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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 06:30:50 -0500
From: Peace though Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews (US) 2/02/99 - Comments needed: Dawn Mining; DOE Budget

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1. Washington State Department of Health Approves
Renewal of License to Close Uranium Mill (and ship in radioactive waste)
- - COMMENTS NEEDED
http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/990129/wa-state-dept-health

2. U.S. Budget: Energy Initiatives
http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/020299budget-spend-energy.html

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1. Washington State Department of Health Approves
Renewal of License to Close Uranium Mill (and ship in radioactive waste)
- - COMMENTS NEEDED

http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/990129/wa-state-dept-health

OLYMPIA, Wash. (BUSINESS WIRE January 29, 1999) - The Washington State
Department of Health today approved the renewal of Dawn Mining Company's
license to continue with the closure of a former uranium mill near Ford, about
30 miles northwest of Spokane.

Closure activities include importing slightly radioactive material from other
sites in the U.S. for permanent impoundment at the Dawn site.

"We're convinced that the company's plan and our licensing conditions protect
public health and safety and the environment," said Acting Department of Health
Secretary Mary Selecky. "There's been a lot of local concern about this
activity, so we extended the deadline for public comment to make sure we heard
what everyone had to say."

One of the main concerns of local residents was the effect of numerous heavy
trucks transporting imported mill tailings on State Route 231 between Reardan
and Ford. The state Department of Transportation studied the issue and
determined that there would be increased wear and tear but that safety would
not be adversely affected. The company has agreed to cover possible costs of
road repairs.

To ensure safety, the renewed license requires that hauling not take place
while school buses are running their regular before and after school routes,
that truck drivers be paid hourly rather than by the load to discourage
speeding, that the trucks stop only for emergencies, and that emergency
responders get additional safety training.

"We welcome ongoing public input on this," said Selecky. "If new facts come to
light, we can impose additional requirements needed to protect public health
and the environment."

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2. U.S. Budget: Energy Initiatives

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/020299budget-spend-energy.html

By MATTHEW L. WALD, February 2, 1999 New York Times

The Energy Department's operating budget for the 2000 fiscal year would rise
$717 million, or 4.1 percent about the 1999 figure, not counting one-time
expenditures this year like buying enriched uranium from Russia and helping
that country safeguard plutonium. Spending in 2000 would be $17.8 billion,
about the same as what the department is spending this year, including those
one-time expenditures.

The Administration wants to spend $208 million more on renewable energy and
energy efficiency, and $138 million for science projects, including
supercomputers and a new nuclear laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., that would use
neutrons to investigate the properties of matter. The proposal also includes
$109 million for "threats of nuclear, biological and chemical proliferation,"
and for doubling the counterintelligence effort, because of penetration of the
department's laboratories by foreign spies.

Other areas that would get big increases include a testing program for nuclear
weapons that substitutes for explosions, and environmental clean-up of former
weapons sites.

The budget also proposes to pay for maintenance of the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve out of tax revenues, rather than sales from the reserve, and the Energy
Secretary, Bill Richardson, said he would soon propose some way to add oil. He
said that this would not be a "budgetary initiative" but did not say how he
planned to pay for increasing the reserve, which is at 561 million barrels,
roughly two months' worth of imports.

The budget also calls for $86.5 million, up from $78.5 million, for health
studies of workers and people who live near weapons plants. The department is
trying to determine, with the Department of Health and Human Services, which
sites most merit study.


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<html><div>1. Washington State Department of Health Approves </div>
<div>Renewal of License to Close Uranium Mill (and ship in radioactive
waste)</div>
<div>- COMMENTS NEEDED</div>
<div><a href="http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/990129/wa-state-dept-health" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/990129/wa-state-dept-health</a></div>
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<div>2. U.S. Budget: Energy Initiatives</div>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/020299budget-spend-energy.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/020299budget-spend-energy.html</a></div>
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<div>1. Washington State Department of Health Approves </div>
<div>Renewal of License to Close Uranium Mill (and ship in radioactive
waste)</div>
<div>- COMMENTS NEEDED</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/990129/wa-state-dept-health" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/990129/wa-state-dept-health</a></div>
<br>
<div>OLYMPIA, Wash. (BUSINESS WIRE January 29, 1999) - The Washington
State Department of Health today approved the renewal of Dawn Mining
Company's license to continue with the closure of a former uranium mill
near Ford, about 30 miles northwest of Spokane.</div>
<br>
<div>Closure activities include importing slightly radioactive material
from other sites in the U.S. for permanent impoundment at the Dawn
site.</div>
<br>
<div>"We're convinced that the company's plan and our licensing
conditions protect public health and safety and the environment,"
said Acting Department of Health Secretary Mary Selecky. "There's
been a lot of local concern about this activity, so we extended the
deadline for public comment to make sure we heard what everyone had to
say."</div>
<br>
<div>One of the main concerns of local residents was the effect of
numerous heavy trucks transporting imported mill tailings on State Route
231 between Reardan and Ford. The state Department of Transportation
studied the issue and determined that there would be increased wear and
tear but that safety would not be adversely affected. The company has
agreed to cover possible costs of road repairs.</div>
<br>
<div>To ensure safety, the renewed license requires that hauling not take
place while school buses are running their regular before and after
school routes, that truck drivers be paid hourly rather than by the load
to discourage speeding, that the trucks stop only for emergencies, and
that emergency responders get additional safety training.</div>
<br>
<div>"We welcome ongoing public input on this," said Selecky.
"If new facts come to light, we can impose additional requirements
needed to protect public health and the environment." </div>
<br>
<div>----------------------------------------</div>
<br>
<div>2. U.S. Budget: Energy Initiatives</div>
<br>
<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/020299budget-spend-energy.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/020299budget-spend-energy.html</a></div>
<br>
<div>By MATTHEW L. WALD, February 2, 1999 New York Times</div>
<br>
<div>The Energy Department's operating budget for the 2000 fiscal year
would rise $717 million, or 4.1 percent about the 1999 figure, not
counting one-time expenditures this year like buying enriched uranium
from Russia and helping that country safeguard plutonium. Spending in
2000 would be $17.8 billion, about the same as what the department is
spending this year, including those one-time expenditures. </div>
<br>
<div>The Administration wants to spend $208 million more on renewable
energy and energy efficiency, and $138 million for science projects,
including supercomputers and a new nuclear laboratory at Oak Ridge,
Tenn., that would use neutrons to investigate the properties of matter.
The proposal also includes $109 million for "threats of nuclear,
biological and chemical proliferation," and for doubling the
counterintelligence effort, because of penetration of the department's
laboratories by foreign spies. </div>
<br>
<div>Other areas that would get big increases include a testing program
for nuclear weapons that substitutes for explosions, and environmental
clean-up of former weapons sites. </div>
<br>
<div>The budget also proposes to pay for maintenance of the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve out of tax revenues, rather than sales from the
reserve, and the Energy Secretary, Bill Richardson, said he would soon
propose some way to add oil. He said that this would not be a
"budgetary initiative" but did not say how he planned to pay
for increasing the reserve, which is at 561 million barrels, roughly two
months' worth of imports. </div>
<br>
<div>The budget also calls for $86.5 million, up from $78.5 million, for
health studies of workers and people who live near weapons plants. The
department is trying to determine, with the Department of Health and
Human Services, which sites most merit study. </div>
<br>

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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 10:14:47 -0500
From: Norm and Karen Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Rally at Salem Nuke Plant 3/27 1-3 pm; its the 20th anniv of TMI meldown

Apologies to those who get this more than once, since I'm posting to so
many lists, but its important.
Please forward this announcement to your lists, please put in any group
newsletters you might have:
  The UNPLUG Salem Campaign will be holding a rally at the Salem Nuke
Plant, on Saturday, March 27th, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. The rally is to
commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Three Mile Island Meltdown, and
to continue UNPLUG's campaign to shut down the two dangerous Salem
Nukes. The Salem Nukes are in Lower Alloways Township, near Salem, NJ,
just across the Delaware Memorial Bridge from
Wilmington, Delaware.
    Confirmed speakers at the rally include: Wenonah Hauter, Director of
Citizen Action's Critical Mass Energy Project (Citizen Action is one of
Ralph Nader's groups): Joe Mangano, Associate Director of the Radiation
Public Health Project: Norm Cohen, Executive Director of the Coalition
for Peace and Justice; Jane Nogaki, Director of the NJ Environmental
Federation; Madelyn Hoffman, Green Party Organizer; and Maya Von Rossum,
Director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. Musicians such as blue
singer Dennis Donnelly and the Eco-Chorale will be lending their talents
to the event. We will also have a solar power demonstration area.
    We urge everyone  in Delaware, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania
to join with us in making this rally the biggest demonstration at Salem
in the last 20 years. This is an important time to keep up the pressure
on PSE&G and our legislators. Investigations of the NRC are going on in
Congress, and deregulation in New Jersey will be making it harder for
nuke plants to be profitable. Add to this the
recent TMI-like accident at Salem II, and the time is right to demand to
PSE&G that they turn off Salem now.
    UNPLUG Salem is a coalition of 54 environmental, college, citizen,
peace, and religious organizations
who's aim is to shut down the two dangerous Salem Nuke Plants. These two
plants are rated #1 and #8 most dangerous in the US by Public Citizen.
The NRC has fined PSE&G, the operator of the plants, millions. These
plants kill BILLIONS of fish each year because they lack cooling towers.
And nuke plants all produce high level nuke waste, which our government
wants to bury at Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, even though the burial site
is not safe.
   Organizations in UNPLUG include: NJ PIRG, Pennsylvania Environmental
Network (PEN), Green Delaware, Clean Ocean Action, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, SEAC-Region 13, NIRS (Nuclear Information Resource
Service), Fish Unlimited, NJ Environmental Federation, Delaware Valley
Peace Action, SJ Campaign for Peace and Justice, Coalition for Peace and
Justice, Anne Arundel Peace Action, Stockton Peace Action, and many
more.
   For information on the rally, to volunteer to perform or speak, to
endorse UNPLUG, for directions, or for more information, please contact
Norm Cohen, South Jersey Coordinator, PO BOX 2344, Cape May NJ 08204,
609-886-7988/889-8667  or [e-mail]
   We welcome new endorsers for the UNPLUG Campaign from anywhere in our
region.
    For directions to the rally site, to volunteer to help out, if you
are a musician who wishes to volunteer to perform, or for more
information, please contact: Norm Cohen, PO Box 2344, Cape May, NJ
08204; 609-886-7988/889-8667 or [e-mail].


Coalition for Peace and Justice
and UNPLUG Salem Campaign
PO Box 2344, Cape May, NJ 08204
609-886-7988 or 609-889-8667




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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:34:52 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Penny Poll Results on Clinton Budget Proposal

In a message dated 2/2/99 10:25:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [e-mail].o=
rg
writes:

<< Subj:=09 Penny Poll Results on Clinton Budget Proposal
 Date:=092/2/99 10:25:47 AM Eastern Standard Time
 From:=[e-mail] (War Resisters League)

 February 2, 1999=09=09Contact: Chris Ney or Ruth Benn
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE=09(212) 228-0450

 THE BUDGET:
 BROOKLYNITES SAY PUT IT IN EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE;
 Poll Shows Overwhelming Preference For Social Programs Over Military

 NEW YORK, February 2, 1999=97More than 100 voters in a 90-minute "penny p=
oll"
 conducted today in Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza opted to have the lion's share
 of the federal budget go to education (24%) and health care (24%). They
 allocated the smallest amounts to foreign aid (4%) and the military (4%).

 =09The poll was held to measure New Yorkers' support for the priorities
 outlined in President Clinton's budget for fiscal year 2000, released
 today.  Clinton has proposed an increase in military spending of more tha=
n
 $110 billion over the next six years=97the largest such increase since Ro=
nald
 Reagan's first term at the height of the Cold War.  If the Brooklyn penny
 poll participants are typical, Clinton's proposed allocation of federal
 dollars is exactly the reverse of what most Americans want.

 =09Penny poll participants indicated how they would like the government t=
o
 spend their tax dollars by putting pennies into containers marked
 "Housing," "Education,"  "Public Transportation," "Military," etc. Ten
 pennies were provided to each respondent by the War Resisters League, the
 75-year-old antiwar group that held the poll.  When the pennies were
 counted, participants had voted 1,131 pennies for the following budget
 priorities:
 =09
 Education=09=09256=0923%=09
 Health Care=09=09256=0923%
 Housing=09=09153=0912%
 Environment/Energy=09106=099%
 Income Assistance=0979=097%
 Nutrition=09=0979=097%=09
 National Debt=09=0969=096%
 Mass Transit=09=0969=096%
 Foreign Aid=09=0948=094%
 Military =09=0940=093%

 =09The poll took place during a protest against the presidential budget
 bonanza for the Pentagon.  Opponents of Clinton's budget proposal and U.S=
.
 military spending, which totals more than 50 percent of Federal
 expenditures, argue that those priorities damage communities at home and
 abroad.  Notes Chris Ney, Disarmament Coordinator for the War Resisters
 League, "In addition to domestic needs that will go unmet so the Pentagon
 can buy more cruise missiles, a major boost in U.S. military spending wil=
l
 in the long run increase international instability, spark regional arms
 races and lead ultimately to more wars and violence."
 **********
 War Resisters League
 339 Lafayette St.
 New York, NY 10012
 212-228-0450
 212-228-6193 (fax)
 1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon)
 [e-mail]
 web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:51:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Russian activist responds to DOE budget request

Socio-ecological
Union

121019, Russia, Moscow, P.O. Box 211
Tel/fax: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]
=======================================================
For immediate release: February 2, 1999
Contact: Vladimir Sliviak [phone] (thru Feb. 5) or via email at
[e-mail].
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation [phone]
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs [phone]

DOE FY2000 BUDGET FOR RUSSIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY REFLECTS WASTEFUL AND
MISGUIDED POLICIES

OAKLAND, CA -- "The Department of Energy's FY2000 budget allocations for the
disposition of Russian weapons-grade plutonium and improving nuclear reactor
safety in the former Soviet Union are both fiscally unrealistic and
technically unsound," according to Vladimir Sliviak, a visiting
international activist working on nuclear issues in Russia.  Sliviak, a
member of the Socio-Ecological Union of Russia (Moscow) and ECODEFENSE!
(Kaliningrad) attended yesterday's fiscal year 2000 Department of Energy
(DOE) budget briefing at DOE's Oakland operations office, along with
American anti-nuclear activists from the Western States Legal Foundation and
Tri-Valley Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment. Sliviak added: "DOE's
proposal to spend $200 million over a three-year period on plutonium
conversion and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facilities in particular
poses a great proliferation risk and will continue to be met with resistance
by activists in both countries."
    According to Sliviak, "What is sure to eventuate with the Russian MOX
program directly contradicts the stated goal of DOE's plutonium disposition
program: to take weapons-grade plutonium out of circulation by converting it
into a form that prohibits its use in any future weapons production."
Russia intends to "ultimately recycle any plutonium left in the MOX spent
fuel" (Joint United States/Russian Plutonium Disposition Study, September
1996, p. ExSum-2, p. WR-35-37) and the Russian Minister of Atomic Power,
Evgeny Adamov, has publicly stated that his agency would prefer to use MOX
fuel in breeder reactors in order to generate more plutonium for a Russian
MOX program of indefinite length.
    Sliviak said: "Transport of MOX fuel to civilian nuclear reactors, where
security is much less stringent than at the military sites where
weapons-grade plutonium is currently stored, also flies in the face of what
DOE claims will solve both proliferation and stockpile security problems.
The reprocessing of MOX fuel would ultimately lead not to a decrease in the
amount of plutonium in Russia but rather an increase in stockpiles and
promulgation of a plutonium economy which is not in the interest of either
the environment nor democratic participation in determining Russia's energy
future. Furthermore," he added, "a MOX program will produce large amounts of
plutonium-contaminated waste, the handling of which is apparently not
included in DOE's budget in spite of the fact that Minatom has not yet
developed a strategy nor allocated sufficient resources to handle the
radioactive waste accumulated during the Cold War."
    The MOX program, whether or not funded by DOE, will continue to be met with
significant resistance from Russian and other grassroots environmental
groups.  According to Sliviak: "A much more cost-effective and
environmentally - as well as politically - sound approach for disposition is
to immobilize the plutonium through vitrification and safe and secure storage."
    In regards to reactor safety, DOE proposes $34 million to cover safety
upgrades in 65 Soviet-designed reactors and the decommissioning of
Chernobyl.  Sliviak stated: "The precedent set by Westinghouse in making
safety upgrades to the Temelin reactor in the Czech Republic, which cost at
least $500 million per unit to re-engineer, the amount allocated by DOE for
65 reactors is outrageously unrealistic." He concluded: "Nuclear safety
standards at Russian reactors fall considerably below what is required in
the U.S. and combined with the costs expected to decommission Chenobyl's
four units, it is difficult to understand what DOE planners were thinking
when they arrived at the sum of $34 million."

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:08:12 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Proposal regarding Mission Statement & strategies

Dear fellow Abolitionists,

I regret I cannot attend the meeting in Santa Barbara.  Instead I offer my
very best wishes and these personal views, informed by - but not
representing - the Nuclear Resister newsletter I co-edit with Felice
Cohen-Joppa.

Together with other political tactics, I believe that the new U.S. campaign
for nuclear weapons abolition should explicitly endorse "nonviolent direct
action for nuclear disarmament" without reference to "civil disobedience."
I hope the group would be unafraid to make the argument that nuclear
weapons are what is illegal and unjust, in contrast to the legitimacy of
nonviolent direct actions that educate the public and inhibit the political
and material capability of the nation to use or threaten to use these
weapons.

This argument is being asserted creatively in the breech of the local
courts of Scotland and England by the Trident Ploughshares 2000 Campaign
[see <http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/> and related comments of David
McKnight, CND chair, in email excerpt below].  The argument is also evident
in the phenomena of Citizen Weapons Inspections (see the Nuclear Resister
#113 <http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister>, page 2, and Vincent
Romano's report of the Fellowship of Reconciliation's experience with this
action scenario, among others).

For this group NOT to address NVDA would be to ignominiously ignore acts of
individual and collective conscience which have resulted in over 60,000
arrests in North America alone over the past half century, in the process
playing a vital role in public education and agitation for a nuclear-free
future at various points in our history.

A separate question is whether this group would actively be involved in
planning, endorsing, or coordinating particular NVDA campaigns.  This
question need not necessarily be considered now.

Traditionally, major national groups advocating nuclear arms reduction or
abolition have shunned any activity hinting of "civil disobedience."
Arguments for this stance include statements that such acts are
"ineffective"; that they alienate a more liberal, less radical
constituency; and that they put at risk an organization's nonprofit status.

If asked, I would be happy to address these and other arguments in the
interests of healthy debate (but not in this email).

For now, I will only ask that as you consider this question, recall that
while the movement for nuclear abolition stumbled in the wake of the
Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty, groups such as the Community for Nonviolent
Action stood up and carried the goal forward in their hearts and lives.
Theirs and other nonviolent direct activism prepared the ground for the
anti-nuclear resurgence of the 70s and 80s that made nuclear power,
euromissiles, and warheads by the tens of thousands politically
unsupportable.  And after Reagan trumped the Freeze with warhead cuts, and
the Freeze folded not long after failing to support the nascent American
Peace Test (APT), it was APT and other organizations committed to NVDA who
significantly carried forward the public demand for a total test ban and
nuclear abolition into the current decade.  Their nonviolent direct actions
at the NTS even inspired a namesake movement in Kazakhstan (the
Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement) that successfully forced an end to Soviet
nuclear tests in Central Asia.    This is history made perhaps too simple,
but these snapshots illustrate a movement leadership that has sometimes
played footsey with success, overlooking or dismissing the significance of
acts of conscience while accepting accommodation with policy makers and tax
laws.

We have conscience, morality, law, and history on our side as we struggle
for nuclear abolition.  I hope in your deliberations you will embrace
tactics and strategies that embody in their nonviolent character the best
of the nuclear free future we envision.

Thanks for considering my views.

Jack Cohen-Joppa

PS FYI - by way of suggested introductions, I first got involved in the
movement for nuclear weapons abolition in the fall of 1977, preparing for
the April, 1978 Nuclear Crossroads demonstration at Rocky Flats.  I then
took part in the Rocky Flats Truth Force's NVDA blockade of the railroad
tracks at Rocky Flats until the fall of 1979.   Since 1980 I have co-edited
the newsletter now known as the Nuclear Resister.  The Nuclear Resister is
a comprehensive chronicle of anti-nuclear and anti-war civil disobedience
in the US and Canada, encouraging support for the women and men jailed as a
result of these acts of conscience.  In this capacity, my co-editor and
wife Felice and I have actively sought to network anti-nuclear nonviolent
direct actionists across the continent, and have met (sometimes in prison
visiting rooms) with NVDA practitioners from coast to coast.  There are
currently about 800 subscribers in North America, and about 80 overseas.  I
was the only U.S. resident to participate in the delivery of the Nuclear
Weapons Abolition Days Citizens' Summons to NATO heads of state in Madrid,
July 1997, on the first anniversary of the ICJ advisory opinion on nuclear
weapons.  I recently addressed the 2nd National Conference on Civil
Disobedience held at American University on the subject of "A Brief History
of Anti-Nuclear Civil Disobedience in North America."  This talk was taped
and occasionally broadcast on C-Span during the last week.  I am also an
associate coordinator of the US Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu.

{from a recent email}
>>Friends,
>>
>>Over 50 people gathered in Lancaster Friends Meeting House last Saturday,
>>(January 30)
>>afternoon to hear Ann-Britt and Annika'a story about their arrest and
>>imprisonment on remand following their 13th September action in
>>Barrow-in-Furness along with Stellan who wasn't able to join us on the day.
>>
>>Ann-Britt and Annika's thoughful and quiet commitment to the nuclear
>>disarmament cause impressed all who came to pack the small room where
>>between 20 and 30 people had been expected. ...

>>Dave Knight, Chair CND, spoke of CND's priorites for this final year before
>>the millennium.  He summarised his enthusiasm for ALE - ACTION, LOBBYING &
>>EDUCATION - something for everybody campaigning, where all contributions
>>are equally valued.  He referred to the significance of NVDA in general and
>>to the TP2000 actions at Faslane in particular, in challenging official
>>policy.
>>



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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:22:18 -0500
From: Peace though Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Feb. 16 Nevada nuclear waste summit (FWD)

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:09:53 -0700
 From (REPLY TO): "Gary Vesperman (by way of Chris Gehlker)"
<<mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]
Subject: Feb. 16 Nevada nuclear waste summit
To: <mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]

Hello!

Below is an e-mail I sent to Hal Fox Thursday.

We are trying to arrange for sponsorship by the Nevada
Governor's office for the LENT demo at the Feb. 16
nuclear waste summit in Carson City. I thought some of
your members may like to drive over and see the demo, if it is held.

We have a few little nuclear problems like Iraq possibly
acting up in preparation for smuggling nuclear bombs
next to some of our nuclear power plants. The figure I
remember is that a 1000-megawatt nuclear power plant
running at full power for one year accumulates the
radioactive equivalent of 2,300 Hiroshima atomic bombs.
One Hiroshima bomb killed, and is still killing, 300,000
people.

Let's assume a complex of two large elderly nuclear
power plants in Illinois has in its waste fuel storage pools
10,000 Hiroshima bombs of radioactivity. Iraq smuggles
in just one bomb and blows it up. (Notice that I did not say
that an ICBM is needed to deliver the bomb.) We would then
have a situation in our agricultural heartland far worse
than Chernobyl. I remember reading that Italy alone had to
dispose of $750,000,000 worth of radioactivity-contaminated
food. I still try not to buy food imported from Europe.

I recently saw a report that the inspectors never found and destroyed
Iraq's nuclear apparatus. Their technical people are now
free to finish building their own bombs within a few months.
Iraq has been acting strangely confident lately with its saber-rattling.

What the low-energy nuclear transmutation technology offers is
a method of easily transmuting the radioactivity out of the waste
nuclear fuel. I had sent out the e-mail to the environmental community
to try to wake them up and stop wasting time and money on Yucca
Mountain. Please support the development of the LENT process so
that we can reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism. I don't think we have
time to lose.

Please forward this message to other nuclear activists.

For more information about the conference, call the Nevada Governor's office
at 775-684-5670.

Thank you!

Gary Vesperman
3123 Trueno Road
Henderson, NV 89014-3142
702-435-7947
<mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]


Dr. Hal Fox, President
Trenergy, Inc.
3084 East 3300 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84109-2154
Voice 801-466-8680; Fax [phone]

Hal,

I am mailing a clipping from yesterday's Review-Journal stating
that Nevada's new governor, Kenny Guinn, is inviting Nevada's
congressional delegation and top elected state officials to a
"State Summit on Nuclear Waste" in Carson City on Feb. 16.

Below is part of the text of an e-mail from Dr. Bass, co-inventor
of the theory of Low-Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT), along with
you and Dr. Jin. It is absurd that so much money is still being wasted
on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository when the
radioactivity can be transmuted out of the waste nuclear fuel
using a trivial amount of electricity. Opening up the referenced
site, <http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp>http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp , shows a
color
photo of a flake
of non-radioactive copper that used to be radioactive thorium!

How much would it cost to truck the LENT apparatus to
Carson City and back to SLC? Let me know ASAP
so I can call around for donations to cover the cost of the
demonstration of transmuting thorium to copper, etc.

Thanks,

Gary Vesperman

cc: Sara Besser (Senator Bryan's office)
Senator Harry Reid
Governor Kenny Guinn
Congressman James Gibbons
Congresswoman Shelley Berkely

(Part of Dr. Bass's Oct. 17, 1997 e-mail follows next.)

The next issue of _Journal of New Energy_ (an archival, peer-reviewed
journal Abstracted in _Chemical Abstracts_, etc.) will contain a paper:
"Operating the LENT-1 Transmutation Reactor" by Drs. Fox & Jin,
who report successful transmutation of 0.1 gram of Thorium 12 times
out of 12 runs, using 3 cents worth of electricity, in 30 minutes, and
therefore submit this Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT) process
is now a "scientific FACT" rather than an irreproducible anomaly
(or a "faith-promoting rumor")....

=======================================================
Robert W. Bass, M.A. Oxon [Rhodes Scholar]; Ph.D. [Johns Hopkins]
Registered Patent Agent # 29,130 [ex-Prof Physics]
Inventor: Topolotron, Plasmasphere, issued

Innoventech, Inc.
Authorized Distributor, Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT) for
Radwaste Remediation (RR) Money-Back Guaranteed Systems, e.g.
Cincinnati Group (CG) LENT-1^[tm] Kit, Price $3,000
See <http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp>http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp

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<br>
<<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a><br>
Subject: Feb. 16 Nevada nuclear waste summit<br>
To:
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Hello!<br>
 <br>
Below is an e-mail I sent to Hal Fox Thursday.<br>
 <br>
We are trying to arrange for sponsorship by the Nevada<br>
Governor's office for the LENT demo at the Feb. 16<br>
nuclear waste summit in Carson City. I thought some of<br>
your members may like to drive over and see the demo, if it is
held.<br>
 <br>
We have a few little nuclear problems like Iraq possibly<br>
acting up in preparation for smuggling nuclear bombs<br>
next to some of our nuclear power plants. The figure I<br>
remember is that a 1000-megawatt nuclear power plant<br>
running at full power for one year accumulates the<br>
radioactive equivalent of 2,300 Hiroshima atomic bombs.<br>
One Hiroshima bomb killed, and is still killing, 300,000<br>
people.<br>
 <br>
Let's assume a complex of two large elderly nuclear<br>
power plants in Illinois has in its waste fuel storage pools<br>
10,000 Hiroshima bombs of radioactivity. Iraq smuggles<br>
in just one bomb and blows it up. (Notice that I did not say<br>
that an ICBM is needed to deliver the bomb.) We would then<br>
have a situation in our agricultural heartland far worse<br>
than Chernobyl. I remember reading that Italy alone had to<br>
dispose of $750,000,000 worth of radioactivity-contaminated<br>
food. I still try not to buy food imported from Europe.<br>
 <br>
I recently saw a report that the inspectors never found and
destroyed<br>
Iraq's nuclear apparatus. Their technical people are now<br>
free to finish building their own bombs within a few months.<br>
Iraq has been acting strangely confident lately with its
saber-rattling.<br>
 <br>
What the low-energy nuclear transmutation technology offers is<br>
a method of easily transmuting the radioactivity out of the waste<br>
nuclear fuel. I had sent out the e-mail to the environmental
community<br>
to try to wake them up and stop wasting time and money on Yucca<br>
Mountain. Please support the development of the LENT process so<br>
that we can reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism. I don't think we
have<br>
time to lose.<br>
 <br>
Please forward this message to other nuclear activists.<br>
 <br>
For more information about the conference, call the Nevada Governor's
office<br>
at 775-684-5670.<br>
 <br>
Thank you!<br>
 <br>
Gary Vesperman<br>
3123 Trueno Road<br>
Henderson, NV 89014-3142<br>
702-435-7947<br>
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a><br>
 <br>
<br>
Dr. Hal Fox, President<br>
Trenergy, Inc.<br>
3084 East 3300 South<br>
Salt Lake City, Utah 84109-2154<br>
Voice 801-466-8680; Fax [phone]<br>
 <br>
Hal,<br>
 <br>
I am mailing a clipping from yesterday's Review-Journal stating<br>
that Nevada's new governor, Kenny Guinn, is inviting Nevada's<br>
congressional delegation and top elected state officials to a<br>
"State Summit on Nuclear Waste" in Carson City on Feb.
16.<br>
 <br>
Below is part of the text of an e-mail from Dr. Bass, co-inventor<br>
of the theory of Low-Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT), along
with<br>
you and Dr. Jin. It is absurd that so much money is still being
wasted<br>
on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository when the<br>
radioactivity can be transmuted out of the waste nuclear fuel<br>
using a trivial amount of electricity. Opening up the referenced<br>
site,
<a href="http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp">http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp</a> ,
shows a color photo of a flake<br>
of non-radioactive copper that used to be radioactive thorium!<br>
 <br>
How much would it cost to truck the LENT apparatus to<br>
Carson City and back to SLC? Let me know ASAP<br>
so I can call around for donations to cover the cost of the<br>
demonstration of transmuting thorium to copper, etc.<br>
 <br>
Thanks,<br>
 <br>
Gary Vesperman<br>
 <br>
cc: Sara Besser (Senator Bryan's office)<br>
Senator Harry Reid<br>
Governor Kenny Guinn<br>
Congressman James Gibbons<br>
Congresswoman Shelley Berkely<br>
 <br>
(Part of Dr. Bass's Oct. 17, 1997 e-mail follows next.)<br>
 <br>
The next issue of _Journal of New Energy_ (an archival,
peer-reviewed<br>
journal Abstracted in _Chemical Abstracts_, etc.) will contain a
paper:<br>
"Operating the LENT-1 Transmutation Reactor" by Drs. Fox &
Jin,<br>
who report successful transmutation of 0.1 gram of Thorium 12 times<br>
out of 12 runs, using 3 cents worth of electricity, in 30 minutes,
and<br>
therefore submit this Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT)
process<br>
is now a "scientific FACT" rather than an irreproducible
anomaly<br>
(or a "faith-promoting rumor")....<br>
 <br>
=======================================================<br>
Robert W. Bass, M.A. Oxon [Rhodes Scholar]; Ph.D. [Johns Hopkins]<br>
Registered Patent Agent # 29,130 [ex-Prof Physics]<br>
Inventor: Topolotron, Plasmasphere, issued<br>
 <br>
Innoventech, Inc.<br>
Authorized Distributor, Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT) for<br>
Radwaste Remediation (RR) Money-Back Guaranteed Systems, e.g.<br>
Cincinnati Group (CG) LENT-1^[tm] Kit, Price $3,000<br>
See
<a href="http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp">http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp</a><br>
 <br>
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