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Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [The full text can be found at http://prop1.org/nucnews/9912nn/991201nn.htm} * Iraqi child cancers link to Gulf War weapons * Lack of records cost soldiers' lives DND paper claims * Study of Ill Gulf War Veterans Points to Chemical Damage * US To Help Russia With Y2K Checks * U.S.-Russia launch Y2K video hotline * Russian General Sees U.S. Corporate Push on Star Wars * Russian General Says U.S. Aims To Destroy ABM * American Accused Of Spying * Russians Detain U.S. Diplomat Calling Her a Spy * Ukrainian shot trying to penetrate nuclear plant * China Official Cites Y2K Troubles * NATO avoided nuclear plant Bombing old facility would have been catastrophic for Balkans * Mordechai Vanunu Remains a Mystery * UK may be forced to close nuclear plants -report * Nuclear Plant in Britain To Close * Serco consortium gets 2.2 bln stg defence contract * AWE Management Limited Awarded Contract for Atomic Weapons Establishment * From a speech by former U.S. secretary of defense * Former Japanese Premier in N. Korea * Clinton Steps Between Navy Puerto Rico Agreement Outlined for Military to Resume Use of Firing Range and Then Decamp * Navy to Train Off Puerto Rico With Live-Fire Issue Unsettled * Brazil's second nuclear reactor Angra II * Schroeder ready to extend nuclear exit talks * Nuclear Rookies India Pakistan Under Y2K Cloud * Greenpeace Wins Court Case on Nuclear Waste * Siemens Nuclear Medicine Group Captures Market Leadership in 1999; * Matritech Issued Patent Extending U.S. Coverage of Its Fluid-Based * USEC to Continue as U.S. Government Agent for the Megatons-to- * U.S. Plant Will Handle Uranium * Company to decide on uranium deal Operator of enrichment plants weighs whether to stop handling material of former Russian nuclear warheads * Uranium Plant URGENT BETHESDA Md.: much aid. * Shared Missile Defense Would Protect Everyone * Proposals for a Limited Missile Defense Create a Political Minefield * U.S. launches probe in Piketon * DOE Halts NM Waste Shipments - (SANTA FE) -- * U.S. unprepared for biological attacks * A 'Stealth Lab' Spin-Off * Study Faults Launch Contractors * Ginna Plant Hits Major Milestone * Clinton's Plea: 'Open the Meetings' (WTO-9 links) ---------- * Iraqi child cancers link to Gulf War weapons By Patsy McGarry November 30 1999 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1999/1130/hom37.htm The journalist and author Robert Fisk last night said "an explosion of child cancers" in southern Iraq appeared to be intimately linked to weapons used by US-led forces in the Gulf War. Similar weapons were used in the bombing of Kosovo and Serbia he said and he claimed that NATO bombed the Serbian television station on April 23rd this year when the Serbian Information Minister Mr Aleksandar Vucic was expected to be in the building for a CNN interview. Mr Vucic had cancelled the interview some hours earlier. * Lack of records cost soldiers' lives DND paper claims Deaths during foreign missions blamed on absence of accident files Ottowa Citizen Wednesday December 01 1999 Mike Blanchfield http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/991129/3218432.html Deaths of Canadian Forces troops on foreign missions could have been prevented if the military had kept proper accident records say internal Defence Department documents. The military kept no accident statistics or accident reports involving troops posted abroad says a draft of a July 9 Forces' discussion paper one of several documents obtained by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin under Access to Information.... * Study of Ill Gulf War Veterans Points to Chemical Damage By STEVEN LEE MYERS New York Times December 1 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/120199hth-gulf-syndro me.html http://www.tennessean.com/sii/99/12/01/gulf01.shtml WASHINGTON -- Some veterans of the Persian Gulf war who have complained of chronic illnesses have signs of brain damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals the authors of a scientific study partly financed by the Pentagon reported on Tuesday. Magnetic scans of sick veterans found lower-than-normal levels of a certain chemical indicating damage in the parts of the brain that control reflexes movement memory and emotion the study's authors said. * US To Help Russia With Y2K Checks Associated Press Wednesday December 1 7:38 PM ET By H. JOSEF http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991201/tc/us_russia_y2k_2.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Russia-Y2K.html WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy Secretary Bill Richardson unveiled a high-tech long-distance telecommunications link Wednesday to help Russia monitor its nuclear power plants for Y2K computer problems. Richardson invited reporters into the top-secret Situation Crisis Center at the Energy Department headquarters to witness an hourlong exchange with Yevgeniy Adamov Russia's minister of atomic energy. * U.S.-Russia launch Y2K video hotline ZD Net Wednesday December 01 07:30 PM EST Kevin Poulsen ZDNet WASHINGTON D.C. -- Vowing to respond jointly to any Y2K-bug related nuclear emergencies U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and his Russian counterpart Wednesday unveiled a $3 million video hotline between the Department of Energy's Emergency Operations Center in Washington D.C. and the MinAtom Situation and Crisis Center in Russia. * Russian General Sees U.S. Corporate Push on Star Wars Space.com Dec 01 1999 11:25:44 ET By Martin Nesirky http://www.space.com/news/international/russian_general_991201_wg.html http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=114896 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Big companies with an eye on fat profits rather than potential foes are the force behind U.S. plans to develop a Star Wars-style missile defense system a Russian general said in an interview published on Wednesday. Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin who heads Russia's strategic missile research institute also told the military Krasnaya Zvezda that U.S. arguments why Washington should breach the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty simply did not wash.... * Russian General Says U.S. Aims To Destroy ABM Russia Today Wednesday Dec 1 at Prague 08:04 am N.Y. 02:04 am http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=113655 MOSCOW Nov 28 1999 -- (Reuters) Russian Strategic Missile Forces' commander criticized on Saturday U.S. moves to change the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty saying any modification would destroy the landmark treaty. RIA news agency quoted Colonel-General Vladimir Yakovlev as saying relations between Russia and the United States would suffer if Washington succeeded in changing the treaty to allow deployment of a new anti-missile defense system. * American Accused Of Spying Russia Briefly Detains Diplomat Washington Post December 1 1999; Page A36 By David Hoffman and Walter Pincus http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/01/205l-120199-idx.html Russia briefly detained an American diplomat yesterday accusing her of spying and saying she was "caught red-handed." The Russian foreign minister said the American would be leaving Moscow soon. The temporary arrest of Cheri Leberknight 33 a second secretary in the U.S. Embassy came a day after the disclosure that a U.S. Navy petty officer was charged with espionage in the United States for passing information to Russia. However both Russian and U.S. officials said there was no link between the cases and American officials in Washington attributed Leberknight's detention to an ongoing tug of war between U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies. * Russians Detain U.S. Diplomat Calling Her a Spy New York Times December 1 1999 By MICHAEL R. GORDON http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/120199russia-us-spy.html MOSCOW -- Russian officials said Tuesday that they had caught an American spy as she was preparing to meet with her Russian informant and that they had confiscated an array of sophisticated espionage equipment. The Clinton administration acknowledged that an American diplomat was briefly detained in Moscow in an "incident but declined to comment on Russian charges that the diplomat was a spy. Other than confirming that there was an incident involving an American working at the U.S. Embassy I'm not going to comment on alleged intelligence matters State Department spokesman James Rubin told reporters in Washington. * Ukrainian shot trying to penetrate nuclear plant Reuters 12:25 p.m. Dec 01, 1999 Eastern http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a2458LBY915reulb-19991201&qt=%2Bnuclear&s v=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 KIEV, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Security guards at a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine shot and wounded a man they described as mentally ill who tried to break into the station's territory last night, an official said on Wednesday. A spokesman for the national nuclear company Energoatom told Reuters the man had been wounded as he tried to ram the gate to the South Ukraine power station with his car. Ukraine has tightened security around its five nuclear plants after a series of apartment blasts in neighbouring Russia in September which killed nearly 300 people. * China Official Cites Y2K Troubles New York Times December 1, 1999 Filed at 2:06 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-China-Y2K.html BEIJING (AP) -- China's top troubleshooter for Year 2000 computer glitches says hospitals, businesses and parts of China's vast interior are not yet ready with less than one month to go. The assessment given Wednesday by Zhang Qi, the Ministry of Information Industry official overseeing China's preparations, was the frankest admission by the government that troubles are certain to arise, even if they are scattered. * NATO avoided nuclear plant Bombing old facility would have been catastrophic for Balkans Ottowa Citizen Wednesday December 01, 1999 Mike Blanchfield http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/991130/3223425.html One of the safest places in Serbia from falling NATO bombs during this spring's bombardment was a crumbling Cold War-era nuclear plant full of rusting barrels of toxic waste. In the interests of avoiding a nuclear disaster, the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences near Belgrade was left off the list of potential NATO targets during the recent bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, according to Canadian military documents. * Mordechai Vanunu Remains a Mystery New York Times December 1, 1999 Filed at 4:00 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Knowing-Vanunu.html JERUSALEM (AP) -- Mordechai Vanunu was a loner with access to Israel's most guarded secrets, a cheap camera and a determination to tell the world what he knew about the country's nuclear arsenal. A partial, heavily censored 1,200-page transcript of the whistleblower's closed-door trial, made available for the first time last week, reads like a Le Carre spy thriller where the mystery lies less in the facts than in the motives. * UK may be forced to close nuclear plants -report Reuters 02:29 p.m Dec 01, 1999 Eastern http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a3083LBY001reulb-19991201&qt=%2Bnuclear&s v=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Britain may be forced to close some of its nuclear power stations because of a backlog of high-level radioactive waste, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. * Nuclear Plant in Britain To Close New York Times December 1, 1999 Filed at 8:42 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Britain-Nuclear.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991201/wl/britain_nuclear_1.html LONDON (AP) -- One of the country's oldest nuclear power stations is scheduled to close in 2002 with the loss of several hundred jobs. State-owned British Nuclear Fuels, owners of the Magnox station in Bradwell, northeast of London, said Wednesday that with falling electricity prices it cannot justify spending millions of dollars to keep the 37-year-old facility running. * Serco consortium gets 2.2 bln stg defence contract Reuters Wednesday December 1, 11:37 am Eastern Time http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/991201/ue.html LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday it had awarded a 2.2 billion pound nuclear management and operation contract to a consortium made up of Serco Limited (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: SRP.L), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT - news) of the U.S. and British Nuclear Fuels Plc. Serco added in a separate statement that the deal could be extended to a 25-year term. Serco said the contract regarded management of Atomic Weapons Establishment, the UK's nuclear weapons research and development centre, which is responsible for the nation's nuclear stockpile. * AWE Management Limited Awarded Contract for Atomic Weapons Establishment Wednesday December 1, 3:23 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Lockheed Martin http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991201/nj_awe_awa_1.html CHERRY HILL, N.J., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- AWE Management Limited, a consortium of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT - news), Serco Limited and British Nuclear Fuels p1c, has been awarded a contract by the Minister of Defence for the management and operation of the Atomic Weapons Establishment. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is the United Kingdom Government's nuclear weapons research and development center, and has responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. * From a speech by former U.S. secretary of defense William Perry at the Woodrow Wilson Center Monday: For the Record Washington Post Wednesday, December 1, 1999; Page A42 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/01/003l-120199-idx.html In the last week of May 1999, I visited Pyongyang. We were received with great courtesy. In fact, the signal that we were going to be received with great courtesy was when we were given permission to land our military plane at Pyongyang. . . As a consequence of these meetings, we did nail down that there would be a continuation of the nuclear restraint. . . . We also laid out to them our two alternatives. And while they were clearly interested in normalization, they were also clearly conflicted on giving up their missile program. As a result, as we left Pyongyang, we did not have a decision on that point. . . . * Former Japanese Premier in N. Korea New York Times December 1, 1999 Filed at 6:52 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Japan-NKorea.html TOKYO (AP) -- A former Japanese prime minister arrived today in North Korea to deliver a letter from the current premier to the leader of the reclusive communist state and to try resuming talks toward setting up diplomatic relations. Frosty ties between the two nations chilled even further after North Korea fired a missile over Japan last year. The visit by Tomiichi Murayama had to be postponed several times this year. * Clinton Steps Between Navy, Puerto Rico Agreement Outlined for Military to Resume Use of Firing Range and Then Decamp By Roberto Suro and David A. Vise, Washington Post, December 1, 1999; Page A02 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/01/099l-120199-idx.html Even as the first ships of a carrier battle group steamed toward controversial training exercises, President Clinton yesterday hammered out the broad terms of an agreement to allow the Navy to resume use of its Puerto Rican firing range on a temporary and limited basis, senior officials said. Although talks are still underway and the consensus is fragile, Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno also discussed the possibility of sending FBI agents to remove protesters who are occupying the firing range on the small island of Vieques, officials said. * Navy to Train Off Puerto Rico With Live-Fire Issue Unsettled New York Times December 1, 1999 By ELIZABETH BECKER http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/navy-puerto-rico.html WASHINGTON -- An aircraft carrier and an amphibious battle group will begin training this week even though the White House has yet to decide if the ships will be able to use a Puerto Rican island for the final live bombing practice. The training schedule for the carrier Eisenhower has been held hostage for months in a dispute between the governor of Puerto Rico and the Pentagon over the use of a firing range on the island of Vieques. Last month a presidential panel recommended that the range reopen for live firing exercises, but Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has delayed making a recommendation to President Clinton until a compromise can be reached with Gov. Pedro J. Rosselló of Puerto Rico. The range was closed in April after a Puerto Rican guard was accidentally killed in a bombing accident there. Protesters have occupied parts of the 900-acre range, which has been used for more than 30 years for exercises the Navy considers essential for combat readiness. * Brazil's second nuclear reactor Angra II Brazil Eletrobras to raise up to $400 mln globally Reuters Wednesday December 1, 9:14 am Eastern Time http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/991201/lz.html SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal power holding Eletrobras said Wednesday it was planning on raising between $300 million and $400 million from international markets in the first quarter of next year. The funds would be used to finish up the construction of Brazil's second nuclear reactor Angra II and increase generation capacity at its hydroelectric energy plant Tucurui in northern Brazil, as well as pay shareholder dividends, Eletrobras' spokesman said. * Schroeder ready to extend nuclear exit talks Reuters 11:37 a.m. Dec 01, 1999 Eastern http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a2175LBY818reulb-19991201&qt=%2Bnuclear&s v=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 BERLIN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Wednesday he was ready to extend talks with the energy sector over his government's pledge to pull out of nuclear power if no compromise has been reached by the end of the year. That was the deadline originally set for negotiations over the move. Schroeder's coalition partners the Greens insist that if no agreement is reached by then, the exit will be enforced by law -- despite industry threats to sue for compensation. * Nuclear Rookies India, Pakistan Under Y2K Cloud Reuters 06:27 p.m Nov 30, 1999 Eastern By Narayanan Madhavan http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a3641rittz-19991130&qt=%2Bnuclear&sv=IS&l k=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The clock is ticking but the world's newest nuclear powers have not yet totally dispelled fears that the Y2K bug may accidentally set their war machines in motion. Barely a month before the turn of the year, it is still unclear whether old enemies India and Pakistan, which came close to their fourth war this year, have unambiguously eliminated the possibility. The two South Asian nations have in the past taken limited confidence-building measures such as installing a telephone hotline between their army headquarters aimed at preventing accidental wars or triggers. But there is no official confirmation they have taken extra steps to ensure the Y2K computer bug does not pose such problems in their nuclear age, which dawned in 1998 after tit-for-tat underground tests. * Greenpeace Wins Court Case on Nuclear Waste Reuters 12:47 a.m. Nov 30, 1999 Eastern http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a0154romta-19991130&qt=%2Bnuclear&sv=IS&l k=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace won a long-running court battle with the Dutch government on Monday when the country's highest court upheld its request for a ban on transportation of nuclear waste. The Council of State ruled there was insufficient justification for transporting radioactive waste from the nuclear plant in Dodewaard in southeastern Netherlands to the Sellafield reprocessing facility in Britain. * Siemens Nuclear Medicine Group Captures Market Leadership in 1999; Company Attributes Success to E.CAM and Continued Dominance in PET BM Healthwire 03:24 p.m Nov 29, 1999 Eastern http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=BW1514-19991129&qt=%2Bnuclear&sv=IS&lk=no frames&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 CHICAGO--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 29, 1999--Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Nuclear Medicine Group, announced today that they achieved continuing growth in nuclear sales and market share during 1999. Ms. Franciose, group vice president of Siemens worldwide business unit, reported that Siemens Nuclear Medicine Group has recaptured the number one market position with 30% share worldwide in nuclear medicine and PET (orders - $M). Our growth has been fueled by strong demand for our E.CAM single photon emission tomography (SPECT) systems and by the rapid growth in demand for positron emission tomography (PET) and coincidence imaging systems. Recent reimbursement approvals and steady growth in conventional nuclear procedures are expected to continue to increase demand for nuclear products worldwide, and Siemens is uniquely positioned with the widest array of SPECT and PET products. * Matritech Issued Patent Extending U.S. Coverage of Its Fluid-Based Nuclear Matrix Protein Cancer Detection Technology Until 2011 Wednesday December 1 8:59 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Matritech Inc. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991201/ma_matrite_1.html NEWTON Mass. Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Matritech Inc. (Nasdaq: NMPS - news) a company specializing in products designed to detect manage and screen cancer announced today that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 5 989 826 for its proprietary fluid-based nuclear matrix protein (NMP) technology to detect cancer in body fluid samples including blood urine spinal fluid and sputum. * USEC to Continue as U.S. Government Agent for the Megatons-to-megawatts Program Wednesday December 1 8:00 am Eastern Time Company Press Release BETHESDA Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1 1999--USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU - news) announced today the decision by the Board of Directors that the Company will continue to serve under existing terms as the U.S government's Executive Agent for the purchase of Russian enriched uranium fuel derived from Russian nuclear warheads. * U.S. Plant Will Handle Uranium New York Times December 1 1999 Filed at 10:28 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Uranium-Plant.html BETHESDA Md. (AP) -- The U.S. Enrichment Corp. said today it will continue handling uranium from Russia's dismantled nuclear warheads despite concerns about costs. The company which operates U.S. uranium enrichment plants will continue negotiating with Russia for lower uranium prices in the next contract and will look for ways to cut costs William H. Timbers president and chief executive officer said in a news release. * Company to decide on uranium deal Operator of enrichment plants weighs whether to stop handling material of former Russian nuclear warheads Akron Beacon Journal December 1 1999 BY KATHERINE RIZZO Associated Press http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/015318.htm WASHINGTON: The operator of the nation's uranium enrichment plants was set to decide today whether to stop handling recaptured uranium from Russia's dismantled nuclear warheads. The decision by U.S. Enrichment Corp. has implications for international peace and security and the economy of southern Ohio where the company runs the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon. * Uranium Plant URGENT BETHESDA Md.: much aid. Akron Beacon Journal Posted at 9:14 a.m. EST Wednesday December 1 1999 http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/013846.htm USEC is under contract to pay Russia to convert highly enriched uranium from Soviet nuclear warheads into low-enriched uranium. USEC is the federal government's agent for the transaction which was set up to keep Soviet-era warhead uranium away from rogue nations and terrorists. The board's decision also takes into account Russia's willingness to negotiate prices after the current contract expires at the end of 2001 Timbers said. In the current contract USEC is paying $88 to $91 per unit for the uranium while the market price is around $80 he said. * Shared Missile Defense Would Protect Everyone New York Times December 1 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/99/12/01/letters/l01mis.html Related Articles A Missile Shield Could Backfire (Nov. 26 1999) http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/early/11269926ohan.html U.S. Missile Shield Will Set Off a New Arms Race China Warns (Nov. 25 1999) http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/112599china-us-missiles.html Letters Index http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/letters/indext.html To the Editor: China has now warned us as Russia long has that the development of an American missile shield would set off a new arms race (news article Nov. 25; Op-Ed Nov. 26). Whatever the wisdom or feasibility of any missile shield the United States can begin to address the legitimate concerns of other countries by offering to share with them the development of such technology now and later on the installation. * Proposals for a Limited Missile Defense Create a Political Minefield Diplomacy: Russia China and even U.S. allies need to be sold on Washington's new more modest plans. Los Angeles Times Wednesday December 1 1999 By ROBERT E. HUNTER http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/19991201/t000109587.html Twice in the past 30 years the United States has debated whether to build defenses against ballistic missile attack. The first led to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union; the second--centering on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative--was swallowed up in the end-game of Soviet collapse. The issue is coming around for a third time though for different purposes in a different world. * U.S. launches probe in Piketon Inquiry to determine if plant workers should be compensated for illnesses By Jonathan Riskind Columbus Dispatch Washington Bureau November 30 1999 http://www.dispatch.com/pan/localarchive/pikexnws.html Federal officials will arrive at southern Ohio's uranium-enrichment plant today to begin investigating whether Cold War-era workers were exposed to deadly plutonium and other dangerous materials. The three-day visit by a team from the U.S. Department of Energy will mark the start of an inquiry to determine whether employees at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon Ohio should be compensated for cancers and other illnesses possibly linked to previous radiation exposures. * DOE Halts NM Waste Shipments - (SANTA FE) -- Yahoo Wednesday December 1 6:39 AM ET http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/new_mexico/story.html?s=v/r s/19991201/nm/index_1.html#3 No more shipments to a New Mexico underground nuclear waste site at least for now. The Department of Energy has suspended the transports while measures are being taken to set up more precise methods for sorting the incoming waste. The suspension comes after a state permit for the site's operation took effect Friday requiring a detailed listing of which waste is radioactive and which consists of hazardous chemicals. Under the government's new rules the waste-producing site must now produce audits of what is in the barrels shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. * U.S. unprepared for biological attacks USA Today 12/01/99- Updated 05:03 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm#wto WASHINGTON - The government's medical stockpiles for dealing with chemical or biological terrorism are poorly managed often lacking vital drugs and adequate security congressional auditors said Tuesday. The General Accounting Office an investigative arm of Congress criticized the Departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs as well as a special Marine Corps unit for failing to manage their supplies for treating civilian victims of a chemical or biological terrorist attack. * A 'Stealth Lab' Spin-Off Johns Hopkins Facility Launches For-Profit Business Washington Post Wednesday December 1 1999; Page E01 By Sarah Schafer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/01/189l-120199-idx.html When entrepreneur Bruce G. Montgomery decided he wanted to build a new company he went idea shopping at one of the hottest idea factories in the world the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. Lucky for Montgomery the lab was looking for an entrepreneur. The result is Syntonics LLC the first for-profit company ever spun out of the super-secret Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) a university-owned research and development center that since World War II has labored over complex technological challenges primarily at the behest of the Department of Defense.... Syntonics is the most visible example of APL's push into the commercial world. "We're changing the culture here Swann said. Just a couple of weeks ago, for example, the lab held the first ever Pizza and Patents" seminar an informal gathering where 100 of the lab's tinkerers gathered to receive kudos on their breakthrough inventions. Several were presented with plaques bearing a reproduction of the first page of their patent registration.... To be sure the lab's primary focus will be on work for its government sponsors and 90 percent of the lab's research will never be considered for commercial applications Swann said. * Study Faults Launch Contractors New York Times December 1 1999 Filed at 6:09 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Space-Failures.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- A recent string of multibillion-dollar U.S. space launch failures can be traced to flawed workmanship and engineering by the contractors who built the Titan IV and Delta III rockets a Pentagon study concludes. * Ginna Plant Hits Major Milestone Wednesday December 1 12:00 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991201/ny_ginna_p_1.html ROCHESTER N.Y. Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.'s (NYSE: RGS - news) Ginna nuclear plant recently passed a major service milestone by generating its 100 billionth kilowatt-hour of electricity. That's enough energy to supply every residence in New York State for about four years. * Clinton's Plea: 'Open the Meetings' New York Times December 1 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120299wto-clinton-text.html * National Guard Is Called to Quell Trade-Talk Protests New York Times December 1 1999 By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK and STEVEN GREENHOUSE http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120199wto-protest.html * Session Disrupted Trade Ministers Insist They Will Continue New York Times December 1 1999 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/late/01trade.html * Acknowledging Protesters' Complaints Clinton Defends Global Trade New York Times December 1 1999 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/late/01clinton.html * Seattle Officials Promise Crackdown on W.T.O. Demonstrators New York Times December 1 1999 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/late/01protest.html * Protesters say goal achieved USA Today 12/01/99- Updated 08:49 AM ET By Patrick McMahon and James Cox http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncswed02.htm * WTO delegates battle protesters USA Today 12/01/99- Updated 08:48 AM ET by James Cox http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncswed04.htm * Clinton enters fray over WTO talks USA Today 12/01/99- Updated 04:22 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncswed01.htm * Clinton welcomes nonviolent protests USA Today 12/01/99- Updated 04:28 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncswed07.htm * Protests Delay WTO Opening Seattle Police Use Tear Gas; Mayor Declares a Curfew Washington Post December 1 1999; Page A01 John Burgess and Steven Pearlstein http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/01/181l-120199-idx.html * Lessons From Seattle Washington Post Wednesday December 1 1999; Page A42 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/01/000l-120199-idx.html ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Subscribe NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.