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abolition-usa-digest      Thursday, March 1 2001      Volume 01 : Number 424




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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:20:50 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

URGENT!  ACTION ALERT!  YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SIGN ON IS REQUESTED BY OUR
RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTAL COLLEAGUES.  READ ON ...

The following is an alert from Tri-Valley CAREs' upcoming March 2001
newsletter. It is time- critical. Please read and respond immediately.
Thank you. --Marylia Kelley

On Dec. 21, 2000, the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament, gave
preliminary approval for an amendment to the Environmental Protection Law
lifting the ban on importing spent nuclear fuel.

"They have dollar signs in their eyes,"  said Natalia Mironova, a leader in
the broad-based environmental movement that gathered two and one-half
million signatures in Russia to oppose the importation of foreign nuclear
waste.

Moreover, Tri-Valley CAREs recently learned from a Livermore Lab report
that the U.S. may propose sending its "U.S. origin" irradiated nuclear fuel
from 8 nuclear  reactors in Taiwan to the Russian site at Krasnoyarsk in
Siberia, if the change in Russian law goes through.

"The U.S. Dept. of Energy and the American nuclear industry are looking to
set up a radioactive waste toilet in Russia," charged Vladimir Sliviak,
co-chair of Ecodefense.

Our good friend Natalia Mironova and her colleagues in the Movement for
Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia have requested that we circulate a
statement they have drafted in opposition to the new law.

An excerpt from that statement says: "It is unethical to take advantage of
a country's socio-economic crisis by offering profits in exchange for
storing materials that present serious dangers to that nation's population.
Each country must take responsibility for its own waste products."

Please help us help the Russian environmentalists! Contact us immediately
if you belong to a group that can sign on to this statement. (If you need a
copy of the complete statement, just call, fax or email us and we will send
it.)

We need your sign-on no later than March 14, so we have time to distribute
the statement to the Russian Duma before the final vote on March 22.

NOTE: We are in the process of re-formatting the statement (the all too
usual cyberspace formatting problems). We will circulate the full statement
via email tomorrow. We wanted to give you this "heads up" so you can begin
whatever the sign on process is for your group. To sign on, email, phone or
fax Tri-Valley CAREs. We need your name, title, if applicable and group
name and address. Our Russian colleagues have told us that sign ons from
groups from France and the U.K. will be looked at with suspicion and
discounted by the Russian Duma (as in "those countries just don't want the
competition for the [reprocessing] dollars.") All groups from ALL other
countries are encouraged to sign on. Thanks. --mk

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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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:56:26 -0800
From: "M.W. Stowell" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

The Redwood Peace Coalition will sign on.  mws


From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Reply-To: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro
colleagues
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:20:50 -0800

URGENT!  ACTION ALERT!  YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SIGN ON IS REQUESTED BY OUR
RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTAL COLLEAGUES.  READ ON ...

The following is an alert from Tri-Valley CAREs' upcoming March 2001
newsletter. It is time- critical. Please read and respond immediately.
Thank you. --Marylia Kelley

On Dec. 21, 2000, the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament, gave
preliminary approval for an amendment to the Environmental Protection Law
lifting the ban on importing spent nuclear fuel.

"They have dollar signs in their eyes,"  said Natalia Mironova, a leader in
the broad-based environmental movement that gathered two and one-half
million signatures in Russia to oppose the importation of foreign nuclear
waste.

Moreover, Tri-Valley CAREs recently learned from a Livermore Lab report
that the U.S. may propose sending its "U.S. origin" irradiated nuclear fuel
from 8 nuclear  reactors in Taiwan to the Russian site at Krasnoyarsk in
Siberia, if the change in Russian law goes through.

"The U.S. Dept. of Energy and the American nuclear industry are looking to
set up a radioactive waste toilet in Russia," charged Vladimir Sliviak,
co-chair of Ecodefense.

Our good friend Natalia Mironova and her colleagues in the Movement for
Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia have requested that we circulate a
statement they have drafted in opposition to the new law.

An excerpt from that statement says: "It is unethical to take advantage of
a country's socio-economic crisis by offering profits in exchange for
storing materials that present serious dangers to that nation's population.
Each country must take responsibility for its own waste products."

Please help us help the Russian environmentalists! Contact us immediately
if you belong to a group that can sign on to this statement. (If you need a
copy of the complete statement, just call, fax or email us and we will send
it.)

We need your sign-on no later than March 14, so we have time to distribute
the statement to the Russian Duma before the final vote on March 22.

NOTE: We are in the process of re-formatting the statement (the all too
usual cyberspace formatting problems). We will circulate the full statement
via email tomorrow. We wanted to give you this "heads up" so you can begin
whatever the sign on process is for your group. To sign on, email, phone or
fax Tri-Valley CAREs. We need your name, title, if applicable and group
name and address. Our Russian colleagues have told us that sign ons from
groups from France and the U.K. will be looked at with suspicion and
discounted by the Russian Duma (as in "those countries just don't want the
competition for the [reprocessing] dollars.") All groups from ALL other
countries are encouraged to sign on. Thanks. --mk

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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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:10:03 -0500
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

Please sign us on, Marylia.

Ellen Thomas
Executive Director

PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE
P.O. Box 27217, Washington, DC 20038 USA
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Write Letter to Congress about HR-2545 - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:24:48 -0500
From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

Sign us on too:

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, FL. 32607
[phone]
http://www.space4peace.org
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:52:51 -0800
From: "Harry Rogers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

Marylia,Please sign me on
Harry Rogers
Carolina Peace Resource Center
Columbia SC
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "marylia" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:20 PM
Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro
colleagues


> URGENT!  ACTION ALERT!  YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SIGN ON IS REQUESTED BY OUR
> RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTAL COLLEAGUES.  READ ON ...
>
> The following is an alert from Tri-Valley CAREs' upcoming March 2001
> newsletter. It is time- critical. Please read and respond immediately.
> Thank you. --Marylia Kelley
>
> On Dec. 21, 2000, the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament, gave
> preliminary approval for an amendment to the Environmental Protection Law
> lifting the ban on importing spent nuclear fuel.
>
> "They have dollar signs in their eyes,"  said Natalia Mironova, a leader
in
> the broad-based environmental movement that gathered two and one-half
> million signatures in Russia to oppose the importation of foreign nuclear
> waste.
>
> Moreover, Tri-Valley CAREs recently learned from a Livermore Lab report
> that the U.S. may propose sending its "U.S. origin" irradiated nuclear
fuel
> from 8 nuclear  reactors in Taiwan to the Russian site at Krasnoyarsk in
> Siberia, if the change in Russian law goes through.
>
> "The U.S. Dept. of Energy and the American nuclear industry are looking to
> set up a radioactive waste toilet in Russia," charged Vladimir Sliviak,
> co-chair of Ecodefense.
>
> Our good friend Natalia Mironova and her colleagues in the Movement for
> Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia have requested that we circulate a
> statement they have drafted in opposition to the new law.
>
> An excerpt from that statement says: "It is unethical to take advantage of
> a country's socio-economic crisis by offering profits in exchange for
> storing materials that present serious dangers to that nation's
population.
> Each country must take responsibility for its own waste products."
>
> Please help us help the Russian environmentalists! Contact us immediately
> if you belong to a group that can sign on to this statement. (If you need
a
> copy of the complete statement, just call, fax or email us and we will
send
> it.)
>
> We need your sign-on no later than March 14, so we have time to distribute
> the statement to the Russian Duma before the final vote on March 22.
>
> NOTE: We are in the process of re-formatting the statement (the all too
> usual cyberspace formatting problems). We will circulate the full
statement
> via email tomorrow. We wanted to give you this "heads up" so you can begin
> whatever the sign on process is for your group. To sign on, email, phone
or
> fax Tri-Valley CAREs. We need your name, title, if applicable and group
> name and address. Our Russian colleagues have told us that sign ons from
> groups from France and the U.K. will be looked at with suspicion and
> discounted by the Russian Duma (as in "those countries just don't want the
> competition for the [reprocessing] dollars.") All groups from ALL other
> countries are encouraged to sign on. Thanks. --mk
>
> 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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>  To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:13:39 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NMD Discussion live, online discussion on university researchers and missile defe

>Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:44:38 -0500
>Subject: NMD Discussion live, online discussion on university researchers and
missile defe
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[e-mail]>
>To: <[e-mail]>
>Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:14 PM
>Subject: live, online discussion on university researchers and missile
>defense
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Chronicle of Higher Education is sponsoring a live, online
>>> discussion on Thursday, February 22,  at noon U.S. Eastern time
>>> about how scientists should respond to President Bush's push
>>> to create  a missile-defense system. Theodore A. Postol,
>>> a professor of science, technology, and national-security
>>> policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
>>> a leading critic of President Bush's plans, will  respond to
>>> comments and questions about the proposed system,
>>> its impact on military research,  and how scientists should
>>> respond to it.
>>>
>>> The Chronicle invites members of this list to read an article
>>> about the debate within academe about  the missile-defense
>>> plan, and to pose questions or comments for the discussion
>>> with Mr. Postol at:
>>>
>>> http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/02/missile/
>>>
>>> Advance questions, which are encouraged, may be posted
>>> there immediately.
>>>
>>> After the discussion, a transcript will be posted at that address.
>>>
>>> Scott Jaschik
>>> Editor
>>> The Chronicle of Higher Education
>>>
>

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:04:28 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) THANKS

Hi Bruce--I'm thrilled that you all did such a good job.  We're just going to
keep building the links.  I have a call in to Jerry Mander to ask him what's
next to make sure we're included.  love, Alice

At 04:15 PM 02/26/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Alice,
>
>I wanted to thank you for making it possible for Karl & I to speak at the
>IFG event at Hunter College.
>
>I think our space panel went real well.  I spent alot of time tabling
>before/after it and got lots of good comments from folks.  Then our
>workshop on Sunday also was well received.
>
>We picked up lots of new contacts and I'm sure the issue will now be given
>more play within globalization efforts.
>
>Thanks for your confidence and support.
>
>Bruce
>
>
>
>

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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:10:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NMD Discussion live, online discussion on university...

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Alice, Please contact the right wing  groups who say they want to conserve
the environment and do not trust the governement. What would thay say to
GRACE's environmental positions. Try the Alliance for America for example.
Possibly they could get anti nuke, why not they hate the US Federal
Government and do not trust them, jonathan

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<BR>GRACE's environmental positions. Try the Alliance for America for example.
<BR>Possibly they could get anti nuke, why not they hate the US Federal
<BR>Government and do not trust them, jonathan</FONT></HTML>

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:47:16 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Alert! Russian colleagues' letter for sign on/complete text

Dear peace and enviro colleagues:

        This follows up on the short action alert I sent you on Tuesday.
Here is the full text of the letter written by our Russian colleagues --
which we are now asking you to sign on. Please sign on by March 14. In sum,
the letter advocates that Russia not change its current law to allow the
importation of nuclear waste from foreign countries.

Let me clarify a few things about the letter.
        (1) I originally sent an email to our friends in the Movement for
Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk asking what, if anything, we could do to help
them in their efforts. I received a reply that they would craft a letter
for us to circulate internationally for groups to sign -- with the
exception of U.K. and French groups (as the Russian government would
discount their opposition as concern about competition for the spent
nuclear fuel reprocessing dollars).
        (2) I received two copies of the same basic letter -- one version
from the Movement for Nuclear Safety and another from CAEI.
        (3) To make absolutely sure that the letter we are now signing gets
used in a culturally appropriate way, I plan to send the letter with all
the sign ons to the Movement for Nuclear Safety (since I began by asking
them) and let them decide exactly how to use it. What I mean here is that I
as a U.S. person will not be sending it directly to their Duma -- the
Movement for Nuclear Safety can do that and/or make some additional use of
it.
        (4) I have made only minimal changes to the text I was presented
with by Movement for Nuclear Safety and CAEI. To be specific, I made two
substantive changes. First, in paragraph 3, I deleted the part of a
sentence that said each nation should reprocess its own spent nuclear fuel
- -- I did this simply because my organization does not advocate reprocessing
in the U.S., and therefore we cannot say that. I left the rest of the
sentence in that said each nation should store its own waste and not stash
it in someone else's backyard. That concept was the heart of the original
sentence, in any event. The other change I made was to add a short
paragraph near the end of the letter to say that we international groups
signing this letter work on these issues within our respective nations as
well as globally. I added this because it is my (and my organization's)
strong belief that we should not advocate (or lecture) in other countries
anything that we are not willing to work on in our own.

        I could explain further, but do not wish to burden you all with an
overlong email. The important thing is the letter -- and your sign on
before March 14 -- so here it is...  Peace, Marylia Kelley

An Appeal To:

the Speaker of the Russian State Duma
and the Chairmen of the following Duma factions:
Communist Party of the Russian Federation Unity
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Fatherland-All Russia
Union of Right Forces
Yabloko
Agrarian Deputy Group
People's Deputy Group
Russia's Regions Deputy Group

Dear Deputies of the Russian State Duma,

Save your beautiful country from becoming a nuclear wasteland!

As representatives of ___# of non-governmental organizations around the
globe , and as world citizens, we urge you to reject the law on "Special
Ecological Problems on the Environmental Rehabilitation of
Radioactively-Polluted Regions of the Russian Federation, Financed from
Revenue from International Trade in Nuclear Fuel," and the related
amendments to the law on "The Use of Nuclear Energy," and to the law on
"The Protection of the Environment." We strongly believe that approving
such laws will not only bring irreparable harm to your country, but will
threaten the safety of other countries.

Why, you may ask, do we express ourselves so forcefully about a matter
seemingly so far away from us? Why are we - citizens of other countries -
against the importation of radioactive nuclear fuel into Russia?

First of all, as a matter of environmental principle and justice, we feel
that spent nuclear fuel generated by a country should be kept isolated from
the environment and stored, as safely as possible, by that nation - and not
stashed in someone else's backyard.

It is especially unethical to take advantage of a country's socio-economic
crisis by offering them chimerical profits in exchange for storing
materials that present serious dangers to their population. Each country
must take financial, technical and social responsibility for its own waste
products.

The history of the nuclear power industry shows that spent nuclear fuel has
been primarily used to extract plutonium. However, today plutonium is no
longer needed for military purposes, and the use of plutonium as fuel for
commercial nuclear reactors is not profitable.

Once created, plutonium cannot be used for fuel for nuclear reactors for
decades. In the meantime, storing one ton of plutonium costs, according to
various sources, costs from $1 million to $5 million a year. According to
these costs, then, storing the amount of plutonium that your Ministry of
Atomic Energy intends to create will require annual expenditures ranging
from $200 million to $1 billion. This calculation is based on figuring that
200 tons of plutonium can be produced from the 20,000 tons of nuclear waste
that would be brought into Russia. This transaction becomes especially
unprofitable if you take into consideration the environmental and public
health consequences of importing nuclear waste.

Moreover, we should remember the lessons of history with respect to the
reprocessing of nuclear spent fuels, i.e. both the large swaths of
territory all over the world already polluted in past years and the costs
of rehabilitating this land. Already these costs are a drain on the state
budgets of our respective governments, costs which will only grow for
Russia if it produces more plutonium. Plutonium ends up being an incredible
burden even for the richest countries.

We understand that in the past decade there have been several incidents
where nuclear fuel stored in Russia has disappeared. Therefore, we feel
justified in raising concerns about control over the radioactive materials
your government is proposing to import. Needless to say, this plutonium
could fall into the hands of the enemies of peace.

We public interest organizations who sign this letter wish you to
understand that we work on these difficult nuclear waste issues in our
respective nations - as well as globally. On a regular basis, we
communicate with our various governments regarding spent nuclear fuel's
potential environmental, health and proliferation risks. We do not write
only to Russia on this topic.

Finally, in our country spent nuclear fuel is called nuclear waste. It is
not a valuable substance, as some of our energy officials still like to
claim, but a danger to the health of our land and people.

Setting aside the various economic and financial questions connected to the
market in radioactive materials, we wish to impress upon you the gravity of
the danger in trading in nuclear waste and remind you of your
responsibility before future generations.

Thus, importing nuclear waste presents serious dangers to your public
health, environment, economy and even national security as well as that of
other countries.

We therefore hope that you will try to receive and will carefully study all
available information on this question - including the opinions of
independent and unbiased experts - when this bill is again under
consideration in March 2001.

Please consider the many people both in Russia and in other countries that
will be affected by your actions.

Respectfully yours,

Marylia Kelley,
executive director,
Tri-Valley CAREs,
Livermore, CA USA

YOUR NAME, TITLE AND YOUR GROUP'S NAME, CITY, STATE, REGION OR PROVINCE AND
COUNTRY GO HERE.

THANK YOU TO THE 2 DOZEN GROUPS WHO ALREADY RESPONDED TO MY SHORT EMAIL
YESTERDAY WITH YOUR SIGN ON PERMISSION. I HOPE MANY DOZENS MORE CAN SIGN ON
AFTER SEEING THE TEXT.

PLEASE LET TRI-VALLEY CAREs KNOW BY MARCH 14 IF YOU CAN SIGN-ON. WE WANT TO
SEND THIS LETTER WITH SIGN ONS TO THE MOVEMENT FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY IN
CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA VERY SOON AFTER MARCH 14. THE MATTER IS SCHEDULED TO
COME UP IN THE DUMA AGAIN MARCH 22, 2001, AND WE WANT TO GIVE OUR RUSSIAN
COLLEAGUES TIME TO USE THIS LETTER IN THE MANNER THEY THINK WILL DO THE
MOST GOOD. THANKS.

ends

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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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:22:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Rosalie Tyler Paul <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

Peace Action Maine signs on. Rosalie Tyler Paul, Chair

>URGENT!  ACTION ALERT!  YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SIGN ON IS REQUESTED BY OUR
>RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTAL COLLEAGUES.  READ ON ...
>
>The following is an alert from Tri-Valley CAREs' upcoming March 2001
>newsletter. It is time- critical. Please read and respond immediately.
>Thank you. --Marylia Kelley
>
>On Dec. 21, 2000, the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament, gave
>preliminary approval for an amendment to the Environmental Protection Law
>lifting the ban on importing spent nuclear fuel.
>
>"They have dollar signs in their eyes,"  said Natalia Mironova, a leader in
>the broad-based environmental movement that gathered two and one-half
>million signatures in Russia to oppose the importation of foreign nuclear
>waste.
>
>Moreover, Tri-Valley CAREs recently learned from a Livermore Lab report
>that the U.S. may propose sending its "U.S. origin" irradiated nuclear fuel
>from 8 nuclear  reactors in Taiwan to the Russian site at Krasnoyarsk in
>Siberia, if the change in Russian law goes through.
>
>"The U.S. Dept. of Energy and the American nuclear industry are looking to
>set up a radioactive waste toilet in Russia," charged Vladimir Sliviak,
>co-chair of Ecodefense.
>
>Our good friend Natalia Mironova and her colleagues in the Movement for
>Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia have requested that we circulate a
>statement they have drafted in opposition to the new law.
>
>An excerpt from that statement says: "It is unethical to take advantage of
>a country's socio-economic crisis by offering profits in exchange for
>storing materials that present serious dangers to that nation's population.
>Each country must take responsibility for its own waste products."
>
>Please help us help the Russian environmentalists! Contact us immediately
>if you belong to a group that can sign on to this statement. (If you need a
>copy of the complete statement, just call, fax or email us and we will send
>it.)
>
>We need your sign-on no later than March 14, so we have time to distribute
>the statement to the Russian Duma before the final vote on March 22.
>
>NOTE: We are in the process of re-formatting the statement (the all too
>usual cyberspace formatting problems). We will circulate the full statement
>via email tomorrow. We wanted to give you this "heads up" so you can begin
>whatever the sign on process is for your group. To sign on, email, phone or
>fax Tri-Valley CAREs. We need your name, title, if applicable and group
>name and address. Our Russian colleagues have told us that sign ons from
>groups from France and the U.K. will be looked at with suspicion and
>discounted by the Russian Duma (as in "those countries just don't want the
>competition for the [reprocessing] dollars.") All groups from ALL other
>countries are encouraged to sign on. Thanks. --mk
>
>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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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:20:26 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [abolition-caucus] Australian Democrats condemn NMD

>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:27:18 -0500
>Subject: [abolition-caucus] Australian Democrats condemn NMD
>Priority: non-urgent
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>Senator Vicki Bourne
>Australian Democrats
>Spokesperson on Defence and Foreign Affairs
>1st March 2001       MEDIA RELEASE          01/122
>
>DEMOCRATS SAY NMD MUST NOT GO AHEAD
>
>Senator Vicki Bourne will today launch an open letter calling on the
>Government to unequivocally oppose the development of National Missile
>Defence (NMD).
>
>ôI am happy to be amongst 76 community groups, parliamentarians, church
>groups and union representatives who are calling on the government not to
>support the USAÆs push to give NMD the green light,ö Senator Bourne said.
>
>ôIf NMD does goes ahead it will, without doubt, increase nuclear weapons in
>the world, Star Wars will be well and truly back on.
>
>ôRussia and China have both said they will increase nuclear weapons
>capability in direct response to NMD,ö Senator Bourne said.
>
>ôWe thought we had moved beyond this, but it seems that the threat of
>nuclear arms is still very real thanks to NMD.
>
>ôThe stakes are high, we are at a point in time where we can choose to
>limit
>and hopefully eliminate nuclear weapons or we can shoot the starter gun for
>a new and more fervent arms race,ö Senator Bourne said.
>
>ôAustralia must take a proactive role in speaking out against NMD. We are
>significant players in its development through our joint facilities at Pine
>Gap.
>
>ôThe Government must be clear that Pine Gap can not be used to develop or
>utilise NMD,ö Senator Bourne said.
>
>ôKofi Annan calls the ABM treaty the cornerstone of global security; if
>that
>is so then NMD is the jackhammer of war,ö Senator Bourne concluded.
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:22:17 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Nuclear testing device report is ready for public scrutiny

>Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 18:01:47 -0500
>Subject: Nuclear testing device report is ready for public scrutiny
>Priority: non-urgent
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>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2001/mar/01/511502886.html
>
>Today: March 01, 2001 at 11:08:20 PST
>
>Nuclear testing device report is ready for public scrutiny
>
>By Mary Manning
><[e-mail]>
>LAS VEGAS SUN
>
>A Department of Energy plan to move a device that will help test the
>safety of the nation's nuclear stockpile to the Nevada Test Site is
>one step closer with
>the release of an environmental impact report.
>
>The details of the impacts on air, water sources, plants and animals
>at the 1-acre site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, are
>included in a 58-page
>environmental assessment released this week and ready for public
>review until March 31.
>
>The DOE plans to remove the device, called the Atlas, from Los Alamos
>National Laboratory in New Mexico and reassemble it in a new building
>at the Test
>Site. The move allows an expansion of the experiment and would cost less.
>
>The facility could conduct up to 100 pulsed-power experiments a year,
>roughly one or two per week, as a way to ensure nuclear weapons
>safety. The
>machinery tests the metals and does not involve nuclear materials. It
>would employ 15 people.
>
>The new building would be designed to withstand both earthquakes and
>any future underground nuclear weapons experiments at the Test Site,
>the
>assessment said.
>
>Less than 110,000 gallons of water will be used.
>
>The worst accident envisioned is electrocution of a worker from a
>high-energy power source or injury from the collapse of an on-site
>overhead crane, with
>an occurrence of once in 100 years.
>
>A possible fire at the facility could occur once in 10,000 years.
>
>Minute quantities of metals used during experiments would vaporize
>and be deposited on the inside of the target chamber. No air filters
>or scrubbers are
>needed, because outside air would not be exposed until workers
>entered the chamber for cleanup.
>
>Some of the metal targets and solvents are considered hazardous under
>federal and state environmental laws. Small amounts of lead,
>beryllium and
>depleted uranium could be released as metal dust from the chamber
>after an experiment.
>
>Workers will wear respiratory protection, the DOE's assessment said,
>because the depleted uranium poses a slight radiation risk if
>inhaled. Solvents such
>as ethanol are expected to evaporate. Adequate ventilation and
>breathing protection will be used.
>
>Electrical hazards, magnetic fields and X-rays are other possible
>risks to workers, especially those wearing pacemakers. Sensitive
>individuals would be
>removed from the experiment area. X-rays would not escape the facility.
>
>The impact document is available for review and comment on file at
>the DOE's public reading facility, 2621 Losee Road, North Las Vegas.
>Hours are from
>7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
>
>The document may also be downloaded at nv.doe.gov.
>--
>Kalynda Tilges
>Nuclear Issues Coordinator
>Citizen Alert - Las Vegas
>P.O.Box 17173
>Las Vegas, NV  89114
>702-796-5662
>702-796-4886 fax
>[e-mail]
>http://citizenalert.org
>
>Citizen Alert - "Voice for the Land and People of Nevada"
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