NPR MOX Fuel
Fab, Neon Tritium Target Practice - Gas Cooled Offices of FLUOR DANIEL -
following completion of Hanford's Chop Leach (SNM Metal) PLUTONIUM/URANIUM
Extraction (PUREX), Process Facility Modification (PFM) Project (PFMP) and
Idaho's Exxon WINCO FluorINEL FDP RMP FAST RAL ICPP Chem Plant, UNITED
ENGINEERS & CONSTRUCTORS (UCAT) Liquid Effluent Treatment & Disposal (LET&D)
Preconceptual Facility - Mr. Linker contributed as a modular Nuclear General
Atomic sub-Task-Force Nuclearemedial Process Man to the WESTINGHOUSE HANFORD
directorate, Probabilistic HWVP HAZOP-FMECA Regulatory Wasteform
Qualification Feed Prep, TRU-Recycle, Time-in-Motion, WVNS-BNFL Turntable,
total nonlinear fractal Chaos strange attractor, Melter/Off-Gas (MOG)
perturbation, PLUTONIUM Processing Building(s) 703F/771 (PPB), B-Plant
TRUEX/SYREX Pretreatment FB/HB/NSR Canyon(s), Strategic Root Cause,
Source-Term reorganizational Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF)
NTSB/DNFSB/NWTRB MIL-STD-UNIT(S).  On the Force, Mr. Linker followed through
with Operable OnSite DWPF remote control & analytical process systems
spreadsheet database MIL-STD-PRODUCTION for CFR/WAC Canyon Crane accordance
and Frenkel Shottke hot OnSite on-line STARTUP & MSM manipulator repair
quick Stop'n-Go Cray-YMP Hot Shops of the East meets West,
CFT-CWNT-FAFT-FDCT-FFT-KFT-MFT-NAFT-OACT-OANT-PFT-RAT-RCT-RLST-SCAT-SCT-SFHT-SME-SMECT-SRAT-WAT-WHT
  functional management support.  Also, Mr. Linker assisted with totally
exhaustively zoned ANSI/ASME NQA-1 AHU-HVAC/R technology assurance, chemical
process penetration Hot Cell (CPC) operating process control (PCD) all
discipline Control-Room Advanced Procedures bilateral verification for
Vitrification Building distributed control (DCS) and glovebox snubber/jumper
burnup accountability, human performance, formal Fluor-type lattice
displacement process hand calculation (CALC) - PFDs and P&IDs.  In addition,
Mr. Linker serviced independent review to Los Alamos' Backscattering IAED
RTF/WETF TA-33/55/91, WIPP MST-12, Photochromic Bursting Pumped Liquid
PU-239 Modulating Nuclearemedial SP-100, disciplinary ELECTRIC environmental
Sandia MIL-STD-SNM-SIS, PANTEX Metal Weapons Evaluation Test (WET) Lab, and
the Homer URENCO Claiborne Parish, Louisiana Energy Services (LES-URENCO)
U-235 Centrifugal URANIUM 0.025 Enrichment Project, together with assorted
good Total Quality Value Engineeering Principal.

    12.    On Advanced "Extra-Help"/Ultratemp assignment to Santa Barbara County's
Air Pollution Control District - Energy Division, as Air Quality Control
(CAA-BACT/PSD. NAAQS, NAPAP, NESHAPS, NSPS, NSR) CAC Permit Licensing &
COMPLIANCE ENGINEER, Mr. Linker acted principally in QUALITY ENGINEERING and
regulatory technology MIL-STD-LIAISON roles for obedient grandfathered
one-step two-step, Permit-to-Operate (PTO) remedial licensing of previously
exempt stationary source combustion equipment - in support of Departement of
Interior (DOI), Minerals Management Agency, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
offshore oil exploration/production and the VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE STS
Shuttle Transport System, Space Launch Complex ("Slick VI").  Secondarily,
Mr. Linker was instrumentally attentive in providing advanced environmental
assistance in Authority-to Construct (ATC) & PTO Clean Air Act (CAA) State
Implementation Plant (SIP) & remedial PTPLU activity Programme managing
involovement in soils and groundwater contaminated with
Benzene-Toluene-Xylene (BTX), Stoddard's Solvent and Chromic Acid compounds,
pursuant to SARA RCRA.

    13.    With Holguin & Associates, Mr. Linker applied advanced OnSite
MIL-STD-NUCLEAREMEDIATION techniques to sensitive noncompliant licensees
along the South Central Coast.  As acting RFI/CMS Director of TOTAL
ENFORCEMENT for MIL-STD-NUCLEARESTORATION, Mr. Linker performed expedited
roles in Remedial Licensing, backhoe utilization, electrical work &
carpentry, jack & sledgehammer operation, E&C and operations management of
commercial grade Nuclearemedial NAVY Nuclearemediation facilities,
groundwater monitoring well E&C, hand auger soil sampling, hollow stem auger
drill rig penetration & sample logging, lysimeter installation, masonry,
plumbing, soil-gas assessment and source-receptor AIRDOS modeling - TOTAL
Remediation (NUCLEAR).

    14.    With Daniel Grosjean & Associates - Consultants in Environmental
Research, Mr. Linker participated (as an atmospheric chemist) in an
international interdisciplinary physical/organic MIL-STD-AEROSOL
disciplinary environmental research environment on PT MUGU PACIFIC MISSILE
TEST STATION, strategic San Nicholas Island.  Mr. Linker's research involved
laboratory analytical synthetic methods development & Standard Operating
Procedure (SOP) technical writing, coupled with field sampling of primary
atmospheric pollutants and their remedial secondary molecular multiphasic
environmental RADM/ADOM reaction products.

        15.    Appointed Assistant III to the University of California,
Department of  Chemical and NUCLEAR ENGINEERING, Center for RISK Studies and
SAFETY (CRSS), Mr. Linker participated in numerous principally environmental
MIL-STD-TECHNICIAN level capacities in NRC-ACRS SAFETY Facilities
Navier-Stokes support & programmatic accrediational Quality Maintenance
Implementation pedagogy - Peer Review.  During this period, Mr. Linker's
research assignments involved arenas in:  FBR/GCR/HWR/LWR severe accident
analysis, Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR), heterogeneous hydroformylation
Supported Liquid Phase Catalysis (SLPC), Nuclearemedial NAVY
diradical-electrorganoanionic Molecular quantum multiphasic thermalhydraulic
ANNA/BEBOP-BLEVE/CASMO-3/COBRA/CONcERT/DETECTOR/EAL/
EPZ/FOLLOW/G-FLOW/IFB/INCA/INCORE/INPAX-II/LOFT/MAGIC/MELCOR/
MICBURN-3G/MICROBURN-B/P/MOD03/NSSS/PAR/READS/RELAP5/RETRAN02/SCDAP
/SGTR/SIMULATE-3/SNUPPSII/SOV/TABLES-3/THEATRe/TOTE/TRAC/VANTAGE5/
VIPRE/WABA boundary layer stratification, cryogenic superconducting NMR,
ultasonic ultra-high vacuum detector chamber research, and interfacial PRA,
event & fault tree HAZOP-FMECA CRAY-YMP transport phenomenae.  As Assistant
III, Mr. Linker developed in marketably vital Essential Service areas
including:  CNC mill/lathe machining, flash x-ray, Taylor instability,
welding, hammer drill & impact wrench operation, nuclearemedial
concrete-corium severe accident debris bed action, pulsating GE-EG&G tritium
neutronics acceleration, alpha/beta/gamma densitometric health physics; and
various other appropriately elucidated Professional Safe Engineering
Practice(s).

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE draft long-term enviro stewardship study
Date: 15 Nov 2000 08:07:56 -0800 (PST)



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dear peace and environmental advocates,

attached is a pdf file of a dept. of energy invitation to the public. you
are invited to a "stakeholder forum" during the public comment period on
doe's draft long-term stewardship study. many of you will recall the
multi-year lawsuit brought by 39 plaintiff organizations across the country
on both doe cleanup and weapons activities. some of you were plaintiffs.
this study is one of the outcomes of that lawsuit.

the stakeholder forum will be held in san francisco on thursday, december
14, 6 pm at the argent hotel, 50 third street. to get a copy of the draft
study from the web, go to www.em.doe.gov/lts. or, call doe at
1-800-736-3282. if you have trouble getting a copy, call us at tri-valley
cares 1-925-443-7148. please note that the doe letter also details a
washington, dc public hearing and ways to coment by mail. all manner of
comments will count.

this study looks at what happens when sites are so polluted there will be
contamination for many, many, many, many decades. what is the interface
between long-term stewardship and active cleanup? how will long-lived
radioactive and chemical wastes be kept from continuing to migrate through
the environment. etc., etc., etc.

these are important questions for communities and the nation. please speak
up on this. thanks. --marylia



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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fissile materials in Russia
Date: 19 Nov 2000 17:13:14 -0500

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U.S. says nuclear materials secured in Russia
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WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday =
that=20
10 metric tons of weapons-usable nuclear materials, enough to make 500=20
nuclear bombs, is now secured at a central storage facility in Siberia, =
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part of a joint U.S.-Russian program to prevent theft by terrorists.=20

"Today's announcement shows the continuing commitment of the U.S. and =
Russia=20
to reduce the risk that terrorists or countries of proliferation concern =

might acquire nuclear materials for use in a weapon," said U.S. Energy=20
Secretary Bill Richardson.=20

The materials were moved from three separate storage locations to the =
central=20
site at the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant in Siberia. That =
site=20
contains comprehensive nuclear material and accounting systems.=20

The systems were put in place as part of the U.S.-Russian Material=20
Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) program, an effort designed =
by the=20
two nations to protect hundreds of metric tons of plutonium and highly=20
enriched uranium against theft.=20

MPC&A was launched in 1993 in partnership with Russia and the New =
Independent=20
States to correct deficiencies in systems to secure nuclear materials.=20

The Energy Department said security upgrades were underway for 750 =
metric=20
tons of the estimated 960 metric tons of nuclear materials requiring=20
security.=20

The main point of the program, according to the agency, is to install =
modern=20
physical security and material accounting systems; reduce risks by=20
consolidating materials into fewer buildings; and converting highly =
enriched=20
uranium into forms not usable in nuclear weapons.=20

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From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Marshall Islanders planning to return to (contaminated?) Rongelap
Date: 21 Nov 2000 17:32:08 -0800


Hello and Greetings from Hawaii, FYI:

Some of the Marshall Islanders displaced by testing are desperate to return
to their islands. But it is difficult to say all will be well as the
cleaning methods used supposedly only "reduce radiation exposue."

Richard Salvador
Honolulu, Hawaii



http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/pireport/2000/November/11-21-07.htm

Tuesday, November 21, 2000

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai'i at Manoa


RONGELAP: ISLANDERS' RETURN IMMINENT?

Leaders Prepare For Phase Two Of Atoll's Clean-Up

MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Nov. 3, 2000 - Marshall Islands Journal)---With
the $15 million phase one nuclear cleanup and rehabilitation project coming
to a close at Rongelap Island, leaders are already planning for phase two
developments on the northern atoll. The final work on phase one - a new dock
and paving of the runway - are already under way, with completion expected
by the end of 2001, Rongelap Mayor James Matayoshi said this week.

Phase two - and the future return of Rongelap islanders to their home atoll
- depends heavily on the results of model areas on Rongelap that have used a
"combined" cleanup method to reduce radiation exposure:

     º for future residential area, scraping soil and then replacing it with
coral pebbles.

     º for agriculture areas, dousing the ground with potassium fertilizer,
which at Bikini has been shown to prevent uptake of radiation by coconuts
trees.

Although Matayoshi and Rongelap islanders are awaiting official reports from
both independent and Department of Energy scientists on the results of the
phase one remedial work, early indications from a broad spectrum of
scientists is that Rongelap Island can be safely resettled, he indicated.

"Based on the radiological information from the model areas on Rongelap that
we're using as a trial, if radiation is reduced to a safe level, then in
phase two we can extend (the mitigation work) to the entire island,"
Matayoshi said.

Just what constitutes a "safe" level may be a sticking point. A 1994
rehabilitation agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the
Rongelap Atoll Local Government stated the goal of reducing exposure to 100
millirem exposure per year or less. Recently, however, the Nuclear Claims
Tribunal has adopted a more stringent 15 millirem exposure limit for all
cleanup areas in the Marshall Islands.

Matayoshi says Rongelap isn't bound by any standard as it reviews the
scientific data. "If the 15 millirem standard is safer, then there's a
reasonable basis for us to follow it," he said, adding that the real issue
for Rongelap and other atolls needing nuclear cleanup funding support will
be their ability to "sell" the cleanup costs to the U.S. Congress.

Matayoshi said that Rongelap islanders need to "take up the debate on the
radiation issue" and carefully consider the information that is developing
from the phase one work.

The attitude among many Rongelap people is that Rongelap is contaminated and
the U.S. owes billions of dollars, he said. The question is, Matayoshi said,
if all the scientists (including Rongalap's independently hired scientific
advisors) are saying Rongelap is safe, will people go back?

Matayoshi added that while the local government is moving forward with the
phase one and phase two project work at Rongelap, it is not pressuring
people to return home. "If people decide to take up the opportunity to
resettle in the future, the local government will make assistance
available," he said.

Matayoshi said that if the scientific information about Rongelap's safety is
correct, it will be more cost effective for the local government to focus on
building a single community, rather than attempting to maintain several
different locations.

While some of the plans for phase two works are dependent on scientific
findings coming out of phase one, the basic concept for phase two is to
build the infrastructure necessary for a community on Rongelap Island,
Matayoshi said. I addition to what's already in place, this will include a
school, more community facilities and an initial 50 homes. It will require
additional funding from the U.S. to accomplish phase two, Matayoshi said,
adding that he is hopeful that the cleanup work can be extended to other
islands in Rongelap, so that people "can safely resettle the islands and
safely use resources on other islands."

A lot of information needs to be shared with the communities on Rongelap's
new radiological situation, he said. "It takes time to digest the
information," he said.

The local government's plan is to submit a request for phase two funding to
the U.S. Congress in the early part of the new year.

The Marshall Islands Journal, Box 14, Majuro, Marshall Islands 96960
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Peace Links conference in DC this weekend
Date: 27 Nov 2000 15:52:32 -0500


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Dear Friends,

Peace Links is sponsoring "The Conference of Women for Responsible
National Security" this coming weekend in Washington, DC. Now more than
ever, the voices of women working for peace and disarmament need to be
heard, and this conference promises to help raise many women's voices.

Attached to this email you will find the conference agenda as well as a
sign-up
form. The form can be emailed or faxed to the listed numbers ASAP!

Peace,

Kevin Martin
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National Security" this coming weekend in Washington, DC. Now more than
ever, the voices of women working for peace and disarmament need to be
heard, and this conference promises to help raise many women's voices.</tt>
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) There they (the Dr. Strangeloves) go again
Date: 28 Nov 2000 10:53:42 -0500

Dear Friends,

In case you had any doubt the nuclear weapons establishment wants to
resume full-scale testing, read the cover story of the Science Times
section of today's New York Times.  The url is
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/science/28BOMB.htm

Let's swamp the Times with letters in reaction to this article, which is
surely a trial balloon by the Dr. Strangeloves as they campaign to
resume full-blown nuclear testing.  The email address is
<[e-mail]>.  Keep your letters short, you're lucky if you get
200 words in the Times.  A few points to consider making in a letter:

*The Stockpile Stewardship Program is not really about the "safety and
reliability" of existing nuclear warheads, they want to use the
technology to develop new types of nuclear weapons.

*Stockpile Stewardship, the desire to resume testing, and the drive to
deploy Star Wars missile defense signal to the rest of the world the
U.S. is not committed to non-proliferation and disarmament. In fact, we
are prepared to violate or abrogate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty, the cornerstone agreements preventing global nuclear anarchy.

*The question shouldn't be whether Stockpile Stewardship can keep our
nukes "safe and reliable", it should be why do we need nuclear weapons
at all?

Have at it!

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Thanksgiving ATRC email update
Date: 28 Nov 2000 13:08:35 -0500

>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:49:08 -0500
>Subject: Thanksgiving ATRC email update
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>
>22 November 2000
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>Somehow we are managing to continue working despite the stalemate in
>Florida. As we truck on we send warm Thanksgiving greetings to you, along
>with:
>
>NUCLEAR REPORT CARD
>PRESIDENT CLINTON GRILLED ON WBAI
>COLOMBIA: MORE MONEY, MORE WEAPONS, MORE DRUGS
>
>After the holiday we HOPE to bring you our analysis of the new president
>elect, and the most expensive presidential campaign in history, our take
>on pending arms sales, and much much more!!
>
>Stay Tuned,
>
>Bill Hartung
>Michelle Ciarrocca
>Dena Montague
>Frida Berrigan
>
>
>NUCLEAR REPORT CARD:=20
>Abolition 2000 issued its "Annual Progress Toward a Nuclear Free World"
>report card late last month, announcing an abysmal total grade of 20 out
>of a possible 120 points. I would be afraid to bring those grades home to
>mother. The report card tracks progress on Abolition 2000's eleven points.
>On many key issues, namely ceasing to produce and deploy new nuclear
>weapons, ratification of a Comprehensive Test Ban treaty, prohibitions on=
=20
>new nuclear research and testing in the laboratory, countries were given a
>0 out of 10 grade.=20
>
>On a few issues, the nations of the world made progress and were rewarded
>with higher grades. Progress was made in recognizing and upholding the
>1996 World Court decision on the illegality of the use or threat of use of
>nuclear weapons, and for that a 6 of 10 grade was given. The report
>concludes with a quote from Albert Einstein, "For there is no secret and
>no defense, there is no possibility of control except through the aroused
>understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world." Abolition
>2000's report card is a great tool for arousing that understanding.=20
>
>You can download the Report Card at
>http://www.abolition2000.org/reports/reportcard2000.html or email Pamela
>Meidell at Atomic Mirror to request a PDF file [e-mail]
>
>
>PRESS FOR CONVERSION:
>The current issue of this Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
>publication is centered around the theme "Nonviolent Resistance to War and
>Injustice." There is not enough room to list all the great articles and
>resources in this issue, but suffice it to say it is worth picking up.
>People's historian Howard Zinn has an article entitled "A Noble Tradition
>of U.S. Nonviolent Resistance," Gener Sharp from the Albert Einstein
>Institute writes on "Methods of Nonviolent Action." If you'd like to learn
>more visit COAT's website at www.ncf.ca/coat or contact Richard Sanders at
>613-231-3076 [e-mail]=20
>
>PRESIDENT CLINTON GRILLED ON WBAI:=20
>One of the most exciting post-election web gleanings is the transcript of
>Democracy Now host Amy Goodman's impromptu half hour interview with
>President Bill Clinton. She "caught" Clinton as he was making election day
>tree shaking calls to radio stations. The full transcript can be read or
>listened to at http://www.democracynow.org.=20
>
>President Clinton answered a barrage of questions on the death penalty,
>the Middle East violence, but finally lost his temper when Goodman
>suggested that he was partly responsible for Green Party candidate Ralph
>Nader's popularity "for having driven the Democratic Party to the right."=
=20
>"Now you listen to this," Clinton fumed, "the other thing that Ralph Nader
>says is that he is as pure as Caesar's wife on the environment," and
>proceeded to rattle off the administration's accomplishments. Goodman then
>countered with questions on the administration's passage of NAFTA and its
>continued support of sanctions against Iraq. The questions came fast and
>heavy, and were challenging, well informed and refreshingly "combative,"
>suggesting that Amy Goodman would have been a breath of fresh air as
>moderator of the Bush/Gore debates.=20
>
>COLOMBIA: MORE MONEY, MORE WEAPONS, MORE DRUGS
>New Report from GAO Highlights Difficulties with Plan Colombia
>
>In October of 1999, at the urging of the U.S., Colombian President Andres
>Pastrana unveiled his ambitious $7.5 billion counternarcotics effort known
>as Plan Colombia, with hopes of reducing drug production by 50% over 6
>years.  Pastrana indicated that Plan Colombia would also focus on
>advancing the peace process, improving the economy, reforming the judicial
>system, and supporting democratization and social development. But as the
>Center for International Policy has pointed out, while Pastrana has stated
>only 25% of Plan Colombia would benefit Colombia's armed forces, so far
>75% of the US contribution has been targeted for the military.
>
>The Colombian government pledged $4 billion of its budget to the plan
>(which, considering Colombia's economic situation is an astronomical
>figure), and pleaded with other governments to assist with the remaining
>$3.5 billion.  Now, more than a year later, the U.S. has agreed to provide
>$1.3 billion for counter-drug activities, of which $862 million will go to
>Colombia, while European nations have pledged, at best, $200 million in
>aid. =20
>
>Yet despite record increases in U.S. military assistance to Colombia over
>the past five years, a new report from the General Accounting Office (GAO)
>reveals that coca cultivation and production have more than doubled during
>the same time period and Colombia has also become a leading producer of
>heroin. As for Plan Colombia, "the total cost and activities required to
>meet the plan's goals remain unknown, and it will take years before drug
>activities are significantly reduced." Winifred Tate, senior fellow at the
>Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), points out, "Instead of
>learning from past decades of misguided military follies, U.S. policy
>towards Colombia continues to focus on expanding military operations."
>
>The GAO report focuses on the U.S. aid package for Plan Colombia (and
>previous counternarcotics efforts) and details the difficulties and
>problems encountered.  Some of the report's findings include: (see link to
>report below in resources)
>
>=B7 U.S. assistance has been of limited utility because of long-standing
>problems in planning and implementing this assistance.  For example,
>helicopters provided to the National Police and the military have not had
>sufficient spare parts or the funding to operate and maintain them to the
>extent necessary for conducting counternarcotics operations.
>=B7 The Colombian government has not demonstrated that it has the detailed
>plans, management structure, and funding necessary to effectively
>implement its programs and achieve stated goals.
>=B7 The challenge of reducing drug-related activities has become more
>difficult as the two largest insurgent groups (FARC and ELN) and
>paramilitary groups have expanded their involvement in drug trafficking.=20
>=B7 U.S. Embassy officials stated that the National Police have not always
>provided necessary documents, such as budgetary and planning documents, to
>determine if the National Police are using the resources in accordance
>with eradication and interdiction plans.
>=B7 According to U.S. Embassy officials, despite extensive training and
>other efforts to have the Colombian National Police develop a management
>program that would ensure a more effective aerial eradication program,
>little progress has been made. =20
>
>The report's findings are nothing new: a multi-billion dollar military aid
>package is unlikely to make more than a dent in Colombia's drug
>production, but will continue deepening U.S. involvement in Colombia's
>40-year civil war, which has claimed 35,000 lives in the past ten years
>alone. While the GAO report examined the financial and logistical issues
>plaguing U.S. efforts to stem drug production in Colombia, an article in
>the Fall 2000 World Policy Journal by William LeoGrande and Kenneth Sharpe
>delves into the deeper reasons why Plan Colombia will fail. =20
>
>First, despite administration's assurances that the U.S. aid package to
>Colombia is to combat drug trafficking, "no one in Colombia believes that,
>and no one in Washington ought to either."  Beefing up the Colombian armed
>forces is premised on the notion that a stronger Colombian army will force
>the guerrilla groups to the peace table.  As LeoGrande and Sharpe point
>out, this didn't work in El Salvador, why does the U.S. think it will work
>in Colombia's 40-year war?  Instead, "a billion dollars of US aid turned
>that [El Salvadoran] army into a large, well-equipped, politically
>powerful force that murdered noncombatant civilians with impunity for over
>a decade . . . the war ended when the army finally recognized that it was
>unwinnable - a conclusion it reached when the US cut military assistance
>by 50 percent, threatened to end it entirely, and threw its full
>diplomatic weight behind the peace process."
>
>Secondly, LeoGrande and Sharpe note that the U.S. aid package doesn't take
>into account the problem of the paramilitary groups, which are heavily
>involved in drug trafficking and have links to the army.  Like in El
>Salvador when the Reagan administration tolerated the death squads because
>they were viewed as being "an essential weapon in its war against the
>left," the article speculates that in Colombia too, it is likely that the
>U.S.'s focus on the war against the guerrillas will cause Washington to
>turn a blind eye to the "army's other partner in this dirty war."
>
>Although we're still waiting to see who will be the next president of the
>United States, one thing is certain, neither candidate is likely to stray
>from the failed and favored military approach to dealing with the drug
>problem.  The issue did not generate any attention during the three
>presidential debates and neither candidate has been outspoken on the
>issue.  Both Bush and Gore support Plan Colombia and an increase in U.S.
>assistance to Colombia.  On a positive note, both candidates have
>acknowledged the need for more domestic drug treatment and prevention
>programs, yet how they would advance this idea in a resistant Congress is
>unclear. =20
>
>But, the question of who will take over for Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey when
>he officially resigns his post on January 6, 2001 will have an even
>greater impact on the future of U.S. drug policy.  McCaffrey's repeated
>claims that we're winning the drug war are wearing thin.  The situation in
>Colombia notwithstanding, domestically, drug use by junior high students
>has increased by 300%, prevention and treatment programs are constantly
>shortchanged, and the prison population is exploding with more than
>400,000 non-violent drug offenders in prison.  The list goes on.
>
>The U.S. should be encouraging the peace process in Colombia, not fanning
>and fueling the war. As LeoGrande and Sharpe aptly put it, "Even if the
>United States defoliates every acre given over to growing coca, burns
>every laboratory, and destroys every last gram of Colombian cocaine, it
>will have won a hollow victory. The drug business will simple move
>elsewhere, as it always does. But it is the people of Colombia who will
>pay the price for the inability of the United States to face the fact that
>its 'war' on drugs can only be won at home."
>
>COLOMBIA RESOURCES:=20
>World Policy Journal, Fall 2000, "Two Wars or One? Drugs, Guerrillas, and
>Colombia's New Violencia," by William M. LeoGrande and Kenneth E. Sharpe
>(www.worldpolicy.org/journal/leogrande.html) - Join the online interactive
>discussion.
>
>The Center for International Policy is an invaluable resource for
>activists wanting to learn more about US aid to Colombia
>(www.ciponline.org/colombia/aid/). =20
>
>NACLA, September/October 2000,  'Report on Colombia' - includes articles
>on Colombia's two major guerrilla groups (FARC and ELN), the
>paramilitaries connections to both the drug traffickers and Colombia's
>armed forces, the ongoing peace process, displaced Colombians, and
>biowarfare in Colombia, - www.nacla.org=20
>
>State Department's September 11 report to Congress on progress toward
>human rights goals (required by the aid package law) at
>www.ciponline.org/colombia/aid/091101.htm=20
>
>General Accounting Office - New report: US Assistance to Colombia Will
>Take Years to Produce Results - www.gao.gov/new.items/d0126.PDF=20
>
>
>
>Frida Berrigan
>Research Associate,
>World Policy Institute
>66 Fifth Ave., 9th Floor
>New York, NY 10011
>ph 212.229.5808 x112
>fax [phone]
> =20

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE APPROVING "RELEASE"/"RECYCLING" of ATOMIC Waste,
Date: 29 Nov 2000 13:16:36 -0500

Forward from [e-mail] - action needed!

ALERT- DOE Comment deadline Monday, December 4, 2000.

DOE APPROVING "RELEASE"/"RECYCLING" of ATOMIC Waste, Materials, Sites,
Soils, etc.

Department of Energy (DOE) proposes some limitations on
'Release'/'Recycling' of radioactive METAL, but continues to allow
contaminated materials out.

DOE sets up to RESUME releasing/'recycling' some radioactive metal into
commerce and daily use items!

DOE CONTINUES releasing radioactive wastes, materials, equipment,
property, soils, land, etc.

On Thursday, October 16, 2000 in the Federal Register, 65 FR
198:60653-60656, DOE proposed changes to its internal Order 5400.5 on
public radiation standards regarding RELEASING MATERIALS WITH RESIDUAL
RADIOACTIVITY FROM DOE FACILITIES. Comments due DEC 4!

DOE's proposals:

DOE is clarifying what it needs to do let radioactive wastes and
materials out into general commerce, regular trash and recycling into
the marketplace.

Rather than prohibiting the release of any contaminated materials, DOE
essentially codifying existing procedures, with the appearance of
greater limits on the release of scrap metal.

For scrap metal originating in contaminated areas of DOE sites, DOE will
use commercially available detection equipment to survey and determine
with "reasonable assurance that residual radioactive material is not
detectable on the metal." [proposed DOE Order 5400.5 Chapter V, 4.]

Address comments to:
Harold T. Peterson, Jr.  [phone]  [e-mail]
or
Stephen L. Domotor [phone]  [e-mail]
Air, Water and Radiation Division
Office of Environmental Policy and Guidance
US Department of Energy (EH-41)
1000 Independence Avenue/ Washington, DC 20585.

Send a copy to your US Congressmember (US House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515), your Senators (US Senate, Washington, DC 20510)
and to DOE Secretary Bill Richardson, or EH-1 David
Michaels, US DOE, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585.


NIRS general comment:

DOE must PROHIBIT and PREVENT any radioactively contaminated materials
from being released from regulatory control within the DOE complex. No
metals or other materials that are contaminated or potentially
contaminated from DOE activities, at any level, should be released or
recycled into the marketplace or regular or hazardous waste facilities.
Since contamination can be present below economically feasible detection
levels, nothing even potentially contaminated should be released.
Measuring for contamination at the lowest levels of detection would be
an improvement over deliberately releasing contaminated materials at
'DOE authorized levels' but DOE and its contractors cannot be trusted to
monitor adequately and the nuclear industry cannot be trusted to use the
proper technology, mainly for economic reasons. NIRS supports DOE's
implied goal of preventing  release/recycle of scrap metal with any
contamination and encourages that this goal be expanded to cover all
materials, not just scrap metal, but the loopholes must be plugged.

What DOE is proposing:

DOE's proposed changes to Order 5400.5 add a new Chapter V which would
prohibit scrap metals with detectable radioactive contamination on the
surface (from DOE activities) to be released into unrestricted
commerce.  Other contaminated materials could be released if they meet
DOE's
"approved Authorized Levels" of contamination or are calculated, by DOE
field managers or program officers, to give an "acceptable" dose to the
public.

The first part, for scrap metals, SOUNDS good but it has big LOOPHOLES:

1)  DOE procedures, calling for "reasonable assurance," do not guarantee
that the contamination will be detected. Accurate, adequate, systematic,
complete detection is expensive and time consuming. If inadequate
detection is carried out, it can give false assurance and allow DOE
radioactivity out into commerce and consumer goods.

2)  DOE appears to allow 'indirect' release of contaminated metal to the
public by sending it to licensed companies possibly processors---who
don't directly release it to the public, but can make their own
subsequent determination to send it out under their own loopholes and
exemption options.

3)  DOE could let radioactive metal out through reduced oversight of the
material once it is recycled or reused within the DOE complex.

POSITIVE ASPECTS of the Metals Portion of (Ch. V, 3) of the DOE
Proposal-

1)  The GOAL of preventing DOE contamination being released from the
sites is an UNUSUAL IMPROVEMENT in DOE ATTITUDE and is to be
encouraged.  Unfortunately, the implementation has big loopholes that
must be
plugged.

2)   The requirement that DOE field offices coordinate with the public
[Ch. V, 3. b] through local public participation programs is good but
multiple, broad public participation programs must be carried out to
truly involve the communities. Further, since the potential impact is on
the general population at large, local coordination, although essential,
is not adequate. "Coordination"  is not defined and should not be
considered adequate approval of any DOE activities. Since Site Specific
Advisory Boards do not exist at all sites and those that do
have mixed effectiveness, programs involving the public must not rely on
them alone.

Background:

For decades some radioactive materials from nuclear weapons and power
have been sent off-site into daily commerce including regular and
hazardous trash AND recycling  into the marketplace.
Occasionally, it gets caught; not always. Now, the nuclear industry
including DOE and international nuclear promoters want to clearly
legalize the "release" or "clearance" of radioactive wastes, materials,
sites, concrete, equipment, buildings, soil, etc.

Massive Increase in  'Releases' of Radioactive Waste/Materials/Metals
expected:

As DOE attempts to "clean-up" the nuclear weapons complex and as nuclear
power reactors age, projections have been made (by the Environmental
Protection Agency, Department of Energy, International Atomic Energy
Agency and others) of massive amounts of materials with "residual"
radioactive contamination being 'released' or 'cleared' from regulatory
control as if they were not radioactive.

TWO Temporary DOE Moratoria on Radioactive Metal Releases from DOE
sites:

DOE Secretary Bill Richardson temporarily halted the release, from DOE
sites, of metal with radioactive contamination throughout (volumetric
contamination) on January 12, 2000, until the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission acts.

On July 13, 2000 DOE Secretary Richardson suspended the release, from
DOE sites, of metal potentially contaminated on the surface, and
committed that DOE would "ensure American consumers that scrap metal
released from Energy Department facilities for recycling contains no
detectable contamination from departmental activities." The commitment
was that DOE would develop a policy and procedures that will prevent any
metal with radioactive contamination on the surface, from DOE
activities, from going out of the DOE complex. The implication was that
DOE would prevent any contaminated materials from getting out.

DOE announced its proposed policy and procedures on October 16, 2000, in
the Federal Register, as a proposed change and addition to its internal
public radiation standards, DOE Order 5400.5. The proposal was published
for Public Comment on Thursday, October 16, 2000 in the Federal
Register, 65 FR 198:60653-60656, with a December 4, 2000 comment
deadline.

DOE proposal is a Disappointment but Not a Surprise:

INSTEAD OF PREVENTING radioactive metals and other materials from
getting out into the marketplace, DOE's proposed  changes outline the
steps to let contaminated materials out.

DOE will "CONTROL RELEASES of Materials with Residual Radioactive
Contamination from DOE Facilities."

Rather than prohibiting radioactive materials, wastes, property and
equipment from being sold, donated or otherwise sent out of the DOE
complex, the proposed change to DOE Order 5400.5 refers to "DOE-approved
Authorized Limits" for release and provides several options for
releasing contaminated materials.

One of the Department goals of the proposed new Chapter VI of DOE Order
5400.5 is that:

"the level of residual radioactive material in property to be released
is as near background levels as is reasonably practicable consistent
with DOE ALARA process requirements and meets DOE authorized limits"
[proposed DOE 5400.5 Chapter VI 1. (b)].

THIS IS NOT A PROHIBITION ON RELEASE OF CONTAMINATED MATERIALS!

The proposed Requirements for Surveying and Monitoring are inadequate.
For example:

" Where potentially contaminated surfaces are not accessible for direct
measurement (as in pipes, drains, ductwork), such property may be
released only after case-by-case evaluation and documentation that the
inaccessible surfaces are likely to be within DOE approved authorized
limits." [proposed DOE 5400.5 Ch. VI 3.(a) 5. ; also in existing Ch. IV]

What are "DOE-approved Authorized Limits?"

They are "limits approved by DOE to permit the release of property from
DOE control"

Under the proposal [DOE 5400.5 Chapter VI, 3. b], "Authorized limits
must be established to GOVERN THE RELEASE of sites, structures, or
materials (personal and real property). DOE authorized limits are limits
approved by DOE to PERMIT THE RELEASE of property from DOE control"
[EMPHASIS ADDED]

DOE Authorized Limits must  [Ch. VI 3. b]:
-"be selected *such that potential doses do not exceed and are as far
below the dose limits and constraints as is PRACTICABLE" [Ch.VI 3.b(1)]
-"be selected to provide a REASONABLE expectation that the release will
not cause the dose limits and constraints to be exceeded for current and
future use of the property." [Ch. VI 3. b(2)]

DOE should be PREVENTING doses, not causing and permitting them!

-DOE is proposing to adopt the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's
decommissioning rule (10 CFR 20 Subpart E) which allows as much or more
exposure from a closed site as it allows from an operating site.
Although this may be considered an improvement to DOE standards by some,
it is inadequate for protection of the public health and safety.  EPA
has expressed concern that the NRC decommissioning rule could leave
sites contaminated enough to be declared Superfund sites, especially due
to groundwater contamination.

Give DOE your Comments on 'Release' and 'Recycling' of Radioactive
Materials into Commerce and on site-release by Dec. 4, 2000.

For more information contact: Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and
Resource Service, 202-328-0002 ext 16; [e-mail]-ID:
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ALERT- DOE Comment deadline Monday, December 4, 2000.

DOE APPROVING "RELEASE"/"RECYCLING" of ATOMIC Waste, Materials, Sites,
Soils, etc.

Department of Energy (DOE) proposes some limitations on
'Release'/'Recycling' of radioactive METAL, but continues to allow
contaminated materials out.

DOE sets up to RESUME releasing/'recycling' some radioactive metal into
commerce and daily use items!

DOE CONTINUES releasing radioactive wastes, materials, equipment,
property, soils, land, etc.

On Thursday, October 16, 2000 in the Federal Register, 65 FR
198:60653-60656, DOE proposed changes to its internal Order 5400.5 on
public radiation standards regarding RELEASING MATERIALS WITH RESIDUAL
RADIOACTIVITY FROM DOE FACILITIES. Comments due DEC 4!

DOE's proposals:

DOE is clarifying what it needs to do let radioactive wastes and
materials out into general commerce, regular trash and recycling into
the marketplace.

Rather than prohibiting the release of any contaminated materials, DOE
essentially codifying existing procedures, with the appearance of
greater limits on the release of scrap metal.

For scrap metal originating in contaminated areas of DOE sites, DOE will
use commercially available detection equipment to survey and determine
with "reasonable assurance that residual radioactive material is not
detectable on the metal." [proposed DOE Order 5400.5 Chapter V, 4.]

Address comments to:
Harold T. Peterson, Jr.  [phone]  [e-mail]
or
Stephen L. Domotor [phone]  [e-mail]
Air, Water and Radiation Division
Office of Environmental Policy and Guidance
US Department of Energy (EH-41)
1000 Independence Avenue/ Washington, DC 20585.

Send a copy to your US Congressmember (US House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515), your Senators (US Senate, Washington, DC 20510)
and to DOE Secretary Bill Richardson, or EH-1 David
Michaels, US DOE, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585.


NIRS general comment:

DOE must PROHIBIT and PREVENT any radioactively contaminated materials
from being released from regulatory control within the DOE complex. No
metals or other materials that are contaminated or potentially
contaminated from DOE activities, at any level, should be released or
recycled into the marketplace or regular or hazardous waste facilities.
Since contamination can be present below economically feasible detection
levels, nothing even potentially contaminated should be released.
Measuring for contamination at the lowest levels of detection would be
an improvement over deliberately releasing contaminated materials at
'DOE authorized levels' but DOE and its contractors cannot be trusted to
monitor adequately and the nuclear industry cannot be trusted to use the
proper technology, mainly for economic reasons. NIRS supports DOE's
implied goal of preventing  release/recycle of scrap metal with any
contamination and encourages that this goal be expanded to cover all
materials, not just scrap metal, but the loopholes must be plugged.

What DOE is proposing:

DOE's proposed changes to Order 5400.5 add a new Chapter V which would
prohibit scrap metals with detectable radioactive contamination on the
surface (from DOE activities) to be released into unrestricted
commerce.  Other contaminated materials could be released if they meet
DOE's
"approved Authorized Levels" of contamination or are calculated, by DOE
field managers or program officers, to give an "acceptable" dose to the
public.

The first part, for scrap metals, SOUNDS good but it has big LOOPHOLES:

1)  DOE procedures, calling for "reasonable assurance," do not guarantee
that the contamination will be detected. Accurate, adequate, systematic,
complete detection is expensive and time consuming. If inadequate
detection is carried out, it can give false assurance and allow DOE
radioactivity out into commerce and consumer goods.

2)  DOE appears to allow 'indirect' release of contaminated metal to the
public by sending it to licensed companies possibly processors---who
don't directly release it to the public, but can make their own
subsequent determination to send it out under their own loopholes and
exemption options.

3)  DOE could let radioactive metal out through reduced oversight of the
material once it is recycled or reused within the DOE complex.

POSITIVE ASPECTS of the Metals Portion of (Ch. V, 3) of the DOE
Proposal-

1)  The GOAL of preventing DOE contamination being released from the
sites is an UNUSUAL IMPROVEMENT in DOE ATTITUDE and is to be
encouraged.  Unfortunately, the implementation has big loopholes that
must be
plugged.

2)   The requirement that DOE field offices coordinate with the public
[Ch. V, 3. b] through local public participation programs is good but
multiple, broad public participation programs must be carried out to
truly involve the communities. Further, since the potential impact is on
the general population at large, local coordination, although essential,
is not adequate. "Coordination"  is not defined and should not be
considered adequate approval of any DOE activities. Since Site Specific
Advisory Boards do not exist at all sites and those that do
have mixed effectiveness, programs involving the public must not rely on
them alone.

Background:

For decades some radioactive materials from nuclear weapons and power
have been sent off-site into daily commerce including regular and
hazardous trash AND recycling  into the marketplace.
Occasionally, it gets caught; not always. Now, the nuclear industry
including DOE and international nuclear promoters want to clearly
legalize the "release" or "clearance" of radioactive wastes, materials,
sites, concrete, equipment, buildings, soil, etc.

Massive Increase in  'Releases' of Radioactive Waste/Materials/Metals
expected:

As DOE attempts to "clean-up" the nuclear weapons complex and as nuclear
power reactors age, projections have been made (by the Environmental
Protection Agency, Department of Energy, International Atomic Energy
Agency and others) of massive amounts of materials with "residual"
radioactive contamination being 'released' or 'cleared' from regulatory
control as if they were not radioactive.

TWO Temporary DOE Moratoria on Radioactive Metal Releases from DOE
sites:

DOE Secretary Bill Richardson temporarily halted the release, from DOE
sites, of metal with radioactive contamination throughout (volumetric
contamination) on January 12, 2000, until the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission acts.

On July 13, 2000 DOE Secretary Richardson suspended the release, from
DOE sites, of metal potentially contaminated on the surface, and
committed that DOE would "ensure American consumers that scrap metal
released from Energy Department facilities for recycling contains no
detectable contamination from departmental activities." The commitment
was that DOE would develop a policy and procedures that will prevent any
metal with radioactive contamination on the surface, from DOE
activities, from going out of the DOE complex. The implication was that
DOE would prevent any contaminated materials from getting out.

DOE announced its proposed policy and procedures on October 16, 2000, in
the Federal Register, as a proposed change and addition to its internal
public radiation standards, DOE Order 5400.5. The proposal was published
for Public Comment on Thursday, October 16, 2000 in the Federal
Register, 65 FR 198:60653-60656, with a December 4, 2000 comment
deadline.

DOE proposal is a Disappointment but Not a Surprise:

INSTEAD OF PREVENTING radioactive metals and other materials from
getting out into the marketplace, DOE's proposed  changes outline the
steps to let contaminated materials out.

DOE will "CONTROL RELEASES of Materials with Residual Radioactive
Contamination from DOE Facilities."

Rather than prohibiting radioactive materials, wastes, property and
equipment from being sold, donated or otherwise sent out of the DOE
complex, the proposed change to DOE Order 5400.5 refers to "DOE-approved
Authorized Limits" for release and provides several options for
releasing contaminated materials.

One of the Department goals of the proposed new Chapter VI of DOE Order
5400.5 is that:

"the level of residual radioactive material in property to be released
is as near background levels as is reasonably practicable consistent
with DOE ALARA process requirements and meets DOE authorized limits"
[proposed DOE 5400.5 Chapter VI 1. (b)].

THIS IS NOT A PROHIBITION ON RELEASE OF CONTAMINATED MATERIALS!

The proposed Requirements for Surveying and Monitoring are inadequate.
For example:

" Where potentially contaminated surfaces are not accessible for direct
measurement (as in pipes, drains, ductwork), such property may be
released only after case-by-case evaluation and documentation that the
inaccessible surfaces are likely to be within DOE approved authorized
limits." [proposed DOE 5400.5 Ch. VI 3.(a) 5. ; also in existing Ch. IV]

What are "DOE-approved Authorized Limits?"

They are "limits approved by DOE to permit the release of property from
DOE control"

Under the proposal [DOE 5400.5 Chapter VI, 3. b], "Authorized limits
must be established to GOVERN THE RELEASE of sites, structures, or
materials (personal and real property). DOE authorized limits are limits
approved by DOE to PERMIT THE RELEASE of property from DOE control"
[EMPHASIS ADDED]

DOE Authorized Limits must  [Ch. VI 3. b]:
-"be selected *such that potential doses do not exceed and are as far
below the dose limits and constraints as is PRACTICABLE" [Ch.VI 3.b(1)]
-"be selected to provide a REASONABLE expectation that the release will
not cause the dose limits and constraints to be exceeded for current and
future use of the property." [Ch. VI 3. b(2)]

DOE should be PREVENTING doses, not causing and permitting them!

-DOE is proposing to adopt the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's
decommissioning rule (10 CFR 20 Subpart E) which allows as much or more
exposure from a closed site as it allows from an operating site.
Although this may be considered an improvement to DOE standards by some,
it is inadequate for protection of the public health and safety.  EPA
has expressed concern that the NRC decommissioning rule could leave
sites contaminated enough to be declared Superfund sites, especially due
to groundwater contamination.

Give DOE your Comments on 'Release' and 'Recycling' of Radioactive
Materials into Commerce and on site-release by Dec. 4, 2000.

For more information contact: Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and
Resource Service, 202-328-0002 ext 16; [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NEW stuff on Tri-Valley CAREs web site
Date: 29 Nov 2000 11:22:56 -0800

Dear peace and enviro colleagues:

Here are some new and interesting items on Tri-Valley CAREs web site. Go to
http://www.igc.org/tvc and you will find our November newsletter posted
with:

        * an article on Tri-Valley CAREs two, important Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits -- one charging DOE with illegally
withholding National Ignition Facility documents and one charging DOE with
similar, illegal withholding of records regarding the agency's so-called
mega-strategy for augmenting and moving around various nuclear weapons
activities. These two lawsuits could have national implications for both
DOE and all future FOIA cases.

        * an article on another, key NIF lawsuit filed by Tri-Valley CAREs
and the Natural Resources Defense Council charging DOE with multiple
violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act in the preparation of the
NIF cost and schedule "rebaseline" for Congress.

        * your INVITATION to attend a free, day-long community health
training on Saturday, December 9 in Livermore, CA. Featured speakers
include Dr. Marvin Resnikoff on the hazards of radiation, Dr. Peggy
Reynolds on health studies of Livermore Lab workers and the community and
Diane Quigley on community participation in health decision-making.

        * Tri-Valley CAREs' "Print Bites," community calendar and more!

Also on our web site, you will find our latest report on stockpile
stewardship in convenient pdf format, activist-oriented postcards you can
download and send, a sample letter to Congress on NIF and lots of
additional, very useful stuff.

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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