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NucNews-1-. 3/22/99 - Three Mile Island; DOE; Depleted Uranium-Gulf War;
Deformities-Kazakhstan
NucNews-2-. 3/22/99 - China (3)

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1. 'Meltdown' Sparks War Of Words Over Three Mile Island
http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990322/00/news-tmi
By David Morgan
Reuters March 22
1999
MIDDLETOWN
Pa. - Nearly 20 years after the worst U.S. commercial nuclear
accident
members of the public are still trying to get the powers-that-be
to admit that what happened at Three Mile Island was a meltdown.

2.  U.S. Energy Secretary Defends Nuke Secrecy
http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990322/00/news-china
WASHINGTON (Reuters
March 22
1999 ) - Energy Secretary Bill Richardson
Sunday defended security for U.S. nuclear arms research
describing some
reports about Chinese spying as unfounded hysteria.

3. Depleted uranium 'low risk' for Gulf veterans
Gulf war veterans are worried about the health risk of depleted uranium
March 19
1999 BBC Health
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_299000/299540.stm
A toxic, radioactive material used in the Gulf War is unlikely to have
contributed to Gulf War Illness, according to a government report. Depleted
uranium (DU) was used in anti-tank shells in the 1991 Gulf War.
Related Links:
MOD on Gulf War Illnesses
http://www.mod.uk/policy/gvi/index.htm
Depleted uranium
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/faq_17apr.htm
Gulf War Illness
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/faq.html

4. Nuclear nightmare revealed
Babies born with deformities are often abandoned
By Sue Lloyd-Roberts in Kazakhstan
March 19
1999 BBC World: Asia-Pacific
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_295000/295161.stm
The Russians chose one of the most desolate parts of their empire to build
their nuclear testing base. Scorching in summer and 40 degrees below
freezing in winter
it is an inhospitable place.  Nonetheless when the
first bomb exploded
there were over a million Kazakhs living here. More
than 100 bombs were detonated above ground
with radioactive fallout
spreading over a vast area equivalent
scientists say
to over a hundred
Chernobyls.  It was the Cold War and the Russians were eager to catch up
with America. Safety was not a priority.

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5. China trip
By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES March 22
1999
http://www.washtimes.com/news/news2.html#link
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has postponed a scheduled
weeklong visit to China amid growing congressional pressure to curb U.S.
military exchanges with Beijing.

6. Spying called worse than Kosovo
By Joyce Howard Price THE WASHINGTON TIMES March 22
1999
http://www.washtimes.com/news/news1.html#link
A leading Senate voice on defense issues  yesterday described China's theft
of nuclear secrets a graver threat than Kosovo and urged that FBI agents be
placed in U.S. weapons labs.

7. Lee Said Attended China Conferences
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-China-US-Scientist.html
March 22
1999
Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) -- A Taiwan-born American scientist suspected of leaking
nuclear secrets attended two conferences with Chinese counterparts in the
1980s
but no secrets were passed
China's government-run news agency
reported.
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