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                         NUCLEAR POLICY
 
1 INSIDE JoongAng Daily: South Korea downplays UN nuclear report
2 The Korea Times: Seoul's Lab Tests Not Linked to Nukes: IAEA
3 Korea: Digital Chosunilbo: IAEA Says S. Korean Nuclear Material 'Clo
4 US: Johns Hopkins News-Letter: President must make more green 
5 US: [Newhouse News Service: Will New Senate Minority Leader Bridge t
6 US: PACKETONLINE News: McNamara criticizes nuclear policy           
7 US: Cumberland News: Nuclear is the only practical energy source
8 US: NRC: In the Matter of All Licensees Who Possess Radioactive Mate
9 US: www.GovExec.com: Omnibus negotiations on the move, but no agreem
10 VANUNU RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST AFTER POLICE STORM CATHEDRAL
11 [NukeNet] Japan's New Long Term Nuclear Program
12 Guardian Unlimited: Back behind bars
13 NZ: Business Day: Nuclear case postponed
 
                         NUCLEAR REACTORS
 
14 GP Japan: Government Energy Commission Ignores Nuclear Dangers
15 Sofia Morning News: Bulgaria in Overnight Grips of Radiation Panic
16 US: NRC: In the Matter of Waste Control Specialists, LLC, Order Modi
 
                          NUCLEAR SAFETY
 
17 US: [du-list] depleted uranium and congenital malformations
18 US: [DU-WATCH] SF: HP Shipyard dump led to cancerous human breasts
19 US: [du-list] NICHOLS: Tell Mayor Newsom, 
20 US: [du-list] VIP " D.U." Story Airs Thursday Veterans Day
21 [du-list] "...US troops are firing white-phosphorus rounds .."
22 US: [DU-WATCH] Re: [du-list] birth defects
23 US: IEER: Testimony to NAS Committee on Radiation Exposure Screening
24 Guardian Unlimited: US report links toxins to Gulf war syndrome
25 US: Cibola County Beacon: Uranium workers meet
26 US: KING5.com: U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire 
27 Las Vegas SUN: More Research Urged for Gulf War Illness
28 US: Las Vegas SUN: VA Changes Gulf War Illness Approach
 
                         NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE
 
29 Las Vegas SUN: Bechtel's Big Dig problems no surprise to Yucca criti
30 www.tbsource.com: Nuclear Waste Storage Meetings In Thunder Bay
 
                         NUCLEAR WEAPONS
 
 
                        US DEPT. OF ENERGY
 
31 PISJ: New INL contract should bolster Idaho universities
 
                          OTHER NUCLEAR
 
32 [du-list] DU in the news - 13 th Nov. 04
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 1 INSIDE JoongAng Daily: South Korea downplays UN nuclear report
 
[http://joongangdaily.joins.com]

November 13, 2004 KST 11:14 (GMT+9)

  November 13, 2004 ¤Ń In the face of international media
reports that UN nuclear inspectors will say South Korea breached
non-proliferation accords, officials in Seoul repeated yesterday
that the amounts of fissile material Korean scientists made in
1982 and 2000 were too small to be significant.

 The media reports said the International Atomic Energy Agency
will soon announce South Korea's efforts to enrich uranium and
separate plutonium, and Seoul's failure to report the activities
in a timely manner, are a matter of "serious concern." 

The UN nuclear watchdog's report will indicate that South Korea
produced weapons-grade nuclear material in unauthorized tests at
a state-run research institute, the media reports said. 

Addressing the reports, a senior Foreign Ministry official at a
briefing yesterday said, "The IAEA report does not use the
expression of ˇ®weapons-grade,' at all. That expression is for
highly-refined nuclear material of a significant quantity, but
South Korea's tests yield only miniscule amounts that were not
highly refined."

 The official sought to play down the significance of the
reported UN conclusions. "The report also does not use the term,
noncompliance," he said. IAEA board members will meet Nov. 25,
and the agency is expected to issue a recommendation whether to
refer South Korea's nuclear tests to the UN Security Council for
possible action, which could include international sanctions.

 According to the international media, the IAEA report says
South Korean scientists produced a total of 0.7 grams of
plutonium comprising 98-percent of fissile PU-239 in its 1982
test. 

In 2000, another group of scientists produced 0.2 grams of
uranium, enriched to 77 percent, the report said.

Non-proliferation experts said weapons-grade plutonium is
typically about 93 percent plutonium-239, while weapons-grade
uranium needs to be 90 percent. To build a nuclear bomb, at
least 10 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium or 15 to 25
kilograms of weapons-grade uranium is required. 

"Only a tiny amount of the uranium was enriched up to 77
percent," the Foreign Ministry official said. "On average, the
enrichment level was 10.2 percent, and the report makes that
clear."

 The official said the IAEA report on South Korea's plutonium
production was also based on a theoretical calculation, while
refusing to confirm whether the decades-old lab test yielded
weapons-grade plutonium. Earlier, the state-run atomic research
institute, which conducted the test in 1982, said it had
produced no more than 86 milligrams of plutonium, just a tenth
of what the report cited. 

The nuclear agency said it has found no sign that South Korea's
experiments had gone beyond small-scale laboratory activities,
the report said. Seoul re-emphasized yesterday that it has never
had the intention of pursuing nuclear arms development. 

South Korea signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1975
and an additional protocol in 1991. After Seoul revealed the
past nuclear experiments in September, the IAEA sent inspectors
three times to South Korea. The inspection reports hinted at the
possibility of more inspections, saying "the agency is
continuing the process of verifying the correctness and
completeness of [Seoul's] declarations."

by Ser Myo-ja, Brian Lee myoja@joongang.co.kr>   

[http://joongangdaily.joins.com/faq.html]    		 		

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 2 The Korea Times: Seoul's Lab Tests Not Linked to Nukes: IAEA

Hankooki.com > The Korea Times > Nation   

By Ryu Jin Staff Reporter

 Laboratory experiments in South Korea in the past that produced 
tiny amounts of nuclear material were not linked to any secret 
weapons development program, the U.N. atomic agency said in its 
report Friday.

 A report drawn up by the International Atomic Energy Agency 
(IAEA) on the nationˇŻs recently revealed nuclear activities has 
been circulated to the 35 member states on its board of 
governors, according to sources.

 As the IAEA has completed its report, attentions are now being 
drawn to whether the controversial case will be referred to the 
U.N. Security Council or simply be resolved at a board meeting 
slated for Nov. 25, to which the report will be officially 
presented.

 A Seoul official said the IAEA report does not include any 
judgment concerning values but only enumerates ``objective 
factsˇŻˇŻ on the laboratory experiments that were carried out in 
1982 and 2000 with plutonium and uranium, respectively.

 ``There is no judgment on whether South Korea failed to fulfill 
its duties as an IAEA member state, nor does it mention whether 
the nuclear materials were of weapons grade,ˇŻˇŻ the official 
said on condition of anonymity. ``There is no expression like 
`weapons gradeˇŻ in the report.ˇŻˇŻ

 According to the 8-page report, the average enrichment level of 
the 0.2-gram uranium produced in the 2000 experiment was 10.2 
percent, but a very small amount was close to 77 percent. As far 
as the quality is concerned, uranium enriched to 90 percent is 
generally considered weapons grade.

 The average enrichment level of the plutonium produced in the 
1982 tests was about 98 percent, according to the report, but the 
tiny amount _ 0.7 gram _ was regarded as far too small to have 
any link to a clandestine atomic weapons program.

 Though it acknowledged the experiments were 
``laboratory-scaleˇŻˇŻ and the amounts of nuclear materials 
involved ``relatively small,ˇŻˇŻ the IAEA stated that it was ``a 
matter of serious concernˇŻˇŻ that the South Korean government 
had failed to report them properly.

 The report is the culmination of three on-site surveys over the 
past couple of months by the Vienna-based organizationˇŻs special 
inspection teams. The IAEA has praised South KoreaˇŻs ``active 
cooperationˇŻˇŻ in the inspections.

 Seoul hopes the cases will be brought to an early end at the 
Nov. 25 board meeting without being passed onto the U.N. Security 
Council, which might lead to punitive measures.

 Lee Jong-seok, deputy head of the National Security Council and 
currently visiting the United States, said he had asked senior 
Washington officials for cooperation for the fair resolution of 
the issue of SeoulˇŻs nuclear experiments.

 ``Our government has dealt with the issue transparently in 
active cooperation with the IAEA, and it is not a matter to 
attract suspicions,ˇŻˇŻ Lee said, adding that U.S. officials, 
including Undersecretary of State John Bolton, shared the view.

 However, Bolton, the chief U.S. arms control official, had 
expressed the view that South Korea should face U.N. scrutiny 
over its recently revealed nuclear experiments, according to 
media reports. 

jinryu@koreatimes.co.kr 11-12-2004 16:58         
        
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 3 Korea: Digital Chosunilbo: IAEA Says S. Korean Nuclear Material 'Close to
 
      Updated Nov.12,2004 18:56 KST   

  The International Atomic Energy Committee (IAEA) has judged 
that South Korea's past experiments with nuclear materials didn't 
constitute a failure to execute nuclear safeguards, but the 
failure to report the experiments was a mistake. 

The government said Friday the final IAEA report into South 
Korea's past experiments with nuclear materials had been sent to 
Seoul in the name of the IAEA director general on Friday. It said 
the report had described the results of the inspections with 
priority put on the facts. The government explained, however, 
that unlike some foreign press had reported, the report had not 
said the uranium and plutonium that had been extracted had been 
"weapons grade," nor did it say that Korea had "failed to carry 
out its safeguard duties. 

According to an official from the Ministry of Science and 
Technology, the report put priority on the results obtained by 
the IAEA inspection teams that had visited South Korea three 
times. The core result was the enrichment analysis made of 
uranium and plutonium samples taken from Korea. 

In the report, the IAEA said that in the past, South Korea had 
produced 0.2g of uranium 235 and 0.7g of plutonium 239. The 
uranium had been enriched to 10.2 percent on average, but some of 
it was enriched up to 78 percent, close to weapons-grade. 
Moreover, it said the plutonium was 98 percent pure, pointing out 
that by IAEA standards, this would be weapons grade. This was 
confirmed by the IAEA's additional inspections of the South 
Korean matter. 

The reported clearly states, however, that the "failing to report 
to the IAEA was an objective mistake," and it appeared there was 
still the possibility South Korea's past nuclear experiment would 
be referred to the U.N. Security Council during the IAEA Board of 
Governor's meeting on Nov. 25. 

(Lee Yeong-wan, ywlee@chosun.com ) 

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 4 Johns Hopkins News-Letter: President must make more green 
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Dave Marvin 	November 12, 2004 Dear President George W. Bush,
More than the Iraq war, tax cuts, gay marriage and abortion, the
environment has an impact on every American. 

As a country that consumes more energy and resources than any
other, we are directly responsible for influencing global
ecological conditions. 

Air pollution has been estimated to cause the deaths of hundreds
of thousands of Americans each year.

 We may feel that we are far removed from nature, yet we remain
inextricably linked to the earth. Therefore, we ask that during
the next four years as president you pursue positive
environmental goals for the country. 

If you believe the American people have given you a mandate,
then you have the responsibility to assure their health and
well-being. The following issues must be addressed this term:

 Emissions of carbon dioxide are the leading cause of climate
change. Industrialized countries are responsible for 75 percent
of all CO2 emissions, and the U.S. ranks number one among them.
We have the technology to reduce mercury by 90 percent in 2008.
Your Clear Skies Initiative plans to reduce mercury emissions by
70 percent in 2018. Clearly, this is not enough.

 You should reconsider any attempt to promote legislation
allowing the opening of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge for
oil exploration. 

Many studies warn that oil exploration would severely damage
habitats of a range of species, including caribou, muskoxen and
polar bears. 

In addition, the amount of extractable oil present in the
reserves will only make marginal progress towards fulfilling our
nation's energy needs.

 Instead of destroying the Alaskan wilderness or depending on
foreign oil, try first solving the fuel efficiency problem at
home. Take the initiative to push forward stricter energy
requirements for heating and cooling systems and encourage the
use of hybrid cars over SUVs. In addition, offer incentives for
"green" consumerism.

 The Roadless Rule, which was enacted by the Clinton
Administration, set aside 60 million acres of U.S. Forest
Service lands as blocked to road construction. On July 12, 2004,
you repealed this act. We're asking you bring back this rule and
limit logging and habitat destruction.

 Currently, high-level nuclear waste is "temporarily" sitting at
each production site's location, awaiting a final home. The
administration has supported the use of Yucca Mountain in Nevada
as the permanent repository for nuclear waste, yet the
scientific validity of the site has not been determined. The
administration must either fully support Yucca Mountain and
convince officials of the isolated area, or accept that nuclear
waste will remain dispersed around the country and build the
appropriate facilities.

 We understand that you have a small effort to improve the
environment, such as planning an increase of three million acres
of wetlands, but more must be done. You cannot allow the health
and safety of the American people to deteriorate due to problems
we can solve today.

 -Dave Marvin is a senior and President of Students for
Environmental Action.

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 5 [Newhouse News Service: Will New Senate Minority Leader Bridge the Divide? 

BY CHUCK McCUTCHEON

 c.2004 Newhouse News Service 

WASHINGTON -- The most powerful Democrat in Congress next year 
will be a soft-spoken Mormon who shuns self-promotion and opposes 
abortion and banning assault weapons.
 
But because of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's atypical political 
qualities, many observers predict he will be effective as the 
Senate's new minority leader in bringing together Democrats and 
bridging their partisan divide with Republicans.
 
No one is expected to challenge Reid for the minority leader's 
job when the Senate meets next week. He announced he had secured 
enough votes from colleagues shortly after current Minority 
Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., lost his bid for re-election.
 
"I actually have found Harry Reid very good to work with, and I 
think Republican leaders enjoy a very constructive working 
relationship with Harry Reid -- much more so than Sen. Daschle," 
said Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.
 
"Reid is a good choice to succeed Daschle," said Thomas Mann, a 
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think 
tank. "He knows the Senate and its rules, he is very hardworking, 
he has good political instincts, and he will help his party 
colleagues decide when to make a stand in opposition and how best 
to do it." 

Reid, who turns 65 next month, has spent the past six years as 
Daschle's chief lieutenant. He will have to balance being a 
pragmatic deal-maker against being the last line of defense 
against GOP initiatives that members of his own party consider 
too extreme.
 
"He knows how to make government work," said retiring Sen. John 
Breaux, D-La. "That is something Democrats have to be perceived 
as being able to do."
 
Reid has warned he will not be overly deferential to President 
Bush. He said in a post-election statement that his priorities 
include improving the environment and making education and health 
care affordable -- not mentioning the GOP's goals of legal 
reform, tax cuts and partial privatization of Social Security.
 
"I will not shirk from my responsibility to stand up and fight 
for Nevada values and Democratic principles," Reid said.
 
Reid is best known for leading the move in 2001 to persuade 
Vermont Sen. James Jeffords to abandon the Republican Party and 
become an independent, allowing Democrats to control the Senate 
until the GOP regained the majority in the 2002 elections.
 
"This guy is as partisan as they come," syndicated radio host 
Rush Limbaugh said on his show Monday, according to a transcript 
on his Web site.
 
Reid spokeswoman Tessa Hafen responded that Reid "is a very 
moderate Democrat and he's pledged to work with the White House 
as much as they're willing to work with Democrats."
 
Reid has cited his ability to work with Republicans on issues 
ranging from health care to the budget as proof that his 
partisanship is not reflexive. He also has worked with 
Republicans to stop the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste 
repository in his state.
 
"My goal is to get more done," he said in an interview several 
years ago. "I'm a legislator -- I want to make that as easy as 
possible."
 
Reid typically votes with his party, but steers an independent 
course on some issues. In 1999, he was one of two Democrats to 
oppose an amendment expressing support for the Supreme Court's 
1973 Roe v. Wade decision making abortion legal.
 
Reid also was one of just six Democrats who crossed party lines 
in March to vote against renewing the 10-year federal ban on 
assault weapons.
 
Political experts and lawmakers agreed Reid would not let his 
personal views obstruct what he considers good for Democrats. 
They also said he will gladly yield the spotlight to other more 
outgoing and charismatic members of his party.
 
"He is charismatically challenged, but I think that's what's 
called for here," said Ted Jelen, chairman of the political 
science department at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
 
Liberal Democrats in the Senate said they are pleased that 
Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin, a more outspoken liberal voice, 
will become the second-ranking Democrat behind Reid.
 
"I feel very comfortable with (Durbin) in a position of 
influence," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. "So it's a good 
team for all of us."
 
Nov. 12, 2004
 
(Chuck McCutcheon can be contacted at 
[chuck.mccutcheon@newhouse.com] ) 

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 6 PACKETONLINE News: McNamara criticizes nuclear policy                      

Friday 12 November, 2004    Home [http://www.pacpub.com]  

By: Jennifer Potash, Staff Writer    11/12/2004  

Staff photo by Mark CzajkowskiFormer U.S. Secretary
of defense Robert McNamara makes a point during Thursday's
speech at Dodds Auditorium on the Princeton University campus.
 				      
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense says greatest threat to peace 
and prosperity is drawing little attention.                                                    

The greatest threat to peace and prosperity may be one
that draws little attention in public policy and the press —
nuclear attack, according to former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara, who spoke Thursday at Princeton University.

    "Nuclear war serves no military purpose whatsoever," he
said. "It's totally useless."

    Spending the approximately $1 billion per year defense
experts estimate is needed to contain nuclear weapons would be
an effective use of the U.S. Department of Defense's funds, he
said.

    A seemingly unimposing figure — Mr. McNamara is 88 years old
and, by his own admission, losing his hearing — his entrance
into the room caused an immediate hush in the audience and he
drew a standing ovation at the conclusion of the event.

    The subject of his talk was the follies of U.S. and NATO
nuclear policy, but he did cover topics ranging from current
U.S. foreign policy of preemption to the lessons learned from
the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Mr. McNamara said he was proven wrong in his belief that
Iraq had nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction,
adding that the lack of those weapons proved the international
inspections were working.

    "There was no imminent threat," he said. "It would be very
difficult to convince me of a situation when we should use a
preemptive strike."

    Alarmed by the current federal budget deficit, Mr. McNamara
urged immediate action and suggested cutting the $400 billion
defense budget by about $60 billion a year.

    "We can afford it," he said.

    Predicting there is a better than 50-percent chance of a
nuclear strike against U.S. targets, Mr. McNamara urged the
audience to lobby elected officials holding hearings on nuclear
proliferation and shift U.S. nuclear policy from deterrence to
stopping terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials.

    "I absolutely guarantee that if we continue on our present
course, it will have many implications on the Middle East, but
also on the Far East," he said. "And that is a tremendous danger
to us when terrorists are seeking to acquire (nuclear weapons)."

    His talk at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs drew several hundred people — the Dodds
Auditorium was full as was every classroom in the building with
members of the university and public watching the event via
closed-circuit broadcast.

    Despite the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the
United States still clings to an outmoded and dangerous nuclear
program with an inventory of 6,000 weapons including 2,000 that
can be launched within 15 minutes on the basis of only a warning
of an incoming strike, Mr. McNamara said.

    The analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the
United States was perilously close to a nuclear war for 13 days
in October 1962, revealed that the leaders of the United States,
the Soviet Union and Cuba all made errors, he said.

    "We came within a hairsbreadth of a nuclear disaster," he
said. "And this was all shaped by misinformation, mistake and
miscalculation."

    Still a controversial figure — he was the subject of
documentary director Errol Morris's 2003 film "The Fog of War"—
Mr. McNamara did not want to dwell on questions related to
Vietnam or how that conflict compares to the current U.S. effort
in Iraq.

    "I've written several books on Vietnam and you should go
read them," he said.

    He did note that leaders — in the corporate world, churches
and governments — "are reluctant to force controversial issues
to the table because they know those deliberations will tear
them apart." 

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- Princeton and Central New Jersey 2004 		 			  
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 7 Cumberland News: Nuclear is the only practical energy source
 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
12/11/2004                                                                                                                      

I CONGRATULATE Andrew Duff and MJ Mullett (Letters, October 29) 
for supporting nuclear power as the only available and practical 
solution for our energy needs and also thank Avril Helmsley-Rose 
for her explanation for the recent refusal for wind turbines.
 
Since then, the argument has been emotional as well as rational. 
But the Royal Academy of Engineering has greatly contributed to 
the debate. Andrew reports that the engineers’ latest cost 
figures confirm that nuclear is less than half the true cost of 
wind turbines.
 
Nuclear is a constant provider, whereas wind turbines’ output 
varies from very small to zero and in fact the back-up makes it 
negative.
 
I am rarely on the M6 motorway now, but the last time was at 
10.30am on October 15 and all five monsters at Junction 37 were 
stationary – again!
 
Andrew also mentions Hugh Montefiore’s departure from the 
Greens. Hugh wrote a superb piece which appeared in The 
Independent (October 22) headlined “We need nuclear power to 
save the planet from looming catastrophe”. Bishop Montefiore 
has been a trustee of Friends of the Earth for 20 years but the 
trustees told him such an article was not compatible with being a 
trustee; he therefore decided to resign and said “the future of 
the planet is more important than membership of Friends of the 
Earth”.
 
The present generators are conspicuous, destroy our rural beauty 
and are far too noisy to be within miles of houses.
 
Engineers and economists love the concept of economy of scale and 
to progress in one direction. This concept leads towards having 
windmills the size of oil rigs out at sea, rather than off-shore, 
if the output of one medium-sized fossil fuel power station is to 
be matched. The opposite is for every building on land to have a 
wind-powered generator plus the essential back-up system and 
potential grid overload.
 
When the nuclear industry was faced with a PR challenge, its 
solution was to open a visitors’ centre at Sellafield. The 
challenge for the wind power industry is to do the same.
 
The output from one (or more) of the wind generators at Flimby 
could be fed through a visitors’ centre in Dunmail Park 
Shopping Mall, Workington, to demonstrate to the public why the 
pro argument is stronger than the against.
 
If the whole of the shopping mall (and more) could survive by 
these means, then the local people would be well served. To duck 
this challenge is to give the game away and pass up the 
opportunity to provide another visitors’ attraction!
 
ALLAN W DICKINSONEtterby ScaurCarlisle
 
At present, despite its abundance as a resource, wind accounts 
for less than one per cent of generating capacity. In Denmark 
it’s 20 per cent, so there is no 72 per cent to make up. It’s 
more than 99 per cent.
 
None of our energy sources operates at 100 per cent capacity. 
With coal it’s 50 per cent, gas 60 per cent and nuclear 76 per 
cent, although they make up approximately 30 per cent, 60 per 
cent and 20 per cent of our supply respectively.
 
Some of the costs cited by the Academy of Engineering have been 
disputed such as their figure of 1.6p per kilowatt hour for 
intermittent wind power generation, which is put at 0.2p by the 
government’s performance and innovation unit. The current price 
of onshore wind is 3.1p dropping to 2.7p by 2010, with offshore 
wind more expensive. Recent figures produced for the DTI put new 
nuclear build at 3.7p/kilowatt hour, but I’m not sure that 
includes decommissioning costs.
 
It is said there are lies, damn lies and statistics which can be 
pulled out of the air to suit our own prejudices. Nuclear power 
does produce 20 per cent of our energy generation currently, but 
there are unlikely to be new stations built for several reasons: 
the huge government investment needed and the lack of requirement 
of plutonium for weapons (dual use); the long lead-up time; the 
transport of hazardous materials over long distances; 
vulnerability to terrorist attacks and the problem of disposal 
and decommissioning. 

With plutonium having a half life of 240,000 years, the highly 
paid executives of the new Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will 
have their work cut out, but we’ll continue to feed that cuckoo 
in West Cumbria’s nest for generations to come with 
taxpayers’ money.
 
It is urgent that we invest more in the potential of tidal and 
wave power and other renewables, but wind power has a short and 
medium-term importance to our weaning away from fossil fuel use. 

It’s surprising that our energy use is still increasing when 
we’ve exported most of our industry to the Far East. It’s not 
going to change overnight but by getting our energy from a 
supplier such as Good Energy, which only purchases electricity 
from renewable sources, and by supporting small schemes in our 
own communities, we will be making a positive contribution.
 
TED THOMPSONAlston

[http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/]                                                                     

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 8 NRC: In the Matter of All Licensees Who Possess Radioactive Material 
 
                        FR Doc 04-25170 
[Federal Register: November 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 218)] 
[Notices] [Page 65470-65477] From the Federal Register Online via 
GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12no04-107]                         
 
in Quantities of Concern and All Other Persons Who Obtain 
Safeguards Information Described Herein; Order Issued Imposing 
Requirements for the Protection of Certain Safeguards Information 
(Effective Immediately) The licensees identified in Attachment 1 
\1\ to this Order hold licenses issued in accordance with the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC or Commission), or an Agreement State authorizing 
them to possess and transfer items containing radioactive 
material quantities of concern. The NRC intends to issue security 
Orders to these licensees in the near future.
 
Orders will be issued to both NRC and Agreement State materials 
licensees who may transport radioactive material quantities of 
concern. The Orders will require compliance with specific 
Additional Security Measures to enhance the security for 
transport of certain radioactive material quantities of concern. 
The NRC will issue Orders to both NRC and Agreement State 
licensees under its authority to protect the common defense and 
security, which has not been relinquished to the Agreement 
States. Before issuing Orders for Additional Security Measures, 
the Commission seeks comments from affected licensees on the 
draft Additional Security Measures, and Regulatory Issue Summary 
Table, ``Threat Conditions and Specific Actions for licensees who 
Transport Radioactive Material Quantities of Concern.'' However, 
the Commission has determined that these draft documents contain 
Safeguards Information, will not be released to the public, and 
must be protected from unauthorized disclosure. Therefore, the 
Commission is imposing the requirements, as set forth in 
Attachment 2 of this Order, so that affected licensees can 
receive these draft documents for review and comment. This Order 
also imposes requirements for the protection of Safeguards 
Information in the hands of any person,\2\ whether or not a
 
[[Page 65471]] licensee of the Commission, who produces, 
receives, or acquires Safeguards Information.
 
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sensitive information and will not be released to the public.
 
\2\ Person means (1) any individual, corporation, partnership, 
firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, 
group, government agency other than the Commission or the 
Department, except that the Department shall be considered a 
person with respect to those facilities of the Department 
specified in section 202 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 
(88 Stat. 1244), any State or any political subdivision of, or 
any political entity within a State, any foreign government or 
nation or any political subdivision of any such government or 
nation, or other entity; and (2) any legal successor, 
representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing.
 
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---------- II The Commission has broad statutory authority to 
protect and prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of Safeguards 
Information.
 
Section 147 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, grants 
the Commission explicit authority to ``issue such orders, as 
necessary to prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of Safeguards 
Information * * *'' This authority extends to information 
concerning transfer of special nuclear material, source material, 
and byproduct material. Licensees and all persons who produce, 
receive, or acquire Safeguards Information must ensure proper 
handling and protection of Safeguards Information to avoid 
unauthorized disclosure in accordance with the specific 
requirements for the protection of Safeguards Information 
contained in Attachment 2. The Commission hereby provides notice 
that it intends to treat all violations of the requirements 
contained in Attachment 2 applicable to the handling and 
unauthorized disclosure of Safeguards Information as serious 
breaches of adequate protection of the public health and safety 
and the common defense and security of the United States. Access 
to Safeguards Information is limited to those persons who have 
established the need to know the information, and are considered 
to be trustworthy and reliable. A need to know means a 
determination by a person having responsibility for protecting 
Safeguards Information that a proposed recipient's access to 
Safeguards Information is necessary in the performance of 
official, contractual, or licensee duties of employment. 
Licensees and all other persons who obtain Safeguards Information 
must ensure that they develop, maintain and implement strict 
policies and procedures for the proper handling of Safeguards 
Information to prevent unauthorized disclosure, in accordance 
with the requirements in Attachment 2. All licensees must ensure 
that all contractors whose employees may have access to 
Safeguards Information either adhere to the licensee's policies 
and procedures on Safeguards Information or develop, maintain and 
implement their own acceptable policies and procedures. The 
licensees remain responsible for the conduct of their 
contractors. The policies and procedures necessary to ensure 
compliance with applicable requirements contained in Attachment 2 
must address, at a minimum, the following: the general 
performance requirement that each person who produces, receives, 
or acquires Safeguards Information shall ensure that Safeguards 
Information is protected against unauthorized disclosure; 
protection of Safeguards Information at fixed sites, in use and 
in storage, and while in transit; correspondence containing 
Safeguards Information; access to Safeguards Information; 
preparation, marking, reproduction and destruction of documents; 
external transmission of documents; use of automatic data 
processing systems; and removal of the Safeguards Information 
category.
 
In order to provide assurance that the licensees are implementing 
prudent measures to achieve a consistent level of protection, to 
prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of Safeguards Information, 
all licensees who hold licenses issued by the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission or an Agreement State, authorizing them to 
possess and reasonably expected to transport radioactive material 
in quantities of concern, shall implement the requirements 
identified in Attachment 2 to this Order. The Commission 
recognizes that licensees may have already initiated many of the 
measures set forth in Attachment 2 to this Order for handling of 
Safeguards Information in conjunction with current NRC license 
requirements or previous NRC Order. Additional measures set forth 
in Attachment 2 should be handled and controlled in accordance 
with the licensee's current program for Safeguards Information.
 
In addition, pursuant to 10 CFR 2.202, I find that in light of 
the common defense and security matters identified above, which 
warrant the issuance of this Order, the public health, safety and 
interest require that this Order be effective immediately.
 
III Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 81, 161b, 161i, 161o, 182 
and 186 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the 
Commission's regulations in 10 CFR 2.202, 10 CFR Part 30, 10 CFR 
Part 32, 10 CFR Part 35, 10 CFR Part 50, and 10 CFR Part 70, it 
is hereby ordered, effective immediately, that all licensees 
identified in attachment 1 to this Order, and all other persons 
who produce, receive, or acquire the additional security measures 
identified above (whether draft or final), or any related 
safeguards information, shall comply with the requirements of 
attachment 2.
 
IV The Director, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and 
Safeguards, and the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, may in writing, relax or rescind any of the above 
conditions upon demonstration by the licensee. In accordance with 
10 CFR 2.202, the licensee must, and any other person adversely 
affected by this Order may, submit an answer to this Order, and 
may request a hearing on this Order, within twenty (20) days of 
the date of this Order. Where good cause is shown, consideration 
will be given to extending the time to request a hearing. A 
request for extension of time in which to submit an answer or 
request a hearing must be made in writing to the Director, Office 
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555, as applicable, and include a statement of 
good cause for the extension. The answer may consent to this 
Order. Unless the answer consents to this Order, the answer 
shall, in writing and under oath or affirmation, specifically set 
forth the matters of fact and law on which the licensee or other 
person adversely affected relies and the reasons as to why the 
Order should not have been issued. Any answer or request for a 
hearing shall be submitted to the Secretary, Office of the 
Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
ATTN: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, Washington, DC 20555.
 
Copies also shall be sent to the Director, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation or Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards, as applicable, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555, to the Assistant General Counsel for 
Materials Litigation and Enforcement at the same address, to the 
Regional Administrator for NRC Region I, II, III, or IV, as 
appropriate for the specific plant, and to the licensee if the 
answer or hearing request is by a person other than the licensee. 
Because of possible disruptions in delivery of mail to United 
States Government offices, it is requested that answers and 
requests for hearing be transmitted to the Secretary of the 
Commission either by means of facsimile transmission to 
301-415-1101 or by e-mail to

 
hearingdocket@nrc.gov [ hearingdocket@nrc.gov]  and also to the 
Office of the General Counsel either by means of facsimile 
transmission to 301-415-3725 or by e-mail to 
OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov [OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov] . If a person
 
[[Page 65472]] other than the licensee requests a hearing, that 
person shall set forth with particularity the manner in which his 
interest is adversely affected by this Order and shall address 
the criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.714(d). If a hearing is 
requested by the licensee or a person whose interest is adversely 
affected, the Commission will issue an Order designating the time 
and place of any hearing. If a hearing is held, the issue to be 
considered at such hearing shall be whether this Order should be 
sustained.
 
Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.202(c)(2)(I), the licensee may, in addition 
to demanding a hearing, at the time the answer is filed or 
sooner, move the presiding officer to set aside the immediate 
effectiveness of the Order on the ground that the Order, 
including the need for immediate effectiveness, is not based on 
adequate evidence but on mere suspicion, unfounded allegations, 
or error. In the absence of any request for hearing, or written 
approval of an extension of time in which to request a hearing, 
the provisions specified in Section III above, shall be final 
twenty (20) days from the date of this Order without further 
order or proceedings. If an extension of time for requesting a 
hearing has been approved, the provisions specified in Section 
III shall be final when the extension expires if a hearing 
request has not been received. An answer or a request for hearing 
shall not stay the immediate effectiveness of this Order.
 
Dated this 5th day of November 2004.
 
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 
J.E. Dyer, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
 
Jack R. Strosnider, Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
 
Attachment 1: Service List of Licensees Power Plants--Senior 
Executive Contacts Mr. A. Christopher Bakken, III, President and 
Chief Nuclear Officer, PSEG Nuclear LLC-X04, Salem Nuclear 
Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Hope Creek Generating Station, 
Unit 1, Docket Nos. 50-272, 50-278, & 50-354, License Nos. 
DPR-70, DPR-75, & NPF-57, End of Buttonwood Road, Hancocks 
Bridge, NJ 08038.
 
Mr. Michael Kansler, President, Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, Vermont Yankee Nuclear 
Power Station, James A FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, Indian 
Point Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3, Docket Nos. 
50-293, 50,271, 50-333, 50-247, -286, License Nos. DPR-35, 
DPR-28, DPR-59, DPR-26, & DPR-64, 440 Hamilton Avenue, White 
Plains, NY 10601.
 
Mr. Mark E. Warner, Site Vice President, FPL Energy, Seabrook 
Station, Unit 1, Docket No. 50-443, License No. NPF-86, Central 
Receiving, Lafayette Road, Seabrook, NH 03874.
 
Mr. L. William Pearce, Vice President, FirstEnergy Nuclear 
Operating Company, Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2, 
Docket Nos.
 
50-334 & 50-412, License Nos. DPR-66 & NPF-73, Route 168, 
Shippingport, PA 15077.
 
Mr. George Vanderheyden, Vice President, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear 
Power Plant, Inc., Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 
and 2, Docket Nos. 50-317 & 50-318, License Nos. DPR-53 & DPR-69, 
1650 Calvert Cliffs Parkway, Lusby, MD 20657-4702.
 
Mrs. Mary G. Korsnick, Vice President, Nuclear Operations, R. E. 
Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-244, License No. DPR-18, 
1503 Lake Road, Ontario, NY 14519.
 
Mr. James A. Spina, Vice President Nine Mile Point, Nine Mile 
Point Nuclear Station, LLC, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, 
Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-22-& 50-410, License Nos. DPR-63 & 
NPF-69, 348 Lake Road, Oswego, NY 13126.
 
Mr. Britt T. McKinney, Vice President, Nuclear Site Operations, 
PPL Susquehanna, LLC, Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 
and 2, Docket Nos. 50-387 & 50-388, License Nos. NPF-14 & NPF-22, 
769 Salem Boulevard, NUCSB3, Berwick, PA 18603-0467.
 
Mr. David A. Christian, Sr. Vice President and Chief Nuclear 
Officer, Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., Virginia Electric 
and Power Company, Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3, North 
Anna Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Surry Power Station, Units 1 
and 2, Docket Nos. 50-336, 50-423, 50-338, 50-339, & 50-280, & 
50-281, License Nos.
 
DPR- 65, NPF-49, NPF-4, NPF-7, DPR-32, & DPR-37, Innsbrook 
Technical Center, 5000 Dominion Boulevard, Glen Allen, VA 23060.
 
D.M. Jamil, Vice President, Duke Energy Corporation, Catawba 
Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-413 & 50-414, 
License Nos. NPF- 35 & NPF-52, 4800 Concord Road, York, South 
Carolina 29745.
 
Mr. L.M. Stinson, Vice President--Farley Project, Southern 
Nuclear Operating Company, Inc., Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, 
Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-348 & 50-364, License Nos. NPF-2 & 
NPF-8, 40 Inverness Center Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 35242.
 
Mr. H.L. Sumner, Jr., Vice President--Nuclear, Hatch Project, 
Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc., Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear 
Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-321 & 50-366, License Nos. 
DPR-57 & NPF-5, 40 Inverness Center Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 
35242.
 
Mr. G.R. Peterson, Vice President, Duke Energy Corporation, 
William B. McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 
50-369 & 50-370, License Nos. NPF-9 & NPF-17, 12700 Hagers Ferry 
Road, Huntersville, NC 28078.
 
Mr. Ronald A. Jones, Vice President, Oconee Site, Duke Energy 
Corporation, Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, Docket 
Nos. 50- 269, 50-270, & 50-287, License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, & 
DPR-55, 7800 Rochester Highway, Seneca, SC 29672.
 
Mr. Don E. Grissette, Vice President, Southern Nuclear Operating 
Company, Inc., Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, 
Docket Nos. 50-424 & 50-425, License Nos. NPF-68 & NPF-81, 40 
Inverness Center Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 35242.
 
Mr. C.J. Gannon, Vice President, Carolina Power & Light Company, 
Progress Energy, Inc., Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 
and 2, Docket Nos. 50-325 & 50-324, License Nos. DPR-71 & DPR-62, 
Hwy 87, 2.5 Miles North, Southport, North Carolina 28461.
 
Mr. James Scarola, Vice President, Carolina Power & Light 
Company, Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1, Docket No. 
50-400, License No. NPF-63, 5413 Shearon Harris Road, New Hill, 
North Carolina 27562- 0165.
 
Mr. Dale E. Young, Vice President, ATTN: Supervisor, Licensing 
and Regulatory Programs, Florida Power Corporation, Crystal River 
Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 3, Docket No. 050-302, License No. 
DPR-72, 15760 W. Power Line Street, Crystal River, Florida 
34428-6708. Mr. J.W. Moyer, Vice President Carolina Power & Light 
Company, Progress Energy, H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, 
Unit 2, Docket No. 50-261, License No. DPR-23, 3581 West Entrance 
Road, Hartsville, South Carolina 29550.
 
Karl W. Singer, Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice 
President, Tennessee Valley Authority, Browns
 
[[Page 65473]] Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2 and 3, Watts Bar 
Nuclear Plant, Unit 1, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 
(Ops5n), Docket Nos.
 
50-259, 50- 260, 50-296, 50-390, 50-327, & 50-328, License Nos. 
DPR-33, DPR-52, DPR-68, NPF-90, DPR-77, & DPR-79, 6A Lookout 
Place, 1101 Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801.
 
Mr. J.A. Stall, Senior Vice President, Nuclear and Chief Nuclear 
Officer, Florida Power and Light Company, St. Lucie, Units 1 and 
2, Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, Units 3 and 4, Docket 
Nos. 50- 335, 50-389, 50-250, & 50-251, License Nos. DPR-67, 
NPF-16, DPR-31, & DPR-41, 700 Universe Boulevard, Juno Beach, 
Florida 33408-0420.
 
Mr. Mano K. Nazar, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear 
Officer, Indiana Michigan Power Company, Donald C. Cook Nuclear 
Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-315 & 50-316, License Nos. 
DPR-58 & DPR-74, Nuclear Generation Group, 500 Circle Drive, 
Buchanan, MI 49107.
 
Mr. Mark A. Peifer, Site Vice President, Nuclear Management 
Company, LLC, Duane Arnold Energy Center, Docket No. 50-331, 
License No. DPR-49, 3277 DAEC Road, Palo, IA 52324-9785.
 
Mr. William T. O'Connor, Jr., Vice President-Nuclear Generation, 
Detroit Edison Company, Fermi, Unit 2, Docket No. 50-341, License 
No. NPF-43, 6400 North Dixie Highway, Newport, MI 48166.
 
Mr. Thomas Coutu, Site Vice President, Nuclear Management 
Company, LLC, Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-305, 
License No. DPR-43, N490 Highway 42, Kewaunee, WI 54216-9511.
 
Mr. Thomas J. Palmisano, Site Vice President, Nuclear Management 
Company, LLC, Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Docket No.
 
50-263, License No. DPR-22, 2807 West County Road 75, Monticello, 
MN 55362- 9637.
 
Mr. Daniel J. Malone, Site Vice President, Nuclear Management 
Company, LLC, Palisades Nuclear Plant, Docket No. 50-255, License 
No.DPR 20, 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway, Covert, MI 
49043-9530.
 
Mr. Dennis L. Kochl, Site Vice President, Nuclear Management 
Company, LLC, Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket 
Nos.
 
50-266 & 50- 301, License Nos. DPR-24 & DPR-27, 6590 Nuclear 
Road, Two Rivers, WI 54241-9516.
 
Mr. Joseph M. Solymossy, Site Vice President, Nuclear Management 
Company, LLC, Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 
and 2, Docket Nos. 50-282 & 50-306, License Nos. DPR-42 & DPR-60, 
1717 Wakonade Drive East, Welch, MN 55089.
 
Mr. Christopher M. Crane, President and Chief Nuclear Officer, 
Exelon Generation Company, LLC, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC, 
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Byron Station, Units 1 and 2, 
Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3, LaSalle County 
Station, Units 1 and 2, Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station, Units 
1 and 2, Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Peach Bottom 
Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3, Oyster Creek Nuclear 
Generating Station, Clinton Power Station, Three Mile Island 
Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Docket Nos. 50-456, 50-457, 50-454, 
50-455, 50-237, 50-249, 50-373, 50-374, 50-254, 50-265, 50-352, 
50-353, 50-277, 50-278, 50-219, 50-461, & 50-289, License Nos.
 
NPF-72, NPF-77, NPF-37, NPF-66, DPR-19, DPR-25, NPF-11, NPF-18, 
DPR-29, DPR-30, NPF-39, NPF-85, DPR-44, DPR-56, DPR-16, NPF-62, & 
PR-50, 4300 Winfield Road, Warrenville, IL 60555.
 
Mr. Mark Bezilla, Vice President, Davis-Besse, FirstEnergy 
Nuclear Operating Company, Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, 
Docket No.
 
50- 346, License No. NPF-3, 5501 North State Route 2, Oak Harbor, 
OH 43449- 9760.
 
Mr. Lew W. Myers, Chief Operating Officer, FirstEnergy Nuclear 
Operating Company, Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1, Docket No.
 
50- 440, License No. NPF-58, 10 North Center Street, Perry, OH 
44081. Mr. Jeffrey S. Forbes, Site Vice President, Entergy 
Operations, Inc., Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2, Docket 
Nos. 50-313 & 50-368, License Nos. DPR-51 & NPF-6 1448 S. R. 333, 
Russellville, AR 72802.
 
M.R. Blevins, Senior Vice President and Principal Nuclear 
Officer, TXU Generation Company, LP, Comanche Peak Steam Electric 
Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-445 & 50-446, License Nos. 
NPF-87 & NPF-89, 5 Miles North of Glen Rose, Glen Rose, TX 76043.
 
Mr. Randall K. Edington, Vice President-Nuclear and CNO, Nebraska 
Public Power District, Cooper Nuclear Station, Docket No.
 
50-298, License No. Dpr-46, 1200 Prospect Road, Brownville, NE 
68321. Mr. George A. Williams, Site Vice President, Entergy 
Operations, Inc., Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Docket No. 
50-416, License No. NPF- 29, Waterloo Road, Port Gibson, MS 
39150.
 
Mr. Paul D. Hinnenkamp, Vice President--Operations, Entergy 
Operations, Inc., River Bend Station, Unit 1, Docket No. 50-458, 
License No. NPF- 47, 5485 U.S. Highway 61N, St. Francisville, LA 
70775. Mr. James J. Sheppard, President and Chief Executive 
Officer, South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, Docket 
Nos. 50-498 & 50-499, License Nos. NPF-76 & NPF-80, South Texas 
Project Electric Generating Company, Units 1 and 2, 8 Miles West 
of Wadsworth, on FM 521, Wadsworth, TX 77483.
 
Joseph E. Venable, Vice President Operations, Entergy Operations, 
Inc., Waterford Steam Electric Generating Station, Unit 3, Docket 
No.
 
50-382, License No. NPF-38, 17265 River Road, Killona, LA 
70057-2065. Mr. Garry L. Randolph, Vice President and Chief 
Nuclear Officer, Union Electric Company, Callaway Plant, Unit 1, 
Docket No. 50-483, License No. NPF-30, Junction Hwy CC & Hwy O: 5 
Miles North of Hwy 94, Portland, MO 65067.
 
Mr. Gregory M. Rueger, Senior Vice President, Generation and 
Chief Nuclear Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Diablo 
Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-275 & 
50-323, License Nos. DPR-80 & DPR-82, 9 Miles Northwest of Avila 
Beach, Avila Beach, CA 93424.
 
Mr. R.T. Ridenoure, Vice President--Chief Nuclear Officer, Omaha 
Public Power District, Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1, Docket No. 
50-285, License No. DPR-40, Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm., 444 
South 16th Street Mall, Omaha, NE 68102-2247.
 
Mr. Gregg R. Overbeck, Senior Vice President, Nuclear, Arizona 
Public Service Company, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, 
Units 1, 2 and 3, Docket Nos. 50-528, 50-529, & 50-530, License 
Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, & NPF-74, 5801 S. Wintersburg Road, Tonopah, 
AZ 85354-7529. Harold B. Ray, Executive Vice President, Southern 
California Edison Company, San Onofre Nuclear Station, Units 2 
and 3, Docket Nos.
 
50-361 & 50-362, License Nos. NPF-10 & NPF-15, 5000 Pacific Coast 
Highway, San Clemente, CA 92674.
 
Mr. J.V. Parrish, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Northwest, 
Columbia Generating Station, Docket No. 50-397, License No. 
NPF-21, Snake River Warehouse, North Power Plant Loop, Richland, 
WA 99352.
 
Mr. Rick A. Muench, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wolf 
Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, Wolf Creek Generating 
Station, Unit 1, Docket No. 50-482, License No. NPF-
 
[[Page 65474]] 42, 1550 Oxen Lane, NE., Burlington, KS 66839. Mr. 
Jeffrey B. Archie, Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations, 
South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, Virgil C. Summer Nuclear 
Station, Docket No. 50-395, License No. NPF-12, Hwy 215N at O.S. 
Bradham Boulevard, Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065.
 
Research and Test Reactor Licensees Mr. Ray Tsukimura, President, 
Aerotest Operations Inc., 3455 Fostoria Way, San Ramon, CA 94583.
 
Mr. Stephen I. Miller, Reactor Facility Director, Armed Forces 
Radiobiology Research Institute, Naval Medical Center, 8901 
Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD 20889-5603. Howard C. Aderhold, 
Director, Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, Cornell University, 
112 Ward Laboratory, Ithaca, NY 14853.
 
Mr. Ward L. Rigot, Facility Director and Reactor Supervisor, Dow 
Chemical Company, 1602 Building, Midland, MI 48674.
 
Dr. Keith E. Asmussen, General Atomics, 3550 General Atomics 
Court, San Diego, CA 92121-1122.
 
David Turner, Vallecitos Nuclear Center, General Electric 
Company, 6705 Vallecitos Road, Sunol, CA 94586.
 
Dr. John S. Bennion, Reactor Manager/Supervisor, Idaho State 
University, P.O. Box 8060, Pocatello, ID 83209. Mr. Michael 
Whaley, Manager, KSU Nuclear Reactor Facility, 112 Ward Hall, 
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5204.
 
Dr. Robert E. Berlin, Manhattan College, 35 Sterling Pines Road, 
Tuxedo, NY 10987.
 
Dr. John Bernard, Director of Reactor Operations, Nuclear Reactor 
Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 138 Albany 
Street, Mail Stop NW. 12-208, Cambridge, MA 02139. Andrew Cook, 
Nuclear Reactor Program, North Carolina State University, 2500 
Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695.
 
Seymour H. Weiss, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8561, Gaithersburg, MD 
20899-8561.
 
Gerald D. Wicks, Nuclear Reactor Program, North Carolina State 
University, 2500 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695.
 
Andrew C. Kauffman, The Ohio State University, Nuclear Reactor 
Laboratory, 1298 Kinnear Road, Columbus OH, 43212-1154.
 
Andy Klein, 100 Radiation Center, Oregon State University, 
Corvallis, OR 97331.
 
Fred Sears, Breazeale Nuclear Reactor, Penn State University, 
University Park, PA 16802.
 
Edward Merritt, Purdue University, Nuclear Engineering Bldg., 400 
Central Dr., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2017. Mr. Stephen G. 
Frantz, Director, Reed Reactor Facility, Reed College, 3203 SE 
Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR 97202. Mr. Glenn C. Winters, 
Director, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, 
Nuclear Engineering and Science Building, Troy, NY 12180- 3590.
 
Terence Tehan, Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission, Rhode 
Island Nuclear Science Center, 16 Reactor Road, Narragansett, RI 
02882-1165.
 
Mr. G.A. Kuehn, Jr., Vice President SNEC and Program Director, 
SNEC Facility, GPU Nuclear, Inc., Route 441 South, P.O. Box 480, 
Middletown, PA 17057.
 
David Vasbinder, Occupational and Environmental Safety, 
University at Buffalo, 220 Winspear Avenue, Buffalo, NY 
14214-1034.
 
Robert O. Berry, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A 
University, Mail Stop 3133, College Station, Texas 77843-3133.
 
Jim Remlinger, Nuclear Science Center, Texas Engineering 
Experiment Station, 1095 Nuclear Science Road, College Station, 
Texas 77843.
 
Tim DeBey, U.S. Geological Survey, 6th and Kipling, Denver 
Federal Center, Building 15, MS 974, Denver, Colorado 80225.
 
John G. Williams, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, University of 
Arizona, Old Engineering Building, Room 114, Tucson, AZ 
85721-0020.
 
Dr. David M. Slaughter, Director, UC Davis McClellan Nuclear 
Research Center, 5335 Price Avenue, McClellan, CA 95652.
 
George Miller, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine, 326 Rowland 
Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-2025.
 
Dr. William Vernetson, PhD, Director of Nuclear Facilities, 
University of Florida, 202 Nuclear Science Building, Gainesville, 
FL 32611-8300.
 
Rich Holm, 214 NEL, University of Illinois, 103 South Goodwin 
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
 
Vincent Adams, University of Maryland, Department of Materials & 
Nuclear Engineering, Bldg. 090 Room 2308, College Park, MD 
20742-2115.
 
Leo Bobek, Nuclear Radiation Laboratory, University of 
Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Pinanski Energy 
Center, Lowell, MA 01854.
 
Chris Becker, Phoenix Memorial Laboratory, Ford Nuclear Reactor, 
University of Michigan, 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 
48109- 2100.
 
Ralph Butler, MU Research Reactor, 1513 Research Park, Columbia, 
Missouri 65211.
 
Akira T. Tokuhiro, Nuclear Reactor Facility, 1870 Miner Circle, 
Rolla, MO 65409-0630.
 
Dr. Robert D. Busch, Chief Reactor Supervisor, Chemical and 
Nuclear Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, 209 
Farris Engineering Department, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1341.
 
David S. O'Kelly, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab, University of 
Texas, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758.
 
Paul E. Benneche, Acting Director, UVA Nuclear Reactor Facility, 
P.O. Box 400322, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4322.
 
Melinda Krahenbuhl, 122 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 104, 
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
 
Robert J. Agasie, Reactor Director, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, 
1513 University Avenue, Room 141ME, University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, WI 53706-1687.
 
Gerald E. Tripard, Nuclear Radiation Center, Roundtop Drive, 
Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-1300.
 
Mr. Stephen J. LaFlamme, Director, Nuclear Reactor Facility, 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, 
MA 01609-2280.
 
Stanley Addison, RSO, Radiation Safety Office, 201 Hall Health 
Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4400.
 
Erhard W. Koehler, Manager Direct Programs, U.S. Maritime 
Administration, 400 7th Street, Washington, DC 20590.
 
Dr. Lynell W. Klassen, Associate Chief of Staff Research and 
Development 151, Reactor Manager, Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center, 4101 Woolworth Avenue, Omaha, NE 68105.
 
Mr. Richard K. Smith, Viacom, Gateway Center, 11 Stanwix Street, 
Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
 
The service list of Materials Licensees receiving this Order has 
been redacted.
 
 
[[Page 65475]] Attachment 2: Modified Handling Requirements for 
the Protection of Certain Safeguards Information (SGI-M) General 
Requirement Information and material that the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) determines are Safeguards Information 
must be protected from unauthorized disclosure. In order to 
distinguish information needing modified protection requirements 
from the Safeguards Information for reactors and fuel cycle 
facilities that require a higher level of protection, the term 
``Safeguards Information Modified Handling'' (SGI-M) is being 
used as the distinguishing marking for certain materials 
licensees. Each person who produces, receives, or acquires SGI-M 
shall ensure that it is protected against unauthorized 
disclosure. To meet this requirement, licensees and persons shall 
establish and maintain an information protection system that 
includes the measures specified below. Information protection 
procedures employed by state and local police forces are deemed 
to meet these requirements.
 
Persons Subject to These Requirements Any person, whether or not 
a licensee of the NRC, who produces, receives, or acquires SGI-M 
is subject to the requirements (and sanctions) of this document. 
Firms and their employees that supply services or equipment to 
materials licensees would fall under this requirement, if they 
possess facility SGI-M. A licensee must inform contractors and 
suppliers of the existence of these requirements and the need for 
proper protection (See more under Conditions for Access).
 
State or local police units who have access to SGI-M are also 
subject to these requirements. However, these organizations are 
deemed to have adequate information protection systems. The 
conditions for transfer of information to a third party, (i.e., 
need-to-know) would still apply to the police organization, as 
would sanctions for unlawful disclosure. Again, it would be 
prudent for licensees who have arrangements with local police to 
advise them of the existence of these requirements.
 
Criminal and Civil Sanctions The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, explicitly provides that any person, ``whether or not a 
licensee of the Commission, who violates any regulations adopted 
under this section shall be subject to the civil monetary 
penalties of section 234 of this Act.'' Furthermore, willful 
violation of any regulation or order governing Safeguards 
Information is a felony subject to criminal penalties in the form 
of fines or imprisonment, or both. See sections 147b. and 223 of 
the Act.
 
Conditions for Access Access to SGI-M beyond the initial 
recipients of the order will be governed by the background check 
requirements imposed by the order. Access to SGI-M by licensee 
employees, agents, or contractors must include both an 
appropriate need-to-know determination by the licensee, as well 
as a determination concerning the trustworthiness of individuals 
having access to the information. Employees of an organization 
affiliated with the licensee's company, e.g., a parent company, 
may be considered as employees of the licensee for access 
purposes.
 
Need-To-Know Need-to-know is defined as a determination by a 
person having responsibility for protecting SGI-M that a proposed 
recipient's access to SGI-M is necessary in the performance of 
official, contractual, or licensee duties of employment. The 
recipient should be made aware that the information is SGI-M and 
those having access to it are subject to these requirements as 
well as criminal and civil sanctions for mishandling the 
information.
 
Occupational Groups Dissemination of SGI-M is limited to 
individuals who have an established need-to-know and who are 
members of certain occupational groups. These occupational groups 
are: I. An employee, agent, or contractor of an applicant, a 
licensee, the Commission, or the United States Government; II. A 
member of a duly authorized committee of the Congress; III. The 
Governor of a State or his designated representative; IV. A 
representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 
engaged in activities associated with the U.S./IAEA Safeguards 
Agreement who has been certified by the NRC; V. A member of a 
state or local law enforcement authority that is responsible for 
responding to requests for assistance during safeguards 
emergencies; VI. A person to whom disclosure is ordered pursuant 
to Section 2.744(e) of Part 2 of Part 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations; or VII. State Radiation Control Program Directors 
(and State Homeland Security Directors) or their designees.
 
In a generic sense, the individuals described above in (II) 
through (VII) are considered to be trustworthy by virtue of their 
employment status. For non-governmental individuals in group (I) 
above, a determination of reliability and trustworthiness is 
required. Discretion must be exercised in granting access to 
these individuals. If there is any indication that the recipient 
would be unwilling or unable to provide proper protection for the 
SGI-M, they are not authorized to receive SGI-M.
 
Information Considered for Safeguards Information Designation 
Information deemed SGI-M is information the disclosure of which 
could reasonably be expected to have a significant adverse effect 
on the health and safety of the public or the common defense and 
security by significantly increasing the likelihood of theft, 
diversion, or sabotage of materials or facilities subject to NRC 
jurisdiction.
 
SGI-M identifies Safeguards Information which is subject to these 
requirements. These requirements are necessary in order to 
protect quantities of nuclear material significant to the health 
and safety of the public or common defense and security.
 
The overall measure for consideration of SGI-M is the usefulness 
of the information (security or otherwise) to an adversary in 
planning or attempting a malevolent act. The specificity of the 
information increases the likelihood that it will be useful to an 
adversary.
 
Protection While in Use While in use, SGI-M shall be under the 
control of an authorized individual. This requirement is 
satisfied if the SGI-M is attended by an authorized individual 
even though the information is in fact not constantly being used. 
SGI-M, therefore, within alarm stations, continuously manned 
guard posts or ready rooms need not be locked in file drawers or 
storage containers.
 
Under certain conditions the general control exercised over 
security zones or areas would be considered to meet this 
requirement. The primary consideration is limiting access to 
those who have a need- to-know. Some examples would be: Alarm 
stations, guard posts and guard ready rooms; Engineering or 
drafting areas if visitors are escorted and information is not 
clearly visible; Plant maintenance areas if access is restricted 
and information is not clearly visible;
 
[[Page 65476]] Administrative offices (e.g., central records or 
purchasing) if visitors are escorted and information is not 
clearly visible; Protection While in Storage While unattended, 
SGI-M shall be stored in a locked file drawer or container. 
Knowledge of lock combinations or access to keys protecting SGI-M 
shall be limited to a minimum number of personnel for operating 
purposes who have a ``need-to-know'' and are otherwise authorized 
access to SGI-M in accordance with these requirements. Access to 
lock combinations or keys shall be strictly controlled so as to 
prevent disclosure to an unauthorized individual.
 
Transportation of Documents and Other Matter Documents containing 
SGI-M when transmitted outside an authorized place of use or 
storage shall be enclosed in two sealed envelopes or wrappers. 
The inner envelope or wrapper shall contain the name and address 
of the intended recipient, and be marked both sides, top and 
bottom with the words ``Safeguards Information--Modified 
Handling.'' The outer envelope or wrapper must be addressed to 
the intended recipient, must contain the address of the sender, 
and must not bear any markings or indication that the document 
contains SGI-M.
 
SGI-M may be transported by any commercial delivery company that 
provides nation-wide overnight service with computer tracking 
features, U.S. first class, registered, express, or certified 
mail, or by any individual authorized access pursuant to these 
requirements.
 
Within a facility, SGI-M may be transmitted using a single opaque 
envelope. It may also be transmitted within a facility without 
single or double wrapping, provided adequate measures are taken 
to protect the material against unauthorized disclosure. 
Individuals transporting SGI-M should retain the documents in 
their personal possession at all times or ensure that the 
information is appropriately wrapped and also secured to preclude 
compromise by an unauthorized individual.
 
Preparation and Marking of Documents While the NRC is the sole 
authority for determining what specific information may be 
designated as ``SGI-M,'' originators of documents are responsible 
for determining whether those documents contain such information. 
Each document or other matter that contains SGI-M shall be marked 
``Safeguards Information--Modified Handling'' in a conspicuous 
manner on the top and bottom of the first page to indicate the 
presence of protected information. The first page of the document 
must also contain (i) the name, title, and organization of the 
individual authorized to make a SGI-M determination, and who has 
determined that the document contains SGI-M, (ii) the date the 
document was originated or the determination made, (iii) an 
indication that the document contains SGI-M, and (iv) an 
indication that unauthorized disclosure would be subject to civil 
and criminal sanctions. Each additional page shall be marked in a 
conspicuous fashion at the top and bottom with letters denoting 
``Safeguards Information--Modified Handling.'' In addition to the 
``Safeguards Information--Modified Handling'' markings at the top 
and bottom of page, transmittal letters or memoranda which do not 
in themselves contain SGI-M shall be marked to indicate that 
attachments or enclosures contain SGI-M but that the transmittal 
does not (e.g., ``When separated from SGI-M enclosure(s), this 
document is decontrolled'').
 
In addition to the information required on the face of the 
document, each item of correspondence that contains SGI-M shall, 
by marking or other means, clearly indicate which portions (e.g., 
paragraphs, pages, or appendices) contain SGI-M and which do not. 
Portion marking is not required for physical security and 
safeguards contingency plans.
 
All documents or other matter containing SGI-M in use or storage 
shall be marked in accordance with these requirements. A specific 
exception is provided for documents in the possession of 
contractors and agents of licensees that were produced more than 
one year prior to the effective date of the order. Such documents 
need not be marked unless they are removed from file drawers or 
containers. The same exception applies to old documents stored 
away from the facility in central files or corporation 
headquarters.
 
Since information protection procedures employed by state and 
local police forces are deemed to meet NRC requirements, 
documents in the possession of these agencies need not be marked 
as set forth in this document.
 
Removal From SGI-M Category Documents containing SGI-M shall be 
removed from the SGI-M category (decontrolled) only after the NRC 
determines that the information no longer meets the criteria of 
SGI-M. Licensees have the authority to make determinations that 
specific documents which they created no longer contain SGI-M 
information and may be decontrolled.
 
Consideration must be exercised to ensure that any document 
decontrolled shall not disclose SGI-M in some other form or be 
combined with other unprotected information to disclose SGI-M.
 
The authority to determine that a document may be decontrolled 
may be exercised only by, or with the permission of, the 
individual (or office) who made the original determination. The 
document shall indicate the name and organization of the 
individual removing the document from the SGI-M category and the 
date of the removal.
 
Other persons who have the document in their possession should be 
notified of the decontrolling of the document.
 
Reproduction of Matter Containing SGI-M SGI-M may be reproduced 
to the minimum extent necessary consistent with need without 
permission of the originator. Newer digital copiers which scan 
and retain images of documents represent a potential security 
concern. If the copier is retaining SGI-M information in memory, 
the copier cannot be connected to a network. It should also be 
placed in a location that is cleared and controlled for the 
authorized processing of SGI-M information. Different copiers 
have different capabilities, including some which come with 
features that allow the memory to be erased. Each copier would 
have to be examined from a physical security perspective.
 
Use of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Systems SGI-M may be 
processed or produced on an ADP system provided that the system 
is assigned to the licensee's or contractor's facility and 
requires the use of an entry code/password for access to stored 
information. Licensees are encouraged to process this information 
in a computing environment that has adequate computer security 
controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to the 
information. An ADP system is defined here as a data processing 
system having the capability of long term storage of SGI-M. Word 
processors such as typewriters are not subject to the 
requirements as long as they do not transmit information 
off-site. (Note: If SGI-M is produced on a typewriter, the ribbon 
must be removed and stored in the same manner as other SGI-M 
information or media.) The basic objective of these restrictions 
is to prevent access and retrieval of stored SGI-M by 
unauthorized individuals,
 
[[Page 65477]] particularly from remote terminals. Specific files 
containing SGI-M will be password protected to preclude access by 
an unauthorized individual. The National Institute of Standards 
and Technology (NIST) maintains a listing of all validated 
encryption systems at 
http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/1401val.htm 
[http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leaving 
FR.html&log=linklog&to=http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/1401va 
l.htm] . SGI-M files may be transmitted over a network if the 
file is encrypted. In such cases, the licensee will select a 
commercially available encryption system that NIST has validated 
as conforming to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). 
SGI-M files shall be properly labeled as ``Safeguards 
Information--Modified Handling'' and saved to removable media and 
stored in a locked file drawer or cabinet.
 
Telecommunications SGI-M may not be transmitted by unprotected 
telecommunications circuits except under emergency or 
extraordinary conditions. For the purpose of this requirement, 
emergency or extraordinary conditions are defined as any 
circumstances that require immediate communications in order to 
report, summon assistance for, or respond to a security event (or 
an event that has potential security significance).
 
This restriction applies to telephone, telegraph, teletype, 
facsimile circuits, and to radio. Routine telephone or radio 
transmission between site security personnel, or between the site 
and local police, should be limited to message formats or codes 
that do not disclose facility security features or response 
procedures.
 
Similarly, call-ins during transport should not disclose 
information useful to a potential adversary. Infrequent or 
non-repetitive telephone conversations regarding a physical 
security plan or program are permitted provided that the 
discussion is general in nature.
 
Individuals should use care when discussing SGI-M at meetings or 
in the presence of others to insure that the conversation is not 
overheard by persons not authorized access. Transcripts, tapes or 
minutes of meetings or hearings that contain SGI-M shall be 
marked and protected in accordance with these requirements.
 
Destruction Documents containing SGI-M should be destroyed when 
no longer needed. They may be destroyed by tearing into small 
pieces, burning, shredding or any other method that precludes 
reconstruction by means available to the public at large. Piece 
sizes one half inch or smaller composed of several pages or 
documents and thoroughly mixed would be considered completely 
destroyed.
 
[FR Doc. 04-25170 Filed 11-10-04; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P

 
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 9 www.GovExec.com: Omnibus negotiations on the move, but no agreement yet         

(11/12/04) 
November 12, 2004 

By Peter Cohn, CongressDailyPM

Negotiations on an omnibus package of incomplete fiscal 2005 
appropriations bills appear to be moving rapidly, with aides 
involved in a flurry of meetings throughout this week and 
possibly into the weekend. 

The real heavy lifting will have to be done when lawmakers begin 
returning Monday, and there is some skepticism that a final deal 
can be struck by Nov. 20, when the current continuing resolution 
expires at midnight. If no agreement is reached, another 
short-term CR might be required for a couple of days. 

Discussions also continue about a year-long CR for programs 
funded by the fiscal 2005 Energy and Water appropriations bill, 
which remains stuck in a dispute over how to fund the proposed 
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. But for the other eight 
spending bills, aides were generally positive about completing an 
omnibus package. The vehicle for that overall bill is shaping up 
to be the fiscal 2005 Foreign Operations appropriations bill 
conference report. Conferees were appointed before the break. 
Congress also must increase the statutory debt ceiling of $7.384 
trillion before adjourning. While apeculation has swirled that it 
would be in the omnibus; aides said GOP leaders have not made a 
final decision.

 The gap is being steadily narrowed between the House and Senate 
on additional spending requested by Senate appropriators and the 
White House is expected to get most, if not all, of its requests 
appropriators did not fund. The Senate initially added $8.1 
billion to its version of the fiscal 2005 spending bills, mostly 
to the VA-HUD and Labor-HHS measures, although that total has 
come down significantly. 

While Senate Appropriations Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, made 
liberal use of emergency designations and other gimmicks to get 
around spending caps, the White House has said it would not 
support that approach. Thus negotiations have centered on what 
are considered "real offsets" for spending above the fiscal 2005 
discretionary cap of $821.9 billion. That will include an 
across-the-board cut of less than 1 percent, which will allow 
about $3 billion in extra spending. Aides said that total is 
likely to increase by an additional $1 billion or more through 
other savings.

 On top of congressional priorities such as education and 
healthcare funds, the administration was likely to receive close 
to its full requests for additional NASA and Millennium Challenge 
Account funds. The House bill would have cut about $1.1 billion 
from the White House request for NASA and $1.25 billion for the 
Millennium Challenge program, a new foreign aid program initiated 
by the administration. Complicating matters is a plethora of 
late-inning project requests from lawmakers on both sides of the 
Capitol, particularly in the Senate, sources said. 

But unlike previous years, final negotiations are unlikely to be 
plagued by inclusion of controversial authorization bills. One 
such measure that will not be tucked into the omnibus is 
legislation favored by Northeastern and Midwestern lawmakers to 
extend the Milk Income Loss Contract program, which provides 
subsidies to small dairy farmers to compensate for low milk 
prices. The MILC program, a campaign centerpiece of both Bush and 
Kerry campaigns in Wisconsin, will expire next Sept. 30 if it is 
not extended. 

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 10 VANUNU RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST AFTER POLICE STORM CATHEDRAL
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:53:05 -0800

 
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Free Mordechai Vanunu - Info & Action Alert #39

**NEWS RELEASE ON ARREST OF MORDECHAI VANUNU**

 From the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
http://www.vanunu.com or http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/

** PLEASE FORWARD TO SYMPATHETIC LISTS **

1)  VANUNU RE-ARRESTED BY DOZENS OF ARMED POLICE; LATER RELEASED TO HOUSE 
ARREST

2)  LETTER, FAXES, EMAILS, PHONE CALLS NEEDED - LIFT THE RESTRICTIONS, FREE 
MORDECHAI VANUNU

=======================
1)  VANUNU RE-ARRESTED BY DOZENS OF ARMED POLICE; LATER RELEASED TO HOUSE 
ARREST

PRESS RELEASE
International Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu

November 11, 2004
For immediate release

Contact:
In Israel - Rayna Moss, 0507-368236, legalese@netvision.net.il
In the U.S. - Felice Cohen-Joppa, 520-323-8697, freevanunu@mindspring.com

For more information, see www.vanunu.co.uk, www.vanunu.com, www.vanunu.org

VANUNU RE-ARRESTED BY DOZENS OF ARMED POLICE; LATER RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from custody 
that evening, following his arrest in a dramatic and excessive show of 
force early Thursday morning, November 18, at St. George's Cathedral in 
East Jerusalem. He has been punished yet again, and placed under house 
arrest for seven days. His cell phones were returned to him, but he is 
still waiting for his laptop computers to be returned.

Vanunu was warned that he is still bound by the severe restrictions placed 
on him by Israeli authorities when he was released on April 21 after 
serving his complete 18 year sentence. Issues regarding his re-arrest are 
under investigation, and no formal charges have been filed. However, Vanunu 
was told that he may face charges for interviews that he has given to 
foreign media.

When Vanunu was released from custody, he told the press, "Once, twice, 
three times - how many times will I be punished for the same act?"
Thursday morning, at least 30 armed police stormed the compound of St. 
George's Cathedral, terrifying the clergy as well as pilgrims and guests 
having breakfast.  The force consisted of special unit officers on 
motorcycles as well as additional police in other vehicles. A reporter for 
Israel's Channel 2 evening news called the raid "unnecessary and 
embarrassing" and wondered aloud why the police hadn't simply asked Vanunu 
to report for questioning. By the time he was released from detention, the 
general opinion in the Israeli media was that, once again, Israel's 
security services had gone out of their way to make Vanunu headline news.
After his release Vanunu told friends that he was well and glad to be back 
at St. George's, but that as long as he is kept in Israel against his will, 
he remains a prisoner. He thanked his supporters for their immediate 
response to his arrest.

Daniel Ellsberg, author of the book "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the 
Pentagon Papers," said: "The only secret Mordechai Vanunu has left to tell 
the world is the one he revealed on the day of his release from 18 years in 
prison, April 21, 2004: 'I am a symbol of the will of freedom, that the 
human spirit is free. You cannot destroy the human spirit.' That is indeed 
the most dangerous secret in the eyes not only of Israel but of every state 
that withholds vital information from its own citizens, including the U.S. 
and U.K. Israel should let the foremost prophet of the nuclear age go forth 
to be honored throughout the world -- and we call on them to do so -- but 
even if it returns him instead to his 6-by-9 foot cell, Mordechai Vanunu 
will remain the most free man on earth."

Vanunu's adoptive American parents, Nick and Mary Eoloff, said after 
learning of their son's re-arrest: "We are horrified that today armed 
Israeli special police forces entered St. George's Cathedral compound in 
order to kidnap Mordechai Vanunu for the second time. It is further proof 
that the security forces have no respect for an individual's human rights 
and dignity nor respect for a religious site which is a sacred place of 
sanctuary. Mordechai has always acted from a moral belief that nuclear 
weapons are immoral and illegal and that all nations should begin the 
process of their disarmament."

In 1986, Vanunu was kidnapped, taken back to Israel for a secret trial and 
convicted on charges of treason and espionage after revealing information 
about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal to the London Sunday Times. The 
restrictions include not being allowed to leave Israel and not being 
allowed to talk to foreign press, among other things restricting his 
freedom of movement and speech.

Supporters around the world continue to work for Vanunu's total freedom, 
and join him in continuing to call for nuclear abolition in the Middle East 
and around the world.  Fifteen British supporters vigiled at the Israeli 
Embassy in London on November 11 to immediately protest Vanunu's arrest.

Felice Cohen-Joppa, coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai 
Vanunu said: "It is an outrage that Israel has re-arrested nuclear 
whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu only six months after his release from 
prison. The unjust and severe restrictions that have forced Mordechai 
Vanunu to remain in Israel following his release last April, and intend to 
muzzle his voice for nuclear disarmament, are grave violations of his human 
and civil rights. After 18 years in prison, he has no secrets to reveal. 
Israel must stop punishing this man who has already suffered so much for 
letting the world know about Israel's nuclear arsenal."

Rayna Moss, Israeli coordinator for the International Campaign to Free 
Vanunu, said: "The attempt to silence Mordechai Vanunu on this of all days, 
is an attempt to bury Israel's secret nuclear arsenal together with Yasser 
Arafat. While the world media and attention are focused on the burial of 
the Palestinian leader, the Israeli government is attempting to disappear 
the nuclear whistleblower, whose only crime is revealing the terrible truth 
that Israel is trying to hide: weapons of mass destruction that are 
concealed from Israeli citizens and from the world."

===============
2)  LETTER, FAXES, EMAILS, PHONE CALLS NEEDED - LIFT THE RESTRICTIONS, FREE 
MORDECHAI VANUNU

Contact the Israeli Embassy to demand that Mordechai Vanunu's restrictions 
be lifted and he be allowed to leave Israel.  Contact information for other 
Israeli officials can be found at 
http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/youcanhelp.html

phone:
202-364-5500
email:
ambassador_sec@israelemb.org
fax:
202-364-5607

Public & Interreligious Affairs
v.(202) 364-5542
Political Department
(202)364-5581/2
Press Office
(202) 364-5538

or contact Israeli ambassador in your country -
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel1.html

Felice Cohen-Joppa
Coordinator
U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
POB 43384
Tucson, AZ 85733
Phone/Fax 520-323-8697
freevanunu@mindspring.com
www.nonviolence.org/vanunu

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 11 [NukeNet] Japan's New Long Term Nuclear Program
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:53:07 -0800

 
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For some time we have been promising to provide more information on the 
evaluation and cost estimates undertaken by the committee which is 
currently considering the new Long Term Nuclear Program. At last we have 
managed to put together something a bit more detailed for people who don't 
read Japanese. Click on the link below to find out more.

http://cnic.jp/english/data/longterm12Nov04.html

Philip White
International Liaison Officer

Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
3F Kotobuki Bdg, 1-58-15, Higashi-Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0003
Phone: 81-3-5330-9520
Fax: 81-3-5330-9530
http://cnic.jp/english/
cnic@nifty.com


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 12 Guardian Unlimited: Back behind bars
 
Mordechai Vanunu 
		
Friday November 12, 2004
The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk]  		
 		
On April 21 this year, Mordechai Vanunu was released from jail 
after serving an 18-year sentence for treason, two-thirds of in 
solitary confinement. Just 203 days later, he is back behind 
bars. Yesterday, while the world's attention was focused on the 
death of Yasser Arafat and its ramifications, police entered the 
church in Jerusalem where the man who blew the whistle on 
Israel's nuclear weapons programme has lived since April, and 
arrested Mr Vanunu for violating the terms of his release, for 
which he will be charged in court today.

Given the stifling nature of Mr Vanunu's terms of release - 
stripped of his passport, needing official permission to have 
contact with foreigners, forbidden from holding media interviews, 
and banned from discussing Israel's nuclear secrets - it will 
never be difficult for Israel's government to find grounds for 
re-arresting him. Yesterday's move may have been a response to Mr 
Vanunu's determination not to be bound, recently conducting a 
series of interviews.

Mr Vanunu remains a hate figure for many Israelis - in the same 
way that America's cold warriors reviled the alleged Soviet spy 
Alger Hiss as a traitor and symbol of the threats their country 
faced in the 50s and 60s. Like Hiss, it seems that Mr Vanunu will 
be pursued regardless of the price that he has paid. Unlike Hiss, 
there is depressingly little in the way of public unease about Mr 
Vanunu's treatment. It seems obvious that his knowledge of 
Israel's nuclear programme, gained during his work as a 
technician, is long since obsolete. By keeping him imprisoned, 
whether in jail or within its borders, Israel merely makes itself 
appear cruel and vindictive. Since so many Israelis see him as a 
traitor, the answer is simple: let him leave the country if he 
wishes. 
	
 	
Weblog
The best journalism on the conflict, from around the web
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,533512,00.html]
 

Government sites
Israeli Knesset (parliament)
[http://www.knesset.gov.il/main/eng/engframe.htm] 
Israeli ministry of foreign affairs
[http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/home.asp] 
Israeli government site
[http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH000a0] 
Office of the Israeli prime minister
[http://www.info.gov.il/eng/min-pmo.htm] 
Palestinian Ministry of Information [http://www.minfo.gov.ps/] 

Media
Ha'aretz (Israel) [http://www.haaretzdaily.com/] 
Israel Insider (Israel)
[http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage&enDispla
y=view&enDispWhat=Zone&] 
Jerusalem Post (Israel) [http://www.jpost.com] 
Maariv (Israel) [http://www.maarivenglish.com/] 
Arabic Media Internet Network (Palestinian)
[http://www.amin.org/] 
Palestine Chronicle (Palestinian)
[http://www.palestinechronicle.com/] 
Electronic Intifada (Palestinian)
[http://www.electronicintifada.net] 
Bitter Lemons (Israeli-Palestinian)
[http://www.bitterlemons.org] 

[UP] 

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 13 NZ: Business Day: Nuclear case postponed
 
[http://www.businessday.co.za

Two men arrested in connection with an investigation into weapons 
of mass destruction were moved to a court in Sebokeng for their 
next court appearance on Friday. 
  
Daniel Geiges and Gerhard Wisser were arrested in September and 
face charges under the Nuclear Energy and Non Proliferation of 
Nuclear Weapons acts relating to equipment they possessed which 
could allegedly be used to make weapons of mass destruction. 
  
The were initially denied bail in the Vanderbijlpark Regional 
Court but their legal team successfully appealed the decision in 
the Pretoria High Court earlier in November. 
  
The two were due to appear in the town's court on Friday - where 
the equipment was seized from the factory of a man also arrested 
- but who later became a state witness. 
  
The arrests follow an investigation into where Libya, which is 
now co-operating with the International Atomic Energy Agency, 
sourced its nuclear capabilities. 

The probe is also allegedly connected to Pakistan's former 
nuclear weapons expert AQ Khan. 
  
Due to no magistrate being available they would appear in the 
nearby Sebokeng court instead, Wisser's attorney Claudio Privato 
said. 
  
The case was expected to be postponed until February 25, 2005, 
for further investigation. 

Sapa Saturday 13 November 2004                                                                                                                 

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 14 GP Japan: Government Energy Commission Ignores Nuclear Dangers

Greenpeace Japan Press release2004/11/12 

  Greenpeace Japan-- working for environment and dignity [.]   

 November 12, 2004 

The government commission to revise Japan's Long-term program
for Research, Development and Utilization of Nuclear Energy
(long-term nuclear energy policy) is expected to conclude in
favor of reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel today. Greenpeace
Japan warns that reprocessing causes deadly radiation releases
into the environment that are a threat to public health, and
urges the committee to hold a more comprehensive review and
public hearings. 

Activists from Greenpeace stood outside the meeting with a
banner showing a map of expected radiation dispersal. Others
inside the meeting brought a question to the committee members
saying "Are you going to export radiation contamination from
Rokkasho to Japan, and to the world.?" 

"There was almost no discussion on the environmental impacts and
human health impacts from the reprocessing in the commission."
Said Nogawa ATSUKO, nuclear campaigner for Greenpeace Japan. "

Seeing names of members is to know the conclusion of continuing
reprocessing. It is no surprise this commission supports
reprocessing, as most come from organizations that will profit
from the decision. Without a comprehensive review on the
environment, safety and nuclear proliferation, conclusion should
not be made." she continued. 

The dangers of radiation from reprocessing plant discharges are
well known through-out the world. At the annual meeting of the
OSPAR Commission, in Copenhagen in 2000 government
representatives from 15 countries throughout Europe agreed to
call for an end to nuclear reprocessing and the implementation
of dry storage. The Leukemia rate among children living around
the reprocessing plants is higher than average There are on
going studies looking at the relationship between reprocessing
of spent nuclear fuel and leukemia. 

Following this decision a number of safety agreements have to be
signed with local governments. A shipment of depleted uranium is
expected to be sent to the plant to begin tests in the plant in
early 2005. JNFL hopes to begin burning spent nuclear fuel with
a year of the depleted uranium tests. 

Greenpeace Japan continues to campaign against the reprocessing
and to stop conclusion of the safety agreement. 

For further information, please contact: 
Greenpeace Japan, Telephone +813 5338 9800 
Atsuko Nogawa , Greenpeace Japan Nuclear Campaigner, mobile
phone 090-3654-4035 
Kazue Suzuki, Greenpeace Japan Campaign Director, mobile phone
090-2249-1502 

Greenpeace Japan
 N F bldg.2F 8-13-11 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo,
Zip code160-0023, Japan
 Tel. 03-5338-9800 Fax. 03-5338-9817 
Map     

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 15 Sofia Morning News: Bulgaria in Overnight Grips of Radiation Panic
 	 	 	 	 	 	
[Sofia News Agency]                                                           

novinite.com
 		   		 	 	
Politics: 12 November 2004, Friday.

Schools and pharmacies of Bulgaria were gripped by panic-fuelling 
rumours about a radiation in "a nearby country" that made people 
rush for medicines on Thursday.
 
It was not immediately known where the information came from, but 
people were told that a radioactive rain over Bulgaria had spread 
the deadly threat.
 
Bulgaria's civil defense office said it had received scores of 
worried inquiries. However, there was no reason of scare from 
nuclear accident, they said ruling out reports about a nuclear 
accident in Romania's Cherna Voda plant, and later, at a unit in 
the Russian town of Balakovo.
 
Romanian authorities said there was no incidents of any type at 
Cherna Voda, which is located near the country's Danube River 
bordering with Bulgaria. Russian authorities have also denied any 
radiation leaks. 

The rumours spread the same day that the report on the 
environmental impact of the Belene nuclear plant was completed 
and the results were announced.[ width=] 

  NOVINITE.COM
   
Bulgaria news Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency -
www.sofianewsagency.com) is unique with being a real time news
provider in English that informs its readers about the latest
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 16 NRC: In the Matter of Waste Control Specialists, LLC, Order Modifying 
 
                        FR Doc 04-25169 
[Federal Register: November 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 218)] 
[Notices] [Page 65468-65470] From the Federal Register Online via 
GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12no04-106]                         
 
Exemption From 10 CFR Part 70 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission.
 
ACTION: Issuance of order to modify Waste Control Specialists, 
LLC's exemption from requirements of 10 CFR part 70.
 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Park, Environmental and 
Performance Assessment Directorate, Division of Waste Management 
and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555- 0001. Telephone: (301) 415-5835, fax number: (301) 
415-5397; e-mail: JRP@nrc.gov [JRP@nrc.gov] .
 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction Pursuant to 10 CFR 
2.106, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing 
notice in the Matter of Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) of 
the issuance of an order to modify WCS's exemption from the 
requirements of 10 CFR part 70.
 
II. Further Information I In letters dated August 6, 2003, and 
March 15, 2004, WCS requested a modification to its exemption 
from certain NRC regulations relative to the possession of 
special nuclear material (SNM). A license pursuant to 10 CFR part 
70 issued by NRC is required for quantities of SNM in excess of 
the limits in 10 CFR 150.11. WCS is requesting a modification to 
its exemption from licensing under part 70 for possession of 
greater than the part 150 SNM limits. The NRC issued the initial 
exemption to WCS in November 2001.
 
WCS operates a low-level waste (LLW) and mixed waste (MW) storage 
and treatment facility in Andrews County, Texas. The facility 
also disposes of hazardous waste. Texas is an Agreement State. 
This facility is licensed by the State of Texas Department of 
Health (TDH) under a 10 CFR part 30 equivalent radioactive 
materials license (RML). The facility is also licensed by the 
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to treat and 
dispose of hazardous waste. In 1997, WCS began accepting Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Toxic Substance Control 
Act (TSCA) wastes for treatment, storage, and disposal. Later 
that year, WCS received a license from TDH for treatment and 
storage of MW and LLW. The MW and LLW streams may contain 
quantities of SNM.
 
II Section 70.3 of 10 CFR part 70 requires persons who own, 
acquire, deliver, receive, possess, use, or transfer SNM to 
obtain a license pursuant to the requirements in 10 CFR part 70. 
The licensing requirements in 10 CFR part 70 apply to persons in 
Agreement States possessing greater than critical mass quantities 
as defined in 10 CFR 150.11. Pursuant to 10 CFR 70.17(a), ``the 
Commission may * * * grant such exemptions from the requirements 
of the regulations in this part as it determines are authorized 
by law and will not endanger life or property or the common 
defense and security and are otherwise in the public interest.'' 
On November 21, 2001, the NRC transmitted an Order to WSC.
 
The Order was published in the Federal Register on November 15, 
2001 (66 FR 57489). The Order exempted WCS from certain NRC 
regulations and permitted WCS, under specified conditions, to 
possess waste containing SNM in greater quantities than specified 
in 10 CFR part 150, at WCS's storage and treatment facility in 
Andrews County, Texas, without obtaining an NRC license pursuant 
to 10 CFR part 70. The methodology used to establish these limits 
is discussed in the 2001 Safety Evaluation Report (SER) that 
supported the 2001 Order.
 
 
[[Page 65469]] III The NRC staff considers that the appropriate 
action is to modify WCS's exemption. Currently, WCS is exempted 
from the requirements of 10 CFR part 70, including the 
requirements for an NRC license in 10 CFR 70.3, for SNM within 
the restricted area at WCS's site. This modification specifically 
would allow WCS to use such chemical reagents as it deems 
necessary for treatment and stabilization of mixed waste 
containing SNM provided that the SNM mass does not exceed 
specified concentration limits. The WCS would continue to be 
restricted from using magnesium oxide in stabilization, per 
Condition 2 of the Order. Therefore, WCS's exemption is modified 
as follows: 1. Concentrations of SNM in individual waste 
containers and/or during processing must not exceed the following 
values: 
----------------------------------------------------------------- 
-------

 
Measurement Operational uncertainty SNM isotope               
limit (gram SNM/  (gram SNM/gram gram waste) waste) 
----------------------------------------------------------------- 
------- U-233.................................         4.7E-04 
7.1E-05 U-235 (10 percent enriched)...........         9.9E-04 
1.5E-04 U-235 (100 percent enriched)..........         6.2E-04 
9.3E-05 Pu-239................................         2.8E-04 
4.2E-05 Pu-241................................         2.2E-04 
3.2E-05 
----------------------------------------------------------------- 
------- When mixtures of these SNM isotopes are present in the 
waste, the sum-of-the-fractions rule, as illustrated below, 
should be used.
 
[GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN12NO04.000 The measurement uncertainty 
values in column 3 above represent the maximum one-sigma 
uncertainty associated with the measurement of the concentration 
of the particular radionuclide.
 
The SNM must be homogeneously distributed throughout the waste. 
If the SNM is not homogeneously distributed, then the limiting 
concentrations must not be exceeded on average in any contiguous 
mass of 600 kilograms.
 
2. Waste must not contain ``pure forms'' of chemicals containing 
carbon, fluorine, magnesium, or bismuth in bulk quantities (e.g., 
a pallet of drums, a B-25 box). By ``pure forms,'' it is meant 
that mixtures of the above elements such as magnesium oxide, 
magnesium carbonate, magnesium fluoride, bismuth oxide, etc. do 
not contain other elements. The presence of the above materials 
will be determined and documented by the generator, based on 
process knowledge, or testing.
 
3. Waste accepted must not contain total quantities of beryllium, 
hydrogenous material enriched in deuterium, or graphite above one 
tenth of one percent of the total weight of the waste. The 
presence of the above materials will be determined and documented 
by the generator, based on process knowledge, or testing.
 
4. Waste packages must not contain highly water soluble forms of 
SNM greater than 350 grams of U-235 or 200 grams of U-233 or 200 
grams of Pu. The sum of the fractions rule will apply for 
mixtures of U-233, U-235, and Pu. When multiple containers are 
processed in a larger container, the total quantity of soluble 
SNM shall not exceed these mass limits. Highly soluble forms of 
SNM include, but are not limited to: uranium sulfate, uranyl 
acetate, uranyl chloride, uranyl formate, uranyl fluoride, uranyl 
nitrate, uranyl potassium carbonate, uranyl sulfate, plutonium 
chloride, plutonium fluoride, and plutonium nitrate. The presence 
of the above materials will be determined and documented by the 
generator, based on process knowledge or testing.
 
5. Processing of mixed waste containing SNM will be limited to 
chemical stabilization (i.e., mixing waste with reagents). For 
batches with more than 600 kilograms of waste, the total mass of 
SNM shall not exceed the concentration limits in Condition 1 
times 600 kilograms of waste.
 
6. Prior to shipment of waste, WCS shall require generators to 
provide a written certification containing the following 
information for each waste stream: a. Waste Description. The 
description must detail how the waste was generated, list the 
physical forms in the waste, and identify uranium chemical 
composition.
 
b. Waste Characterization Summary. The data must include a 
general description of how the waste was characterized (including 
the volumetric extent of the waste, and the number, location, 
type, and results of any analytical testing), the range of SNM 
concentrations, and the analytical results with error values used 
to develop the concentration ranges.
 
c. Uniformity Description. A description of the process by which 
the waste was generated showing that the spatial distribution of 
SNM must be uniform, or other information supporting spatial 
distribution.
 
d. Manifest Concentration. The generator must describe the 
methods to be used to determine the concentrations on the 
manifests.
 
These methods could include direct measurement and the use of 
scaling factors. The generator must describe the uncertainty 
associated with sampling and testing used to obtain the manifest 
concentrations.
 
WCS shall review the above information and, if adequate, approve 
in writing this pre-shipment waste characterization and assurance 
plan before permitting the shipment of a waste stream. This will 
include statements that WCS has a written copy of all the 
information required above, that the characterization information 
is adequate and consistent with the waste description, and that 
the information is sufficient to demonstrate compliance with 
Conditions 1 through 4. Where generator process knowledge is used 
to demonstrate compliance with Conditions 1, 2, 3, or 4, WCS 
shall review this information and determine when testing is 
required to provide additional information in assuring compliance 
with the Conditions. WCS shall retain this information as 
required by the State of Texas to permit independent review.
 
 
[[Page 65470]] At the time waste is received, WCS shall require 
generators of SNM waste to provide a written certification with 
each waste manifest that states that the SNM concentrations 
reported on the manifest do not exceed the limits in Condition 1, 
that the measurement uncertainty does not exceed the uncertainty 
value in Condition 1, and that the waste meets Conditions 2 
through 4.
 
WCS shall require generators to sample and determine the SNM 
concentration for each waste stream at the following frequency: 
(a) If the concentrations are above one tenth the SNM limits 
(Condition 1), once per 600 kg, (b) if the concentrations are 
below one tenth and greater than one hundredth of the SNM limits, 
once per 6,000 kg, and (c) if the concentrations are below one 
hundredth of the SNM limits, once per 60,000 kg.
 
If the waste is determined to be not homogeneous (i.e., maximum, 
which cannot exceed the limits in Condition 1, and minimum 
testing values performed by the generator are greater than five 
times the average value), the generator shall sample and 
determine the SNM concentration once per 600 kg thereafter, 
regardless of SNM concentration. In this case, samples shall be a 
composite consisting of four uniformly sampled aliquots.
 
The certifications required under these conditions shall be made 
in writing and include the statement that the signer of the 
certification understands that this information is required to 
meet the requirements of the NRC and must be complete and 
accurate in all material respects.
 
7. WCS shall sample and determine the SNM concentration for each 
waste stream at the following frequency: (a) If the 
concentrations are above one tenth the SNM limits (Condition 1), 
once per 1,500 kg for the first shipment and every 6,000 kg 
thereafter, (b) if the concentrations are below one tenth and 
greater than one hundredth of the SNM limits, once per 20,000 kg 
for the first shipment and every 60,000 kg thereafter, and (c) if 
the concentrations are below one hundredth of the SNM limits, 
once per 600,000 kg. This confirmatory testing is not required 
for waste to be disposed of at DOE's WIPP facility.
 
If the waste is determined to be not homogeneous (i.e., maximum 
and minimum testing values performed by the generator are greater 
than five times the average value), WCS shall sample and 
determine the SNM concentration once per 1,500 kg for the first 
shipment and every 6,000 kg thereafter, regardless of SNM 
concentration. In this case, samples shall be a composite 
consisting of four uniformly sampled aliquots.
 
8. WCS shall notify the NRC, Region IV office within 24 hours if 
any of the above Conditions are violated. A written notification 
of the event must be provided within 7 days.
 
9. WCS shall obtain NRC approval prior to changing any activities 
associated with the above Conditions.
 
IV Based on the staff's evaluation, the Commission has 
determined, pursuant to 10 CFR 70.17(a), that the exemption as 
described above at the WCS facility is authorized by law, will 
not endanger life or property or the common defense and security 
and is otherwise in the public interest. Accordingly, by this 
Order, the Commission hereby grants this exemption subject to the 
above conditions. The exemption will become effective after the 
State of Texas has incorporated the above conditions into WCS's 
RML.
 
Pursuant to the requirements in 10 CFR part 51, the Commission 
has published an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed 
action wherein it has determined that the granting of this 
exemption will have no significant impacts on the quality of the 
human environment.
 
This finding was noticed in the Federal Register on October 20, 
2004 (69 FR 61697).
 
V As of October 25, 2004, the NRC initiated an additional 
security review of publicly available documents to ensure that 
potentially sensitive information is removed from the ADAMS 
database accessible through the NRC's Web site. Interested 
members of the public should check the NRC's web pages for 
updates on the availability of documents through the ADAMS 
system.\1\ 
----------------------------------------------------------------- 
---------- \1\ The requests for modifying the Order will be 
available for inspection at NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room 
at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html 
[http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leaving 
FR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html] 
using the ADAMS Accession Nos. ML032590937 and ML041350224. The 
NRC staff's request for additional information, its EA, and its 
SER for this action will be available at the above Web site using 
the ADAMS Accession Nos.
 
ML032731010, ML042250451, and ML042250362, respectively.
 
----------------------------------------------------------------- 
---------- Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 5th day of November 
2004.
 
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 
Jack R. Strosnider, Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
 
[FR Doc. 04-25169 Filed 11-10-04; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P

 
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 17 [du-list] depleted uranium and congenital malformations
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:53:48 -0800

 
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  > ... can you provide any references about congenital malformations?

Health effects of depleted uranium on exposed Gulf War veterans: a
10-year follow-up. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2004 Feb 27;67(4):277-96.
by McDiarmid MA, Engelhardt S, Oliver M, Gucer P, Wilson PD, Kane R,
Kabat M, Kaup B, Anderson L, Hoover D, Brown L, Handwerger B, Albertini
RJ, Jacobson-Kram D, Thorne CD, Squibb KS.  Abstract:

"Medical surveillance of a group of U.S. Gulf War veterans who were
victims of depleted uranium (DU) "friendly fire" has been carried out
since the early 1990s. Findings to date reveal a persistent elevation of
urine uranium, more than 10 yr after exposure, in those veterans with
retained shrapnel fragments. The excretion is presumably from ongoing
mobilization of DU from fragments oxidizing in situ. Other clinical
outcomes related to urine uranium measures have revealed few
abnormalities. Renal function is normal despite the kidney's expected
involvement as the "critical" target organ of uranium toxicity. Subtle
perturbations in some proximal tubular parameters may suggest early
although not clinically significant effects of uranium exposure. A mixed
picture of genotoxic outcomes is also observed, including an association
of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) mutation
frequency with high urine uranium levels. Findings observed in this
chronically exposed cohort offer guidance for predicting future health
effects in other potentially exposed populations and provide helpful
data for hazard communication for future deployed personnel."

http://ije.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/33/1/74
"Male Gulf war veterans reported a higher proportion of offspring with
any type of malformation than the comparison cohort (OR = 1.5, 95% CI:
1.3, 1.7). Examination by type of malformation revealed some evidence
for increased risk of malformations of the genital system, urinary
system (renal and urinary tract), and 'other' defects of the digestive
system, musculo-skeletal system, and non-chromosomal (non-syndrome)
anomalies....  The finding of a possible relationship with renal
anomalies requires further investigation."

http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2002training/wakayama2.pdf
"Urine samples containing uranium are mutagenic as determined by the
Ames test...."

http://www.khou.com/news/upclose/stories/khou040304_ds_UpCloseGulfWarDefects.52dc83ac.html
Television station KHOU, Channel 11 in Houston, has reported the
following in March of this year:  "An internal Veterans Administration
study shows children of Gulf War vets have twice the normal rate of
birth defects. A Department of Defense-funded study shows children of
male Gulf War vets have three times the average rate of heart defects.
And a study just released this month shows women who served in the first
Gulf War suffered three times the normal rate of miscarriages in the
period just after the conflict."

Studies by Lowell E. Sever, an epidemiologist with Battelle's Seattle
Research Center, and others reported an association between neural tube
defects and the radiation dose fathers received before their children
were conceived. This effect was observed in children whose fathers
received low doses (10 rem or less) of external whole-body radiation
while working at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State.

In 1990, Martin J. Gardner (Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the
University of Southampton, England) and colleagues published the results
of a study of leukemia and lymphoma among young people born and living
near the Sellafield nuclear power plant in West Cumbria, United Kingdom.
The researchers concluded that leukemia in children was linked to their
fathers' exposure to external whole-body radiation before conception of
the child.  For children whose fathers worked at the nuclear facility,
the rate of childhood leukemia was twice as high as normal. There was
also an eight-fold increase of leukemia in children whose fathers
received a life-time dose greater than 10 rem or a dose greater than 1
rem within the six months before the children's conception.  A study by
P.A. McKinney (Information and Statistics Division, Scottish Common
Services, Edinburgh, Scotland) indicated a 2.5-fold increase in leukemia
in children whose fathers had radiation doses similar to those in the
Gardner study.







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 18 [DU-WATCH] SF: HP Shipyard dump led to cancerous human breasts
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:45:50 -0600 (CST)

 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 11, 2004
As published in the San Francisco Bay View newspaper
Contact: Email the SFBV at editor@sfbayview.com 
Contact Bob Nichols: info-radiation-wars@cox.net 
 
Tell Mayor Newsom, Clean up the landfill!
 
How dead animals dumped in HP Shipyard lead to cancerous human breasts
by Bob Nichols
Project Censored Award winner 

The 46-acre Shipyard landfill, where the bodies of animals killed by
radiation were dumped, was once a streambed in a beautiful ravine. Across
the cove is the current 49ers stadium.
Photo: Maurice Campbell
Marin County residents, go ahead, carefully and completely feel your breasts
and those of the one you are with. Do you feel any small lumps that probably
arent supposed to be there?
If so, just think of the potentially cancerous lumps as a gift from
Americas thriving nuclear weapons program more than 50 years ago right here
on the shore of San Francisco Bay. The Hunters Point Naval Shipyards Naval
Radiation Defense Laboratory to be exact.
Then lift your eyes to gaze upon the sleek buildings clinging to the finest
land overlooking Americas best view and glimpse the Lawrence Livermore
Nuclear Weapons Laboratory (atomic bomb factory) annex called Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab lording it over Berkeley across the bay. 
More ...  
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 19 [du-list] NICHOLS: Tell Mayor Newsom, 
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:54:03 -0800

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 11, 2004

As published in the San Francisco Bay View newspaper

Contact: Email the SFBV at editor@sfbayview.com

Contact Bob Nichols: info-radiation-wars@cox.net


Tell Mayor Newsom, 'Clean up the landfill!'





How dead animals dumped in HP Shipyard lead to cancerous human breasts

by Bob Nichols

Project Censored Award winner



The 46-acre Shipyard landfill, where the bodies of animals killed by
radiation were dumped, was once a streambed in a beautiful ravine. Across
the cove is the current 49ers' stadium.

Photo: Maurice Campbell

Marin County residents, go ahead, carefully and completely feel your breasts
and those of the one you are with. Do you feel any small lumps that probably
aren't supposed to be there?

If so, just think of the potentially cancerous lumps as a gift from
America's thriving nuclear weapons program more than 50 years ago right here
on the shore of San Francisco Bay. The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard's Naval
Radiation Defense Laboratory to be exact.

Then lift your eyes to gaze upon the sleek buildings clinging to the finest
land overlooking America's best view and glimpse the Lawrence Livermore
Nuclear Weapons Laboratory (atomic bomb factory) annex called Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab lording it over Berkeley across the bay.

More ...

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 20 [du-list] VIP " D.U." Story Airs Thursday Veterans Day
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:53:08 -0800

 
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    Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:54:03 -0600
    From: "margd" <margd@ev1.net>
Subject: [vfp-all] VIP " D.U." Story Airs Thursday Veterans Day

how can i get a copy of this?

----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Ahern
To: vfp-all
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:15 AM
Subject: [vfp-all] VIP " D.U." Story Airs Thursday Veterans Day on KING 5 
TV and features Interviews with VFP!
Depleted Uranium Munitions Story airs on Seattle KING 5 TV Veteran's Day on 
5 P.M. Newscast!

Finally and with little advance notice, the story I have pushed to KING 5 
for several months is going to be on tomorrow. Please let associates know 
in Washington and Oregon. Please whoever is able, watch it and let KING 5 
know what you think, whether you find it weak or you feel it gave out 
enough information, please contact the station and thank them for covering 
it. To our knowledge this is the first investigative report of uranium 
weapons (U.M.) airing on U.S. mainstream TV. The more phone calls they get 
(each call or letter to media equals 100 viewers) the more comments, the 
more they may do more in depth on this in the future. Sometimes a piece 
will also air later in the evening, but be shorter. Another help would be 
to ask them to put it on their website. Phone numbers are below. Email 
lmatsukawa@king5.com  and news@king5.com . If they receive enough comments, 
it may encourage other national NBC affiliates to carry it.

Lori Matsukawa interviewed VFP's  Dennis Kyne  and Congressman Jim 
McDermott and Veteran Alvin Clark. She was planning on using excerpts of 
Doug Rokke's army training film on 'DU'.  If you can, please tape  it, so 
it can be shared and shown to public officials we all need to lobby to STOP 
U.M.!

Thank you for any help networking this news story to concerned associates. 
Until this issue is fully in mainstream news, nothing will change and these 
weapons will continue to be used without question. Our voices must be 
raised to end these weapons and we must ask mainstream media to cover this 
topic.

Many thanks and best regards,

Kären Ahern  VFP Chapter #92 of Western Washington



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 21 [du-list] "...US troops are firing white-phosphorus rounds .."
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:53:01 -0800

 
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Item posted earlier to DU list ends.....

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK12Ak04.html

Tough tactics
The Pentagon is pulling out all stops to "liberate" the people of Fallujah. 
According to residents, the city is now littered with thousands of cluster 
bombs. In an explosive accusation - and not substantiated - an Iraqi doctor 
who requested anonymity has told al-Quds Press that "the US occupation 
troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with 
internationally banned chemical weapons". The Washington Post has confirmed 
that US troops are firing white-phosphorus rounds that create a screen of 
fire impervious to water.

Dr Muhammad Ismail, a member of the governing board of Fallujah's general 
hospital "captured" by the Americans at the outset of Operation Phantom 
Fury, has called all Iraqi doctors for urgent help. Ismail told Iraqi and 
Arab press that the number of wounded civilians is growing exponentially - 
and medical supplies are almost non-existent. He confirmed that US troops 
had arrested many members of the hospital's medical staff and had sealed 
the storage of medical supplies.

The wounded in Fallujah are in essence left to die. There is not a single 
surgeon in town. And practically no doctors as well, as the Pentagon 
decided to bomb both the al-Hadar Hospital and the Zayid Mobile Hospital. 
So far, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reacted with 
thunderous apathy.

The Sunni revolution
When a few snipers are capable of holding scores of marines for a day in 
Fallujah - an eerie replay of the second part of Stanley Kubrick's Full 
Metal Jacket - and when eight of 10 US divisions are bogged down by a few 
thousand Iraqis with Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers, the fact is the US 
does not control anything in Sunni Iraq. It does not control towns, cities, 
roads, and it barely controls the Green Zone, the American fortress in 
Baghdad that is the ultimate symbol of the occupation.

In 1999, the Russians bombed and destroyed Grozny, the Chechen capital, a 
city of originally 400,000 people. Five years later, Chechen guerrillas are 
still trapping Russian troops in a living hell there. The same scenario 
will be replayed in Fallujah - a city of originally 300,000 people. All 
this destruction - which any self-respecting international lawyer can argue 
is a war crime - for the Bush administration to send a brutal message: 
either you're with us or we'll smash you to pieces.

The Iraqi resistance does not care if thousands of mujahideen are smashed 
to pieces: it is actually gearing up for a major strategic victory. The 
strategy is twofold: half of the Fallujah resistance stayed behind, ready 
to die like martyrs, increasing the already boiling-point hatred of 
Americans in Iraq and the Middle East and boosting their urban support. The 
other half left before Phantom Fury and is already setting fires in 
Baghdad, Tikrit, Ramadi, Baquba, Balad, Kirkuk, Mosul and even Shi'ite 
Karbala.

They may be decimated little by little. But the fact is Sunni Iraqis are 
more than ever aware they are excluded from the Bush administration's 
"democratic" plans for Iraq. The only Sunni political party in interim 
premier Iyad Allawi's "government" is now out. And the powerful Association 
of Muslim Scholars (AMS) - the foremost Sunni religious body - is now 
officially boycotting the January elections. There are unconfirmed reports 
that Sheikh Abdullah al-Janabi, the head of the mujahideen shura (council) 
in Fallujah and a very prominent AMS member, died when his mosque, Saad ibn 
Abi Wakkas, was bombed.

The Sunni Iraqi resistance is now configuring itself as a full-fledged 
revolution. According to sources in Baghdad, the leaders of the resistance 
believe there's no other way for them to expel the American invaders and 
subsequently be restored to power - especially because if elections are 
held in January, the Shi'ites are certain to win. Contemplating the dogs of 
civil war barking in the distance, no wonder Baghdad's al-Zaman newspaper 
is so somber: "Iraq will remain a sleeping volcano, even if the state of 
emergency is extended forever."

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 22 [DU-WATCH] Re: [du-list] birth defects
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:06:28 -0600 (CST)

 
Thanks James for this sad message.  Unfortunately the "experimental"
evidence of the truth that the sperm of males is the most vulnerable
link in the reproductive chain when it comes to assaults from the
environment. [If anyone wants an explanation of this give it again if
requested]
 
While that serial killer DU is the prime suspect and I'd like to be able
to say inconclusively it was the cause, that is not possible.  These
soldiers were exposed to a constellation of envronmental assaults.
Epidemiology is rarely an easy, straightforward quest.  I'd be happy for
anyone to refute this. Anyone with a strong argument that it has to be
DU, and none of the other factors or combination of factors?
 
Epidemiology was God's answer to prayers back in the days of the Black
Plague, tracing the cause of the dreadful disease to the fleas on the
warf rats.  Most of us now living probably have the perserverance of
epidemiologist Ignatz Semmelweiss to thank.  It was he, though he was
reviled and hated for it, that doctors wash their hands after attending
each new mother before going on to the next.  Don't be afraid to be
reviled and hated.
 
It's interesting to see that the UK definition of fetal death is not the
same as used in the USA and is more valuable, yielding more information.
 
Elaine Hunter
 

<-----Original Message----->

 	  	 From: James Salsman
Sent: 11/10/2004 3:09:30 AM
To: du-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [du-list] birth defects 

In 1999, the U.K. Ministry of Defence commissioned an independent survey
of the reproductive health of every veteran that served in the Gulf and 
their partners. The results were reported in the International Journal 
of Epidemiology (vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 74-86) available in full-text here:
http://ije.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/33/1/74 
Some excerpts: "The risk of reported miscarriage was higher among 
pregnancies fathered by Gulf war veterans than by non-Gulf war veterans 
(OR = 1.4, 95% CI: 1.3, 1.5). Stillbirth risk was similar in both 
groups. Male Gulf war veterans reported a higher proportion of offspring
with any type of malformation than the comparison cohort (OR = 1.5, 95% 
CI: 1.3, 1.7). Examination by type of malformation revealed some 
evidence for increased risk of malformations of the genital system, 
urinary system (renal and urinary tract), and 'other' defects of the 
digestive system, musculo-skeletal system, and non-chromosomal 
(non-syndrome) anomalies.... The finding of a possible relationship 
with renal anomalies requires further investigation." 

That further investigation is taking place now. Please see the U.K's 
Depleted Uranium Oversight Board's website: http://www.duob.org.uk/ 
They have decided to test all of their Gulf War and Balkans conflict 
veterans, and they go into some detail (in their meeting minutes) about 
the reasons they have chosen to take this course of action. This 
newspaper article describes the situation in detail: 
http://www.sundayherald.com/40306 
Their first tests took place starting March of this year, but they are 
now sending letters urging all eligible veterans to be tested. 

There are some DoD documents which clearly show the truth of the matter.
Take this one for example: 
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2002training/wakayama2.pdf 
Excerpts: "Urine samples containing uranium are mutagenic as determined 
by the Ames test.... uranium would be solubilized and redistribute to 
various tissues as early as one day after implantation.... As expected, 
the highest uranium concentrations were in kidneys and bone. Other 
tissues also showed significantly higher levels.... Because of these 
findings, there are proposed changes in the DU shrapnel removal policy. 
For example, it is now advised that DU fragments greater than 1 cm be 
removed.... DU can be deposited in bone causing DNA damage by the 
effects of the alpha particles.... For inhalation exposure, a larger 
rapidly dissolving uranium was observed in the airborne material than in
the settled material (RC Scripsick et al, Govt Reports Announcements & 
Index, Issue 02, 1985.)" 

The new U.K. DU instructions go in to much more detail: 
http://www.mod.uk/issues/depleted_uranium/gulf_safety_instructions.htm 
Excerpts: "traces of DU have been found in the gun barrels and fume 
extractor after firing.... The toxic hazard is presented by inhalation 
or ingestion of DU dust, or by contamination of open wounds by DU 
dust.... Personnel should not climb onto or into vehicles or structures 
possibly hit by DU rounds unless required to do so. Personnel should 
avoid the surrounding area by at least 50m and attempt to stay upwind of
fires involving DU.... When it is necessary to enter DU contaminated 
areas, exposed skin is to be covered and especially any exposed wounds. 
If practicable, NBC rubber gloves or leather gloves and a dust mask ... 
should be worn. If no mask is readily available, a handkerchief, 
shemaugh or sweat rag (wet better than dry) should be used to cover nose
and mouth.... Potentially contaminated areas should be checked and, if 
contamination is found, clearly marked with a 50m cordon, and left. 
Personnel are to be warned of the hazard...." 

The U.K. MoD is now issuing a card to all of their troops in Iraq which 
specifically indicates that depleted uranium munitions can cause ill 
health -- contradicting earlier assertions that they could not (many of 
which are still part of official MoD publications.) The U.K. Pension 
Appeal Tribunal Service has this year begun directly attributing Gulf 
War Illness victims to the use of depleted uranium, based on a blood 
test developed by German biochemist Albrecht Schott: 
http://www.unknownnews.net/040210du.html 

In the U.S., we seem to be behind. Television station KHOU, Channel 11 
in Houston, has reported the following in March of this year: "An 
internal Veterans Administration study shows children of Gulf War vets 
have twice the normal rate of birth defects. A Department of 
Defense-funded study shows children of male Gulf War vets have three 
times the average rate of heart defects. And a study just released this 
month shows women who served in the first Gulf War suffered three times 
the normal rate of miscarriages in the period just after the conflict." 
http://www.khou.com/news/upclose/stories/khou040304_ds_UpCloseGulfWarDef
ects.52dc83ac.html 

Studies by Lowell E. Sever, an epidemiologist with Battelle's Seattle 
Research Center, and others reported an association between neural tube 
defects and the radiation dose fathers received before their children 
were conceived. This effect was observed in children whose fathers 
received low doses (10 rem or less) of external whole-body radiation 
while working at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State. 

In 1990, Martin J. Gardner (Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the 
University of Southampton, England) and colleagues published the results
of a study of leukemia and lymphoma among young people born and living 
near the Sellafield nuclear power plant in West Cumbria, United Kingdom.
The researchers concluded that leukemia in children was linked to their 
fathers' exposure to external whole-body radiation before conception of 
the child. For children whose fathers worked at the nuclear facility, 
the rate of childhood leukemia was twice as high as normal. There was 
also an eight-fold increase of leukemia in children whose fathers 
received a life-time dose greater than 10 rem or a dose greater than 1 
rem within the six months before the children's conception. A study by 
P.A. McKinney (Information and Statistics Division, Scottish Common 
Services, Edinburgh, Scotland) indicated a 2.5-fold increase in leukemia
in children whose fathers had radiation doses similar to those in the 
Gardner study. 

There is no evidence that common battlefield conditions do not often 
result in inhalation (not ingestion) of a dangerous amount of uranyl 
nitrates. 

There is evidence contrary to the fact that Gulf War Illness has 
symptoms identical to those of uranium pyrolite inhalation. 

The Health Physics Society correctly asserts that, "The main route of 
potentially hazardous exposure [for uranium-based aerosols] is 
inhalation since gastrointestinal uptake is relatively small. After 
inhalation, uranium will be slowly mobilized and enter the systemic 
circulation. The uranyl ion is the form of mobile uranium within the 
body. It deposits at bone surfaces and remains in the bone matrix with a
half-time of up to one year." 

The Health Physics Society falsely claims that the only organs harmed by
uranium toxicity are the kidneys, and in fact the clinical 
manifestations of uranyl poisoning include kidney and liver damage, 
anemia, a depressed cellular immune system, and congenital malformation.
"Internal contamination with depleted uranium isotopes was detected in 
British, Canadian, and United States Gulf War veterans as late as nine 
years after inhalational exposure to radioactive dust in the Persian 
Gulf War I. DU isotopes were also identified in a Canadian veteran's 
autopsy samples of lung, liver, kidney, and bone.... After the 
Afghanistan Operation Anaconda (2002), our team studied the population 
of Jalalabad, Spin Gar, Tora Bora, and Kabul areas, and identified 
civilians with the symptoms similar to those of Gulf War syndrome.... 
results from the Jalalabad province revealed urinary excretion of total 
uranium in all subjects significantly exceeding the values in the 
nonexposed population.... Studies of specimens collected in 2002 
revealed uranium concentrations up to 200 times higher in the districts 
of Tora Bora, Yaka Toot, Lal Mal, Makam Khan Farm, Arda Farm, Bibi 
Mahro, Poli Cherki, and the Kabul airport than in the control 
population." -- by Asaf Durakovic, M.D., in the Croatian Medical Journal
(vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 520-32, 2003.) 

The Materials Safety Data Sheets for lead compounds use the phrase, 
"avoid breathing vapor or dust," and that the corresponding phrase 
phrase for uranyl nitrate is, "very toxic if inhaled," contrary to Dr. 
Kathren's false assertion (as endorsed by the Health Physics Society) 
that, "from a chemical toxicity standpoint, uranium is on the same order
of toxicity as lead." 

Sincerely, 
James 

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 23 IEER: Testimony to NAS Committee on Radiation Exposure Screening and
Education Program
 
[http://www.ieer.org/index.html] |

Testimony before the Committee on the Assessment of Scientific 
Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education 
Program, National Academy of Sciences at a hearing in Boise, 
Idaho November 6, 2004 
                                
by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. President, Institute for Energy and 
Environmental Research (IEER) on behalf of IEER and the Snake 
River Alliance 

I am honored to represent the Snake River Alliance, my favorite
grassroots organization, and the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research (IEER) before you today. My colleague
Lisa Ledwidge and I sent you a letter regarding your study
[http://www.ieer.org/comments/fallout/nasltr0904.html] of the
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act on September 2, 2004 and I
am submitting it again here to you for the record here in Idaho.
Please consider this testimony an update of that letter,
especially since I have learned some new facts and have had the
occasion to do a few calculations since that time regarding the
subject of your study. 

My main recommendation to you today is that you take a
comprehensive look at the affected populations so that this
issue does not have to be revisited every few years, with more
people testifying about family members who have already passed
away, with their children and parents, and spouses, and siblings
in grief and financial and medical distress. Both the geographic
coverage as well as the coverage of the diseases should be
expanded. with the benefit of the doubt being given to those who
suffered radiation doses without their informed consent. 

If one applies the same compensation criteria as those applied
to nuclear weapons workers in the Energy Employees Compensation
legislation of the year 2000, to thyroid cancer, the
compensation program would extend to a significant fraction of
the U.S. population born after about 1940 to 1962, and possibly
thereafter. Since many, though not all, nuclear weapons workers
had at least a partial awareness that they were being exposed to
radiation, the criteria for defining the portion of general
population that is covered should be more expansive and
generous. Likewise the compensation amount and health care
benefits should not be less generous than that given to workers
under the 2000 energy-employees law
[http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_9/9-1/compleg.html] . 

In the spring of 1998, a few months after the NCI thyroid cancer
study was released, I was the first scientist to tour some of
the most affected areas in Idaho as part of a tour organized by
the Snake River Alliance, to speak about fallout. I heard the
same kinds of stories you are hearing today. I was stunned as a
human being and as a parent, to hear what people had endured and
were enduring still. 

I am glad you are here as part of an official study, finally. I
have felt since 1997 that the government should have sent its
own scientific representatives to explain to the people in their
home towns like Challis and Twin Falls what had occurred there.
One of the reasons I came in 1998 is that the federal government
did not do so. I urge you to hold hearings in other parts of the
country, including Montana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New York,
Vermont, and other states that were affected significantly by
fallout. I was glad to hear Dr. Douple acknowledge today what is
clear from the CDC maps -- that hot spots occurred far and wide
all across the United States. I believe that parts of Canada
were also significantly affected. 

For instance, the CDC calculator estimates the thyroid dose to a
female born in Gem County, Idaho on January 1, 1952 as 55 rad.
The dose to a female born in Grand Isle County, Vermont on the
same day would be 21 rad. In both cases, I assumed average milk
consumption. If either person got thyroid cancer, the likelihood
that it was caused by fallout is 95 percent and 83 percent
respectively using average risk coefficients. As you know, the
worker radiation compensation act requires a 99 percentile risk
calculation, which is far more generous and favorable to the
exposed person. 

I understand that the CDC has a calculator that allows a 99
percentile risk calculation, but that it is not accessible to
the general public. I urge you as well as Idaho's congressional
delegation to ensure that this part of the web site is
accessible to the public. As you have seen, many people,
including those without scientific degrees, can and do become
very adept on technical issues. Mothers are among this country's
best epidemiological researchers. I think the public should be
able to compare at what risk levels workers would be compensated
and what is the situation under RECA at present or as may be
proposed in future legislation. 

You also heard testimony today about other radionuclides and
other test sites. This issue came up in 1997, when the NCI study
on iodine-131 was published. Congress asked for preliminary
evaluation of this issue to be done. A draft study
[http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/fallout/] was completed in
2001 but a final version has still not been published, though I
understand that it has been ready for some time. It sits in the
office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services awaiting
permission for publication. 

The draft study indicated that many areas not seriously affected
by Nevada testing were affected by fallout from U.S. and British
testing in the Pacific and by Soviet testing in what is now
Kazakhstan. This study, as well as the other test sites in this
country should also be taken into account in your study. 

I called your attention to the first ever nuclear test in 1945
in my Sept. 2, 2004 letter and I do so again. This test produced
severe fallout and it is a shame that no attention has been paid
to those who suffered radiation doses from it. I request to look
into this, and when you do to look into the question of whether
infant mortality increased in the aftermath of that test. There
were well documented hot spots; there was a vast swath of
fallout from this test. 

IEER first tried to call attention to the problem of hot spots
and health effects in a 1991 book which IEER did jointly with
the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
I am providing you with a copy of this book, <i>Radioactive
Heaven and Earth</i>
[http://www.ieer.org/pubs/index.html#radheaven] for the Record.
More information about it and fallout is available on the IEER
website, www.ieer.org. Among other things, we showed that a
variety of radionuclides would be expected to cause hundreds of
thousands of cancers across the world. The people in the hot
spots, such as those in Idaho, were the most affected. 

In Chapter 4 of Radioactive Heaven and Earth, you will find
clear documentary evidence that the U.S. continental test site
was located in Nevada with the clear knowledge that it would
blow fallout over most of the continental United States, due to
prevailing westerly winds. This makes it imperative that your
recommendations of the affected population be comprehensive and
generous. 

Today, I heard for the first time testimony that provides
scientific evidence that those in hot spot areas were not only
subject to what is officially called low-level radiation, but
also high-level radiation that creates somatic, detectable
effects, like hair loss. In the evidence given to you today, the
hair loss was associated with a fallout event that was
documented by Geiger counter measurements taken before and after
the fallout. I have heard much anecdotal evidence to this effect
before, but this is the first time that I have heard hair loss
linked to actual measurements that detected the fallout in the
hot spot. 

No official study, to my knowledge, has acknowledged high-level
radiation doses so far. I recommend that you do so and that you
stress the testimony that was given to you this morning as part
of the evidence. This is important because it means that the
number of cancers and diseases that must be covered at least in
the hot spots would be wider than the 20 cancers recognized in
RECA. I note here that the worker compensation legislation
passed in the year 2000 covers all cancers except chronic
lymphocytic leukemia for those workers whose doses can be
estimated. Since individual doses cannot realistically be
estimated for downwinders with reasonable confidence (as
distinct from area or population doses, as was done in the NCI
study), the list of cancers in RECA should be no shorter. 

Recent data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki indicate that diseases
other than cancer are caused by radiation exposure. Dr. Lynn
Anspaugh of the University of Utah has already testified to you
about this from a scientific point of view. Today you have heard
testimony from many affected families regarding non-cancer
diseases. My own considered view of this issue is that when
radiation affects hormonal systems, such as the thyroid gland or
the immune system, that a number of health vulnerabilities are
created. The scientific evidence as well as the testimony of
affected people, especially those in hot spots such as Idaho,
should provide enough evidence to you to make more comprehensive
recommendations about the range of diseases to be included in
the compensation program. I would be happy to meet with you to
discuss this further and to provide more details to your panel. 

I know that your charter does not include consideration of
future tests as a security or policy issue. But, in my view, you
cannot fail to note the potential health and environmental
consequences of underground tests. First of all, there were very
large releases of radioactivity from about 30 underground tests
between 1962 and 1970. The last one of these was the Baneberry
test on December 18, 1970, which released an estimated 6.7
million curies of radioactivity. I recommend that the RECA
program should include all tests until the Baneberry test. 

Second, the future health consequences of underground testing
cannot be ignored, just because there are not yet manifest. It
is true that iodine-131 is unlikely to be a significant issue in
a present-day underground test due to its short half-life. But
recent research indicates that long-lived radionuclides,
including plutonium-239, can migrate far more rapidly from the
test location than thought when the underground tests were being
done. Therefore, underground tests carry a risk of down-aquifer
exposure, if I might coin a term. This risk is not well
understood. It is a risk to generations far into the future to
people who would have no clue about what happened to them. The
testimony you have heard today shows that even in an open
society the knowledge about risks from current events is hard to
come by. Can you ignore what we are doing to future generations
having heard what you did today? I urge you to include a caution
that the potential for future exposure exists if more
underground test are done. For the record, both the Snake River
Alliance and IEER are opposed to further nuclear tests of any
kind by anyone for health, environmental, and security reasons. 

This caution is all the more necessary, given a sorry history on
the part of the nuclear weapons community in regard to health
protection. For instance, in April 1960, the alumni magazine of
the School of Engineering of the University of California, which
was and is the nuclear weapons contractor for Los Alamos and
Livermore National Laboratories, blithely argued that 6,000
babies with major birth defects were an acceptable price of U.S.
nuclear testing. They did this without consultation with the
people of Nevada or Idaho or any other state. It is time for the
academic scientific community to make amends for this less than
democratic attitude, if I might put it as politely as I can. I
believe it is imperative that you include a caution that past
and future underground testing may produce ill-health in future
generations via the water pathway, even if the magnitude of this
risk is not well understood. Please do take note of the fact
that 200 years ago, no one would have predicted the rise of a
vast neon-lit city in the Nevada desert. Las Vegas stands just
80 miles from the test site. The half-life of plutonim-239, as
you know, is over 24,000 years. I would like to say a word about
multi-generational effects. Exposure of female fetuses creates
risk to their children at least, since the ova are formed in
utero. This simple fact should be taken into account in your
deliberations. 

I want to call your attention today to the health care aspects
of the problem, including preventive health care. The government
cannot ignore this responsibility for risks that it knowingly
created and inflicted on its own people. The problem of milk
contamination with iodine-131 has been understood since at least
1951. The government informed Kodak and other film-making
companies about radiation risks to their products, but did
nothing to protect the milk supply of the country. It is urgent
to make amends generously and compassionately. I hope you will
reflect that sense of urgency and compassion in your study. 

Also on this site: 
+ IEER letter to National Academy of Sciences committee
assessing the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
[http://www.ieer.org/comments/fallout/nasltr0904.html]
(September 2, 2004) 
+ IEER Letter
to the National Academy of Sciences Committee
[http://www.ieer.org/comments/fallout/nasltr.html] Reviewing the
Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American
Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests (September 12, 2002)
 
+ Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
[http://www.ieer.org/comments/fallout/factsht.html] (February
2002)
 
+ Fallout from Nuclear Testing Caused Cancers, U.S. Government
Study Shows [http://www.ieer.org/comments/fallout/pr0202.html]
(Press release, February 2002) 

+ Fallout Maps and Progress Report
[http://www.ieer.org/offdocs/index.html] (Official documents,
February 2002)
 
+ Radioactive Milk in America
[http://www.ieer.org/op-eds/radio/2radmilk.html] (radio
commentary, KUNM [http://www.kunm.org] , February 17, 2003)
 
+ What are the risks of protesting at the Nevada Test Site?
[http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_10/10-1/deararj.html] ("Dear
Arjun," November 2001)
 
+ Let Them Drink Milk: Iodine-131 Doses from Nuclear Weapons
Testing (November 1997) 
+ Radioactive Heaven and Earth:
[http://www.ieer.org/pubs/index.html#radheaven] The health and
environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and
above the earth (book)   

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
[http://www.ieer.org/index.html] Comments to Outreach
Coordinator: ieer{insert the symbol at}ieer.org
 Takoma Park, Maryland, USA

 Posted November 11, 2004 
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 24 Guardian Unlimited: US report links toxins to Gulf war syndrome
 
James Meikle, health correspondent
Saturday November 13, 2004
 [http://www.guardian.co.uk]  		
 		
Troops who have fallen ill since the first Gulf war may have 
fallen victim to a ticking toxic timebomb, advisers to the US 
government said last night. 

Scientists and veterans from the 1991 conflict went further than 
any previous official body either side of the Atlantic in 
identifying a complex chemical cocktail of nerve agents, pills to 
protect troops from those agents and multiple pesticides as a 
possible cause for their health problems. 

Psychiatric illness, combat experience or other stresses from 
deployment did not explain ill health in the "vast majority" of 
100,000 sick US veterans, according to the advisers' report. On 
the contrary, evidence supported a "probable link" between the 
toxins and veterans' illness. 

Many troops had been exposed to substances belonging to a class 
of compounds that affected the nervous system and a "growing body 
of research" indicated that ill veterans differed from healthy 
ones "on objective measures of neuropathology and impairment." 

Animal studies indicated that exposure to nerve agents at levels 
too low to produce acute symptoms could result in "chronic 
adverse effects on the nervous and immune systems". In addition, 
research suggested that if the neurotoxins were combined, they 
would be more poisonous. 

Lord Morris of Manchester, who has campaigned for veterans both 
here and in the US, said: "This is a major development in 
unravelling the truth about thousands of still unexplained Gulf 
war illnesses. Scientific opinion in the US increasingly rejects 
the old medical consensus attributing the illness to wartime 
stress and psychiatric illness. I am calling for an urgent 
ministerial statement here in the UK." 

The report was published by the US department of veterans 
affairs. The committee responsible included Robert Haley, the 
scientist who has suggested that three types of Gulf-related cell 
damage exist in veterans, the worst associated with confusion and 
vertigo, another related to thinking problems, depression and 
sleep disorders, and a third to pain. 

This is not accepted here although there is consideration as to 
whether some of the 6,000 British veterans who have complained of 
illness should undergo similar brain scans. The Ministry of 
Defence insists there is no Gulf war syndrome, and no more deaths 
among veterans than among troops who never went to the Gulf. 

It accepts that many more veterans who served there report 
illness. Research led by Simon Wessley of King's College, London, 
has suggested that people who had a battery of vaccinations and 
received them in the Gulf area, rather than before deployment, 
were more likely to report illness. 

The new report says no further research into stress as a primary 
cause of the illnesses should be funded under federal Gulf war 
programmes. Instead, more work should be done to investigate the 
chronic effects of exposure to pesticides and nerve gas, as well 
as the effects of tablets taken to protect against nerve gas. 

Earlier this year, a Congressional investigation blamed the 
bombing of weapons dumps during the war, or their destruction 
aftewards, for releasing chemical agents that might have spread 
wider than previously thought. 

It said the destruction of weapons bunkers at Khamisayah in 
southern Iraq in March spread into Saudia Arabia and well into 
Iran. This is not accepted by the British government. 

The research committee also wants the health of veterans' 
children monitored, and will pursue further research into 
infections diseases, vaccines, smoke from burning oil wells and 
depleted uranium in anti-tank shells. 

        Special reports The military Iraq Medicine and health

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[http://www.geocities.com/ukgulfwarhelp/] 
[http://www.gulfweb.org/] [http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/] 

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 25 Cibola County Beacon: Uranium workers meet
                                
Friday, November 12, 2004
   
[editor@cibolabeacon.com] 

GRANTS - More than 150 former uranium workers and their family 
members crowded into the Cibola County Complex in Grants, 
Wednesday, to hear three groups from New Mexico and Colorado 
update them on the benefits they have earned with their years of 
working near and in the mines.

Mike Nisbet of Professional Case Management in Denver said the 
Grants turnout was the largest his company representatives have 
ever seen in their travels around the country. They brought 
questionnaires for audience members to fill out and return, he 
said, but ran out and had to pass around a paper for people to 
put their names and phone numbers on instead.

Nisbet told audience members that if they have qualified for the 
$100,000 Department of Justice RECA (Radiation Exposure 
Compensation Act) settlement, or the $50,000 settlement from the 
Department of Labor, they also qualify for in-home nursing care. 
One family in Grants is already benefiting from the service, he 
said, and Professional Case Management is recruiting nurses in 
the area to care for as many miners, millers and ore haulers as 
need care.

Ron Emlinger, a registered nurse for Professional Case 
Management, told audience members "You are as much a hero as my 
dad is, who fought in World War II. He was shot at by bullets and 
you were shot at by radiation."

Emlinger said anyone who qualifies for RECA can get total health 
care for as much as 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or as 
little as a few drop-in visits. "The illnesses progress," he 
explained. "We can also assist with hospice and end-of-life 
care."

The nurse noted that while the Department of Labor and Department 
of Justice pay up to $150,000 per case, that money goes fast. 
"Medical coverage is a priceless benefit," Emlinger noted, "and 
there are no caps and no deductibles like Medicaid." He added 
that the RECA in-home service doesn't touch clients' assets 
either. Since nurses are hired part-time from the community where 
clients live, and since those nurses are paid well, "The economy 
benefits, you benefit and everybody benefits."

One stumbling block to helping former uranium workers does exist, 
according to Emlinger. "You're stubborn." He told a story of a 
230-pound former miner who felt he didn't need a nurse's help 
with getting up and down stairs, but whose 100-pound wife 
disagreed. "The benefit is more beneficial to your family than to 
you," Emlinger joked.

Elizabeth Cocher of the University of New Mexico's Radiation 
Exposure, Screening and Education Program (RESEP) reminded 
audience members that her organization holds clinics two or three 
times a month to help former uranium workers prove their health 
has been damaged by radiation exposure. She said RESEP can help 
work up a history of each patient's radiation exposure, do a 
health history, perform medical exams and chest x-rays and refer 
them to doctors for non-pulmonary diseases.

Cocher noted that members of the Navajo Nation can also be 
screened in Shiprock, while people eligible to go to 
Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna Hospital have a new screening program as 
well.

She noted that unlike Professional Case Mangement's services, 
RESEP is not free. However, the cost of testing can be paid 
through insurance or put on a sliding scale of $5 to $20 for 
uninsured patients. RESEP pays the remainder of the costs for 
each test, she said.

Nanci Quintana of the Grand Junction, Colo., law firm of Killian, 
Guthro and Jensen gave uranium workers and their families a few 
pointers on the legal aspects of RECA. For instance, she said, 
lawyers are now only allowed to charge a two-percent fee for 
helping a uranium worker or surviving family member file a RECA 
claim. They can charge up to 10 percent for refilling a claim 
that has been rejected in the past, she said. While people can 
file their own claims, she added, it takes a long time and could 
jeopardize their chances if they make mistakes and have to keep 
refiling, since uranium workers are only allowed to try three 
times before being declared ineligible for benefits.

Quintana also noted that RECA is the only law passed in United 
States history that contains an apology to the people it is 
helping. Miners, millers and ore haulers who worked at least one 
year or 40 Working Level Months (WRL) between 1942 and 1971, some 
nuclear industry workers and those who lived or worked downwind 
of the above-ground nuclear testing in Nevada are qualified to 
receive RECA, she said. "After 1971 the government thinks you had 
adequate ventilation."

Quintana urged audience members who worked in the uranium 
industry after 1971, who lived near uranium tailings or open pit 
mines, or who live in counties not officially listed as being 
"downwind" but who have large radiation-related disease levels to 
contact Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and their New Mexico 
congressional senators and representatives.

Audience members were also encouraged to come forward if they 
wanted to talk to any of the speakers after the meeting ended.

For more information about Professional Case Management's 
services, call 1-888-886-2281, ext. 320. RESEP testing can be 
scheduled by calling 240-2733 (for Cibola General Hospital) or 
(505) 552-5300 (for ACL Hospital). Killian, Guthro &Jensen can be 
reached at (970) 241-0707.

By Marian Hamilton 

Copyright © 2004Cibola County Beacon. 
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 26 KING5.com: U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire 

Seattle, Washington 

09:58 PM PST on Thursday, November 11, 2004 

By LORI MATSUKAWA / KING 5 News 
 
Alvin Clark, of Tacoma, developed aplastic anemia he believes is 
related to his exposure to depleted uranium dust after he was hit 
by friendly fire in Saudi Arabia.

Shells and armor used by U.S. tanks, gunships and helicopters are 
often made of depleted uranium because depleted uranium, or D.U., 
is a heavy metal, able to pierce armored vehicles or resist being 
pierced. But it's also radioactive, a waste product of nuclear 
enrichment plants like Hanford. 

A pentagon training film shows how the D.U. ordnance bursts into 
a fiery powder on contact. 

So, what happens when U.S. Troops are forced to march through the 
D.U. dust that's left on the ground? Or get hit by friendly fire? 
Some vets say it made them sick. The Pentagon disputes that. 

Shinichi Matsuura of Renton fought in the first Gulf War. His 
Bradley tank was hit not once, but twice, by U.S. forces. He 
breathed a lot of D.U. smoke. 

"Matter of fact I didn't know we were using D.U. until six years 
ago," said Matsuura. 

Alvin Clark of Tacoma says his unit was nearly hit by a friendly 
fire missile in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. He developed aplastic 
anemia and needed a bone marrow transplant. 

Clark said no one ever warned him there might be some depleted 
uranium out there, and if he were exposed to it, what he was 
supposed to do about it. Video Clip KING 5's Lori Matsukawa 
reports More ... Custom Video ... Dennis Kyne of San Jose says 
his unit marched along the bombed-out "highway of death" to 
Baghdad. He receives a disability check from the government each 
month for an "undiagnosed illness." 

"My chain of command says I'm big enough and strong enough and 
soldier enough to walk through this stuff and .. it's just like 
lead. Just a little bit heavy and might affect the kidneys," he 
said. 

This October, the Pentagon released findings of a five-year study 
of D.U. dust. Residue was collected from shot-up tanks, and 
analyzed by computer models. The military's conclusion? Half of 
the inhaled D.U. - a radioactive heavy metal - would be excreted 
by the body in 10 to 100 days. 

"Even individuals with the highest potential for exposure still 
have doses that are well below peacetime safety standards. Which 
would be allowable here in the states so if you put that in the 
context of other combat risks, I'd have to say the military 
exposures to depleted uranium are safe," said Lt. Col. Mark 
Melanson. 

It's a slightly different story for veterans with D.U. shrapnel 
embedded in their bodies. 

The V.A. in Baltimore is studying about 70 Gulf War one vets, 
including Shinishi Matsuura, and has found elevated levels of 
uranium in the urine of several men more than a decade after the 
conflict. 

But Pentagon officials say this, too, is no cause for alarm. 

"It's important to note that this group has been followed for 
over 10 years and no adverse health effects associated with 
depleted uranium have been found," officials said. 

In the first Gulf War, the Pentagon estimates it used 315 to 350 
tones of D.U. In today's conflict, it estimates coalition forces 
have used three to six times that. 

So what about the D.U. remaining in Iraq? 

In a video provided by the Uranium Medical Research Centre of 
Canada, researchers found soil and spent munitions with radiation 
levels thousands of times higher than Department of Defense 
guidelines. U.S. soldiers tried to warn-off the researchers. 

Congressman Jim McDermott, a medical doctor and Iraq war critic, 
questions using D.U. at all. During a hospital visit in Baghdad 
before the war, McDermott was told Iraq now has the highest rate 
of childhood leukemia in the world. 

"I saw what it did to the Iraqis, but now I see that we're 
marching our own people through that, creating birth defects in 
children, leukemia in children, illnesses among adults. Then it 
becomes a question of really a war crime. The Geneva Convention 
says you cannot do something that has a long term effect on the 
country," said McDermott. 

The Pentagon maintains D.U. is safe and necessary in war. 

"You take with you the best weapons systems you can so you can 
defeat the enemy with overwhelming lethality," said Dr. Michael 
Kilpatrick. 

The Pentagon says for penetrating armor, depleted uranium is the 
heavy metal that is the best. 

"It's not the best, it's the worst," said Kyne. "It inherently 
becomes the worst possible weapon because it's no longer just 
attacking the enemy, it's omnicidal, it kills all of us." 

The U.S. and U.K. are the only militaries that use D.U. Most 
exposure to U.S. soldiers has been from fire from its own forces. 

In 1996, the United Nations Sub Commission on Promotion and 
Protection of Human Rights found use of D.U. weapons 
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 27 Las Vegas SUN: More Research Urged for Gulf War Illness

 By SUZANNE GAMBOA ASSOCIATED PRESS 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Parting company with the findings of a Clinton
administration panel on Gulf War illnesses, a new study
concludes more must be learned about the effects of toxic
substances on those who fought there. 

The Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illness urges that
up to $60 million be spent over the next four years to monitor
and research the health of Gulf War veterans and their children. 

In so doing, the panel distanced itself from the earlier body
attributed a series of mysterious ailments to stress under
conditions of warfare. Scientists are coming close to finding a
treatment, the panel said in its report, but it also said
researchers need substantially more government financial
assistance. 

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report in advance of
its expected release Friday by Veterans Affairs Secretary
Anthony Principi. 

The review committee that Principi formed concluded that "the
goal of understanding and treating Gulf War veterans' illnesses
is within reach" because of recent research breakthroughs. 

But federal research is falling short in large part because
studies have not asked important questions and continue to focus
on stress to explain the veterans' problems. 

"Additional progress in addressing Gulf War veterans' illnesses
is not likely to come from a haphazard mix of studies," the
panel said. 

Department officials declined comment before the review was made
public. 

Hundreds of thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War have
experienced undiagnosed illnesses they believe are linked to the
war, according to Congress' auditing arm. These ailments include
chronic fatigue, loss of muscle control, diarrhea, migraines,
dizziness, memory problems and loss of balance. 

Principi's panel found that more recent studies suggest the
veterans' illnesses are neurological and apparently are linked
to exposure to neurotoxins such as the nerve gas sarin, the
anti-nerve gas drug pyridostigmine bromide and pesticides that
affect the nervous system. 

"Research studies conducted since the war have consistently
indicated that psychiatric illness, combat experience or other
deployment-related stressors do not explain Gulf War veterans
illnesses in the large majority of ill veterans," the review
committee said. 

The Pentagon has estimated that about 100,000 soldiers were
exposed to nerve gas when Iraqi weapons caches were destroyed,
although congressional auditors have questioned the Defense
Department's estimates. The Pentagon also has said some soldiers
may have been overexposed to pesticides. 

The committee said the VA should allocate $15 million in each of
the next four years for a Gulf War illness research program. 

Principi had announced in 2002 that $20 million would be
available for research this year. But during the summer, the
panel found that little of that had been spent and some of what
was went to studies investigating stress-related causes. 

Recent research "makes it a very reasonable possibility that
this Gulf War illness is not attributable simply to stress of
troops that were deployed," said Paul Greengard, who won the
Nobel Prize for work discovering the brain mechanisms involved
in Parkinson's disease, a nerve disorder. 

Greengard is the founder of Intracellular Therapies, which looks
for treatments for central nervous system disorders. He said the
company recently began investigating how nerve agents damage the
brain. 

Greengard has done preliminary work funded by the Army that
would apply the research methods he used to investigate
Parkinson's to study Gulf War illnesses. 

"I think any reasonable person can no longer exclude the
possibility that our military personnel deployed in Gulf War I
were exposed to toxic chemicals that have produced this very
high incidence of illnesses," Greengard said. 

--- 

On the Net: 

Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses:
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/ [http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/] 

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 28 Las Vegas SUN: VA Changes Gulf War Illness Approach

 By SUZANNE GAMBOA ASSOCIATED PRESS 

WASHINGTON (AP) - 

The Veterans Affairs Department said Friday that it no longer
will pay for studies that seek to show stress is the primary
cause of mysterious ailments afflicting thousands of veterans of
the 1991 Gulf War. 

For years the federal government has pointed to stress as the
likely reason for the sicknesses. But Veterans Affairs Secretary
Anthony Principi scheduled a news conference to announce the VA
will set aside up to $15 million for a year of Gulf War illness
research, with the stipulation the money not pay for studies
that propose stress as the only explanation for the ailments,
said Stephan Fihn, the VA's acting chief research and
development officer. 

"More on the stress area per se isn't going to move us forward,"
Fihn told The Associated Press in advance of Principi's
announcement. 

Principi's decision comes as a result of a report issued Friday
by an advisory committee he appointed. 

The Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illness spent the
past two years reviewing recent studies and recommended the VA
abandon stress studies and focus on toxic substances veterans
encountered during the war. 

Many thousands of Gulf War veterans have experienced undiagnosed
illnesses with symptoms such as chronic fatigue, loss of muscle
control, diarrhea, migraines, dizziness, memory problems and
loss of balance. 

For years the government denied mysterious illnesses were linked
to the war. After the Pentagon acknowledged at least some of the
sicknesses were due to wartime service, a federal panel was
appointed to look into the cause. It concluded in 1996 that
combat-related stress was the most likely source, although it
recommended pursuing other possible reasons. 

Principi's panel, however, found that more recent studies
suggest the veterans' illnesses are neurological, apparently
linked to exposure to toxins such as the nerve gas sarin, the
anti-nerve gas drug pyridostigmine bromide and pesticides
military personnel encountered during the war. 

Fihn said the VA won't narrow research to only investigations of
the effects of toxic substances. 

"We view it as still a controversial and unsettled issue," he
said. "Although the committee thinks there are promising leads
in neurotoxins this is just that - leads. This is a detective
story. There are no definite causes identified. We are turning
to the scientific community and saying basically this is still
an open question." 

Steve Smithson, the American Legion's assistant director for
veterans affairs and rehabilitation and a member of the
committee, said the VA shift is a victory for Gulf War veterans. 

"Progress has been slow in coming," Smithson said. 

--- 

On the Net: 

Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses:
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/ [http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/] 

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 29 Las Vegas SUN: Bechtel's Big Dig problems no surprise to Yucca critics

Today: November 12, 2004 at 11:00:19 PST 

By Benjamin Grove <grove@lasvegassun.com [grove@lasvegassun.com] 
> LAS VEGAS SUN

 WASHINGTON -- Yucca Mountain critics glumly note that Boston's
controversial "Big Dig" public works project, plagued by leaks
and cost overruns, is managed by the same corporation in charge
of the proposed nuclear waste dump.

 Critics wonder how the Bechtel Corp. expects to forever seal
away the nation's most radioactive nuclear waste if it can't
plug holes in a highway tunnel.

 "Bechtel is as over-bloated a bureaucracy as our own federal
government," said Peggy Maze Johnson, executive director of
Nevada environmental group Citizen Alert. "We have to start
demanding more accountability."

 Yucca is managed by Nevada-based Bechtel SAIC Co., LLC, a
partnership of Bechtel National Inc., and Science Applications
International Corp., currently under a $1.8 billion six-year
contract for Yucca that is up in 2006.

 Bechtel SAIC is the lead contractor under the Energy
Department, which oversees the project aimed at establishing a
national nuclear waste repository 90 miles northwest of Las
Vegas.

 A Bechtel SAIC spokeswoman in Nevada referred questions to a
corporate spokesman in Maryland, who was unavailable.

 The $14.6 billion Big Dig, managed by Bechtel and New
York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, was launched in 1991 as one of
the largest public works projects in the world and aimed at
unclogging Boston traffic. Workers have largely completed the
project, replacing an elevated downtown highway with an
underground tunnel, and extending an interstate through a tunnel
under Boston Harbor to Logan Airport.

 But now millions of gallons of water are leaking into the
tunnel system, an engineering investigator says. Finding and
fixing the leaks could take up to 10 years, said a consultant
hired by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. The consultant
found oversight lapses, suggesting Bechtel and a co-contractor
knew it had faulty construction in the late 1990s.

 Bechtel issued a statement this week saying "seepage" is
inevitable in new tunnels of the type in Boston, but can be
mitigated with maintenance programs. "The tunnel is structurally
sound," the statement said.

 Nevada officials have long faulted Yucca contractors, including
Bechtel, for flawed science and shoddy work. It's no shock now
that Bechtel is facing charges of bad construction and oversight
lapses in Boston, said Bob Loux, director of the Nevada Nuclear
Projects Agency.

 "It doesn't surprise me a bit," he said.

 Bechtel SAIC is one of the corporate defendants in a lawsuit
filed by some Yucca workers alleging the company and several of
its subcontractors ignored worker safety issues, despite knowing
risks. Bechtel officials strongly deny wrong-doing.

 The problems at the Big Dig further call into question
Bechtel's management at Yucca, said lawyer Joe Egan, who
represents the workers who filed the lawsuit.

 "I don't think you can have confidence in anything the
Department of Energy does, or in any of the contractors it is
supposedly managing," he said.

 Bechtel has a 100-year history of reaping huge profits at the
expense of taxpayers and the environment, consumer watchdog
group Public Citizen said in its report "Bechtel: Profiting from
Destruction," released last year. The report cited the Big Dig
and Yucca as examples.

 "We think there is a pretty long history of negligence and
misuse of taxpayer dollars by this company," said Sara Grusky, a
policy analyst for consumer group Public Citizen.

 Now Public Citizen is tracking abuses by Bechtel in government
projects in Iraq, Grusky said. A number of former Bechtel
employees have landed jobs with the Bush administration, she
said.

 "Because Bechtel has such an inside line to the Bush
administration, there's just no accountability," Grusky said.

 Bechtel is the ninth largest government contractor with $14.1
billion in contracts since 1997, according to Washington
watchdog group Project on Government Oversight.

 Bechtel has projects in 60 countries. Bechtel projects have
included Hoover Dam in the 1930s, reconstruction programs in
Kuwait after the Gulf War and the English Channel Tunnel. 

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 30 www.tbsource.com: Nuclear Waste Storage Meetings In Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay's Source Local News  2004
 
Web Posted: 11/12/2004 7:22:26 PM 		 			 			   			 			 			

A group trying to figure out how Canada should store nuclear 
waste will soon hold meetings in Thunder Bay. The Nuclear Waste 
Management Organization is visiting more than 30 cities to gather 
public input about future waste storage. Canada has produced 1.8 
million used nuclear fuel bundles since it began using nuclear 
power about 30 years ago. They are now being stored at seven 
sites across the country in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and 
Manitoba. 

The storage measures are interim and last about 50 years. The 
public meetings in Thunder Bay will be held on November 24th and 
25th and again on December 14th. 

Three options are on the table extending the storage ability of 
the sites where the waste is now kept. Another choice is to make 
a single storage site for Canada and another is to dig deep into 
the Canadian Shield to store the waste.                                                                                                                                                         
 		 		 		
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 31 PISJ: New INL contract should bolster Idaho universities
 
Pocatello Idaho State Journal: 

By Dan Boyd [dboyd@journalnet.com] - Journal Writer 
    
POCATELLO-Tucked away in the original requests for proposals for 
the new Idaho National Laboratory was a seemingly minor provision 
that could reap huge benefits for Idaho universities, 
specifically Idaho State University.

A center for advanced energy studies at the INL was originally 
the idea of the Department of Energy, and will now be implemented 
into the contract awarded Tuesday to Battelle. 
  
The exact details of the center haven't yet been finalized, but 
Bill Madia, executive vice president for laboratory operations 
with Battelle, said ISU, Boise State University and University of 
Idaho stand to gain no matter the setup.

"It will help them in growing their programs and becoming 
world-class nuclear research education institutions," he said. 
Madia said the new center will be managed by the new contracting 
team, which includes Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 
leader in scientific research on a national level.

But professors and students from ISU and other state schools are 
also expected to be closely involved with the project. "The INL 
offers a wonderfully unique advantage in its facilities," said 
Michael Lineberry, director of ISU's Institute of Nuclear Science 
and Engineering. "You don't find those type of facilities very 
often at universities any more or even at national laboratories."

Lineberry said the exact role of ISU is expected to become 
clearer in the months leading up to Feb. 1, 2005, when Battelle 
takes control. When asked his hopes for ISU in relation to the 
center for advanced energy studies, he said he pictures something 
"large-scale and very fundamental."

Although the 10-year, approximately $4.8 billion contract won't 
be the first time the site changes hands, the academic center 
highlights several changes that will likely make the new INL 
markedly unique from the existing Idaho National Engineering and 
Environmental Laboratory. 

"There's a tendency to say ho-hum (about the takeover), but this 
is different," Lineberry said. "There is real excitement, not 
only at the site but also at the universities."

Bill Magwood, director of DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, said 
his office put conscious emphasis on the future of nuclear 
research and developing more young minds to lead such research 
into the future. "Education will be a major focus," he said. "It 
will be a nexus point between the laboratory and academia.

Madia said the center will focus on cultural, social and 
political implications of nuclear testing, as well as the science 
behind such research. 

Dan Boyd - Journal Writer"> A center for advanced energy studies 
at the INL was originally the idea of the Department of Energy, 
and will now be implemented into the contract awarded Tuesday to 
Battelle.">    

"Students at this center will be able to debate in a think-tank 
manner," he said.

To Lineberry, the center will not only benefit students, but also 
the site and the state universities, which he said are working 
together to maximize their opportunities. 

But he said ISU's history and current programs gives it a slight 
leg up and its Gem State counterparts.

"Will ISU have an advantage in that? I think so," Lineberry said. 
"We're very well equipped to play the nuclear game."

Dan Boyd [dboyd@journalnet.com]  covers higher education, 
politics and natural resource issues for the Journal. He can be 
reached at 239-3168 or by e-mail at dboyd@journalnet.com 
[dboyd@journalnet.com] . 

November 12, 2004
 
Copyright © 2004 Pocatello Idaho State Journal P O Box 431 
Pocatello, ID 83204-0431   
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 32 [du-list] DU in the news - 13 th Nov. 04
 
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:54:40 -0800

 
<x-flowed>

Friday, November 12, 2004 11:39 AM PST
Your Keyword News Alert for [depleted uranium]
matched the following stories:

KING 5, Thu, 11 Nov 2004 6:20 PM PST
U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire 
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_111104WABdepleteduraniumSW.49604608.html
Alvin Clark, of Tacoma, developed aplastic anemia he believes is related to 
his exposure to depleted uranium dust after he was hit by friendly fire in 
Saudi Arabia.

UN Observer, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48 AM PST
Read Article http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=2004&blz=1
depleted uranium and other combat caused low level radioactive 
contamination. documents. Compliance with all provisions in U.S. Army 
Regulation is required as ordered by the Secretary of the Army and previous 
U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki.

The Washington Times, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 6:24 AM PST
Yasser on Yasser: Martyr par excellence 
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041112-083417-7387r.htm
Ramallah, West Bank, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The last Western news organization to 
interview Yasser Arafat found him steeped in conspiracy theories and 
devoted to nursing his image as a martyr.

Red Nova, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 7:19 AM PST
Russian Government Concerned Over Possible Depletion of Mineral Resources 
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=102213
The sustainable development of the Russian mineral resources sector 
requires its demonopolization, Natural Resources Minister Yuriy Trutnev 
said today, according to ITAR-TASS news agency.

The Washington Times, Thu, 11 Nov 2004 9:46 PM PST
Arafat cultivated image of survivor in final interview 
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041111-111204-3421r.htm
RAMALLAH, West Bank â?" When Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gave his 
final interview to a Western newspaper, the first question was supposed to 
be: "Mr. Arafat, where were you born and where did you grow up?"

Voice News, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 6:22 AM PST
Selfridge Military Air Museum, a volunteers' labor of love 
http://www.voicenews.com/articles/2004/11/12/news/news01.txt
Roughly 10,000 people visited the Military Air Museum at Selfridge Air 
National Guard Base this year and the variety and quality of the exhibits 
they viewed was the responsibility of one man and his group of volunteers.

Hellenic Resources Network, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 7:50 AM PST
RFE/RL Newsline, 04-11-12 
http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2004/04-11-12.rferl.html
[06] COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF FILES ON MOSCOW THEATER HOSTAGE TAKING... [10] 
DUMA DEPUTIES INCREASE THRESHOLD FOR POLITICAL PARTY REGISTRATION... [15] 
REGIONAL GOVERNOR ADMITS HE WAS WRONG ABOUT LAND REFORM?

Axis of Logic, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 5:06 AM PST
World News http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13534.shtml
Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University 
which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.

Sierra Times, Thu, 11 Nov 2004 9:15 PM PST
Anthony C. LoBaido: Red States and Conquistadors 
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/11/11/lobaido.htm
There is a complex web of forces currently at work in the world. Each of 
them is currently competing to remake national and global civilizations. 
They seek to influence human actions and even our thoughts on a variety of 
levels. It is a spiritual work with physical manifestations.

Energy Pulse, Fri, 12 Nov 2004 0:20 AM PST
EnergyPulse - Insight Analysis and Commentary on the Global Power Industry 
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=860
We know you have something to say! There is an immediate need for articles 
on the hot topics in the Power Industry! EnergyPulse, like no other 
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