Date: Tue Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.07 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Status: RO X-Status: NucNews-1- 3/16/99 - Upcoming Events 3/18 3/22; Gemstone Project; Waste Ship Through Panama; Senate/China NucNews-2- 3/16/99 - DOE Secretary Pena Letter; Los Alamos Scientists; CIA/China NucNews-3- 3/16/99 - Beijing Rejects Spying; Doomsday Editorial NYT; Los Alamos Nuclear Junkyard NucNews-4- 3/16/99 - Pittsburgh Nuc History; Loyalty/Nixon-Ziegler NucNews-5- 3/16/99 - Missile Tests N.M. (2); Smallpox Stocks (2) --------- (1) 1. Vanunu Press Conference - Rep. Lynn Rivers [D-MI] Thursday March 18 1999 9 a.m. Rayburn HOB Room 2325 Rep. Lynn Rivers [D-MI] will hold a press conference at 9:00 AM Thursday March 18 at the Rayburn House Office Building Room 2325 [Independence Avenue & S. Capitol Street]. The purpose is to make public a Congressional letter asking President Clinton to urge Israel to grant humanitarian release to Mordechai Vanunu. 2. UCS Press Luncheon to Mark Three Mile Island Anniversary What: Press Luncheon: 20 Years After Three Mile Island: A Look Back and Ahead and release of UCS report Three Mile Island's Puzzling Legacy Where: National Press Club Lisagor Room 529 14th St. N.W. Washington D.C. When: Monday March 22 1999 Noon 3. [Appeal from students at the University of Maryland Institute of Technology Gemstone Project http://www.isr.umd.edu/gemstone/ re alternative disposal of nuclear waste. Your thoughtful advice would I'm sure be greatly appreciated. Their mailing address is below and you can access an email address on their website. Please send a courtesy copy of your response to these students to (Conversion Project) prop1@prop1.org ? Thanks! et] 4. Nuclear waste ship passes through canal Tuesday 16 March 1999 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-16mar1999-19.htm A British cargo ship carrying Japanese reprocessed nuclear waste has crossed the Panama Canal without protest. 5. Leading Senators Demand U.S. Limit Help for Beijing By ERIC SCHMITT March 16 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/031699congress-missiles.html WASHINGTON -- Influential senators threatened Monday to block the Clinton administration's leading diplomatic effort to improve fast-deteriorating relations with China and they urged the suspension of some scientific exchange programs. --------- (2) 6. Alert at the Energy Department Letter from FEDERICO PENA Secretary of Energy from March 1997 to June 1998 about lab security. March 16 1999 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/16/048l-031699-idx.html Michael Kelly's March 11 op-ed column Lies About China, alleges that the Department of Energy (DOE) was lax in responding to security issues at our laboratories when I was secretary from March 1997 to June 1998. This is incorrect. 7. Los Alamos Scientist Admits Contacts With Chinese U.S. Says By JAMES RISEN New York Times March 16 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/031699congress-scientist.html 8. CIA To Assess Damage From China Nuclear Spying Reuters March 16 1999 http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990316/00/news-china SEE ALSO: CIA chief orders study of damage by China spies By Bill Gertz and Nancy E. Roman http://www.washtimes.com/news/news1.html CIA Director George Tenet yesterday ordered an independent board of experts to study the damage caused by Chinese nuclear espionage in an apparent effort by the Clinton administration to limit the growing fallout from the spy scandal. --------- (3) 9. Beijing Rejects Spying Allegations Premier Zhu Says His Scheduled Visit to Washington 'Will Not Be Easy' By John Pomfret Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday March 16 1999; Page A13 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/16/143l-031699-idx.html 10. The Doomsday A-List March 16 1999 FOREIGN AFFAIRS / By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN [Op-Ed] http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/friedman/031699frie.html We not only need to get the Start 2 treaty implemented and a Start 3 negotiated -- at a time when the Russians are ready for radical reductions in nukes -- but says [former Defense Secretary William Perry's top arms control aide Ashton Carter] Carter we have to start thinking creatively about reducing Russia's 30 000 potentially loose nukes that is all its short-range nuclear warheads and fissile cores which could easily fall off the back of a truck. "An arms control or elimination program that would address short-range weapons would require a level of transparency and cooperation that we could not get in the cold war but might be able to get to now -- that is what we mean by preventive defense Mr. Carter told me.... 11. [Los Alamos Nuclear Junkyard] Black Hole is home for old technology By Lynda Gorov, Boston Globe Staff, 03/15/99 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/074/nation/Black_Hole_is_home_for_old_tech nologyP.shtml LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Nothing on Edward Grothus's property is radioactive, but all of it is nuclear waste. The parking lot of his aptly named Black Hole warehouse looks like a post-nuclear junkyard - as if the atomic bomb had been dropped on the very laboratories where it was first developed. --------- (4) 12. Bettis lab gave Pittsburgh a place in history of nuclear power Monday, March 15, 1999 By Sharon Voas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Staff Writer http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/19990315bettis2.asp Just a half mile up Lebanon Church Road from Mr. Hoagie in West Mifflin and a short walk from the Locker Room Bar is a cluster of drab buildings where one of the most momentous pieces of modern history was made. It was in this scattering of mostly low red- and yellow-brick buildings - the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory - that scientists and engineers created the first peaceful uses of the atom. [For history's sake ... a cautionary tale. et] 13. Loyalty, in All Its Shadings March 16, 1999 New York Times Letter - By RON ZIEGLER http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/16zieg.html WASHINGTON -- One day in mid-1974, Richard Nixon and I sat together in the Lincoln Sitting Room, the most private place in the White House. It is a small room with a fireplace and huge windows. That day I was looking out and looking in, thinking, Should the weak side of this man be exposed or not?" .... --------- (5) 14. Army Hit in New Mexico Test Said to Bode Well for Missile Defense By Bradley Graham Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday March 16 1999 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/16/055l-031699-idx.htmlA n Army missile rammed into a test target high over New Mexico yesterday marking an important success for the Pentagon's much-troubled effort to develop weapons against ballistic missile attack defense officials said. 15. ABM Intercepts Target Missile http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Missile-Test.html ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (AP March 16 1999) -- The latest version of the Patriot interceptor missile locked on and hit a target missile for the first time Monday during a test flight across the desert in south-central New Mexico. 16. Panel Says Smallpox Stocks May Be Useful Virus samples could help researches scientists find. New York Times March 16 1999 By JUDITH MILLER http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/031699sci-smallpox-virus.html 17. Smallpox Vaccine Urged to Prepare for Terrorist Attacks By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN - New York Times March 11 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/031198sci-smallpox.html ATLANTA -- In a major turnaround the scientist who led the campaign that eradicated smallpox and eliminated the need for vaccination worldwide now says the United States should resume making the vaccine to deal with the threat of biological warfare. _____________________________ A fast way to keep up to date: Subscribe to NucNews !! Nearly daily e-mail updates on nuclear plutonium uranium and radioactivity news gleaned from a variety of newspapers online. To subscribe: prop1@prop1.org Say "Subscribe NucNews" (plus whatever other information you want to give us about your work ) NucNews Archive: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm