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                         NUCLEAR POLICY
 
1 UK Independent: debate by green groups
2 James Lovelock: Nuclear power is the only green solution
3 [du-list] Iran submits report on nuclear programme to UN agency
4 Reuters: Iran Bars UN from Military Sites - Diplomats
5 AFP: EU and IAEA would also pay the price if Iran's cooperation fail
6 Korea Herald: 'New terms needed in N.K. nuke talks'   
7 ITAR-TASS: Russia calls for giving security guarantees to Pyongyang
8 Guardian Unlimited: North Korean nuclear trade exposed
9 asahi.com: EDITORIAL: The Pyongyang summit 
10 asahi.com: ANALYSIS: Kim secures the biggest gain by giving the smal
11 AFP: UN nuclear watchdog investigating possible NKorea nuclear
12 US: LAT: Case Reveals Nuts and Bolts of Nuclear Network, Officials S
13 US: AP Wire: Energy Department helps pay for Alabama nuclear reactor
14 [progchat_action] Nuclear marketplace
15 Haaretz: Vanunu shows up in court for libel suit against Yedioth dai
16 Guardian Unlimited: Israeli Nuclear Spy Appears in Court
17 TCJ: Krieger: Berkeley should forsake its nukes 05/24/04
18 CS Monitor: Keeping Track of Uranium | 
 
                         NUCLEAR REACTORS
 
19 US: [NukeNet] good information on new nuclear consortia
20 UPI: Slovakia to complete nuclear power facility - 
21 Daily Yomiuri: G-8 to confirm export ban on nations not signing addi
22 US: Times Leader: Where feathers, fission coexist
23 Slovak news: Rusko wants to complete two blocs of Mochovce nuclear p
24 US: U.S. Newswire: DOE Announces Study of Advanced New Nuclear Power
25 US: Free Lance-Star: Lake Anna doesn't need any more nuclear reactor
 
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26 [du-list] Chris Busby on Uranium Health Effects
27 [du-list] Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq
28 [du-list] Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq
29 US: NPR : Getting to the Bottom of Perchlorate
30 St. Petersburg Times: Decommissioning Awaits Akula Subs - 
31 US: Gallup Independent: RECA Hearing - Part 1
32 PRAVDA.Ru: The US uses depleted uranium weapons in Iraq - 
 
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 1 UK Independent: debate by green groups
 
By Charles Arthur Technology Editor
 
25 May 2004

A former Labour energy minister and the nuclear industry both 
welcomed the call by the scientist James Lovelock yesterday for a 
massive expansion of the nuclear industry to combat global 
warming. 

They also forecast that Professor Lovelock's dramatic call, in 
yesterday's Independent, would force more environmentalists to 
consider whether nuclear power really posed a greater threat to 
humanity than climate change - and that they too would eventually 
agree with the celebrated scientist. 

Professor Lovelock's radical suggestion provoked widespread 
debate yesterday, with both Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace 
rejecting his claims. 

However Brian Wilson, who stood down as energy minister last year 
to become the Prime Minister's special representative on overseas 
trade, said Professor Lovelock had had the courage to address the 
question of global warming honestly. "I hope that many others 
will follow him in questioning the basis of their hostility to 
nuclear power in the age of global warming." 

Mr Wilson said it was "a self-evident nonsense" for the UK to run 
down its nuclear capacity at the same time that there was an 
unprecedented emphasis on the need to reduce carbon emissions. 

"Nuclear power is our only significant source of non-carbon 
electricity. It is the bird in the hand yet the Green lobby wants 
to shoot it." 

At the Nuclear Industry Association, which lobbies in favour of 
nuclear power, Simon James said: "It's self-evident to us that 
nuclear power can deliver large amounts of energy without 
producing the carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. 

"We believe we are winning the argument. Increasingly people are 
looking at this and saying 'Hang on, if we're serious about 
global warming we need to do something serious about converting 
large amounts of energy to non-carbon-producing sources. 

"Environmentalists are seeing this. I wouldn't be at all 
surprised if this article means more environmentalists come out 
backing Professor Lovelock," Mr James said. 

As the creator of the Gaia hypothesis - which suggests that the 
Earth acts as a single organism - Professor Lovelock, 84, has a 
mythic place in the Green movement. 

But in yesterday's Independent he argued that a massive expansion 
of nuclear power as the world's main energy source is necessary 
to prevent climate change overwhelming civilisation in the next 
50 years. 

Some environmentalists see that as a dramatic volte-face, because 
nuclear fission produces radioactive waste that remains dangerous 
for thousands of years and requires special storage and disposal. 
Environmental groups have thus lobbied - and frequently acted - 
against nuclear power wherever possible. 

However, a growing number of scientific bodies, including most 
recently the Royal Academy of Engineering, have concluded that 
nuclear power does represent the best compromise between risk and 
power output, given the world's growing demand for energy. 

In his article calling for a fresh look at nuclear power, 
Professor Lovelock considers - and rejects - other options for 
generating power and criticises the Green movement's rejection of 
it. He also accuses the group of forgetting the lesson of the 
Gaia concept. 

"Every year that we continue burning carbon makes it worse for 
our descendants and for civilisation ... The Green lobbies, which 
should have given priority to global warming, seem more concerned 
about threats to people than with threats to Earth, not noticing 
that we are part of the Earth and wholly dependent upon its 
well-being." 

Public attention to global warming and climate change has been 
heightened by Sir David King, the Government's chief scientist, 
who has repeatedly said that global warming poses a greater 
threat to the world than terrorism. 

A new Hollywood blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow, also uses 
dramatic effects of global warming as the essence of its plot - a 
move that environmentalists have said should raise the importance 
of the topic in people's consciousness.                 


UK Independent Ltd.
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 2 James Lovelock: Nuclear power is the only green solution

[http://www.independent.co.uk] 
 
We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources;
civilisation is in imminent danger
 
24 May 2004

Sir David King, the Government's chief scientist, was far-sighted 
to say that global warming is a more serious threat than 
terrorism. He may even have underestimated, because, since he 
spoke, new evidence of climate change suggests it could be even 
more serious, and the greatest danger that civilisation has faced 
so far. 

Most of us are aware of some degree of warming; winters are 
warmer and spring comes earlier. But in the Arctic, warming is 
more than twice as great as here in Europe and in summertime, 
torrents of melt water now plunge from Greenland's kilometre-high 
glaciers. The complete dissolution of Greenland's icy mountains 
will take time, but by then the sea will have risen seven metres, 
enough to make uninhabitable all of the low lying coastal cities 
of the world, including London, Venice, Calcutta, New York and 
Tokyo. Even a two metre rise is enough to put most of southern 
Florida under water. 

The floating ice of the Arctic Ocean is even more vulnerable to 
warming; in 30 years, its white reflecting ice, the area of the 
US, may become dark sea that absorbs the warmth of summer 
sunlight, and further hastens the end of the Greenland ice. The 
North Pole, goal of so many explorers, will then be no more than 
a point on the ocean surface. 

Not only the Arctic is changing; climatologists warn a 
four-degree rise in temperature is enough to eliminate the vast 
Amazon forests in a catastrophe for their people, their 
biodiversity, and for the world, which would lose one of its 
great natural air conditioners. 

The scientists who form the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change reported in 2001 that global temperature would rise 
between two and six degrees Celsius by 2100. Their grim forecast 
was made perceptible by last summer's excessive heat; and 
according to Swiss meteorologists, the Europe-wide hot spell that 
killed over 20,000 was wholly different from any previous heat 
wave. The odds against it being a mere deviation from the norm 
were 300,000 to one. It was a warning of worse to come. 

What makes global warming so serious and so urgent is that the 
great Earth system, Gaia, is trapped in a vicious circle of 
positive feedback. Extra heat from any source, whether from 
greenhouse gases, the disappearance of Arctic ice or the Amazon 
forest, is amplified, and its effects are more than additive. It 
is almost as if we had lit a fire to keep warm, and failed to 
notice, as we piled on fuel, that the fire was out of control and 
the furniture had ignited. When that happens, little time is left 
to put out the fire before it consumes the house. Global warming, 
like a fire, is accelerating and almost no time is left to act. 

So what should we do? We can just continue to enjoy a warmer 21st 
century while it lasts, and make cosmetic attempts, such as the 
Kyoto Treaty, to hide the political embarrassment of global 
warming, and this is what I fear will happen in much of the 
world. When, in the 18th century, only one billion people lived 
on Earth, their impact was small enough for it not to matter what 
energy source they used. 

But with six billion, and growing, few options remain; we can not 
continue drawing energy from fossil fuels and there is no chance 
that the renewables, wind, tide and water power can provide 
enough energy and in time. If we had 50 years or more we might 
make these our main sources. But we do not have 50 years; the 
Earth is already so disabled by the insidious poison of 
greenhouse gases that even if we stop all fossil fuel burning 
immediately, the consequences of what we have already done will 
last for 1,000 years. Every year that we continue burning carbon 
makes it worse for our descendants and for civilisation. 

Worse still, if we burn crops grown for fuel this could hasten 
our decline. Agriculture already uses too much of the land needed 
by the Earth to regulate its climate and chemistry. A car 
consumes 10 to 30 times as much carbon as its driver; imagine the 
extra farmland required to feed the appetite of cars. 

By all means, let us use the small input from renewables 
sensibly, but only one immediately available source does not 
cause global warming and that is nuclear energy. True, burning 
natural gas instead of coal or oil releases only half as much 
carbon dioxide, but unburnt gas is 25 times as potent a 
greenhouse agent as is carbon dioxide. Even a small leakage would 
neutralise the advantage of gas. 

The prospects are grim, and even if we act successfully in 
amelioration, there will still be hard times, as in war, that 
will stretch our grandchildren to the limit. We are tough and it 
would take more than the climate catastrophe to eliminate all 
breeding pairs of humans; what is at risk is civilisation. As 
individual animals we are not so special, and in some ways are 
like a planetary disease, but through civilisation we redeem 
ourselves and become a precious asset for the Earth; not least 
because through our eyes the Earth has seen herself in all her 
glory. 

There is a chance we may be saved by an unexpected event such as 
a series of volcanic eruptions severe enough to block out 
sunlight and so cool the Earth. But only losers would bet their 
lives on such poor odds. Whatever doubts there are about future 
climates, there are no doubts that greenhouse gases and 
temperatures both are rising. 

We have stayed in ignorance for many reasons; important among 
them is the denial of climate change in the US where governments 
have failed to give their climate scientists the support they 
needed. The Green lobbies, which should have given priority to 
global warming, seem more concerned about threats to people than 
with threats to the Earth, not noticing that we are part of the 
Earth and wholly dependent upon its well being. It may take a 
disaster worse than last summer's European deaths to wake us up. 

Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by 
Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These 
fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 
has proved to be the safest of all energy sources. We must stop 
fretting over the minute statistical risks of cancer from 
chemicals or radiation. Nearly one third of us will die of cancer 
anyway, mainly because we breathe air laden with that all 
pervasive carcinogen, oxygen. If we fail to concentrate our minds 
on the real danger, which is global warming, we may die even 
sooner, as did more than 20,000 unfortunates from overheating in 
Europe last summer. 

I find it sad and ironic that the UK, which leads the world in 
the quality of its Earth and climate scientists, rejects their 
warnings and advice, and prefers to listen to the Greens. But I 
am a Green and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their 
wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy. 

Even if they were right about its dangers, and they are not, its 
worldwide use as our main source of energy would pose an 
insignificant threat compared with the dangers of intolerable and 
lethal heat waves and sea levels rising to drown every coastal 
city of the world. We have no time to experiment with visionary 
energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use 
nuclear - the one safe, available, energy source - now or suffer 
the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet. 

The writer is an independent scientist and the creator of the 
Gaia hypothesis of the Earth as a self-regulating organism.        
       
© 2004 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd   
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 3 [du-list] Iran submits report on nuclear programme to UN agency
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:35:31 -0700

 
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Iran submits report on nuclear programme to UN agency

22 May 2004 2244 hrs - AFP

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/86321/1/.html

VIENNA : Iran has submitted a more than 1,000-page report on
its contested nuclear programme to the UN atomic agency,
which is investigating US charges that Tehran is secretly
developing nuclear weapons, Iranian ambassador Pirooz
Hosseini told AFP.

He said the report was submitted late Friday to the Vienna
headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in
comments confirmed by the IAEA.

The report follows one by Iran last October that failed to
live up to Iranian promises to fully disclose its nuclear
activities.

The United States claims Iran is hiding a programme to build
the bomb and has called for the IAEA to refer it to the UN
Security Council for possible sanctions.

But diplomats said the new declaration had come too late for
the IAEA to be able to evaluate it fully before a meeting of
the agency's 35-nation board of governors in mid-June.

The IAEA will not be able to make a final finding on Iran
due to delays by Tehran in allowing international
inspections and disclosing its nuclear activities, diplomats
said.

"This is ironic since the Iranians are the ones who want the
file on them to be closed," said a diplomat close to the
IAEA and who asked not to be named.

IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said the Iranians had filed
their report under an additional protocol to the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that mandates tougher
inspections.

"This declaration should provide information about Iran's
nuclear and nuclear-related activities and will facilitate
the IAEA's assessment of the correctness and completeness of
information already provided by Iran on its past and present
nuclear activities," Gwozdecky said.

Hosseini said that even though the Iranian parliament has
not yet ratified the protocol which Iran signed on December
18, Iran had "decided to apply it voluntarily as a
confidence-building measure" and was filing the report that
is required within six months under the protocol.

He said the declaration gave "information related to our
10-year research and development program with regard to the
nuclear fuel cycle and related technologies."

Iran claims it is embarked on a project solely to develop
nuclear energy for peaceful electricity production and that
it seeks to enrich uranium as fuel for reactors.

Hosseini did not provide details of whether Iran had
answered such key IAEA questions as the extent of technology
it may have developed with sophisticated P2 centrifuges that
can be used to enrich uranium to bomb-grade levels.

He said the report had provided information on "the capacity
of uranium mines" in Iran, and, regarding nuclear
installations, given "a description of each building and
places in sites that have been declared to the agency" as
well as "information related to past activities."

Hosseini said Iran had also supplied "the names of hospitals
and universities" using depleted uranium, a by-product from
uranium enrichment.

IAEA inspectors see a pattern of radiation contamination in
Iran which could indicate attempts to enrich uranium to
bomb-grade level, diplomats close to the agency have told AFP.

IAEA inspectors have reported two such concentrations -- at
a Kalaye Electric Company workshop in Tehran and at the
Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant 250 kilometres (150
miles) south of the Iranian capital.

Diplomats have confirmed to AFP that other sites have been
found.

But they have not provided details, and one diplomat
downplayed the possibility that the IAEA has found a
"smoking gun" to prove Iran is secretly developing nuclear
weapons.

Iran claims the contamination from particles of enriched
uranium is from equipment they imported through an
international black market.

IAEA inspectors are completing months of investigations in
order to prepare a report for a meeting of the agency board
that begins in Vienna on June 14.

During a visit by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei to Tehran in
April, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi had said
Tehran expected the IAEA probe to be completed in June.

But an earlier delay to a crucial round of inspections in
March "threw us out of sequence," an official close to the
IAEA said.

Iran delayed inspections after the IAEA board in March
condemned the country for failing to report key activities,
particularly its acquiring of blueprints for the
sophisticated centrifuges.


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 4 Reuters: Iran Bars UN from Military Sites - Diplomats

Mon May 24, 2004 03:52 PM ET                                                            

By Louis Charbonneau 

VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) - Several Western diplomats on the
board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog accused Iran of barring U.N.
inspectors from military sites, but Tehran said the agency was
getting full access inside the Islamic republic. 

Diplomats who follow the Vienna-based International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) said IAEA inspectors had been prevented
from inspecting around a dozen workshops at three locations. 
"They have yet to allow access to the military sites," one
Western diplomat said. "This will probably be the topic of one
of the inspection visits" by IAEA officials. 

"They (Iranian officials) have been obstructing visits to
military sites," said another diplomat, adding U.N. inspectors
were being escorted by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. 
The United States says Iran has two nuclear programs -- a public
one it has declared to the U.N. and a secret one aimed at
developing atomic weapons. Tehran rejects this charge, saying
its plans are limited to the peaceful generation of electricity. 
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, Pirooz
Hosseini, denied that the IAEA was facing access problems. 

"This is not correct information ... from these unnamed
diplomats," Hosseini told Reuters, adding that there were
"discussions" between Tehran and the United Nations about site
access. 

"They're not problems. (The IAEA) will have access to the sites
they want to visit. Everything is going in a smooth way." 
IAEA officials declined comment. 

But a third diplomat close to the IAEA said the agency had the
right only to what is called "managed access" to sensitive
sites, not the "anytime, anywhere" powers U.N. weapons
inspectors had in Iraq. 

A fourth Western diplomat said any delays caused by discussion
of "managed access" would only deepen suspicions that Iran is
hiding something.

Iran's got to throw open the doors," the diplomat said.

The IAEA began looking closely at Iran after an exiled Iranian 
opposition group said in August 2002 Tehran was hiding a massive 
uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and other facilities from the 
U.N. Iran later declared these sites to the IAEA.

NO HARD EVIDENCE

"There's a general hardening of opinion" against Iran on the 
35-nation IAEA governing board, the second diplomat said. "The 
pattern of behavior suggests they're trying to hide something."

However, he acknowledged there was no hard evidence that Iran was 
concealing anything, just suspicions.

He said a number of countries wanted IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei 
to criticize Iran's less-than-adequate cooperation in his new 
report on Iran, due out soon. But he said ElBaradei, concerned 
about Tehran's reaction, was putting up resistance.

The diplomat close to the IAEA disagreed, saying ElBaradei felt 
strongly about the importance of the IAEA being objective and 
would not withhold criticism for fear of anyone's reaction.

The first diplomat said Iran may grant the IAEA inspectors access 
to the sites right before ElBaradei's report comes out -- so 
ElBaradei would not need not to mention access problems.

ElBaradei's report will be discussed at a meeting of the IAEA's 
board of governors beginning on June 14, at which the United 
States is expected to push hard for a resolution that harshly 
condemns Iran's nuclear program.

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 5 AFP: EU and IAEA would also pay the price if Iran's cooperation fails
: Kharazi

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TEHRAN (AFP) May 24, 2004

 Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi warned the European Union 
and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) they would have 
a lot to lose if their cooperation with the Islamic Republic 
fails, the students news agency ISNA reported Monday.

"The European side has not forgotten its commitments towards 
Iran's nuclear case, this is a common project, that is, if Iran 
fails, the EU and the IAEA will suffer losses as well," Kharazi 
was quoted as saying.

Iran pledged full transparency and cooperation with the UN's 
nuclear watchdog on its nuclear activities during a visit by 
British, French and German foreign ministers last October.

It expects the EU in return to oppose US pressures in the IAEA to 
take Iran's nuclear programme -- which Washington believes is a 
cover for weapons development -- to the United Nations Security 
Council.

"We intend to show our transparency and goodwill by handing in 
this 1,000 page report", Kharazi said, "and gradually everyone 
will realise that Iran means to use the nuclear technology for 
peaceful purposes and has no secret plans."

"The more transparently and honestly we cooperate with the IAEA 
the less excuses our critics will have to accuse us of intending 
to use nuclear technology for military purposes," he added.

"This is what we have done so far and hence have had good 
results."

When asked what he thought of the forthcoming IAEA board of 
governors' meeting due on June 14, Kharazi said: "The Americans 
will definitely pursue their own aims towards Iran. 

"My country has voluntarily accepted and implemented the 
additional protocol (of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 
requiring full openness). Naturally our efforts will be 
effective, winning us more trust."

The UN nuclear watchdog is aiming to finish this week a crucial 
report on Iran's atomic programme, after Tehran handed in an 
extensive declaration on Friday that it says answers US-led 
charges it is secretly developing nuclear weapons.

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 6 Korea Herald: 'New terms needed in N.K. nuke talks'   
 
2004.05.25
 
By Choi Soung-ah
        
Rewording CVID likely to be hot issue at 6-way negotiations

 CVID is a common word these days in political circles on the 
Korean Peninsula, but Seoul wants to change it.

 It is the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of 
North Korea's nuclear programs, and Washington is demanding these 
terms as the ultimate goal in the 19-month standoff with the 
communist country.

 Following the first round of six-party working level talks in 
Beijing, officials here have been wrangling over reworking the 
term to find the "right" set of words for North Korea to abandon 
its nuclear weapons program.

 South Korea and the United States reportedly gathered ideas and 
opinions on whether CVID should continue to be used during the 
talks.

 A high-ranking South Korean government official said yesterday, 
"There is no need to continue persisting on the wording itself of 
the CVID.

 "During the first working level-talks that opened from May 12-14 
in Beijing, we proposed this standpoint to the United States," he 
said.

 He added that Joseph DeTrani, the top U.S. representative to the 
talks, said the issue could be handled "with flexibility," 
showing signs of agreeing to the idea.

 During the May 12-14 meetings, Pyongyang said it would not be 
able to continue discussing possible solutions to a nuclear 
standoff unless the United States dropped its demands for a 
complete dismantling of the North's nuclear arms programs.

 North Korean delegate Pak Myong-kuk reportedly said Pyongyang 
was prepared to discuss the scope, timing and length of a freeze 
of its nuclear activities and methods of verifying it.

 "But the United States repeated its position that it would be 
willing to discuss the problem only under the precondition that 
we pledge to a C-V-I-D," Reuters quoted Pak as saying. "We 
expressed the position that we would not be able to continue 
discussing a freeze for compensation."

 While all parties, including North Korea, agree to seek a 
nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula, it is not clear that they 
all agree on the definition of its components, and Washington has 
not been specific as to what CVID fully entails.

 South Korea's efforts with the United States for a change in the 
words are seen as a shift in attitude by the two key parties on 
the sticky issue of allowing North Korea peaceful nuclear 
activity.

 But many in the U.S. State Department are re-examining the 
wording of CVID and their views will be reflected in the second 
working-level talks or the third six-party talks, whichever come 
first.

 "There is no change in the essential principle of North Korea's 
nuclear abandonment," said the official. "There are parts that 
need to be discussed with the United States but North Korea is 
expressing complaints that CVID is a crushing policy and that 
these words are not what they want to continue discussions."

 On the other hand, Washington has said its position remains 
unchanged as it goes into these working-level talks and seeks 
CVID of North Korea's suspected nuclear programs.

 James Kelly, U.S. assistant secretary of state, who heads the 
U.S. delegation at the sessions, is reported to have told the 
Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently that the "acronym and 
the important goal it represents have been accepted by all but 
the North Koreans."

 (bluelle@heraldm.com)
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 7 ITAR-TASS: Russia calls for giving security guarantees to Pyongyang

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[ITAR-TASS News Agency of Russia]     

24.05.2004, 12.59

MOSCOW, May 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia calls for giving “security
guarantees and economic assistance to North Korea with the aim
of improving the situation in the Korean Peninsula,” Russian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko has said. 

The Korean settlement will be central to the negotiations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his visiting South
Korean counterpart Ban Ki-moon will hold on Monday evening. The
Korean foreign minister arrived in Moscow on a visit on Sunday. 

Yakovenko said “giving proper security guarantees and extending
economic and humanitarian assistance to North Korea would
contribute decisively to ensuring stability in the peninsula and
the security of countries situated there. Russia wants to see
better relations between the North and the South and it takes
into account the special role of the inter-Korean dialogue.” 

Moscow attaches economic and political importance to trilateral
business partnership of Russia, South Korea and North Korea,
Yakovenko said. 

“First and foremost this refers to the plan for linking the
Trans-Korean Railway with the Trans-Siberian line in Russia and
to joint energy projects. Russia’s involvement in tackling the
problems of the peninsula stems from economic expediency and the
task of keeping Korea within the sphere of nuclear
non-proliferation and settling the nuclear problem. 

“Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Moscow is taking place against a
backdrop of active Russian-South Korean exchanges and contacts,”
Yakovenko said. “Bilateral trade last year was up to 4.2 billion
dollars, and the accrued South Korean investments in Russia, 202
million dollars. The noticeable improvement of the investment
climate in Russia will expand the scale of economic ties with
Seoul,” the Russian foreign ministry spokesman said. 

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 8 Guardian Unlimited: North Korean nuclear trade exposed

IAEA team finds Pyonyang sold uranium to Libya for bomb            
 		
Ian Traynor
Monday May 24, 2004
The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk]  		
 		
North Korea supplied uranium for Libya's secret nuclear bomb 
programme, UN investigators have established, raising alarm about 
the heightened risk of so-called rogue states or terrorist groups 
buying nuclear materials. 

Western diplomats in Vienna close to the International Atomic 
Energy Agency confirmed yesterday that the IAEA investigation 
into the Pakistan-led black market in nuclear materials and 
technology had found that 1.7 tonnes of slightly enriched uranium 
hexafluoride uncovered in Libya when Colonel Muammar Gadafy 
voluntarily scrapped his nuclear project last December was sent 
from North Korea. It was initially suspected that the material 
had been obtained via private traders. 

"There was a direct North Korea-Libya connection through the Khan 
network," said a diplomat close to the agency, referring to Abdul 
Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist who led the secret nuclear 
trading network. "This is the first time that there is evidence 
that North Korea has sold nuclear materials to another country." 

The discovery, reported yesterday by the New York Times and 
confirmed by diplomats in Vienna, was made recently, the source 
added. It indicates that North Korea is the first state known to 
be involved in the illicit nuclear trade. 

Officials at the agency declined to comment publicly on the North 
Korea case, although they did not deny that the Libyan uranium 
was of North Korean provenance. 

The discovery by IAEA investigators does not reflect well on 
British or US intelligence, who spent nine months last year 
negotiating secretly with the Libyans to get Col Gadafy to scrap 
his weapons of mass destruction programmes. The bargain was 
sealed with a dramatic announcement. Col Gadafy lost his pariah 
status in return for surrendering his programmes and information. 

The Americans spirited the nuts and bolts of the Libyan nuclear 
project out of Libya to the US, including the uranium in 
question, enrichment centrifuge equipment bought on the black 
market to refine the uranium to weapons grade, and a nuclear bomb 
blueprint. 

But the news of the North Korean involvement has come not from 
the US or Britain but from the IAEA's investigation, led by 
Finnish inspector Olli Heinonen, of the Khan network. 

A western diplomat with extensive knowledge of North Korea and 
its secret weapons programmes said that he was not surprised by 
the news since Col Gadafy was a principal supplier of hard 
currency to the impoverished Pyongyang regime, mainly through 
engineering and medical contracts. 

He stressed that North Korea had done nothing illegal in 
supplying minimally enriched uranium to Libya. Pyongyang kicked 
UN nuclear inspectors out of the country, cut relations with the 
IAEA, abrogated its pledges under the nuclear non-proliferation 
treaty, and said it was building a bomb at the end of 2002. 

The main row over the North Korean bomb project concerns 
weapons-grade plutonium retrieved from spent nuclear fuel rods in 
power stations. But the supplies to Libya appear to confirm US 
charges that the North Koreans also have a uranium mining and 
enrichment project that could deliver bomb-grade material. 

"The North Koreans are obviously mining, refining uranium and 
selling it to others," said the diplomatic source close to the 
IAEA. "This is worrying since they have the capability for 
enriching uranium." 

Given that Pyongyang supplied Libya, investigators are worried 
that it may also have supplied other clients, possibly including 
terrorist groups, and that it could also have sold on a more 
lethal form of uranium. 

The exposure of the Khan network threw up evidence of cooperation 
between Pakistan and North Korea in the nuclear sphere. The 
expert on North Korea also believes that Pyongyang has been 
involved in Iran, the prime international suspect in the illicit 
nuclear wargames rackets. 

The Iranians at the weekend handed over to the IAEA what they 
said was a full dossier on their nuclear projects ahead of an 
IAEA meeting in three weeks which had been due to focus on the 
Iranian programme, but will also now be preoccupied with the 
North Korean trading.
 	
Timelines 12.02.2003: North Korea's nuclear programme North Korea 
- 1991 to the present

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 9 asahi.com: EDITORIAL: The Pyongyang summit 
 
  [asahi.com]      

Japan must go on the diplomatic offensive. 

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang on Saturday
for the first time in 20 months and met North Korean leader Kim
Jong Il. Their talks yielded the return of the two children of
Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, and the three of Yasushi and Fukie
Chimura. They arrived in Tokyo that evening. 

But for returned abductee Hitomi Soga, her American husband and
two daughters declined to come to Japan. An arranged reunion of
that family in a ``third country'' appears to be in the cards. 
We are relieved that the separation and pain of the Hasuike and
Chimura families have ended. We wish them the best in putting
their lives back together with a new start in Japan. 

Unfortunately, however, that about sums up the visible fruits of
Saturday's summit. 

The Japanese government has previously demanded investigations
into the fate of 10 other Japanese also believed abducted by
North Korean agents in the 1970s and early 1980s. Pyongyang has
insisted that those individuals are either dead or not on record
as having entered North Korea. 

Kim Jong Il pledged to reopen that inquiry. Koizumi attempted to
put a positive spin on this promise, saying that it does not
amount to a ``delay'' or a ``shelving'' of the issue. But for
the families of those victims, the summary assurance that an
investigation will be made-with no deadline-must certainly be
vexing. 

Koizumi promised 250,000 tons of food and other humanitarian
assistance to the North, while specifying that this is not
``payment'' for the handover of the family members. He also
assured Kim that Tokyo will not impose economic sanctions as
long as the contents of the Pyongyang Declaration signed by the
two leaders in September 2002 are upheld. 

The North Korean media put its typical twist on the talks,
reporting as if Koizumi was visiting to promise food aid. The
prime minister also pressed Kim to abandon his nuclear
development program, but the North Korean strongman refused to
back down from his hard-line stance. 

Despite this minimal progress, Koizumi indicated he was willing
to consider steps to normalize diplomatic relations between
Tokyo and Pyongyang-a matter of high priority for the North.

This prompted criticism from some quarters about the lack of
meaningful progress on the fate of the other 10 Japanese. Some
said that Koizumi, in his rush to bring to Japan the family
members of the repatriated victims, largely skimmed over the
other pending problems. 

Yet, without this top-level visit to Pyongyang, it is unlikely
that the Hasuike and Chimura children would have been allowed to
rejoin their parents in Japan. Taking a strong stance on the
remaining 10 victims was another natural course of action.

Brandishing the ``carrot'' of normalized relations is also a
potentially potent means of expediting more information on that
matter. 

During Saturday's exchange, Kim agreed to ``faithfully fulfill''
the principles of the Pyongyang Declaration. On the nuclear
issue, he declared that efforts would be made to reach a
peaceful resolution through the six-nation talks that also
include the United States, China, South Korea and Russia. 

Based on Kim's past record, it is tough to take these promises
at face value. Nuclear development is a case in point. Not long
after the signing of the joint declaration, which pledges to
observe international agreements on nuclear matters, Pyongyang
expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and
declared it was no longer a party to the Treaty on the
Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. These actions are flagrant
violations of the declaration. 

Taking this situation to heart, the only chance for a viable
breakthrough on this front lies in putting the problem on the
table at the Tokyo-Pyongyang normalization negotiations and the
six-way talks. Saturday's summit should be viewed as valuable
for reconfirming this fact. 

Strong demands must also be made for information on the progress
of the reinvestigation pledged by Kim of the other 10 alleged
abduction victims. This stand should be voiced at every possible
occasion, including any normalization talks. 

The summit also reaffirmed that Kim has frozen his nation's
missile launch testing program. 

Here, though, the problem is not only testing. Japan lies within
geographical striking range of Nodong ballistic missiles
deployed by the North. Pyongyang's nuclear development and
missiles are also a menace to Northeast Asia. The country's
missile program should be another item on the agenda for
normalization. 

Washington, Beijing and Seoul have given Koizumi's visit high
marks for helping to ease tension over the nuclear standoff. To
transform this positive step into genuine progress, Tokyo should
step up its diplomatic offensive toward the North. 

--The Asahi Shimbun, May 23(IHT/Asahi: May 24,2004) (05/24) 
  
[Copyright Asahi Shimbun. All rights reserved. No reproduction
or republication without written permission ] 
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 10 asahi.com: ANALYSIS: Kim secures the biggest gain by giving the smallest
concession 
 
  [asahi.com]      
    
By KIYOSHI HASABA:The Asahi Shimbun 

PYONGYANG-North Korean leader Kim Jong Il-not Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi-seemed to gain the most from last Saturday's
summit. 

The direct meeting was a gamble not only for Koizumi, but also
for Kim in determining North Korea's future diplomatic strategy. 
The outcome turned out favorable for Kim, who won major
concessions from Koizumi, who promised humanitarian aid and no
economic sanctions against Pyongyang if it sticks to the 2002
Pyongyang Declaration. 

Pyongyang won 250,000 tons of rice plus $10 million (about 1.1
billion yen) worth of medical assistance from Japan. But what
Pyongyang yielded in return was to let five kin go to Japan and
rejoin their parents, who were abducted in the late 1970s and
kept in North Korea for nearly a quarter century. 

North Korea might have been willing to allow the relatives'
departure ever since Kim admitted the abductions and apologized
to Koizumi during their 2002 meet. So, it can be said that
Pyongyang did not really make a significant concession at all. 

Pyongyang also had more to gain than lose on the nuclear
issue-using Koizumi to send a message to the United States. 

Koizumi reminded Kim of Washington's demand that Pyongyang
totally abandon its nuclear programs in a ``verifiable and
irreversible manner.'' 

Kim mentioned his willingness to freeze his country's nuclear
programs in exchange for energy assistance. 

He also emphasized that improving Japan and North Korea's
bilateral relationship depends on ``the attitude of Japan's
ally''-implicitly conveying the message that the United States
holds the key to solving the issue. 

Considering Washington's stance of dialogue without negotiation
with Pyongyang, Kim may have found a conduit in Koizumi for
breaking the nuclear standoff with the United States, Japan and
South Korea. 

But Saturday's meeting may not be as good as gold for Kim. It
can be said that, aside from Japan's humanitarian aid, the
agreement made at the summit has brought Kim back to the
Pyongyang Declaration of 20 months ago. 

It is still unclear how the issue of re-opening investigations
of another 10 Japanese nationals, who Pyongyang says are dead or
never entered the country, will develop. 

Japanese opinion could take a turn for the worse as the probe
that Kim promised proceeds. This could hamper normalization
between the two nations, which Pyongyang urgently needs in order
to win large-scale economic aid from Japan. 

Pyongyang says it will only talk with the United States on the
nuclear issue. But North Korea will certainly use the tie that
Kim strengthened with Koizumi through the summit talks as
leverage in negotiating with the United States. 

North Korean media, meanwhile, swiftly reported the Koizumi-Kim
meeting, but did not mention anything about the abduction or
nuclear issues. 

The reports emphasized that Koizumi pledged to resume
humanitarian aid immediately ``for restoring confidence''
between the two nations, and that the two leaders reaffirmed
each other on the significance of the Pyongyang
Declaration.(IHT/Asahi: May 24,2004) (05/24) 

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 11 AFP: UN nuclear watchdog investigating possible NKorea nuclear
shipment to Libya

[http://www.spacewar.com/]

VIENNA (AFP) May 23, 2004

 The UN atomic agency is investigating evidence that North Korea 
secretly provided Libya with nearly two tonnes of uranium in 
early 2001, a senior diplomat close to the agency told AFP 
Sunday.

He was reacting to a report in The New York Times that a giant 
cask of uranium hexafluoride (U6), which can be enriched to 
weapons-grade levels, came to Libya from North Korea.

Citing unnamed US officials and European diplomats familiar with 
the intelligence, the Times said that if confirmed, the 
transaction would be the first known case in which the North 
Korean government has sold a key ingredient for manufacturing 
atomic weapons to another country.

The diplomat, who asked not to be named, said the Vienna-based 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was in the middle of 
its investigation of this connection but "had not found 
explicitly the source" of the shipment.

The IAEA is "investigating where this U6 came from," said the 
diplomat, who asked not to be named.

He said the report of evidence about North Korea as a source was 
"not off. The IAEA just does not know for sure yet."

The Times said the IAEA was basing its conclusion on interviews 
of members of the secret nuclear supplier network set up by Abdul 
Qadeer Khan, the former head of Pakistan's main nuclear 
laboratory.

The diplomat said there were "many other people talking on top 
of" the IAEA to members of the Khan network, and that the 
investigation was at a delicate stage.

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 12 LAT: Case Reveals Nuts and Bolts of Nuclear Network, Officials Say 

  [Los Angeles Times - latimes.com]         

  May 24, 2004     

By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer

ROCKVILLE, Md.  As they race to dismantle a global black market 
in nuclear weapons components, U.S. authorities are focusing on 
an unusual case: an Orthodox Jew from Israel accused of trying to 
sell nuclear weapons parts to a business associate in Islamic 
Pakistan.

 Asher Karni, 50, currently a resident of South Africa, was 
arrested at Denver's international airport as he arrived with his 
wife and daughter for a New Year's ski vacation. Friends and 
family have been pressing for his release, describing him as a 
hard-working electronics salesman just trying to earn a living. 

However, federal authorities contend that Karni is something 
more: a veteran player in an underground network of traffickers 
in parts, technology and know-how for the clandestine nuclear 
weapons programs of foreign governments.

 The Karni case offers a rare glimpse into what authorities say 
is an international bazaar teeming with entrepreneurs, 
transporters, scientists, manufacturers, government agents, 
organized-crime syndicates and, perhaps, terrorists. 

Authorities say the case also provides a classic illustration of 
how illicit nuclear traffickers operate  readily skirting export 
bans, disguising the real use for products, using middlemen to 
buy from legitimate manufacturers and routing shipments through 
several countries.

 Such traffickers have flourished amid little effective response 
by the United States, its allies or the U.N. watchdog, the 
International Atomic Energy Agency, despite repeated warnings, 
authorities say. 

"There are Iranian networks, Chinese networks, Middle East 
networks, sophisticated networks buying technology and parts all 
over the world," said a senior official at the U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security, who cited sensitive investigations in 
demanding anonymity. "They're operating in the United States 
every day. Some of them are family businesses, where fathers pass 
it on to their sons."

 One such network came to light several months ago when top 
Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan admitted selling nuclear 
weapons programs to Iran, Libya and North Korea for tens of 
millions of dollars.

 Authorities have kept Karni in custody since his arrest, arguing 
that he is a flight risk and a threat to national security. He 
has been charged with violating the federal Export Control Act 
and other laws aimed at curbing nuclear proliferation. Ensconced 
in the county jail in a Washington suburb, he faces a maximum 
sentence of 10 years. 

Karni is accused of orchestrating a deal to send as many as 200 
electrical components that can be used for medical or nuclear 
weapons purposes to a Pakistani businessman named Humayun Khan. 

Karni and Humayun Khan have denied knowingly breaking any U.S. 
laws, and both say they have no ties to Abdul Qadeer Khan or his 
network.

 Some U.S. officials believe the ultimate destination of the 
electrical components would have been the Pakistani government, 
which is also suspected of complicity in Abdul Qadeer Khan's 
network. Federal agents plan to go to Islamabad, the Pakistani 
capital, as part of their probe. 

The components, called triggered spark gaps, are sophisticated 
electrical switches that have nonmilitary uses, including 
breaking up kidney stones. But because they emit intense and 
rapid-fire electrical charges, they are also ideal as nuclear 
detonators, prompting the U.S. government to restrict their 
export.

 In court documents filed in Karni's case in Washington, 
authorities say Humayun Khan, in Islamabad, placed an order with 
Karni for 200 of the switches last summer, at $447 apiece, and 
that Khan has links to Pakistan's military and a militant Islamic 
political group. 

"The charges are extraordinarily serious. The allegations 
couldn't be more grave," said Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport 
Beach), chairman of the House Select Committee on Homeland 
Security. 

"This is another piece in the global puzzle of suppliers and 
buyers, middlemen and [front companies] all over the planet," 
said Cox, who said he was not commenting on Karni's innocence or 
guilt. "The problem was hardly created on Sept. 11. But the stark 
reality of it and the unspeakable consequences of it have now 
gripped policymakers."

 Pakistani officials insisted in interviews with The Times that 
the government was not involved in any effort to buy U.S. 
products prohibited for export to their country, a ban prompted 
in part by Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. 

1975 Deal With Ex-Nazi

 But The Times has confirmed that Humayun Khan's family 
import-export business, Pakland Corp., was a purchasing agent for 
that nuclear program as far back as 1975. At the time, Pakland 
was negotiating at least one deal for suspected nuclear weapons 
material with Alfred Hempel, a German industrialist, former Nazi 
and central figure in the then already-burgeoning global nuclear 
bazaar. 

Hempel, who died in 1989, did as much to spread nuclear weapons 
in his day as did Abdul Qadeer Khan, perhaps more, said Gary 
Milhollin, founder of the Washington-based Wisconsin Project on 
Nuclear Arms Control. During the 1970s and '80s, Hempel used 
cargo planes, bribes and a secret network of operatives to supply 
countries in South Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle 
East with nuclear weapons materials. Like Abdul Qadeer Khan, he 
made millions and, despite years of scrutiny by nuclear 
proliferation watchdogs, escaped any serious consequences. 

The Homeland Security Department official said investigators 
planned to aggressively pursue any connections between the Karni 
case and what may remain of Hempel's network. Humayun Khan, the 
official said, appears to have been involved in illegal deals 
going back at least several years.

 Channing Phillips, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in 
Washington, said he could not comment because the investigation 
was in its preliminary stages. "There are still a lot of 
unanswered questions," he said. "We're trying to follow the 
trail, if you will."

 Karni and his lawyers have declined to comment on the case. But 
authorities say he has already provided them with a rare window 
into the nuclear underworld, without even knowing it.

 Over the years, Karni has built up a global list of 
intermediaries and clients as a salesman of sophisticated 
military and aviation electronics equipment, most recently 
through his company, Top-Cape Technology in Cape Town, South 
Africa.

 In a stroke of good fortune, federal agents were able to get an 
inside view of one of those business deals. Authorities launched 
their investigation in July, after an anonymous South African 
tipster said Karni had been using front companies, straw buyers 
and misleading shipping documents to sell restricted U.S. 
products to Pakistan and India. The tipster said Karni was in the 
process of buying as many as 400 of the switches for Humayun 
Khan.

 Updates From Tipster

 Agents with the U.S. departments of Commerce and Homeland 
Security monitored the deal with updates from the tipster, 
including Karni's e-mail correspondence and shipping information 
for the switches.

 Karni first tried to buy the switches directly from Perkin- 
Elmer Optoelectronics of Salem, Mass., according to an affidavit 
filed by Special Agent James R. Brigham of the Commerce 
Department's Office of Export Enforcement. 

The affidavit and other court documents lay out the alleged 
criminal conspiracy to evade U.S. export control laws, including 
e-mails between Karni and Khan. 

A PerkinElmer official told Karni he needed to submit required 
U.S. certificates detailing what the switches would be used for, 
and promising not to send them to blacklisted countries such as 
Pakistan or use them in nuclear-related applications. Karni told 
Khan he wouldn't submit such paperwork.

 "Dear Asher, I know it is difficult but thats [sic] why we came 
to know each other," Khan replied. "Please help to re-negotiate 
this from any other source, we can give you an end user 
information as it is genuinely medical requirement." 

Karni then contacted Zeki Bilmen, head of Giza Technologies of 
Secaucus, N.J. On Aug. 6, Giza ordered 200 of the switches from 
PerkinElmer for $89,400, submitting certificates saying they 
would be used in a Soweto, South Africa, hospital.

 Authorities contacted Per- kin-Elmer officials, who told them a 
typical hospital order was for five or six switches. In response, 
the U.S. agents asked them to discreetly disable the first batch 
of 66 switches and send them on. 

The original tipster told authorities that Karni might list a 
lithography company at Khan's address as the end user, not Khan's 
firm, Pakland PME, and later provided Federal Express tracking 
numbers showing a circuitous route through Dubai, in the United 
Arab Emirates. 

Traffickers frequently ship restricted U.S. items to Dubai, Malta 
and other unrestricted trade zones worldwide and then re-export 
them to third countries to hide the origin or destination and 
avoid laws aimed at curbing nuclear proliferation, authorities 
say.

 Karni did just as the tipster predicted, and agents tracked the 
package at every step. 

Giza, which had certified to PerkinElmer that the switches were 
for hospital use, sent them to Karni's Cape Town office by 
declaring them "electrical splices and couplings for switchings," 
which don't require an export license, Brigham's affidavit says. 
Providing such false or misleading information is a violation of 
federal law, he noted.

 Karni then labeled them electrical parts and sent them to Dubai 
and on to Islamabad, where, in late October, someone identifying 
himself as an employee of the AJKMC Lithography Aid Society 
signed for the spark gaps.

 Authorities suspect the letters stand for All Jammu and Kashmir 
Muslim Conference, a political party that controls the 
Pakistani-ruled part of the disputed Kashmir region and allegedly 
has terrorist affiliations. 

On Dec. 11, South African police raided Karni's offices at U.S. 
authorities' request. Karni admitted sending the spark gaps, 
court papers say. Less than a month later, in one of the many 
mysteries of the case, he came to the U.S., where he was 
arrested.

 Bilmen, of Giza Technologies, has not been charged. His lawyer, 
Robert C. Herbst, said Giza employees "were a victim of Asher 
Karni as much as anyone else was." 

In court records, authorities said Karni often sent air freight 
to Pakistan and that he either completed or discussed other 
suspicious deals. In one, Karni bought for Khan a type of 
sophisticated oscilloscope often used in nuclear weapons and 
military programs, also through Giza. In another, he exchanged 
e-mail with a man identified as an Indian contact trying to buy 
several kinds of high-tech material for two Indian rocket 
factories.

 Soon after his arrest, Karni and his case were transferred to 
Washington. He was eventually moved from federal custody to the 
county jail.

 "This case represents one of the most serious types of export 
violations imaginable," one prosecutor argued in a court filing. 
"Karni has exported goods that are capable of detonating nuclear 
weapons to a person he knows has ties to the Pakistani military.

 "Although Pakistan's current leadership has vowed to curb the 
spread of this technology, that region of the world remains 
volatile, and Islamic militants in the area have made no secret 
of their desire to obtain nuclear weapons," the filing says. "The 
threat that Karni's conduct posed was real."

 Karni insists that he didn't know the spark gaps could be used 
as detonators in nuclear weapons, according to Rabbi Herzel Kranz 
of the Hebrew Sheltering Home in Silver Spring, Md., who says he 
keeps in frequent contact with Karni. A federal judge has 
approved bail for Karni if he were to stay at the home and wear 
an electronic monitoring bracelet, but authorities have kept him 
in custody on alleged immigration violations.

 In an interview, Kranz said a friend told him about Karni's 
"distressed situation." He said he went to his aid believing he 
was innocent, perhaps an unwitting victim of some kind of 
conspiracy.

 "Why would a religious Jew send nuclear weapons parts to a 
country that hates Israel as much as Pakistan?" Kranz asked. "He 
has no idea what he's gotten himself into. But he's really 
grabbed a tiger by the tail here." 

Kranz said everything about Karni seemed to contradict the 
profile of a black-market trafficker: Karni was born in Hungary 
but grew up in Israel, where he was orphaned at a young age, 
Kranz said. He displayed prowess in the Talmud, or Hebrew 
scholarship. He spent 15 years in the Israeli army, becoming a 
major while obtaining a bachelor's degree in chemistry and an 
MBA.

 Karni moved his young family to South Africa in behalf of an 
Orthodox Jewish organization and decided to stay. 



Destination of Material

 Privately, senior U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the 
case said a critical question is where the spark gaps were 
headed, particularly because Humayun Khan  Karni's alleged 
collaborator  apparently is a supplier to the Pakistani 
military.

 In e-mail exchanges, Humayun Khan had no comment on a February 
1975 letter obtained by The Times, in which a man named M. Akram 
Khan of Pakland Corp. in Karachi tells Switzerland-based firm 
Adero Chemie that it must act quickly to beat out a competing 
Australian firm for a large shipment of material used to run 
nuclear reactors that make plutonium. 

But he confirmed that M. Akram Khan was his late father and that 
he spent 11 years working with him at the family business, 
Pakland Corp., before starting Pakland PME in 1994.

 Khan didn't respond to questions about his father's apparent 
role as a purchasing agent for the Pakistan Atomic Energy 
Commission or whether he took over any of those business 
relationships upon his father's death.

 But he insisted that he had done nothing wrong, and said someone 
else used his e-mail address to send incriminating e-mails to 
Karni. He added, "The obvious is not what it seems."

 Milhollin, who provided the letter to The Times, first exposed 
Hempel's activities more than 15 years ago, sounding repeated 
alarms before congressional committees. 

Milhollin, whose organization maintains a database that tracks 
suspected nuclear proliferators, which is used by dozens of 
governments, warned in 1989 that U.S. officials needed to stop 
the nuclear black market before it was too late. 

"Otherwise, the strategic map of the world is being redrawn 
without anyone really understanding the consequences," Milhollin 
wrote. "That these sales are still happening  after a decade of 
U.S. efforts to stop them  shows how U.S. diplomacy has failed."

 Fifteen years later, it appears little has changed. A senior 
Energy Department official said the latest intelligence showed 
that nuclear black market activity had continued to flourish.

 "Demand hasn't diminished. In fact, it's increased," the 
official said. "Where there's demand, there are people willing 
and able to supply it."

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 13 AP Wire: Energy Department helps pay for Alabama nuclear reactor study

| 05/24/2004 | 

JEFFREY McMURRAY

 Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Department of Energy announced Monday it would 
help pay to study the cost of constructing a two-unit nuclear 
power plant at an Alabama site that has been vacant for 20 years. 

Deputy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow made the announcement during a 
tour of the Browns Ferry station in Athens, Ala., and the 
Bellefonte site in Scottsboro, which is the proposed location for 
the two-unit Advanced Boiling Water Reactor as early as 2014. 

Although there was no firm commitment, only $4.25 million for the 
study - half funded by the federal government - McSlarrow said 
the news was significant. 

"Even though it's not in dollar terms perhaps a large amount, 
this is in concrete, for the future of nuclear power, a huge deal 
and a huge step forward," he said. 

For the past year, the Tennessee Valley Authority has explored 
whether Bellefonte could be used for the next generation boiling 
water reactor, which are currently running in Japan and Taiwan. A 
group that includes TVA, nuclear vendors General Electric and 
Toshiba, engineers Bechtel Corp., and fuel producers U.S. 
Enrichment Corp., will pay for the other half of the study. 

TVA Chairman Glenn McCullough told McSlarrow the 1,500-acre 
Bellefonte site was ideal because it had been designed for two 
reactors and was located on the Tennessee River. The community 
has also been supportive, he said. 

"Alabama is a very pro-nuclear state," McCullough said. 

It will take eight months to a year to complete the study on cost 
and schedule of the project. If all goes well, TVA could apply 
for a construction and operating license application with the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said he was encouraged by the news 
that the federal government had agreed to be a partner in 
studying the reactor. 

"If the numbers come out like we hope, there will be a powerful 
case for bringing this facility online as a modern nuclear power 
plant," Sessions said. 

ON THE NET 

Department of Energy:  [http://www.energy.gov] 

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 14 [progchat_action] Nuclear marketplace
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:55:51 -0500 (CDT)

 
The case of an Israeli orthodox Jew selling nuclear weapons parts
to a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist illustrates the extensive
underground trade in the components, todays Los Angeles Times
reports.

Asher Karni, an Israeli citizen now resident in South Africa, was
arrested on a recent visit to the US and charged with violating
federal laws against nuclear proliferation.

The Karni case offers a rare glimpse into what authorities say is
an international bazaar teeming with entrepreneurs, transporters,
scientists, manufacturers, government agents, organized-crime
syndicates and, perhaps, terrorists, writes reporter Josh Meyer.
The trade is flourishing despite decades-long efforts by the US and
its allies and the UNs International Agency for Arms Control to
prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

The parts shipped by Karni to his Pakistani collaborator, who is
allegedly linked to an Islamic militant group, were believed intended
for use in Pakistans nuclear weapons program.

Another report in todays Washington Post corroborates the ease with
which nuclear weapons can be assembled from materials available on
the open market for potential use against civilian populations.

Both articles available on: http://www.supportingfacts.com

or

URLs:

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 15 Haaretz: Vanunu shows up in court for libel suit against Yedioth daily
 
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  News Updates    Tue., May 25, 2004 Sivan 5, 5764    Israel
    
  By Zvi Harel [zvih@haaretz.co.il]   	 
    
In his first public appearance since being freed last month from 
an 18-year prison sentence, Mordechai Vanunu yesterday attended a 
hearing at Tel Aviv Magistrate Court, which is sitting on the 
nuclear whistleblower's libel case against Yedioth Ahronoth daily 
and journalist Ron Ben Yishai.
   	
Vanunu's suit for NIS 368,000 was filed in September 2002 
following an extensive article which charged that during his time 
in prison he had passed information to Hamas on how to 
manufacture explosive devices.

Vanunu's attorney, Avigdor Feldman, at the time said the report 
had been fabricated. The article was never verified and Yedioth 
Ahronoth did not even ask Vanunu for a response. Vanunu did not 
testify yesterday, and will take the witness stand at a later 
date.

In his statement to the court yesterday, Ben Yishai said the 
initial information he received on the story came from Ami 
Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet security service who 
discussed it in a meeting with a group of 10 journalists at the 
end of 1999. Ben Yishai said, he had decided to publish the 
article five months later, only after verifying the information 
with another source and because there was public interest at the 
time, since Vanunu had submitted a request for early release.

Ben Yishai noted that he had not revealed Ayalon's name. He also 
said that he had not asked the other source to testify in order 
not to divulge journalistic sources. Ayalon is expected to 
testify at the next hearing.     

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 16 Guardian Unlimited: Israeli Nuclear Spy Appears in Court

From the Associated Press        

[UP] 

Monday May 24, 2004 11:46 AM

By PETER ENAV 

Associated Press Writer 

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in 
prison for revealing Israel's nuclear secrets, appeared in court 
in a libel suit Monday, his first public appearance since being 
released last month. 

Vanunu has been secluded at a Jerusalem church since is April 21 
release. 

Wearing a blue Oxford shirt and a cross around his neck, Vanunu 
did not testify, and the case was continued. Asked by reporters 
how he was doing, Vanunu signaled with a nod that he was OK. He 
was whisked out of the courtroom by security guards without 
speaking to reporters. 

Vanunu has filed a libel suit against the Yediot Ahronot daily. 
The newspaper reported in November 1999 that Vanunu had passed 
information on how to prepare explosives to Hamas militants in 
prison. 

Yediot's lawyer, Mibi Moser, said Vanunu was seeking about 
$78,000 in damages. 

During a procedural stage, Vanunu's lawyer, Avigdor Feldman told 
the judge that Vanunu lives in Jerusalem. The judge turned to 
Vanunu and asked him where in the city he lives. 

``In the church, St. George,'' Vanunu replied. Vanunu, a convert 
to Christianity, has stayed at St. George, an Anglican Church 
near Jerusalem's Old City, since his release from prison. 

Vanunu served 18 years in prison for providing The Sunday Times 
of London with information and pictures of Israel's nuclear 
reactor. 

Based on the pictures and information provided by Vanunu - who 
worked as a technician in the reactor - experts assessed at the 
time that Israel has the sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear 
weapons in the world.    
  
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 17 TCJ: Krieger: Berkeley should forsake its nukes 05/24/04
 
+ [CJOnline.com Topeka Capital-Journal 

Published Monday, May 24, 2004 

 MinutemanMedia.org

 We've all heard about the inspections that took place in Iraq to 
find weapons of mass destruction and programs to make them. As we 
know, none were found in Iraq.

 That wouldn't be the case if the inspectors were to come to the 
University of California at Berkeley. They would find that 
programs to research, design, develop, improve, test, and 
maintain nuclear weapons have been going on under the auspices of 
this university for more than 60 years. They would find that the 
University of California provides oversight to the nation's two 
principal nuclear weapons laboratories: Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. They 
would find that today these weapons laboratories are engaged in 
attempting to make new, more usable nuclear weapons: 
"bunker-busters" and mini-nukes.

 For a fee, the University of California has provided a fig leaf 
of respectability to the research and development of the most 
horrendous weapons known to humankind. It is ironic that our 
government cannot tolerate the possibility of Iraqi scientists 
creating such weapons, but at the University of California (U.C.) 
such a horrid use of science is called "a service to the nation."

 Two of the weapons developed at the Los Alamos Laboratory were 
used on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These were 
relatively small weapons but caused the deaths of over 200,000 
persons, mostly innocent civilians, by incineration, burning, 
blast and radiation poisoning. There are no guarantees that the 
nuclear weapons being developed today under U.C. auspices will 
not be used again. In fact, the odds are that they will be used 
again, by accident or design.

 There are three reasons the U.C. should get out of the nuclear 
weapons business:

 First, the U.C. is a great university, and no great university 
should lend its talents to making weapons capable of destroying 
cities, civilizations and most life on Earth. A university exists 
to examine the amazing wonders of our world, to collect and 
categorize knowledge, and to pass important knowledge from the 
past on to new generations. How can a great university allow 
itself to be co-opted into helping create weapons of mass 
destruction? How can the U.C. Board of Regents justify this as "a 
service to the nation"?

 Second, there is no moral ground on which nuclear weapons can 
rest. These are weapons of mass murder. They cannot discriminate 
between combatants and civilians. They kill indiscriminately. By 
continuing to develop and improve these weapons, the United 
States, economically and militarily the strongest country in the 
world, is signaling to other nations that these weapons would be 
useful for them as well.

 Third, the International Court of Justice has stated that the 
use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is illegal under 
international law. It allowed only one possible exception in 
which the "very survival of a state" was at stake. In such a 
situation, it said that the law was unclear, but under any 
circumstance the use of nuclear weapons would not be legal if it 
failed to discriminate between civilians and combatants or caused 
unnecessary suffering. There is no evidence that nuclear weapons 
could be used without violating these precepts.

 Sir Joseph Rotblat, a Manhattan Project scientist and Nobel 
Peace Laureate, has written: "If the use of a given type of 
weapon is illegal under international law, should not research on 
such weapons also be illegal, and should not scientists also be 
culpable?"

 It is time to heed the words of Professor Rotblat and to bring 
nuclear weapons under control. If the scientists and engineers at 
the laboratories are unwilling to give up their role in creating 
and improving nuclear weapons, then at least the U.C. community 
can send a message to the rest of the country and the world that 
it is no longer willing to participate in the management of 
laboratories making weapons of mass murder.

 The motto of the University of California is "fiat lux," meaning 
"let there be light." It is unlikely that the light the founders 
of the university had in mind was the flash "brighter than a 
thousand suns." They meant the light of knowledge, truth and 
beauty. The University of California should end its association 
with the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories when the contract 
expires in 2005.

 David Krieger is president of the Santa Barbara-based Nuclear 
Age Peace Foundation (www.wagingpeace.org) and wrote "Nuclear 
Weapons and the World Court" and "Choose Hope, Your Role in 
Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age."

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 18 CS Monitor: Keeping Track of Uranium | 

csmonitor.com [http://www.csmonitor.com/]   
    
from the May 25, 2004 edition 	
 
 Tacked onto the defense authorization bill is an amendment 
approved by the Senate that prompts this reaction: You mean the 
US isn't doing this already?                    

It's hard to believe, but, despite September 11, neither the US 
nor the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has a 
comprehensive database that tracks the world's highly enriched 
uranium, nor a complete assessment of the security and terrorist 
threat that this and other fissile material pose.
 
Highly enriched uranium is the easiest material to use to 
construct an atomic bomb. Particularly vulnerable are the roughly 
135 research nuclear reactors - reactors not used for power 
generation but for materials testing, research, and medicine - 
still operating with highly enriched uranium in more than 40 
countries.
 
At many of these reactors, which sprang up in places like Vietnam 
and Ghana as part of the cold war export of the nuclear age, 
security is lax - nothing more than a guard and fence. Most sites 
don't have enough material for one bomb, but even at sites that 
do, security needs to be improved.
 
Dozens of US and international databases track pieces of this 
picture, and various programs have been established to assist in 
securing the material. In recent years, fissile material has been 
successfully removed from Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Libya.
 
A bipartisan amendment passed by the Senate last week tasks the 
Department of Energy with compiling a comprehensive view of the 
problem and prioritizing the most urgent cases, and granting the 
department the authority to accelerate and coordinate the 
security and/or removal of such material.
 
The president reportedly backs the amendment, which would fill a 
gaping hole in nuclear security. The sooner it becomes law, the 
better.
 	 
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 19 [NukeNet] good information on new nuclear consortia
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:35:34 -0700

 
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Focus On The Groups Hoping To Build The Next US N-Plant
http://www.worldnuclear.org/_news_feature/index.cfm?NN_Flash=0

Three US consortia have taken up the Department of Energy’s (DOE)
challenge to present proposals for feasibility studies and licensing
initiatives with the goal of starting to build a new nuclear reactor
unit in the country.

None of the consortia, or any of their members, has actually committed
to building a reactor. DOE will pay up to half of the costs of any of
the proposals it selects and funding for the effort is included in the
department’s fiscal year 2005 appropriation ­ which has not yet been
approved by Congress. Additional companies or consortia could enter the
field, since the solicitation does not close until December 2004.
However, DOE does not have to wait until the solicitation closes to make
awards, so the early entries could garner all available funds. Some
companies, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Bechtel
Power Corp., are members of more than one consortium.

The US Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is identifying the three
consortia as the NuStart-led consortium, the Dominion-Led consortium and
the TVA-Led consortium.

In this special feature, NucNet US correspondent Thecla Fabian analyses
the proposals ­ and looks at the key players...

NuStart-Led consortium
The expanded NuStart consortium is the latest entrant into the field
and has presented the largest request. Marilyn Kray, who is the
executive lead on the project and Exelon’s vice-president for project
development, told NucNet that Exelon has the lead in the 10-member
group. The group proposes a seven-year, 800 million US dollar effort
intended to result in a completed combined construction and operating
licence (COL) for one of two reactor designs.

The two reactors being considered are the General Electric (GE)
Economic and Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) and the
Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 (AP 1000). Ms Kray said they were
picked because each is an evolution of a currently operating plant
design. Both reactor vendors are members of the consortium.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the
certification application for the AP 1000, which was submitted by
Westinghouse, a subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), in March
2002. The schedule calls for a certification decision in December 2005.
GE is engaged in pre-application discussions with NRC on certification
of the ESBWR. While GE does not yet have an agreed schedule with NRC, it
expects that the certification decision will come in mid- to late 2007.


Ms Kray said completion of certification for both reactor designs is
part of the NuStart proposal, and she noted that certification does not
include all of the design work necessary to build a reactor. The design
work is being done in three segments. The first is the preliminary
design work needed for NRC design certification. The second is the
additional design work needed for submission of the COL. The final stage
is the detailed engineering design needed to actually build the plant.
Once both certifications are complete, NuStart will select a single
design to proceed with the COL, said Ms Kray, adding that, although only
one COL will be submitted, “at the end of the day, we want both
reactor designs to be positioned for deployment”.

The consortium has not decided whether to submit an early site permit
(ESP), which is not required for COL submission. The consortium also has
the option of rolling site information into the COL, Ms Kray said.
NuStart has not selected a site yet. One of the consortia’s initial
tasks is to identify a list of possible sites and develop site-selection
criteria. The schedule calls for selection of a site by September 2005.


Once a site and a reactor design have been selected, NuStart will work
with the NRC on developing a licensing strategy. NuStart expects to
submit its COL application by January 200
8. The NRC review will take
about two years. Ms Kray said that a firm decision on the part of one or
more of the partners to actually build a reactor could come at any time
during the process. The decision would depend on a number of factors,
including how the project was progressing, the ultimate cost of building
a plant, and external factors such as electricity costs and
environmental issues.

The 10-member consortium includes eight power companies: Exelon,
Entergy, Constellation Energy, Southern Co., EDF International North
America, TVA, Duke Power and Florida Power & Light (FPL) ­ which
announced on 19th May that it had joined. The two nuclear reactor vendor
members are Westinghouse Electric and GE Energy’s nuclear operations.
Six of the power companies have formed a limited liability corporation
to manage the project ­ NuStart Energy Development LLC. TVA, as a
quasi-public corporation, has not joined the limited liability
corporation. The six NuStart LLC members will provide USD 7 million over
the course of the project, for a total of USD 42 million. TVA will not
provide any cash, but it will provide around USD 500 000 worth of
support in-kind.

Duke joined the consortium after NuStart submitted its original
proposal to the DOE on 31st March. The company had been waiting to
finish its own licensing renewal on the Catawba and McGuire nuclear
plants, said Duke spokesperson Rose Cummings. Also, the company’s new
chief nuclear officer, Brew Barron, who took over in January, is a
strong proponent of the nuclear option. Cummings pointed out that Duke
now is not looking to build another reactor. None of its three nuclear
sites would support a new reactor. She said that if Duke builds
anything, it would have to be at a greenfield (undeveloped) site, which
has not been ruled out.

The DOE is being asked to provide half of the USD 800 million cost. The
remainder will come from the consortium’s partners.

Dominion-Led consortium
A four-member consortium led by Dominion has proposed a USD 500 million
project to examine the feasibility of building a Canadian-designed ACR
(Advanced Candu Reactor) 700 in the US, using the North Anna nuclear
power plant as a reference site. The proposal does not commit to
submission of a COL, but proposes a six-year programme to develop a
“success path” to the COL, said Dominion spokesman Rick Zuercher.
Dominion submitted an ESP for the North Anna site to NRC on September
25, 2003.

John Polcyn, president of AECL Technologies (Atomic Energy of Canada
Ltd.’s US subsidiary) told NucNet that the ACR 700 is a light-water
reactor (LWR) that combines features of the Canadian CANDU reactors and
LWRs currently used in the US. It uses slightly enriched fuel (2.1%),
unlike the CANDU, which uses natural uranium fuel. He said AECL will
start with a basic ACR 700 design, and modify it to meet licensing
conditions in Canada, the US and other markets.

AECL estimates that it could build the first 753 MW unit of the ACR 700
in 44 months. After building the fifth unit, construction time would
drop to 36 months.

Under this consortium, Dominion will lead the team, provide a site, and
provide up to USD 61 million in funding. AECL will provide the remainder
of the costs through its efforts to obtain NRC certification of the ACR
700. The DOE is being asked to pick up matching funds up to USD 250
million. The other two members of the consortium will provide
engineering support. Hitachi America will provide work on the secondary
side of the plant, the steam side. Bechtel Power Corp. will provide
engineering support and support for the COL preparatory work.

At the end of the six-year project, the consortium will be ready to
submit the COL application. As with NuStart, Dominion has not committed
to build the plant, even if it receives the COL. Mr Zuercher said that
Dominion is interested in keeping the option available and will make a
construction decision based on the need for baseload power and the
comparative advantages of the ACR 700 versu
s other power supply options.


The Dominion-Led consortium was the first to submit a proposal to the
DOE, on 13th March.

TVA-Led consortium
TVA, a member of the NuStart consortium, also is a member of a smaller
consortium that seeks to build an advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR)
on the Bellefonte site in northern Alabama. The site has two partially
completed TVA reactors. This six-member consortium proposes to use an
ABWR from GE (a design certified by the NRC in June 1997), said
Elizabeth Stuckle, a spokesperson with the US Enrichment Corporation,
USEC ­ one of the members of the consortium. Although never built in
the US, a joint venture between GE and Toshiba has built three of the
reactors in Japan, which are currently operating. They are building five
more in Japan and Taiwan, and have another eight in various planning and
design stages.

The consortium is proposing a modest USD 4 million, 10-month study to
determine the feasibility of the project. The DOE has been asked to pick
up USD 2 million as its share of the cost. TVA offers the use of the
Bellefonte site, and possibly re-use of some of the idle infrastructure
on the site. USEC will provide a fuel supply plan and project management
support. GE and Toshiba will provide reactor design work. Bechtel will
provide engineering support and Global Nuclear Fuel Americas LLC (a
joint venture between GE, Toshiba and Hitachi) will provide fuel
fabrication support. Ms Stuckle said that TVA does not have an early
site permit for Bellefonte, so it would either have to apply for an ESP,
or incorporate the site information into the COL. As with the other two
consortia, TVA has not made a firm decision to actually build the plant.


NucNet understands that federal funding plans for fiscal year 2005 are
expected to be finalised by October. The DOE could therefore decide on
one or more of the proposals soon afterwards.

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 20 UPI: Slovakia to complete nuclear power facility - 

(United Press International)
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
  May 24, 2004 			   

Bratislava, , May. 24 (UPI) -- The Slovak government will press 
ahead with the completion of its second nuclear power plant 
regardless of Austrian objections, the government said Monday.

 Slovakia's Mochovce nuclear power station needs another $1 
billion in investment before it can come on line at full 
capacity, industry analysts say. Austria, which has long objected 
to the construction of nuclear power plants in nearby former 
communist countries, wants Slovakia to decommission the power 
plant. 

Economy Minister Pavol Rusko said Monday Slovakia would not yield 
to Austria's demands. He added that bidders looking to take a 
majority stake in Slovakia's main electricity company Slovenske 
Elektrarne, which runs the nuclear power plant, would be looked 
upon favorably if they pledge funds to complete the Mochovce 
plant.

 Austria shares borders with Slovakia and the Czech Republic, 
both of which have nuclear power programs which began in the 
Soviet era.                                                                             

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 21 Daily Yomiuri: G-8 to confirm export ban on nations not signing additional
protocol 

Yomiuri Shimbun 

Leaders of the Group of Eight major nations scheduled to meet 
next month for a summit meeting on Sea Island, Ga., will confirm 
the policy of prohibiting exports of nuclear power generating 
facilities to countries that have not signed the International 
Atomic Energy Agency's Additional Protocol, giving the 
international organization authority to conduct surprise 
inspections, a government source said Monday. 

The policy to restrict the transfer of nuclear power reactors and 
spent fuel that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, 
originally proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush in February, 
is seen as a means to strengthen the nonproliferation of weapons 
of mass destruction. 

The Nuclear Suppliers Group, which comprises 40 countries 
including Japan, operates under a common guideline that the 
countries to which they export nuclear power reactors and spent 
fuel must agree to the IAEA's normal inspections and monitoring, 
based on the countries' voluntary nuclear reports submitted to 
the agency. 

The group has endorsed Bush's proposal that the countries sign 
the IAEA additional protocol, which allows the IAEA to conduct 
inspections only two hours after announcing an inspection, aimed 
at making the inspections more thorough. 

G-8 countries, which are currently working to state Bush's policy 
in their joint communique on nuclear nonproliferation, intend to 
accelerate the supply group's activities, the source said. 

Japan has insisted that countries should not only sign the 
Additional Protocol but also ratify it.   

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 22 Times Leader: Where feathers, fission coexist

| 05/24/2004 | 

In PPL's nuke power plant's shadow is some of best bird-watching 
in the state, according to a new guide.

 By JON FOX

 jfox@leader.net [jfox@leader.net] 

Looking for a good place to scope out some birds?

 Just drive toward the cooling towers and the billowing white 
steam.

 It might seem counter-intuitive to drive toward a nuclear power 
plant to take in a little nature, but a new bird-watching guide 
issued earlier this month by Audubon Pennsylvania lists two areas 
adjacent to PPL's Susquehanna Steam Electric Station as among the 
200 best spots in the state.

 The Susquehanna Riverlands environmental preserve and it's 
Council Cup Scenic Overlook are named in the guide.

 "What happens is when you acquire land for a generation site you 
also acquire some buffer lands around it," said John Fridman, 
superintendent environmental preservist at the area.

 That buffer land just happens to contain a variety of habitats, 
some of which are under pressure in the state, Fridman said.

 The preserve contains extensive undeveloped riverside forest, 
upland forest, open field and wetlands. Across the state, 
riverside forests are becoming increasingly pressured by 
development, he said.

 Sheltered and maintained by the utility, the land is host to 
migratory flocks moving through the area and local species.

 "The best time if you want to see the largest variety of birds 
is late March to late May," Fridman said.

 September through November, the Council Cup overlook offers some 
ideal hawk-watching conditions. Bird watchers can check out a 
variety of hawk and falcon species.

 "An occasional golden eagle will go through, but that's a 
rarity," Fridman said.

 The 2,200 acres about five miles north of Berwick on U.S. Route 
11 is open seven days a week, dawn to dusk, and is one of 80 
important bird areas designated in the state due to its variety 
of habitats and diversity of bird populations.

 "PPL decided to give back the use of it in a managed way, sort 
of like a good-neighbor program," he said of the land opened in 
1980.

 Fridman estimates 120,000 people visit the site annually for 
bird watching, school programing, picnicking and hunting.

 "If you see the cooling towers, you know which way to go," he 
said.

 Jon Fox, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 
829-7219.

 On the Web:

 For more information about either Audubon Pennsylvania or the 
Riverlands preserve go to http://pa.audubon.org 
[http://pa.audubon.org] or 
http://www.pplweb.com/community/enviro_preserves/susq. 
[http://www.pplweb.com/community/enviro_preserves/susq.] 

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 23 Slovak news: Rusko wants to complete two blocs of Mochovce nuclear plant
                                                           
  Slovakia's English language newspaper     May 24 - 30,2004,
Volume 10, Number 20   

ECONOMY Minister Pavol Rusko, backed by the decision of his party 
the New Citizen's Alliance, said that the privatisation of the 
Slovenské elektrárne power producer must be organised such that 
it would secure the completion of two blocs of the nuclear plant 
in Mochovce. 

According to Rusko, this is in the interest of Slovakia's power 
self-sufficiency, the Pravda daily wrote. 

The announcement, however, surprised Rusko's ruling partners, who 
were not informed of the minister's plan. It also angered 
Slovakia's neighbour, Austria, which believes the nuclear 
facility is a dangerous risk. 

According to the daily SME, Hans Kroberger, head of the Austrian 
ruling party FPO, labelled the plan "an offence and a provocation 
of the highest rank". 

In 2000, the Slovak cabinet decided against completing the two 
blocs with state money. According to estimates, the cost of the 
work would come to Sk50 billion (€1.2 billion). 


Compiled by Martina Pisárová from press reports

The Slovak Spectator cannot vouch for the accuracy of the 
information presented in its Flash News postings.
 
[5/24/2004 10:12:48 AM] 

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 24 U.S. Newswire: DOE Announces Study of Advanced New Nuclear Power 
Plant at TVA Site
 
 5/24/2004 1:10:00 PM 

To: National Desk, Energy Reporter 

Contact: Hope Williams of the U.S. Department of Energy,
202-586-5806 

WASHINGTON, May 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of 
Energy (DOE) today announced that it will cooperate with an 
industry team led by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to 
conduct a detailed study of the potential construction of a two- 
unit Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) nuclear plant on 
Bellefonte site near Hollywood, Ala. This study, which will cost 
a total of $4.25 million over the next 10 months, will help TVA 
decide whether to build a new, advanced technology nuclear plant 
at the site by the middle of the next decade, which could produce 
more than 2600 megawatts of electric energy. DOE will fund half 
of the cost associated with the study. 

"We see this study as an important step in industry's 
consideration of building new nuclear power plants in this 
country," Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham stated. "Nuclear 
power is the only large-scale source of domestically produced 
electricity that does not produce greenhouse gases. It is, 
therefore, one of our most important energy sources today and has 
tremendous potential to support the Nation's energy and 
environmental goals in the future." 

"As a leader in the use and deployment of nuclear power, TVA's 
decision to lead a team to conduct this study is a positive 
signal regarding the future of nuclear energy," Kyle McSlarrow, 
Deputy Secretary of Energy during a visit to the Bellefonte site 
said. 

Deputy Secretary McSlarrow also visited TVA's Browns Ferry plant 
during his visit to Alabama, which is the site of a major project 
to prepare the facility's Unit 1 reactor to begin operations by 
2007. When started, the 1200 megawatt Browns Ferry Unit 1 plant 
will be the first new nuclear plant to come on line in the United 
States in this century. He was joined by Alabama Senator Jeff 
Sessions in making this announcement. Senator Sessions, one of 
the Senate's strongest supporters of nuclear power, has been a 
steadfast proponent of building a new nuclear plant at the 
Bellefonte site. 

The Bellefonte project will detail the cost and schedule for 
building a two-unit Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) plant. 
This technology is a Generation III nuclear power plant that is 
based on a design developed by General Electric and was certified 
by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1997. While no 
plant using this technology has been built in the United States, 
three ABWR plants are successfully operating in Japan and three 
additional units are under construction in Japan and Taiwan. The 
specific design that will be evaluated for the Bellefonte site 
will reflect modifications made by the Japanese firm, Toshiba, 
reflecting that company's successful experience with the 
technology in Japan. 

TVA will lead a project team that includes General Electric, 
Toshiba, Bechtel, Global Nuclear Fuels-America, and the Nation's 
only uranium enrichment supplier, USEC Inc. Following completion 
of the study in April 2005, TVA will make a decision whether to 
file a combined Construction and Operating License (COL) 
application with the NRC and consider subsequent steps for 
building a new nuclear plant. The department will provide 
approximately $2.1 million in matching funds to conduct the cost 
and schedule study. 

The project, to be conducted under the department's Nuclear Power 
2010 program, was proposed by TVA in response to a program 
financial assistance solicitation issued on Nov. 20, 2003. The 
Nuclear Power 2010 program is an important component of the 
department's strategy to implement the National Energy Policy 
recommendation to expand the role of nuclear energy in the United 
States as a major component of our Nation's energy policy. The 
program seeks to achieve an industry decision in 2005 to proceed 
with a COL application for at least one new nuclear power plant 
that can begin commercial operation early in the next decade. 

Neither TVA nor the other two consortia have made a decision to 
place an order for a new nuclear plant at this time, but each 
proposed project will help address the complex issues that must 
be resolved before a new plant is ordered. 



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 25 Free Lance-Star: Lake Anna doesn't need any more nuclear reactors

  [fredericksburg.com] 

 Date published: 5/24/2004 

In a recent article headlined "Green coalition fights new nukes" 
[May 5], Mr. Richard Zuercher, a Dominion Virginia Power 
spokesman, contended that Lake Anna was originally designed for 
four reactors and that water to cool the two proposed reactors is 
not a problem. (Units 3 and 4 were scrapped in the early 1980s, 
and Virginians paid the cost of dismantling early construction.) 

I doubt Dominion has adequately studied the impact of increased 
water needs and consumption for an expanding population in 
central Virginia. 

Safeguarding our water resources has become a high priority since 
the 1970s, and we are all aware that what happens upstream can 
have deleterious effects on downstream ecosystems. 

Lake Anna drains into the Pamunkey River, which in turn drains 
into the York River, and into Virginia's jewel, the Chesapeake 
Bay. Because Dominion's evacuation planning has not remained 
current with population growth, it is likely that Dominion's 
estimates of future community water needs have to be assessed. 

Dominion claims it has no plans to build new reactors, but it has 
readily accepted $14 million from the Department of Energy--our 
money, taxpayer money--to apply for the early site permit at 
North Anna. 

Dominion announced that it will seek another $250 million from 
the DOE toward construction and design. Why so many millions if 
it has no intention of building new reactors ? 

It would be more appropriate if our energy company and 
self-proclaimed "good corporate neighbor" insisted that the DOE 
funds it so readily accepts be directed toward research and 
development of renewable energies and the implementation of 
conservation technologies. 

A new stake in nuclear energy, expensive and fraught with 
radiation risks and with no solution in sight for appropriate 
radioactive-waste storage and disposal, seems irresponsible on 
the part of Dominion. 



Elena Day 

Charlottesville 

Date published: 5/24/2004 
Copyright 2004, The Free Lance-Star Publishing Co. of
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 26 [du-list] Chris Busby on Uranium Health Effects
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:03:24 -0700

 
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http://www.chris_busby_08may04.html

On May 8th, Sunny Miller interviewed Chris Busby, Ph.D. at the International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War conference in Berlin. Dr. Busby
is an expert the health risks of low level radiation, including so-called
Œdepleted¹ uranium (DU). He gave a presentation on DU at the IPPNW and will
be working with Traprock on a US speaking tour. Hear his interview (and find
relevant links and photos ) at http://www.chris_busby_08may04.html

Chris Busby, (UK) obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University
of London. He has developed the "Second Event Theory" which distinguishes
between hazards from external and internal ionizing radiation. He is the
scientific secretary of the European Committtee on Radiation Risk
(www.euradcom.org). In 1994 he helped found the Low Level Radiation
Campaign, (www.llrc.org) and is its scientific consultant and is the
director of the environmental consultancy Green Audit (www.greenaudit.org).
He is also a member of both the UK Ministry of Defense Oversight Committee
on Depleted Uranium (www.duob.org.uk) and the UK government Committee
Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters (www.cerrie.org). See
further comment in "The Trojan Horses of Nuclear War,
Testimonials-presentations-Resolutions, World Uranium Weapons Conference
2003." Hear also his presentation (mp3) to the World Uranium Weapons
Conference ( conference reader available through
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/ and see the audio index of
conference presentations at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_hamburg03.html

To include your US city or university in a public speaking tour with Chris
Busby on assessing radiation risks, please contact Sunny Miller, 413
773-7427.

Also on the site:

*Photoalbum of Student workshop at the IPPNW, with an interview with
workshop moderator and student organizer Caecilie Buhmann

*Scott Ritter¹s critique of the Œdiscovery¹ of a shell that supposedly
contains sarin precursors (republished, courtesy of Scott, and available as
a printable pdf file)

*Genevieve Cora Fraser's article on the sentiment's being expressed in the
UN in favor of an Israeli arms embargo

*Keith Harmon Snow's shocking disclosure of atrocities with extreme sexual
violence (rape and sex slavery) that is being committed in the DRC by troops
of various nationalities. The world is turning its blind eye on Africa
again, and again....

The website will be on hiatus until about June 7th, while the web editor is
away at the 5th Annual National Grassroots organizing conference on Iraq in
Bloomington, IN
See http://www.endthewar.org



Charles Jenks, attorney at law
President of the Core Group
Traprock Peace Center
103A Keets Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
413-773-1633; Fax 413-773-7507
charles@mtdata.com
http://traprockpeace.org



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 27 [du-list] Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:35:33 -0700

 
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Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq

Story by Lisa Richwine
REUTERS USA: May 24, 2004

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25212/story.htm

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military should clean up
depleted
uranium ammunition scattered across Iraq to prevent
future
health problems such as cancer and birth defects, a
leading
anti-nuclear activist said.

The Pentagon said it had not found any evidence the
material, which is so dense it can pierce steel tanks,

causes long-term health consequences. An ongoing study
of
1991 Gulf War veterans has shown no ill effects.

But Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician and president
of the
Nuclear Policy Research Institute, linked depleted
uranium
to higher rates of cancer and birth defects in Iraq
following the Gulf War.

Depleted uranium ammunition is being used by U.S.
troops in
Iraq and could seriously harm civilians living there
in the
decades to come, said Caldicott, founding president of

Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear
group
that shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

"We should be taking responsibility for what is
happening
over there," she told reporters at the National Press
Club.

The Pentagon should test buildings in Iraq for
depleted
uranium, destroy ones with high levels and bury the
material
underground, Caldicott said.

The U.S. government also should compensate people with

cancer related to the material, she said.

Depleted uranium is a byproduct of nuclear fuel
production.
It strengthens ammunition and gives weapons twice the
range
of ones using other heavy metals. Tanks made with
depleted
uranium have proven impenetrable by enemy weapons, the

Pentagon said.

There has been controversy about it since its use
during the
Gulf War and the Balkans conflict, including some
claims
that European soldiers may have developed leukemia
after
being exposed to the material in Kosovo in 1999.

"We don't see anything from the science" indicating
long-term health problems to people exposed to
depleted
uranium in the environment, said Dr. Michael
Kilpatrick, the
Defense Department's deputy director for deployment
health
support.

An ongoing study of 70 Gulf War veterans who were hit
by
weapons using depleted uranium in "friendly fire"
incidents
has found no major health problems for the soldiers or
their
35 children, Kilpatrick said.

Kilpatrick said research on potential long-term
impacts is
continuing.

"We are looking at it scientifically. We are keeping
an open
mind to it," he said in an interview.






	
	
		
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 28 [du-list] Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:35:30 -0700

 
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Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq

Story by Lisa Richwine
REUTERS USA: May 24, 2004

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25212/story.htm

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military should clean up depleted
uranium ammunition scattered across Iraq to prevent future
health problems such as cancer and birth defects, a leading
anti-nuclear activist said.

The Pentagon said it had not found any evidence the
material, which is so dense it can pierce steel tanks,
causes long-term health consequences. An ongoing study of
1991 Gulf War veterans has shown no ill effects.

But Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician and president of the
Nuclear Policy Research Institute, linked depleted uranium
to higher rates of cancer and birth defects in Iraq
following the Gulf War.

Depleted uranium ammunition is being used by U.S. troops in
Iraq and could seriously harm civilians living there in the
decades to come, said Caldicott, founding president of
Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear group
that shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

"We should be taking responsibility for what is happening
over there," she told reporters at the National Press Club.

The Pentagon should test buildings in Iraq for depleted
uranium, destroy ones with high levels and bury the material
underground, Caldicott said.

The U.S. government also should compensate people with
cancer related to the material, she said.

Depleted uranium is a byproduct of nuclear fuel production.
It strengthens ammunition and gives weapons twice the range
of ones using other heavy metals. Tanks made with depleted
uranium have proven impenetrable by enemy weapons, the
Pentagon said.

There has been controversy about it since its use during the
Gulf War and the Balkans conflict, including some claims
that European soldiers may have developed leukemia after
being exposed to the material in Kosovo in 1999.

"We don't see anything from the science" indicating
long-term health problems to people exposed to depleted
uranium in the environment, said Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, the
Defense Department's deputy director for deployment health
support.

An ongoing study of 70 Gulf War veterans who were hit by
weapons using depleted uranium in "friendly fire" incidents
has found no major health problems for the soldiers or their
35 children, Kilpatrick said.

Kilpatrick said research on potential long-term impacts is
continuing.

"We are looking at it scientifically. We are keeping an open
mind to it," he said in an interview.



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 29 NPR : Getting to the Bottom of Perchlorate
 
Health Consequences of Contaminated Water Unclear in Calif.
[audio icon] NPR's Jon Hamilton Reports, Part 1

  Sites in California where perchlorate reportedly has been
released into the environment, as of April 2003.
Credit: Environmental Protection Agency

May 25, 2004 -- California is fighting a costly battle against
the chemical perchlorate, a component of fuel for rockets and
missiles. The state's aerospace and defense companies, as well
as the military, have used large amounts of the chemical since
World War II.

But in recent years, perchlorate has been discovered in
California's water supplies. The state has suggested that even
tiny amounts are worrisome. So communities have shut down wells,
filed lawsuits and started costly clean-up efforts. Remarkably,
all of this has taken place without any solid evidence that even
the most contaminated water has made anyone sick. NPR's Jon
Hamilton [http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/jhamilton.html]
reports in a two-part series.

Part 1: The Health Risks

If there's any place in California where perchlorate might have
been expected to hurt people, it's Rancho Cordova. The city lies
just east of Sacramento and right next to one of the nation's
worst perchlorate spills. Hamilton reports on attempts to link
the contamination to health problems.

Part 2: The Cost of Clean-Up

Billions of gallons of potential drinking water in California
are going unused because of fears about over perchlorate.

Studies show that small amounts don't cause any health problems.
But California is encouraging cities to shut down wells rather
than serve water with more than a trace of the chemical. That's
causing problems in a state where water is scarce. Hamilton
reports on one city's struggle -- Rialto -- to keep its water
pure without sacrificing its future.

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 30 St. Petersburg Times: Decommissioning Awaits Akula Subs - 

www.sptimesrussia.com

#971, Tuesday, May 25, 2004   

By Simon Saradzhyan and Oksana Yablokova 

STAFF WRITERS MOSCOW - Navy chief Vladimir Kuroyedov has ordered 
the decommissioning of an entire class of strategic nuclear 
submarines despite proposals to modernize their armament systems 
after at least two failed missile launches, a senior commander 
said Monday.

"One could say that we have decommissioned an entire series of 
submarines ... that could have continued to serve [the Navy]," 
said Admiral Gennady Suchkov, who was recently suspended from his 
post as the head of the Navy's Northern Fleet, Interfax reported.

 At issue are the huge Akula class submarines, which Suchkov 
described as the Navy's "most powerful" vessels. 

Kuroyedov ordered the decommissioning after the abortive launches 
of ballistic missiles from Northern Fleet submarines during a 
strategic war game earlier this year, Suchkov said in a separate 
interview published in Novaya Gazeta on Monday.

 The Navy Command was swift to deny the allegations by Suchkov, 
who has engaged in a mudslinging fight with Kuroyedov after his 
suspension over the sinking of a decommissioned diesel submarine 
last August, which killed nine men.

 Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the Akula class "will continue 
to exist as it has existed, fulfilling the entire range of goals 
it has been tasked with," Interfax reported. 

Dygalo went on to accuse Suchkov of divulging state secrets about 
the armaments of Akula submarines, which have a displacement of 
some 25,000 metric tons and are armed with 20 intercontinental 
ballistic missiles.

 Suchkov told Novaya Gazeta that Kuroyedov issued an order on 
April 29 to decommission the Akula class after the launch 
failures in February. The Novomoskovsk submarine failed to launch 
an RSM-54 missile in the Barents Sea on Feb.17. Then on Feb. 18 a 
similar missile was destroyed in flight after veering off the 
planned trajectory shortly after launch from the Karelia 
submarine. The failures were caused by a faulty navigation system 
in one case and a glitch in the control system in another, 
Kommersant reported earlier this year.

 The Novomoskovsk and the Karelia belong to the Delphin class, 
however, and are armed with RSM-52 sea-launched ballistic 
missiles. 

It was unclear Monday how the abortive launches of RSM-54s from 
Delphin class submarines could have prompted Kuroyedov to order 
the decommissioning of a different class of submarines armed with 
different missiles.

 Ivan Safranchuk, head of the Moscow office of the 
Washington-based Center for Defense Information, said Suchkov's 
attempt to link the decommissioning of Akula submarines with the 
abortive launches of a different type of missile from Delfin 
submarines "appears to be illogical."

 He noted that the Navy has been retiring Akula submarines for 
some time.

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 31 Gallup Independent: RECA Hearing - Part 1

[http://www.gallupindependent.com/] 
 
May 19, 2004 Gallup Independent 

By Kathy Helms Dine´ Bureau 

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - To the uninitiated, the parade of former
uranium workers and downwinders who offered testimony to the
National Research Council committee on Tuesday appeared to
present a pattern. They were either sick, cancer survivors, or
had lost an extensive list of family members to
radiation-related illnesses. 

Their stories and impassioned pleadings to the panel to
intercede on their behalf in Washington were simple and sincere,
some messages delivered while choking back tears. But the
federal government is not known for its compassion when it comes
to issuing compensation checks for radiation victims. And while
most members of the national panel appeared interested in the
testimonies offered – at least for the first seven or eight
hours – it is too early to tell whether the committee went away
with overwhelming evidence they can use. 

The National Research Council committee has been charged with
assessing recent biologoical, epidemiologic, and related
scientific evidence associating radiation exposure with cancers
or other impacts on human health. Another part of their task is
to determine whether the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
(RECA) should be expanded, and how services for exposed persons
can be improved. 

But if an interim report issued by the committee – and taken to
task several times Tuesday by medical professionals – is any
indication, it could be an uphill battle for those affected by
radiation-related illnesses. 

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr., in testimony before the
committee, said the Navajo Nation feels that further measures
need to be undertaken to address cultural justice for his
people. "There are unresolved issues that hinder our Navajo
people who are trying to press their compensation claims, that
not only result in cultural injustices, but a perpetration of
injustice of making it difficult for Navajo miners, widows, and
downwinders to qualify under intense federal regulations," he
said. 

The president expounded on several issues he brought up during a
Washington, D.C., hearing before the committee earlier this year
– issues he believes are most cumbersome and debilitating when
it comes to processing compensation claims for the Dine´. 
Many Navajo uranium miners who suffer from diseases compensable
under RECA do not qualify for benefits because their documented
radiation exposures and employment histories fall below current
RECA thresholds. 

"RECA's criteria needs to be revisited again because there are
miners who have had high exposure to radiation and developed
lung disease, but still do not meet the 40 working level
months," the president said. They should be provided the same
opportunity as millers and transport workers to meet the
exposure requirement by proving that they at least worked one
year, he said. 

"The proof of residency issue has been most adverse,
perpetrating cultural injustice. Navajo land use permits,
grazing permits, marriage licenses, school and hospital
documents should be ideal documents to satisfy the
requirements," according to President Shirley. However, problems
persist. 

"The Bureau of Indian Affairs has destroyed school records,
leaving Navajo claimants disengaged," he said. "If records are
destroyed, then neighbors, relatives, school officials, etc.
certified testimonies should be acceptable, whether it is to
prove their domicile or school attendance." 

Lucy Todecheenie, a cancer survivor, provided testimony at the
end of the day which aptly illustrated the president¹s point.
Todecheenie applied for compensation after being diagnosed with
breast cancer in 1994. She grew up in Teec Nos Pos, Ariz., where
she still resides. As a child she attended a nearby Bureau of
Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school. Now in her 60s, records of
her attendance no longer exists. Her application for
compensation is being held up because she is unable to prove
residency to the government's satisfaction due to "not having a
post office in my community before 1960," she said. "Our mail
came through the Shiprock, New Mexico Post Office where letters
were stamped 'New Mexico'." 

"The traders handed letters to us at the store after they picked
up the mail in Shiprock. It is hard to prove the residency for
those of us that are living in that area. I tried asking other
people I had written to if they had any of my letters, and I
cannot come up with anything that shows Teec Nos Pos, Ariz. So
that¹s what I¹m up against," she said. 

Navajo land use permits and grazing permits are not acceptable
by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unless the permit holder
is filing. "The nuclear family members are completely left out,"
President Shirley said. "The permit would have to also depict
the dates of 1951-58 and July of 1962. ... If the permit does
not depict these years, then the permit is not honored." 

The BIA issues only one grazing or land use permit per family,
however, this is not recognized by DOJ. If a nuclear family
member files for compensation, that individual would not be
eligible beause their name was not on the grazing permit. "The
nuclear family shares in on the grazing permit and it is handed
down to family members," Shirley said. Many of those now seeking
compensation were but children when the family¹s grazing permit
was issued. 

The Department of Justice also refused to recognize traditional
Navajo marriages, according to the president. "Navajo marriages
are conducted by medicine people and are sanctified through a
ceremony. In this case, a piece of paper (marriage license), a
product of European civilization has to be produced in order to
qualify for compensation," he said. 

The certification barrier of hospital records is a nightmare.

"Historically, hospital records have always been considered
official and authentic. However, in this case, one federal
bureaucracy certifies the records of another federal entity at
the request of another third-party bureaucracy," Shirley said,
resulting in unnecessary delays and an abundance of resources
without additional funding. 

The Navajo Nation is requesting that chronic renal failure and
renal cancers, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue
injury be included as a compensable disease for miners. "S1515
includes this coverage for millers and transport workers but not
for the miners. The millers, transport workers and miners all
did the same work, so why is one group of workers left out? It
could have been an oversight by Congress similarly as to how
Mohave County was left out due to a spelling error," he said. 
Recent studies in Canada and Finland have shown that people who
drink water containing even low amounts of uranium over long
periods of time develop irreversible kidney disease, while other
studies have shown that uranium is a "potent renal toxicant,"
according to the president. "Our Navajo people suffer from a
high rate of kidney disease and I am requesting to have the
federal government provide funding for medical studies to be
conducted in Navajoland." 

The president also is seeking a comprehensive medical study for
dependents of uranium workers, as well as an environmental and
public health impact assessment and study. 

Intensive mining operations over the past five decades have left
large deposits of uranium and toxic wastes in many Navajo
communities. Those communities have asked for assistance in
evaluating the environmental and public health impacts, the
president said. "If continued exposures to these toxic and
radioactive wastes are not addressed, then the federal
government could be looking at a whole new generation of RECA
claimants." 

Kathy Helms &#150; khelms@frontiernet.net
[khelms@frontiernet.net] 

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 32 PRAVDA.Ru: The US uses depleted uranium weapons in Iraq - 

[http://port.pravda.ru]   
  
  05/24/2004 13:06   
  
 Radiation level in Baghdad becomes life threatening 

The US Armed Forces increased their use of depleted uranium
weapons in Iraq six times. This resulted in radioactive
contamination of a number of regions in Baghdad. 

A well-known organization in the US entitled "International 
Action Center" reported last week that "in the course of the 
Iraqi war, the US has increased its use of weapons with depleted 
uranium from 375 tons, which were used> during the operation 
"Desert Storm" in 1991, to 2 200 tons." Currently, "Geiger 
counter indicates that radiation exceeds the norm by 1 000/2 000 
times in several spots in the center of Baghdad," reads the 
organization's report. 

According to the International Action Center, half of 697 000 of 
American veterans of the "Desert Storm" operation and their 
children have been diagnosed with serious health conditions as a 
result of being exposed to depleted uranium weapons. However, for 
Iraq, "consequences will be more drastic", remarks the report. 
"This is a crime against Iraqi people and the world's population 
at large," reports RIA "Novosti".   
  
Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)
 
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 33 Las Vegas SUN: Reid works on transportation bill

SUN WASHINGTON BUREAU

 WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has been selected to help 
finalize a multibillion-dollar transportation bill that will 
guide Nevada highway and transit projects for the next six years.

 Major differences exist between the overall House and Senate 
versions of the transportation bill, passed earlier this year.

 Nevada stands to gain $1.62 billion in highway funds from the 
Senate's version of the bill, a 35.6 percent increase compared to 
the last allocation in 1998, while the House version of the bill 
contains $1.3 billion for the state, about $320 million less.

 "I'm looking forward to working with my colleagues in the House 
to finish the highway bill," Reid said in a statement issued 
after he was named to the conference committee that will work out 
the differences.

 "The Senate's version of this bill has $1.6 billion for Nevada 
transportation needs, including highway construction projects and 
the Hoover Dam Bypass. As a conferee I'll be able to keep a close 
eye on these projects while the final legislation is drafted, and 
help make sure Nevada gets the funding it needs and deserves."

 Reid sits on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 
which writes a portion of the bill in the Senate.

 The House has not named its members of the conference committee 
yet but is expected to do so after the weeklong Memorial Day 
recess, which starts today.

 

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 34 UPI: Energy Dept. announces nuke plant study - (

United Press International)
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
  May 24, 2004 			   

Washington, DC, May. 24 (UPI) -- A detailed 10-month study of a 
proposed new-generation nuclear power reactor project in Alabama 
was launched Monday.

 The Energy Department said the study would help the Tennessee 
Valley Authority determine if it would feasible to build a 
commercial nuclear generating plant in the next decade on a site 
near Hollywood, Ala.

 The $4.25 million study will look at plans to build two Advance 
Boiling Water Reactors that would generate more than 2,600 
megawatts of electricity. The design, which was certified in 
1997, is in use in Japan. There are also ABWR units slated for 
Taiwan.

 The expansion of nuclear power has been touted by the Bush 
administration as a necessary step to increase U.S. electricity 
supplies without a corresponding increase in emissions of 
greenhouse gases, mercury and other pollutants.

[UPI Perspectives]                                                                    
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 35 Oak Ridger: State, ORNL project good idea 							 							 							
 
Story last updated at 11:45 a.m. on May 24, 2004

DOE CHIEF: 'We're neighbors in ways we've not been neighbors 
before.' 

By: Paul Parson | Oak Ridger Staff paul.parson@oakridger.com 
[paul.parson@oakridger.com] 

The effort to construct three state-funded facilities at Oak 
Ridge National Laboratory is a good example of "thinking outside 
the box," according to Tennessee's economic development chief.

In fact, ORNL's joint institutes are launching a new era for the 
federal research facility, the University of Tennessee, the state 
and the Department of Energy.

"Work hard, work together and work smart," said Matt Kisber, 
commissioner of Economic and Community Development, when 
describing the effort during a visit to ORNL Friday afternoon.

Lynn Freeny/DOE Gerald Boyd, manager of the Department of 
Energy's Oak Ridge Operations office, spoke Friday during a 
dedication ceremony at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the new 
Joint Institute for Computational Sciences. Also pictured, from 
left, are Billy Stair, director of Communications and Community 
Outreach at ORNL; Thom Dunning, director of the Joint Institute; 
Jeff Wadsworth, ORNL's director; Matt Kisber, state commissioner 
for Economic and Community Development; and Joe Johnson, interim 
president of the University of Tennessee.                                                                                               

However, Kisber said if all the state does is "provide funds for 
brick and mortar," then he's not sure the job is done. Kisber 
said Gov. Phil Bredesen wants to "maximize the potential" for 
this project and use it to "make a difference."

Bredesen was supposed to visit ORNL Friday to tour the recently 
completed Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, but he had 
to cancel because the legislature was still in session and he was 
required to stay in Nashville.

Owned by the state of Tennessee, ORNL's $10 million Joint 
Institute for Computational Sciences is located on land deeded by 
DOE.

"We're neighbors in ways we've not been neighbors before," said 
Gerald

Boyd, manager of DOE's Oak Ridge Operations office.

The new 52,000-square-foot building will also improve access to 
the world's most powerful supercomputers for scientists, 
universities and businesses.

Following a decision last week by DOE, ORNL is poised to be home 
to the world's fastest supercomputer. Thom Dunning, director of 
the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, said the facility 
will be used by ORNL researchers and others to develop the 
software needed to take full advantages of the new computer and 
will use the new capabilities to solve some of the nation's most 
pressing scientific problems.

For example, modern studies in biology, astrophysics, materials 
science, climatology and other fields rely on computational 
modeling and simulation. Computational modeling and simulation 
also impact many industrial areas, including automobile and 
airplane design, pharmaceuticals, pollution prevention and 
weather forecasting.

The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences is one of three
collaborations between ORNL and UT. The other two state-funded
projects will be the Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences and
the Joint Institute for Biological Sciences. 

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 36 Las Vegas SUN: Nuclear experiment planned at Nevada Test Site

ASSOCIATED PRESS 

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Government scientists plan to conduct an
underground nuclear experiment Tuesday at the Nevada Test Site,
the National Nuclear Security Administration said. 

The subcritical experiment, dubbed "Armando," will involve
detonating high explosives around plutonium in a steel sphere
while X-rays, radar and lasers chart the behavior of the
radioactive element in a non-nuclear explosion. 

Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
are conducting the test in a tunnel 963 feet below ground at the
Nevada Test Site, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. 

"Armando" is the 21st subcritical experiment at the test site,
and the third in a series. Its predecessors, "Mario" and
"Rocco," were conducted in August and September 2002. 

Anti-nuclear groups criticize subcritical experiments as
contrary to the spirit of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
on nuclear arms. The U.S. has observed a nuclear testing
moratorium since 1992, but has not ratified the treaty. 

Federal officials call subcritical experiments essential to
maintaining the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear
arsenal. The experiments technically do not violate the treaty
because no critical mass is formed and there is no full-scale
nuclear explosion. 

The Bush administration and Congress last year reduced from
three years to two years the time it would take to resume
full-scale nuclear tests. 

The last subcritical experiment, "Piano," was conducted Sept.
19, 2003, by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in California 

--- 

On the Net: 

National Nuclear Security Administration:
http://www.nnsa.doe.gov [http://www.nnsa.doe.gov] 

Nevada Test Site: http://www.nv.doe.gov/nts
[http://www.nv.doe.gov/nts] 

Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://www.lanl.gov
[http://www.lanl.gov] 

-- 



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 37 [du-list] June 3rd: Celebrate 23rd Anniversary of Peace Park
 
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:35:27 -0700

 
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You're invited!

Thursday, June 3rd, will be the 23rd anniversary of the
founding of the Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil, which has
stood outside the White House 24 hours a day since June 3,
1981.  See http://prop1.org/parkcurr.htm

Please come Thursday at 7 pm to Lafayette Park.  Bring
drums, banners, signs, fliers about your own peace work, and
friends.  At 7:30, walk or ride ten blocks from Peace Park
to the Peace House (1233 12th Street NW) for potluck dinner.
   A vehicle will be available to transport people and food
(call 202-682-4282 for more information or to volunteer).

We really hope you will join us this year.  We'll use this
celebration as a time to strategize and network, as well as
to remind folks that the vigil still continues, quietly, 24
hours a day, and legislation still exists calling for the
global abolition of nuclear weapons and conversion of the
war machines to provide for human needs.  See
http://prop1.org/prop1/

_______ALSO:_______

Sunday, MAY 30, 2004 - FREE the PEACE - Concert and speakout
for Peace in Malcolm X (Meridian Hill) Park, noon to dark -
endorsed by Black Voices for Peace, Community Coalition for
Justice & Peace, DAWN, Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers, Poets
Against the War, Proposition One Committee, and the
Washington Peace Center (as of this posting).

Spread the word!

Ellen Thomas








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