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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:58:02 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Dan & Sachio out of prison

Dear Friends,

This word from Colorado:

To everyone's suprise Dan and Sachio were released on a PR bond and will
be staying in Colorado Springs until trial, but will be able to visit
their respective homes with approval of the pretrial caseworker... A
grand jury is being empaneled to investigate and the charges will likely
be increased at a September 3rd hearing.

Peace,
Felice

P.S.  Anyone who wants a copy of the upcoming Nuclear Resister, due out at
the end of the month, which will include the story of this and LOTS of
other Hiroshima & Nagasaki actions and more, send a snail mail address and
we'll get one to you.  There are currently more than 30 people in prison
for School of the Americas and anti-nuke actions...



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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:22:27 +0100
From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Dan & Sachio out of prison

Please send Nuclear Resister to:  Sally Light, 825 Kains Ave., #H, Albany,
CA 94607.  Thanks, Sally Light (I work for Tri-Valley CAREs in Livermore,
CA, as its Nuclear Weapons & Waste Program Analyst).

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> From: Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: (abolition-usa) Dan & Sachio out of prison
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 4:58 PM
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> This word from Colorado:
>
> To everyone's suprise Dan and Sachio were released on a PR bond and will
> be staying in Colorado Springs until trial, but will be able to visit
> their respective homes with approval of the pretrial caseworker... A
> grand jury is being empaneled to investigate and the charges will likely
> be increased at a September 3rd hearing.
>
> Peace,
> Felice
>
> P.S.  Anyone who wants a copy of the upcoming Nuclear Resister, due out
at
> the end of the month, which will include the story of this and LOTS of
> other Hiroshima & Nagasaki actions and more, send a snail mail address
and
> we'll get one to you.  There are currently more than 30 people in prison
> for School of the Americas and anti-nuke actions...
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:06:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracy Moavero <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) vermont info

Alice,

Don't know if you've seen this

Tracy

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:08:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: [e-mail]
From: Michael Mariotte <[e-mail]>
Subject: August Actions/New England

Nuclear Free New England Campaign:
Rally, Action Camp, Workshops

 The Nuclear Free New England Campaign is gaining momentum. Summer
highlights include a mass rally on August 22 in Brattleboro, VT and the
Northeast Action Camp in nearby Dummerston from August 21-27, including
nonviolent direct action at Vermont Yankee August 27. We expect these to be
among the largest anti-nuclear events of the past decade and we hope to see
you there!

RALLY
AUGUST 22
Confirmed speakers at the August 22 rally on the Brattleboro Commons include:

Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.

David Dellinger, long-time nonviolence activist and Chicago 7 alumnus.

Grace Paley, noted author and activist

Ed Smeloff, former Chairman of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District,
now at the PACE Energy Project

Harvey Wasserman, author, activist and senior advisor to Greenpeace

Karl Grossman, author of The Wrong Stuff, Power Crazy, and others; video
producer

The Panther Players, Vermont's comedy/political radio troupe goes live...

Dr. Ernest Sternglass, well-known radiation scientist

Debby Katz, President, Citizens Awareness Network

Michael Mariotte, Executive Director, NIRS

Maria Mendez, Sierra Blanca Legal Defense Fund

Dave Rapaport, Executive Director, Vermont PIRG

Michael Colby, Executive Director, Food & Water

Joseph Gainza, VT Nuclear Weapons March

And Waffles The Clown, musicians, and much more!

ACTION CAMP WORKSHOPS

This is a PARTIAL list of workshops scheduled for the Action Camp. This list
is not complete--there are many more not listed here--and is subject to
change. A more complete list is posted on NIRS' website (www.nirs.org).

Utility Restructuring Strategy Session (Sunday, August 23)
Harvey Wasserman, Ed Smeloff,
Bob Backus, Michael Daley,
Mary Lampert, and more...

Organizing Electric Co-ops
Roy Morrison, Bob Walker, Jennifer Gutshall

Nonviolence for Social Change
David Dellinger, Joanne Sheehan, War Resisters League

Nuclear Power 101
Dave Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists; Paul Gunter, NIRS; Rosemary
Bassilakis, CAN

Guerilla Theater and Banner Making (August 25)
Bread & Puppet Theatre

Radiological Monitoring & Weather
Sam Miller, Linda Downing

Women and the Wars of Contamination
Debby Katz, Rosemary Bassilakis, Monica Rhodes

Three Mile Island Consequences
Mary Osborne

Leadership Development Skills
Diane Russell, Institute for Conservation Leadership

Media Training
Linda Pentz, Safe Energy Communication Council

Researching Your Local Nuke & Engaging the NRC
Jim Riccio, Critical Mass; Jonathan Block, attorney.

Health Investigations and Public Participation
Diane Quigley and Seth Tuler, Childhood Cancer Research Institute

Nuclear Waste 101-"Low-Level"/102-High Level
Diane D'Arrigo, Mary Olson, NIRS

Beating the Texas-Vermont-Maine Compact
Diane D'Arrigo, Maria Mendez

Canvassing 101
Kim Medeiros, Jennifer Gutshall, Dave Kotker

DIRECT ACTION
On Thursday, August 27, there will be a nonviolent direct action at the
Vermont Yankee reactor. Participants will identify the scene of the crime
and will serve a citizens' warrant. Nonviolence training is required for
arrest participants and will be provided at the camp.

For more information on the August 22 Brattleboro rally, contact Nuclear
Information and Resource Service at 202-328-0002, [e-mail] For
details/preregistration/logistics on the Action Camp and August 27 civil
disobedience at Vermont Yankee, contact Citizens Awareness Network at
413-339-5781, [e-mail]




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Tracy Moavero
Peace Action International Office
866 UN Plaza, Room 4053
New York, NY 10017-1822
USA
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Fax:   [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Web:   www.webcom.com/peaceact

Peace Action is a member of the International Peace Bureau & Abolition 2000:
A Global Network for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:25:00 -0400
From: Norm Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) tmi 20th anniversary

Norm Cohen wrote:

> from: Norm Cohen, Coalition for Peace & Justice/UNPLUG Salem Campaign
> to: abolition usa activists who work on nuke power & nuke weapon
> production:
>
>   I understand that march 28th, 1999  is the 20th anniversary of the tmi
> debacle & I was wondering what is being planned or considered for that
> date. What I would like to see is one big event at 3 mile that date &
> nationally coordinated actions on the 26/27th at nuke power & nuke weapon
> production sites nationwide. Are we looking to do a repeat of the no-nukes
> concert, even if smaller? has anyone talked to jackson browne, bonnie
> raitt, bruce, etc, the performers from that concert? Is there
> consideration of setting up an ad hoc national coordinating committee for
> this anniversary?
>    I'm not in all the loops, so if these ideas are already being worked
> on, great. If not - who is planning what, what are your reactions to these
> ideas, what should the no-nuke community be doing?
>    And good luck to CAN and their encampment & protest event coming up
> next week.
>
> Peace
> Norm Cohen
> Executive Director
> Coalition for Peace & Justice
> PO Box 2344, Cape May NJ 08204
> 609-886-7988
> South Jersey Coordinator, UNPLUG Salem Campaign.




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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:12:00 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: (abolition-usa) Dan & Sachio out of prison

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I think Amanda is talking about a post from the Nuclear Resister, not one that
I sent.  My hunch is that this list is small enough that (I hope and pray) one
of you can get back to her.

Peace,
David

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I'd like to get a copy of that newsletter you were talking about....
Here's my address (try not to stalk me, though I know it'll be difficult)
Amanda Highfield
87 Friendly rd.
Hicksville, NY
11801

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:28:48 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Titan Explosion photos website

http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/uselv/titan/a20.htm

Titan IV-A rocket explosion photos
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:22:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nevada Desert Experience <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (abolition-usa) vermont info

Dear Tracy,                    August 14, 1998
Looks like a great event.  You must be expecting hundreds.  Please share
with abolition usa how it goes next week.  We had about 70 folks at the
Nevada Test Site for our annual August Desert Witness, Aug. 6-9.
    Sincerely,        David Buer, ofm
                Nevada Desert Experience

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:24:13 -0400
From: "Ross Wilcock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) NucNews: Titan Explosion and Cassini (Kaku quotes) ABC 8/13/98

Do we have any assurance that the satellite in question here was not powered
by Pu238 power packs?
Did what fell into the sea include any such material?

Ross Wilcock


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Subject:    (abolition-usa) NucNews: Titan Explosion and Cassini (Kaku quotes)
ABC 8/13/98

http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/rocket980812.html
An unmanned Titan IV-A rocket carrying an estimated $1 billion government
payload explodes seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral this morning.
(Duffin McGee/Reuters)

$1 Billion Satellite Destroyed
Rocket Explodes at Launch

By Michael J. Martinez
ABCNEWS.com
Aug. 12 - U.S. Air Force officials remain baffled after an unmanned Titan
IV-A rocket exploded 40 seconds into flight this morning. No one was
injured, but the $1 billion spy satellite payload was lost.
The Titan IV is the same type of rocket that lifted the NASA's Cassini space
probe into orbit last October, despite protests that an explosion like
today's could have scattered the 72 pounds of plutonium aboard Cassini over
a wide area.
On board today's rocket was a secret payload for the National Reconnaissance
Office, a once-secret arm of the U.S. intelligence community charged with
deploying spy satellites. The lost payload, which contained no radioactive
substances, reportedly cost $1 billion. The Air Force did not release any
other details about the payload, and a spokeswoman at the reconnaissance
agency declined comment.
"My initial thought is, 'we're hurt.' This is a sad day for the United
States Air Force," Brigadier General Randy Starbuck told a news conference
after the blast.
Destruction Over the Atlantic
Starbuck said there had been no indication of any problem until the rocket
pitched over just before the blast. Videotape of the brief flight showed the
Titan's nose apparently pitching downward just before the rocket's
self-destruct program activated.
"Oh, no," the launch commentator said as the rocket exploded. "It appears
we've had a malfunction."
According to the spokeswoman, mission control sent its own destruction
commands to the rocket two seconds after the first signs of trouble in order
to be sure the rocket was completely destroyed and would not harm anyone.
The rocket, launched at 7:30 a.m. EDT, blew up at 20,000 feet over the
Atlantic Ocean. To protect populated areas, Titans aren't launched unless
winds are blowing away from the coast, ensuring that any debris or fumes
from an explosion won't reach land. The Air Force says all of the debris
fell into the ocean. Starbuck warned anyone who came across debris from the
rocket or its ultra-secret cargo to keep away.
The sound of the explosion, heard as two separate booms, set off car alarms
as far away as Cocoa Beach, 10 miles away. Journalists and observers near
the launch site were immediately hustled onto buses and evacuated after the
explosion.
Plagued by Problems
The mission was originally scheduled for late July, but was postponed so
workers could repair torn insulation on the rocket's second stage. Today's
launch was also delayed more than an hour due to fueling problems.
The Air Force says it has no idea what happened, but that a panel of
investigators will be appointed to look into the incident.
The 204-foot-long, 1,900-pound Titan IV-A is powered by two solid-fuel
rocket boosters and first- and second-stage liquid-fuel engines. Depending
on its configuration, the Titan IV rocket costs anywhere from $177 million
to $230 million.
The rocket, according to NASA figures, has a 5 percent failure rate, but
remains the unmanned rocket of choice for deep-space probes and heavy
payloads due to its power.
Previous Questions
The Titan IV failure rate came into play last year, when concerns arose
during preparations for the launch of the Cassini space probe, designed to
study Saturn and its moons. Florida residents and environmentalists feared
the plutonium in Cassini's batteries could contaminate residential areas if
the spacecraft exploded during launch.
According to NASA, plutonium is the only viable way to power deep-space
probes, which operate too far away from the sun to tap solar energy.
Despite the protests, Cassini was successfully launched on Oct. 15, 1997.
It recently gained speed from the gravity of Venus, and is now heading
around the Sun. It is expected to pass within 500 miles of Earth some time
next year, and will reach Saturn in 2004.
On Aug. 2, 1993, another Titan IV mission, launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California and carrying another secret government payload,
failed due to a problem with one of its solid rocket motors. A problem with
similar solid rocket motors aboard the shuttle Challenger led to the
shuttle's destruction in 1986.
The reconnaissance agency's last successful launch, also using a Titan IV,
was on May 8. The rocket that exploded today was the last of that particular
model scheduled for launch. The Air Force introduced last year an improved
version of therocket.
What If This Had Been Cassini?
The Cassini mission to Saturn was one of the most unpopular missions in the
history of NASA, not because of the destination, but because of the
plutonium power cells on board the probe.
Members of the scientific community, Florida residents and environmentalists
all criticized the probe's use of deadly nuclear material, and were
concerned about the Titan IV's poor safety record.
"The failure rate of any rocket is anywhere between 1-in-70 and 1-in-100,"
says Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at New York's City University.
"With the Titan IV, it's about 1-in-20. Needless to say, the bugs have not
been ironed out."

Kaku and other Cassini opponents thought NASA was taking too big a risk with
the Titan IV, which
launched Cassini successfully on Oct. 15, 1997. The damage estimates from a
potential Titan-Cassini explosion ranged from 120 deaths over 50 years to
hundreds of thousands of deaths relatively quickly, all due to radiation
exposure.

Kaku says he hopes today's explosion makes NASA and the Air Force confront
the risks of using the Titan IV.

"There are some bureaucrats who want to play Russian roulette with these
rockets," Kaku says.
"Bureaucrats can't repeal the laws of physics."


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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 06:51:09 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Pu238 on Titan?

A very good question.  I thought it was a little fishy the way they whisked
all their military personnel out of there asap, and now they've cordoned
off a huge section of the sea that's off-limits while they look for debris.
 Not that that would do much good....

Ellen Thomas

At 11:24 AM 8/15/98 -0400, Ross Wilcock wrote:
>
>Do we have any assurance that the satellite in question here was not powered
>by Pu238 power packs?
>Did what fell into the sea include any such material?
>

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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:59:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Loring Wirbel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (abolition-usa) Re: Pu238 on Titan?

Ellen and List:
    While I would not TOTALLY discount the possibility of Pu power
sources for Advanced Vortex, the bulk of studies done by Federation of
American Scientists, Jeff Richelson, and others have shown pretty
conclusively that no U.S. spy satellites presently use a radioactive
power source or an RTG.
   There were two reasons the area off Cocoa Beach/Canaveral was
cordoned off:  short-term, there was a real toxic threat from human
handling of rocket-fuel-tainted parts.  Longer term (and perhaps more
important in the military's eyes), the way that the 320-foot antenna of
Advanced Vortex wraps around the Inertial Upper Stage in an
automatically-unfurlable helix umbrella configuration, is considered
one of the most highly classified pieces of information in the U.S.
government.  The Pentagon doesn't want to risk citizens seeing even
tiny pieces of what Vortex looks like.

Loring Wirbel
PPJPC/CPIS
Colorado Springs

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:20:42 -0400
From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: FYI: Sub-Continent Requires 'Nuclear Education']

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DISARMAMENT-SOUTH ASIA: Sub-Continent Requires 'Nuclear Education'

By IPS Correspondents  LONDON, Aug 7, 1998

(IPS) - In an editorial in this week's British Medical Journal, Professor
Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta from the Aga Khan University in Pakistan laments the
growth of the nuclear arms race in the sub-continent.

''The enormous costs of nuclear weapons must be weighed against the abysmal
state of human development and health in South Asia,'' he says. Professor
Bhutta, who is head of paediatrics and child health at the University, notes
that the region is home to over half of all the malnourished children in the
world.

In view of the high infant mortality and a lack of basic facilities for
health and education, he finds the diversion of scarce economic resources to
weapons of mass destruction incongruous, he writes in the current issue of
the prestigious medical weekly, published Friday.

Professor Bhutta suggests that the only way to ensure that a nuclear
conflict between India and Pakistan never occurs is to educate the
population in its true horrors and the human costs that such a programme
could entail.

He condemns the ''widespread euphoria and jingoism witnessed in the streets
of Delhi and Islamabad'' in the days following the nuclear tests last May.
However, he says that in recent weeks this has given way to ''introspection
and the beginnings of a real debate on the implications of a nuclear arms
race in the subcontinent''.

While ''the genie of nuclear capability in both countries has been well and
truly let out,'' he says, this must not be allowed to lead to a nuclear arms
build up.

Bhutta gives ''several compelling reasons why such a programme in the
subcontinent may not serve as a deterrent to war but greatly enhance its
risks and costs''.

Drawing any analogy with the US and USSR is ''misguided'', he insists, as
neither India nor Pakistan have the technology or resources to put in place
safeguards and early warning systems.

''Even if such fail safe systems were available, contiguous borders and
missile delivery times of under 10 minutes, coupled with fragile democracies
and volatile political systems make the effectiveness of such systems highly
questionable.''

He notes that the Cold War was ''fraught with numerous instances of near
miss accidents'' and despite assurances there has bee ''significant
radiation leakage'' from accidents involving nuclear weapons and production
facilities in the West.

He says it is ''debatable if the fragile economies of India and Pakistan
could sustain better weapons control and monitoring systems''.

But more important than this is the cost of a weapons programme for
countries with poor and inadequate health systems. Of every 1,0000 children
born in these countries, at least 80 will not survive for one year while up
to 33 per cent of all newborn infants are of low birth weight.

Under these circumstances the diversion of scarce resources into weapons
production is unacceptable. ''Since the nuclear explosions, India's defence
budget has already been increased by 10 per cent and Pakistan has imposed a
10 per cent tax surcharge to meet increasing defence needs,'' he points out.

''These allocations have led to an unfortunate but predictable reduction in
the existing meagre allocations to health and education.''

Bhutta notes that few of the people who celebrated in the streets following
the explosions really understand the horrors of nuclear war. He recalls that
according to calculations made over 35 years ago, the impact of a 20 megaton
ground burst nuclear device on Boston in the US would kill 2.1 million
people immediately, while a further 500,000 would be at risk of dying from
their injuries.

''With large urban population living in highly inflammable and flimsy shanty
towns, the casualty rates in comparable cities of India and Pakistan would
inevitably be much higher.''

It is estimated that an exchange of even much smaller 20 kiloton bombs would
cause the immediate death of 1.2 million people. ''Neither side would be
immune to the effects of even a limited nuclear exchange: a truly mutually
assured destruction.''

The only way to ensure that this does not happen, says Bhutta, ''is by
educating the populace and opinion leaders to the true horrors of nuclear
conflict and the human costs of embarking on an expensive and futile
programme of weapons building''.

He points out that ''in a subcontinent teetering on the brink of a nuclear
abyss'' rapprochement between India and Pakistan is possible only through
''pragmatic confidence building measures'' and ''by publicising the views of
the many proponents of peace on both sides of the border''.

He urges politicians in both countries ''asserting their right to rub
shoulders with global nuclear superpowers'' to understand that ''true
nuclear capability only comes with the necessary nuclear responsibility a
responsibility to their impoverished, destitute and sick populations''.

Nor are the superpowers blameless. They can hold no high moral ground ''with
their continued nuclear weapons programmes and pitifully slow disarmament
process''. He says that ''surely some of the blame for recent events in
south Asia lies at their doorstep.''

In view of their failure to set a proper example, he insists, ''it is
imperative that international sanctions against India and Pakistan do not
add to the misery of millions of children and poor people in the
subcontinent, who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of such measures.''
(END/IPS/JMP/RJ/98)


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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracy Moavero <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (abolition-usa) vermont info

David,

At 08:22 PM 8/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Tracy,                    August 14, 1998
>Looks like a great event.  You must be expecting hundreds.  Please share
>with abolition usa how it goes next week.  We had about 70 folks at the
>Nevada Test Site for our annual August Desert Witness, Aug. 6-9.
>    Sincerely,        David Buer, ofm
>                Nevada Desert Experience
>

Congrats on the successful Desert Witness. Just to clarify, I actually am
not working on the Vermont action- AFSC is. I was just passing along info. I
hope AFSC sends some updates.

All the best,

Tracy Moavero
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:24:51 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews: Utah Needs Help!

Okay, folks, what grass-roots action can help these people?  Isn't there
something about States' rights in the Constitution?

et in dc
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State, Envirocare fail in bid to keep N-waste out of Utah

08/15/1998

By Joey Haws
Deseret News staff writer

Attempts by the state and Envirocare of Utah to keep low-level radioactive
waste from going to a processing plant in Blanding have failed.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
turned down the Aug. 7 request for a temporary stay of the NRC's decision
to allow the White Mesa Mill to receive, process and dispose of uranium
bearing material from a nuclear weapons plant in Tonawanda, N.Y.

Judge Peter B. Bloch ruled that the state's request came too late to be
considered, citing the request for a stay should have been filed no later
than July 23 according to federal code. The NRC granted the license
amendment on June 23, allowing International Uranium Corp., owner of the
White  Mesa Mill, to haul the tailings across the county to Utah.

While the state's request was being considered by the NRC, shipments of
25,000 cubic yards of waste continued to go to the mill.

"The judge basically threw the case out on a technicality," said Bill
Sinclair, director of the Utah Division of Radiation Control.

Representatives for the state and IUC held a prehearing teleconference on
the same day the licensing board received the state's request, but after
negotiations lasted through Tuesday, the parties reported "that further
negotiations would not be fruitful."


Bloch's ruling only keeps the state from preventing the uranium shipment
from happening. The state and the mill will go before the Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel for a hearing on the case, assuming the panel decides
that the state has the right to challenge the NRC decision.

Sinclair said the Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for the
cleanup of the Tonawanda site, will give the state detailed information on
the contents of the waste that's on its way.

"We'll just have to wait and see what happens," Sinclair said. "The Army
Corps of Engineers is committed to supplying us the information we needed
to know how hazardous the waste is." Sinclair expects the "information
blitz" to come in by Monday.

The state still has to make additional filings next week before a hearing
date can be scheduled, but both the mill and the state expect it soon.

IUC President Earl Hoellen said he was gratified by the ruling.

Hoellen also confirmed Friday that possibly 150 tons of the uranium
material have already been received at the White Mesa Mill. Hoellen said
shipments are being received almost daily at the mill.
        Reprocessing is not expected to begin until sometime in September.



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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:33:15 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert/Renewable energy

Dear Friends,
Our Abolition 2000 statement recognizes that nuclear weapons and nuclear
power are "inextricably linked".  With India and Pakistan having gone
nuclear, and North Korea threatening to do so, it is critical that
alternative energy solutions be promulgated.  Yet forces in the US Congress
threaten to decimate even the modest efforts being made to develop safe
alternatives.  Please take a moment to respond to the Action Alert below.
Peace, Alice Slater
>X-UID: 000e5859
>Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:30:09 -0400
>Subject:
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Hi Folks!  Please take action now and distribute far and wide.
>
>URGENT ACTION ALERT
>
>August xx, 1998
>
>Issue:  Opponents in Congress have been trying to cut renewables
>funding.  Now they are pressuring the Department of Energy (DOE)
>to dismantle much of the institutional base of support for renewable
>energy by placing restrictions on contracts and grants. As a result of
>DOE responses to this pressure, the Solar Energy Industries
>Association laid off most of its staff on August 14, and a number of
>other organizations may soon be forced to do the same.
>
>Action:  Write a letter to new Department of Energy Secretary Bill
>Richardson urging him to stand strong and maintain DOE support
>for renewable energy organizations.
>
>Background: Over the past several years, renewable energy and
>energy efficiency supporters have been able to rally both Democrats
>and Republicans in Congress to support these programs. Now, a
>small number of powerful opponents in Congress are seeking to
>eliminate or weaken the very organizations that are involved in
>research and public education on renewables.
>
>The House and Senate have each passed their own version of the
>Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which includes funding for
>renewable energy research, development, and commercialization
>programs. Each version of the bill is accompanied by a bill report.
>The bill report is not legally binding, but it provides guidance to the
>Department of Energy (DOE) on how lawmakers want the money
>to be spent.
>
>This year, both the House and Senate bill reports include a section
>called "Inappropriate Use of Appropriations" that apparently is
>intended to discourage the Department of Energy from providing
>funding to renewable energy trade associations and organizations.
>(See full language at the bottom of this alert.) The report language
>does not refer specifically to renewables. In fact, it could be
>interpreted to refer to any DOE contractor.
>
>However, our opponents have focussed their attention on
>renewables thus far and have not indicated an intention for this
>language to affect trade associations and organizations associated
>with other energy technologies (such as nuclear, fossil, and fusion).
>The language would further restrict collaborative research,
>development, and commercialization efforts with industry, and
>grants to small research organizations and projects, as well as the
>trade associations. Organizations working on energy efficiency may
>also be affected, since they are in the same program at DOE and are
>also disliked by our opponents.
>
>This restrictive language has already had a chilling effect on DOE's
>actions. A number of trade associations and non-profit
>organizations have not yet received the DOE grants that they were
>awarded for the current fiscal year, even though the restrictive
>language is for fiscal year 1999.
>
>We need to send a loud, clear message to the Department of Energy
>that it must stand firm.  If DOE responds by allowing some
>renewable energy groups to go out of business, our opponents will
>become stronger and bolder, while we will become weaker. We
>have majority support in both chambers of Congress for renewables
>in general. This small but powerful minority must not be permitted
>to destroy our institutional base of support.
>
>Please write a letter to DOE Secretary Bill Richardson, on behalf of
>your organization or company if possible. I suggest that you both
>fax and mail your letter to DOE Secretary Bill Richardson, and
>send a copy to Vice President Al Gore. See sample letter below.
>
>Additional actions for those who wish to do more:
>
>1) Forward this alert to other friends of renewable energy.
>2) Call your contacts at the Department of Energy. If they say,
>"Don't worry, we can work around this language," ask them,
>"Then why hasn't DOE released current year (fiscal year 1998)
>funds to many sustainable energy organizations? It appears to us
>that this language is already having a chilling effect."
>3) If your US Senator or Representatives are sympathetic to
>renewables, send them a copy of your letter and ask them to talk to
>their colleagues on the House or Senate Energy and Water
>Development Appropriations Committee.
>
>Sample letter:
>
>The Honorable Bill Richardson
>Secretary
>US Department of Energy
>1000 Independence Avenue SW
>Washington, DC 20585
>
>Dear Secretary Richardson:
>
>[If you are writing on behalf of a membership organization
>or coalition, say so, and list the number of members you have.]
>
>    I am writing to express my concern about language in the
>Energy and Water Appropriations bills that is apparently intended
>to sharply reduce Department of Energy grants to organizations that
>produce and disseminate research and information about renewable
>energy and energy efficiency. While the language does not mention
>renewable energy specifically, its authors have focussed on
>renewables and efficiency. The chilling affect of this language has
>already caused DOE program managers to withhold funds that had
>been promised to a number of organizations for the current fiscal
>year (1998).
>
>    I urge you to immediately work with the Energy and Water
>Appropriations Committees to eliminate this damaging language,
>before the conference committee completes its reconciliation of the
>House and Senate versions of the bill. I also urge you to support the
>Senate appropriation of $367 million for renewable energy. A clear
>majority of Congress supports renewable energy; a small minority
>must not be allowed to disrupt DOE's programs in this area.
>
>                        Sincerely,
>                        Your name and title
>
>cc: Vice President Al Gore
>
>Contact information:
>
>Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy
>US Department of Energy
>1000 Independence Avenue SW
>Washington, DC 20585
>Phone: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>
>Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.
>Old Executive Office Building
>17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
>Washington, DC 20501
>Phone: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>Email: [e-mail]
>
>The actual language from the reports that accompany the Energy
>and Water Development Appropriations bills:
>
>HOUSE LANGUAGE
>
>INAPPROPRIATE USE OF APPROPRIATIONS
>
>The Committee continues to be very concerned about the
>inappropriate use of contractors in the development of
>budget requests and execution of Department programs.
>The Committee has learned that certain contractors
>have been reimbursed by the Department for the
>following activities:  answering the organization's
>phones, faxes, and e-mails; updating web sites of the
>organizations; getting industry together to develop
>"consensus positions" on department programs;
>conference calls with Department employees once a
>month; publishing association journals and other
>publications; and attending domestic and international
>conferences to represent their industry members. These
>contracts and grants are especially suspect
>considering that they are routinely awarded
>noncompetitively.
>
>While there may be instances where it is necessary for
>the Department to procure the services of a contractor
>for a specific task,  it is inappropriate for the
>Department to routinely fund the operating budget for
>these outside groups. As a rule, the Department should
>procure services from contractors in arms-length
>arrangements. In cases where it is determined that a
>specific service or product is needed and it is in the
>interest of the Department to secure the service or
>product through a grant or contract, the Department
>should procure or award using competitive procedures.
>
>SENATE LANGUAGE
>INAPPROPRIATE USE OF APPROPRIATIONS
>The Committee has learned that funds made available to
>the Department of Energy by previous appropriations
>acts have been used to, among other things:  pay for
>members of industry associations and associated
>entities to attend national and international
>conferences, publish magazines, purchase association
>membership information, conduct surveys of association
>membership, place op-ed style articles in
>publications, write talking points in support of the
>Department's programs, and underwrite industry
>conferences.
>
>The Committee has not included a statutory prohibition on these
>activities because the activities themselves are not at issue; there
>may be legitimate reasons for employees of the Department of
>Energy or its management and operating contractors to undertake
>the activities listed above. However, a distinction needs to be drawn
>between employees of the Department of Energy or its management
>and operating contractors who act on behalf of the Government and
>other contractors whose predominant responsibility is not to the
>Government. The Department and its  management and operating
>contractors should not contract with any other entity for the
>performance of these or similar responsibilities, and, as a general
>rule, appropriated funds should not be used, directly or indirectly, to
>underwrite the expense of industry associations or associated
>entities.
>
>
>Anna Aurilio
>U.S. PIRG
>
>
>
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