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Korean missile threat * Japan Frets Over a String of Technological Accidents * Cohen Warns NATO About 'Rogue States' * U.S. and NATO Allies Divided Over Defense Needs * Cohen Warns Allies About Missiles * U.S. may send monitors to Russia for Y2K * Russia to Expel U.S. Diplomat * Chernobyl Reactor Shut Down * Chernobyl shut down after malfunction * Chernobyl Reactor Halted * FEATURE-Soviet-era reactors gear up for Y2K test * Fierce Storm Hits Denmark, Sweden * India-Pakistan Fight Hurts Y2K Plan * ANALYSIS-Turkey set for first nuke power plant * Energy-turkey-nuclear Ankara * ANALYSIS-Turkey set for first nuke power plant * LGA call to stop developing uranium mines * Clinton enters WTO as protest arrests rise * Police: Gentle tactics didn't work * Protests Cloud Clinton Message on Free Trade * A Dangerous Tolerance * Trade Obstacles Unmoved, Seattle Talks End in Failure * Saboteurs Cut Power at W.T.O. in Geneva * Trade Ministers Sidestep Issue of Secrecy * Seattle Talks on Trade End With Stinging Blow to U.S. * Newberg-Perini Awarded $300 Million Contract To Support Entire ComEd Nuclear Power `Fleet' * Clinton Plans to Declare Y2K National Emergency (on December 28) * Return to Fortress America? * After the Test Ban Vote * Missile defense system makes sense in post-Cold War era * U.N. crimes court gets support without U.S. * Red ammo * Study faults workmanship on space rockets * Editorial: Forget the Trump card * Scientists Criticize Limits on Foreign Visitors to Laboratories * Energy Chief to Allow Foreign Scientists to Visit Labs * Sun steps up supercomputing push * Bradley Accuses Gore Of Distorting Record Democratic Challenger Discounts Damage * InteCardia Imaging Opens a New Cardiovascular Diagnostic Center and Receives Approval for Another Center in Tennessee * URANIUM IMPORTER WON'T GET SUBSIDIES * D.C. Plants Top List for Chlorine Storage --------- * Excellent Resource - http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/ Guide to the Media http://congress.nw.dc.us/cgi-bin/media.pl?dir=wnd Enter your ZIP Code and click "Search" to find contact information for media organizations in your area, or view our complete Media Guide. Write to Congress http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/elecmail.html Search Congress by name, state, committee, or leadership directory. http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/congdir.html Guide to States http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/states.html Complete guide to state legislators and governors in all 50 states. Issues and Legislation http://congress.nw.dc.us/cgi-bin/issue.pl?dir=wnd Important issues - recent votes, current bills and more. * Biological weapons discussion December 3 1999 Washington Times Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/politics/politics.html 8:15 a.m. -- The Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute holds a panel discussion on "Responding to the Challenge of Biological Weapons." Location: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 703/739-1538. * Y2K Glitch Found at Indian Point (two reports) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:42:57 -0500 From: Paul Gunter Organization: NIRS http://www.nirs.org can reach them at: 202-328-0002. People may want to contact their local media to bring this item to their attention. Anyone wanting to contact NIRS 1. N.Y. Times: 212-556-1234, Fax:212-556-7306 2. New York Post: Phone 212-930-8000 3. New York Daily News: Phone 212-210-2100 An interesting Y2K-related glitch has turned up at the Indian Point units in Buchannan, NY just 35 miles from New York City having to do with the erronous disabling of a program file for control rod drive monitoring system. The Consolidated Edison error was made as a result of an earlier Y2K review on the reactors. * China's missile test Inside the Ring Notes from the Pentagon Washington Times 5am -- December 3, 1999 By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough http://www.washtimes.com/nation/ring.html China is making preparations to conduct the second flight test of its newest intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-31. Pentagon intelligence agencies notified senior policy-makers last week that DF-31 test preparations were detected. The notice was contained in a classified report based on spy satellites that spotted the test preparations at the Wuzhai Missile and Space Center in central China. The center is located about 250 miles southwest of Beijing. The test firing is expected later this month, according to officials familiar with the report. * China Applauds U.N. Anti-Missile Defense Resolution China Today Saturday, Dec 4 at Prague 05:35 am, N.Y. 11:35 pm http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=115239 BEIJING, Dec 2, 1999 -- (Reuters) China applauded the United Nations on Thursday for endorsing a resolution pressing the United States to abandon plans for an anti-missile defense system Beijing said could trigger a nuclear arms race in space. The U.N. General Assembly voted on Wednesday in favour of a draft calling for efforts to preserve and strengthen the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty between the United States and the then Soviet Union, which limits missile defenses. But Washington, which voted against the draft, wants to amend the treaty to permit construction in the next five years of a limited anti-missile defense system, based in Alaska or North Dakota, as a shield against attacks by so-called "rogue states". * U.S. offers to leave Puerto Rican base USA Today 2/03/99- Updated 06:45 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm#prba http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsfri03.htm WASHINGTON - President Clinton on Friday said he would end controversial military training over the next five years on a Puerto Rican island, but he also offered islanders $40 million in development funds if they let training continue. Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Rossello rejected Clinton's decision concerning the island of Vieques as ''unacceptable for the people of Puerto Rico and the people of Vieques.'' Rossello objects to any possible renewal of live-bombing on the island, and he wants the Navy to abandon the base. Vieques is home to 9,000 civilians, all U.S. citizens. Puerto Ricans have long protested the Navy's presence on the island. * Vieques, Kahoolawe Inside the Ring Notes from the Pentagon Washington Times 5am -- December 3, 1999 By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough http://www.washtimes.com/nation/ring.html If President Clinton caves to Puerto Rican demands and keeps the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its battle group from training on the island of Vieques, his press office will surely cite precedence. Nine years ago, a Republican president faced a similar dilemma an ocean away. For years, Hawaiian residents complained of live-fire exercises on the island of Kahoolawe. There were protest demonstrations, civil disobedience, and dire predictions about environmental damage -- the same rhetoric heard in Puerto Rico today. What did President Bush do? He bowed to the locals' complaints, closed the range and forced the Navy to go elsewhere for training. * Q&A on Vieques and the US Military Associated Press Saturday, Dec. 4, 1999; 11:29 a.m. EST By Robert Burns AP Military Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991204/aponline112932_000.htm WASHINGTON -- It is safe to say that until recently, relatively few had heard of the tiny Puerto Rican island Vieques, let alone understood how it suddenly surfaced as a national security crisis of such magnitude that President Clinton felt compelled to intervene. Clinton announced Friday that the Navy and Marines will resume training on Vieques' bombing range but at reduced levels and with dummy bombs. Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Rossello quickly rejected the plan, which throws into question the Navy's future in Puerto Rico and the combat readiness of some U.S. naval forces. * N.Korea, Japan Set to Resume Normalization Talks korea New York Times December 3, 1999 Filed at 4:05 a.m. ET By Reuters http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-korea-j.html TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese and North Korean ruling parties issued a rare joint statement on Friday urging the resumption for the first time in seven years of talks on establishing diplomatic relations between the historic foes. The agreement, which follows improved ties between Pyongyang and Washington, was forged at talks by a Japanese delegation led by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, and Kim Yong-sun, Secretary of North Korea's ruling Workers Party. * Emerging From Isolation, North Korea to Resume Diplomatic Relations With Japan Washington Times December 3, 1999 By CALVIN SIMS http://www.nytimes.com/99/12/03/late/04korea.html SEOUL -- North Korea, one of the most isolated and bellicose countries in Asia, has made some unexpected diplomatic overtures recently that suggest its Communist government is itching to come out of its shell or at least see what the rest of the world has to offer. At a meeting on Friday in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, leaders from North Korea and Japan announced a breakthrough agreement to resume talks on establishing diplomatic relations, which have been stalled since 1992. * South Korea Asked To Remove Wall New York Times December 3, 1999 Filed at 3:35 p.m.EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Koreas-Concrete-Wall.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea urged South Korea on Friday to demolish a concrete barricade built along the border zone, saying the South was plotting to use it to launch its own attack. ``The wall can be used as a bridgehead for aggression against the North, as it is equipped with many pillboxes and artillery positions,'' North Korea's communist government said in a statement carried by the North's official foreign news outlet, KCNA. * North Korea, Japan Agree To Talks New York Times December 3, 1999 Filed at 1:57 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Japan-NKorea.html TOKYO (AP) -- There is nothing that Shigeru Yokota wants more than to see his daughter again. Megumi was 13 years old when she vanished in 1977 on her way home from badminton practice in the town of Niigata, which faces the Korean Peninsula across the Sea of Japan. She is among at least 10 Japanese who may have been abducted by North Korean agents, allegedly to train spies. As Tokyo prepares to resume talks with North Korea on setting up diplomatic ties, Yokota is worried that Megumi's fate and those of the others who disappeared will be lost in the bargaining. * The World: Cohen warns NATO of N. Korean missile threat USA Today 11/03/99 Page 24A http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/19991203/1714411s.htm Despite its moratorium on missile testing, North Korea is quickly developing long-range missiles that could hit the United States and Europe with nuclear warheads in perhaps five years, Defense Secretary William Cohen told NATO defense ministers Thursday. Cohen, explaining controversial U.S. plans to build a national missile defense system, warned the 18 NATO ministers of a growing missile threat from ''rogue states'' such as North Korea and Iran. Though no decision will be made on deployment of the missile system until next summer, Cohen said it ''would be designed to both protect the United States from a limited ballistic missile attack from a rogue nation and preserve the strategic balance between the United States and Russia.'' Russia is threatening to scrap key nuclear arms reduction treaties if Washington goes ahead with the plan. * Japan Frets Over a String of Technological Accidents New York Times December 3, 1999 By CALVIN SIMS http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/120399japanese-econ.html TOKYO -- Amid the economic recession, record unemployment, volatile markets, and shattered dreams that defined the past decade in Japan, the one thing that the Japanese people could always take pride in was their country's reputation as a world leader in technology. But a recent string of costly and embarrassing accidents in Japan's renowned nuclear, aerospace and railway sectors has caused many Japanese to question whether their country is losing its technological prowess and attention to detail. "The public should be very concerned about these accidents, which were completely preventable," said Hiroaki Yanagida, an engineering professor at Tokyo University. "In Japan there is a lack of responsibility and an arrogance on the part of engineers and industry. They've been telling us for 30 years that these technologies were completely safe, and we've just blindly accepted what they told us." * Cohen Warns NATO About 'Rogue States' Defense Secretary Touts Missile Defense System December 3, 1999; Page A By William Drozdiak Washington Post Foreign Service http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/078l-120399-idx.html BRUSSELS, Dec. 2-Defense Secretary William S. Cohen told the NATO allies today that the United States believes it may soon be necessary to develop a missile defense system to counter threats from "rogue states" with ballistic weapons, but insisted it would be done with allied security interests in mind. Seeking to convince skeptical European governments, Cohen said the United States and its allies must start to consider how to cope with new challenges, besides the nuclear arsenals of Russia and China, that will soon include long-range missiles being developed by North Korea, Iran and Iraq that could deliver nuclear, biological or chemical warheads. * U.S. and NATO Allies Divided Over Defense Needs New York Times December 3, 1999 By CRAIG R. WHITNEY http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/120399nato-defense.html * Cohen Warns Allies About Missiles New York Times December 3, 1999 By The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Europe-Defense.html * U.S. may send monitors to Russia for Y2K CNET News December 3, 1999, 12:00 p.m. PT By Reuters Special to CNET News.com http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1009-200-1478379.html?tag=st MOSCOW--A senior Russian military official said today that U.S. experts might be stationed in Russia over the Y2K period as part of a joint missile monitoring program with the United States. Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov told a news conference it is understandable that Washington and Moscow would want their nuclear experts to sit side-by-side over New Year's to ensure there are no misunderstandings because of the millennium bug. * Russia to Expel U.S. Diplomat Washington Post WORLD In Brief, December 3, 1999; Page A26 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/090l-120399-idx.html MOSCOW--A U.S. diplomat who was briefly detained in Moscow on espionage charges has been ordered to leave Russia and will not be allowed to return, a Foreign Ministry official said. Spokesman Yevgeny Voronin refused to specify when the diplomat, identified as Cheri Leberknight, was expected to leave, and indicated that Russian authorities have not set a strict time frame for her departure. * Chernobyl Reactor Shut Down Washington Post WORLD In Brief, December 3, 1999; Page A26 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/090l-120399-idx.html KIEV, Ukraine--Ukraine's nuclear power authorities said a minor malfunction had shut down the last working reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just days after it was restarted following lengthy repair work. A spokeswoman for the state-run nuclear energy company Energoatom said radiation levels remained normal after Wednesday's cooling system leak and shutdown. * Chernobyl shut down after malfunction USA Today 12/03/99- Updated 07:02 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/nw1.htm#chec * Chernobyl Reactor Halted New York Times December 3, 1999 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/99/12/03/news/world/chernobyl-reactor.html * FEATURE-Soviet-era reactors gear up for Y2K test Reuters 09:15 p.m Dec 02, 1999 Eastern By Christina Ling http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a4859LBY237reulb-19991202&qt=%2Bnuclear&s v=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The grey hulk of the tomb encasing the radioactive rubble of the world's worst civil nuclear disaster looms over a bleak, snowy wasteland as a grim reminder of what can happen when atomic energy goes wrong. But beyond the wall blocking off the stricken number four reactor of Ukraine's infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant, white-suited technicians bustle through the metal-lined halls of reactor three amid the hum of throbbing turbines. * Fierce Storm Hits Denmark, Sweden Associated Press Friday, Dec. 3, 1999; 8:42 p.m. EST COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A storm packing winds of more than 100 mph swept across the area Friday night, killing at least three people and forcing ferries, an airport and a nuclear reactor to halt their operations. Officials said the shutdown of the reactor at the Barsebaeck power plant in southern Sweden was routine because of a short circuit outside the structure and did not pose a safety threat. * India-Pakistan Fight Hurts Y2K Plan Saturday, Dec. 4, 1999; 1:28 a.m. EST By Ashok Sharma Associated Press Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991204/aponline012806_000.htm NEW DELHI, India -- Early this year, when relations were on an upswing, the leaders of India and Pakistan pledged to cooperate on sharing technology and reducing the risk of accidental nuclear war. Three months later, the two countries were engaged in their worst fighting in almost three decades and were on the brink of their fourth full-scale war since both won independence from Britain in 1947. * ANALYSIS-Turkey set for first nuke power plant Reuters Friday December 3, 8:47 am Eastern Time By Ercan Ersoy http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/991203/j8.html http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/991203/j2.html ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Energy-hungry Turkey appears eager to finalise a tender by the end of this month to build its controversial first nuclear power plant, ending a three-decade-long saga fraught by protests and cancellations. ``We have decided to intensify our efforts to conclude work on the nuclear power plant tender,'' Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit told reporters on Thursday night after a six-hour meeting of government coalition leaders. * Energy-turkey-nuclear Ankara Reuters Friday December 3, 8:50 am Eastern Time The consortium led by U.S. Westinghouse includes Mitsubishi Electric Corp , Raytheon (NYSE:RTNa - news) and Turkey's Enka . Its bid for a 1,218-MW, $3.279 billion plant envisages a 3.35 cents/kWh unit cost. * ANALYSIS-Turkey set for first nuke power plant Reuters 08:26 a.m. Dec 03, 1999 Eastern By Ercan Ersoy http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a1197reuff-19991203&qt=%2Bnuclear&sv=IS&l k=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Energy-hungry Turkey appears eager to finalise a tender by the end of this month to build its controversial first nuclear power plant, ending a three-decade-long saga fraught by protests and cancellations. ``We have decided to intensify our efforts to conclude work on the nuclear power plant tender,'' Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit told reporters on Thursday night after a six-hour meeting of government coalition leaders. * LGA call to stop developing uranium mines ABC News Thur, 2 Dec 1999 12:40 CDT http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/port/regport-2dec1999-8.htm The Australian Local Government Association is calling on the Federal Government to stop the development of any more uranium mines in Australia. Almost 800 members voted for the motion at the ALGA meeting in Canberra yesterday. * Clinton enters WTO as protest arrests rise USA Today 12/02/99- Updated 01:36 AM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncswed01.htm * Police: Gentle tactics didn't work USA Today 12/02/99- Updated 01:31 AM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncswed07.htm * Protests Cloud Clinton Message on Free Trade By Charles Babington Washington Post , December 3, 1999; Page A32 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/080l-120399-idx.html * A Dangerous Tolerance Washington Post Friday, December 3, 1999; Page A41 By William Raspberry http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/038l-120399-idx.html * Trade Obstacles Unmoved, Seattle Talks End in Failure New York Times December 4, 1999 By JOSEPH KAHN and DAVID E. SANGER http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120499wto-talks.html * Saboteurs Cut Power at W.T.O. in Geneva New York Times December 4, 1999 By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120499wto-geneva.html * Trade Ministers Sidestep Issue of Secrecy New York Times December 4, 1999 By STEVEN GREENHOUSE http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120499wto-secrecy.html * Seattle Talks on Trade End With Stinging Blow to U.S. New York Times December 5, 1999 By JOSEPH KAHN and DAVID E. SANGER http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120599wto-talks.html * Newberg-Perini Awarded $300 Million Contract To Support Entire ComEd Nuclear Power `Fleet' Company Press Release Friday December 3, 11:28 am Eastern Time Infoseek FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 1999--Perini Corporation (AMEX:PCR - news) announced today that it had received a contract valued at $300 million from Commonwealth Edison Co. of Illinois, one of the nation's leading nuclear power generators, to supply construction management services for maintenance and modification work required for all of ComEd's nuclear plants for a five year period. Newberg/Perini, a division of Perini Corporation, will perform the work under an existing 50/50 joint venture with Stone & Webster, Incorporated in support of ComEd's nuclear services program. * Clinton Plans to Declare Y2K National Emergency (on December 28) More than 50 simultaneous Y2K crises expected, stretching resources to limit. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:00:31 -0600 WorldNet Daily, by David M. Bresnahan http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991129_xex_clinton_set_.shtml President Clinton has already made plans to declare a national emergency because of expected disruptions caused by the Y2K computer problem, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] documents. A final training session followed by a mock Y2K disaster exercise will include the actual disruptions and problems that Y2K emergency planners believe will take place during the change to the New Year. * Return to Fortress America? Christian Scince Monitor THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1999 http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/12/02/fp11s2-csm.shtml Evidence accumulates that there is a revival of the controversial pre-World War II defense doctrine called Fortress America. It envisaged a world in which the United States could be secure even if everybody else went up in flames. Those who thought that strategy had died in the cold war may now have cause to reconsider in the light of recent actions by Congress. * After the Test Ban Vote Washington Post Friday, December 3, 1999; Page A40 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/031l-120399-idx.html Henry Kissinger is correct to call for an end to name-calling and denunciations in the wake of the Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [op-ed, Nov. 23]. The question is where to go from here. The primary defense against the worldwide spread of nuclear weapons is the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and its associated regime. * Missile defense system makes sense in post-Cold War era Florida Today 12/03/99By John Omicinski A Gannett News Service column http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/stories/1999b/120399e.htm WASHINGTON - This year's successful test of a Star Wars-generation space-shooter that zaps incoming missiles with pinpoint accuracy at speeds up to 15,000 mph is another remarkable feat of American technology. Called an exoatmospheric vehicle - EAV - the weapon makes construction of a national missile defense not only possible, but likely. * U.N. crimes court gets support without U.S. By Betsy Pisik Washington Times December 3, 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/internatl/internatl1.html NEW YORK The United States has resigned itself to the eventual creation -- over Washington's objections -- of a U.N. International Criminal Court to be modeled after war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Even if the United States does not ratify the treaty, American citizens will be subject to arrest and trial as the treaty document is now drafted. * Red ammo Inside the Ring Notes from the Pentagon Washington Times 5am -- December 3, 1999 By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough http://www.washtimes.com/nation/ring.html Politically correct environmentalism is a hallmark of the Clinton administration, which created an entire Pentagon bureaucracy devoted to questionable "environmental security." Now the Army has jumped on the bandwagon. The service has ordered all new bullets, notably the 5.56 mm round used in standard-issue M-16 rifles, to be produced with tungsten filler instead of environmentally polluting lead. * Study faults workmanship on space rockets USA Today 12/03/99- Updated 06:45 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm#prba WASHINGTON - Flawed workmanship and engineering by U.S. rocket manufacturers are at the root of a recent string of space launch failures, a Pentagon study concludes. It faults the government for not keeping a closer eye on the contractors - defense giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin. * Editorial: Forget the Trump card Toledo Blade December 3, 1999 http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/edit/9l03ed1.htm * Scientists Criticize Limits on Foreign Visitors to Laboratories New York Times December 3, 1999 By WILLIAM J. BROAD and JUDY MILLER http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120399nuke-spy.html A committee of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's top scientific advisory group, has criticized a federal crackdown on visits by foreign scientists to the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories, saying worries about security must be balanced by the benefits of the visits and by the scientific openness they foster. * Energy Chief to Allow Foreign Scientists to Visit Labs Washington Post Friday, December 3, 1999; Page A11 By Walter Pincus http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/094l-120399-idx.html Warning that "congressional hysteria over security" threatens the quality of science at America's nuclear weapons laboratories, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said yesterday he will begin issuing waivers for foreign scientists to visit the national labs again. Richardson said the waivers are permitted under a new law that imposed a moratorium on visits to the Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories by scientists from China, Israel, India, Pakistan and other countries deemed sensitive. * Sun steps up supercomputing push New York Times December 2, 1999 Filed at 7:50 p.m. EST By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0_4_1477859_00.html Sun Microsystems, nipping at the heels of rival SGI, has put in a bid for a contract to design a supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory that will simulate nuclear explosions, Sun has confirmed. The move highlights Sun's effort to muscle its way into the market for high-performance, number-crunching computers, increasingly in demand from government and businesses. Airline companies in particular are interested in these "big iron" machines, so they can tackle computationally intense tasks such as scheduling planes, said Steve MacKay, vice president of architecture and technology at Sun. * Bradley Accuses Gore Of Distorting Record Democratic Challenger Discounts Damage Washington Post Friday, December 3, 1999; Page A01 By Mike Allen http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/181l-120399-idx.html Bill Bradley angrily accused Vice President Gore yesterday of repeatedly lying about his record and intentions, but said he did not believe he had been hurt by their increasingly harsh debate over health care. "I think we've reached a sad day in our political life in this country when a sitting vice president distorts a fellow Democrat's record because he thinks he can score a few political points," Bradley said. * InteCardia Imaging Opens a New Cardiovascular Diagnostic Center and Receives Approval for Another Center in Tennessee Business Wire 08:09 a.m. Dec 02, 1999 Eastern http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=BW1109-19991202&qt=%2Bnuclear&sv=IS&lk=no frames&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 CHAPEL HILL, N.C -- InteCardia Imaging, a division of InteCardia, Inc., today announced it has established nuclear imaging capability at Eagle Cardiology in Greensboro, NC. The Company also reported it has made a key addition to its cardiovascular imaging management team. Eagle Cardiology now joins the InteCardia Imaging division, which currently operates two diagnostic centers in Memphis, Tennessee. InteCardia has also recently received Certificate of Need (CON) approval from the State of Tennessee to develop a comprehensive cardiac diagnostic center in East Memphis. This center will include outpatient cardiac catheterization, nuclear imaging, ultrafast Computed Tomography (CT), echocardiography, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanning services. * URANIUM IMPORTER WON'T GET SUBSIDIES Article 1 of 760, Article ID: 1999336049 Published on 12/02/99, WASHINGTON TIMES http://www.washtimes.com/archives_search.html U.S. Enrichment Corp. will continue buying uranium from Russia's dismantled nuclear weapons, despite its failure to get the federal government to subsidize the purchases. The Bethesda-based company, which had unsuccessfully negotiated with the Department of Energy (DOE) for financial aid and warned that it might withdraw from the program, announced yesterday it would continue. * D.C. Plants Top List for Chlorine Storage THE REGION Washington Poat Friday, December 3, 1999; Page B03 METRO IN BRIEF Compiled from reports by staff writers Stephen C. Fehr, Angela Paik, Jay Mathews, Linda Wheeler and D'Vera Cohn and the Associated Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/03/055l-120399-idx.html The three wastewater treatment plants in the District store the Washington area's largest amounts of chlorine, according to a survey released yesterday. The survey by the U.S. Public Interest Group said that Blue Plains (180,000 pounds), Dalecarlia (130,000 pounds) and McMillan (110,000 pounds) were tops in the area in the amount of dangerous chlorine stored, based on information the operators provided to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. ___________________________________________________ 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. [Please copy and forward NucNews. Help keep the information flowing!]