Subject: NucNews 99/11/23 Briefs Story-Date: 06:22 a.m. PST Tuesday , August 10, 1999 Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.07 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Please address replies to articles to the original publisher. Please send NucNews copies? Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [GOOD NEWS! NucNews archives are re-established online strictly for research purposes. 1999 is now searchable. Go to http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.] * TV to go inside Rocky Flats (This Week) * Is your nuclear missile Y2K-ready? * Is your nuclear missile Y2K-ready? * An Arms Race In Asia --And No Missile Defense Here * Beryllium exposure merits compensation Kaptur says * SECURITY SCHMOOZING: Young ambitious and into nuclear weapons? * In S.C. Rethinking an Atomic Waste Welcome Mat; Task Force Plan Worries a Town * Workers unaware of memo on safety at Paducah plant * Uranium Resources Inc. Announces Third Quarter 1999 Results * Nellis receives biggest piece of federal funds $9 million study of transmutation * Iran Sells Scud Missiles To Democratic Republic Of Congo: * Russia: U.S. Concerns May Be Met in Current ABM Pact * Ukraine Sees No Y2K Problems With Nuclear Reactors * Report: China Deploys New Missiles * US firm on both Koreas' missile plans * S. Korea Might Get Anthrax Vaccine * Correction: * News from Kobe * Uranium spill victims battle to stay alive * Puerto Rico Bombing Decision Soon * De-Alerting Event December 9th -------- * TV to go inside Rocky Flats (This Week) Denver Rocky Mountain News 11/22/99 http://insidedenver.com/news/1122sbbrf.shtml ARVADA -- The city's government access cable channel -- KATV-Channel 8 will present a rare look inside the security areas of Rocky Flats. The 20-minute program Rocky Flats Inside Out takes viewers inside buildings at Rocky Flats where plutonium weapons were manufactured from 1952 to 1989. The nuclear mission ended in 1992 and the site is undergoing cleanup and closure. The program will air through November at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Sunday at 10 a.m. Wednesday and at 1 and 8 p.m. Thursday. * Is your nuclear missile Y2K-ready? By John S. McCright PC Week Updated 8:34 AM ET November 23 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/zd/991123/08/is-your-nuclear Y2K, the made-for-TV movie that aired on NBC Sunday night was a classic case of how television turns the most serious subjects into farce. For those of you who missed it (and I congratulate you) the plot revolves around a crack team of programmers set up in a Washington-area war room ready to tackle any situations that arise when computers fail as the clock ticks over to 2000. * Boeing Begins CALCM Cruise Missile Deliveries PR Newswire Updated 3:28 PM ET November 22 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/pr/991122/wa-boeing-calcm-deliv SEATTLE Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing today delivered to the U.S. Air Force the first six Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missiles or CALCMs produced at the company's Weapons Programs facility in St. Charles Mo. Boeing is converting 322 nuclear Air-Launched Cruise Missiles to non-nuclear CALCM AGM-86C Block 1 and Block 1A configurations for the U.S. Air Force. * An Arms Race In Asia --And No Missile Defense Here New York Post 11/21/99 http://www.nypostonline.com/112199/editorial/142.htm ...: According to the authoritative "Jane's Intelligence Review there's reason to believe North Korea is secretly producing plutonium -- a critical component in the nuclear weapons that the Stalinist state is assuring everyone aren't being built. * Beryllium exposure merits compensation, Kaptur says Columbus Dispatch 11/21/99 http://www.dispatch.com/pan/localarchive/wawirenws.html Kaptur says U.S. Department of Defense workers and contractors whose health has been harmed by beryllium should be compensated in the same way the Clinton administration has proposed aiding Department of Energy workers. Kaptur introduced a bill last week to provide health benefits and lost wages, or up to $200,000 in a lump sum, to defense workers. The amount is double the $100,000 cap in a plan Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson proposes for energy workers. * SECURITY SCHMOOZING: Young, ambitious and into nuclear weapons? THE IDEAS INDUSTRY A Recipe for Handling Spam By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post, November 23, 1999; Page A25 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/23/073l-112399-idx.html The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has chartered New Analysts in International Security, an informal group formed to provide networking opportunities for younger analysts in the fields of nonproliferation and national and international security. * In S.C., Rethinking an Atomic Waste Welcome Mat Task Force Plan Worries a Town By Sue Anne Pressley, Washington Post, November 23, 1999; Page A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/23/063l-112399-idx.html SNELLING, S.C.-The mayor's house here in this rural crossroads town of 300 souls sits at the gateway to what critics call the nation's nuclear dumping ground. But Tim Moore is not concerned--not in the way one might think. For Moore and many other residents of Barnwell County, Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc. has been a good neighbor for nearly 30 years. As the trucks rumble past each day, bearing low-level nuclear wastes from 38 states, these citizens have taken the opposite of the prevailing public view, Not in My Backyard. * Workers unaware of memo on safety at Paducah plant Associated Press Evansville Courier & Press 11/22/99 http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?199911/22+workers112299_news.ht ml+19991122 A 1992 memo to employees of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant about a program to protect them from radioactive transuranic metals seemed to represent a new openness with workers about the potential dangers of the workplace. However, several people who worked at the plant at that time said they never saw the memorandum, which came from the U.S. Department of Energy and its Paducah contractor, Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc. * Uranium Resources, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 1999 Results Business Wire Updated 8:54 AM ET November 22, 1999 http://news.excite.com/news/bw/991122/tx-uranium-resources DALLAS (BUSINESS WIRE) - Uranium Resources, Inc. ( URI")(OTC BB:URIX) reported net income of $952 000 or $0.08 per share for the third quarter ended September 30 1999 compared to a net loss of $14 916 000 or ($1.24) per share for the third quarter of 1998. * Nellis receives biggest piece of federal funds LAS VEGAS SUN November 21 1999 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/1999/nov/21/509382714.html Congress this session approved money for a number of projects in Nevada. Among them: $18.6 million three buildings at Nellis Air Force Base to house F-22 fighter jets; $11.6 million land acquisition for a buffer zone around live ammunition areas at Nellis.... $9 million study of transmutation the process that converts high-level radioactive waste to a less dangerous substance.... * Iran Sells Scud Missiles To Democratic Republic Of Congo: Report Washington African National Congress Daily News November 22 1999 Sapa-AFP US-DRCONGO http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/briefing/nw19991123/34.html Iran has sold Scud missiles to the Democratic Republic of Congo increasing the risk of a wider regional war in central Africa the Washington Times reported Monday. Prepared by: ANC Information Services Dept Information & Publicity PO Box 16469 Tel: (+27 21) 426 2740 Vlaeberg 8018 Fax: (+27 21) 426 2774 Cape Town Internet: info@anc.org.za South Africa * TEHRAN SOLD SCUD MISSILES TO CONGOLESE U.S. SPIES DISCOVER SYSTEMS WASHINGTON TIMES Published on 11/22/99 http://www.newslibrary.com/download.asp?DBLIST=wt99&DOCNUM=25543 Iran sold Scud missiles to the Democratic Republic of Congo last month in the first export of its homemade versions of the widely used short-range missile The Washington Times has learned. Iranian Scud B and Scud C missile systems were detected by U.S. spy agencies over the past several weeks. * Russia: U.S. Concerns May Be Met in Current ABM Pact New York Times November 23 1999 Filed at 3:55 a.m. ET By Reuters http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-arms-ru.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-UN-Russia-US-Missiles.html UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. ambassador suggested that U.S. misgivings about the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty could be addressed within the existing pact and without the amendments sought by Washington. * Ukraine Sees No Y2K Problems With Nuclear Reactors New York Times November 23 1999 Filed at 9:18 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-yk-ukraine.html KIEV (Reuters) - The head of Ukraine's nuclear energy authority Energoatom said on Tuesday the Y2K computer bug posed no threat to the country's Soviet-era nuclear reactors. ``We have checked and tested all equipment at all reactors '' Mykola Dudchenko told a news conference. ``These checks showed that there is no equipment at our stations susceptible to the year 2000 problem in management defense or security systems.'' * Report: China Deploys New Missiles New York Times November 23 1999 Filed at 4:48 p.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-US-China.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid reports of a planned expansion of Chinese short-range missile systems across from Taiwan the State Department said Tuesday it has made clear to China its concerns regarding missile deployments and their influence on the situation in the Taiwan Strait. Spokesman James P. Rubin refused to confirm or deny a report in The Washington Times that China is deploying nearly 100 of its newest short-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads at a base about 275 miles from Taiwan. * US firm on both Koreas' missile plans UPI 11:09 AM ET November 22 1999 By CHARLES LEE http://news.excite.com/news/u/991122/11/other-missiles SEOUL South Korea Nov. 22 (UPI) The difficult task of restraining missile development on the Korean peninsula requires the United States to stand firm against communist North Korea but sometimes Washington must also make tough decisions involving its close ally in the South. Fearful of sparking an East Asian arms race last week the Clinton administration had to turn down South Korea's request to build a new long-range missile. * S. Korea Might Get Anthrax Vaccine Associated Press November 23 1999 Filed at 6:25 p.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-US-Korea.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- In view of fears that North Korea is developing chemical weapons the United States might be willing to share its anthrax vaccine with ally South Korea Secretary of Defense William Cohen said Tuesday. * Correction: * News from Kobe From: Japan Press Service Re: NucNews 99/11/21-22 Briefs "http://www.iijnet.or.jp/c.pro/shinfujin/" The above-mentioned URL does not carry our daily news. Please show correct URL as follows http://www.twics.com/~jpspress SEYA Minoru for Japan Press Service jpspress@twics.com * Uranium spill victims battle to stay alive Sydney Morning Herald Date: 23/11/99 JAPAN By MICHAEL MILLETT Herald Correspondent in Tokyo http://www.smh.com.au/news/9911/23/text/world5.html The three workers exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in Japan's worst nuclear accident are continuing their fight for survival more than 50 days after the accident. * Puerto Rico Bombing Decision Soon Associated Press November 23 1999 Filed at 4:50 p.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Pentagon-Puerto-Rico.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary William Cohen said Tuesday he's close to making a recommendation to President Clinton on whether the Navy should abandon its use of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a live bombing range. * De-Alerting Tue 23 Nov 1999 13:35:41 -0500 The website of the campaign is at http://www.dealert.com ... On December 9 1999 a major national effort to de-alert nuclear weapons the "Back from the Brink Campaign