Nuclear
2002

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• Nixon Ordered Secret Nuclear Alert Amid Vietnam War in 1969 - AP 26dec02

• DU: A 'Silver Bullet's' Toxic Legacy -  Christian Science Monitor 20dec02

• Romanian wheat: Radioactive Wheat Export Scam Exposed - Sunday Herald (Scotland) 1dec02

• High Security Trips Up Some Irradiated Patients  -  NY Times 4dec02

• Officials: 'No Danger' to Public from Submarine that Leaked Radioactive Water  - AP 28nov02

• Saddam's Bombmaker is Full of Lies: Who is Khidhir Hamza? - YellowTimes.org 27nov02

• Los Alamos Nuclear Lab Warns of Radioactive Trees - Reuters 27nov02

• DU: Settlement Reached In Case Of Depleted Uranium Worker Who Blew The Whistle On INEEL - Government Accountability Project 21nov02

• The State of the World - Helen Caldicott 12nov02

• Cesium Hunting in Georgia, Soviet Union: Concerns About 'Dirty Bomb' Drive Efforts to Find Radioactive Cesium - Washington Post 11nov02

• Disarmament Specialists Hudson, Gilbert, Platte Damaged Minuteman Missile Silo - Bonnie Urfer 6nov02

• Afghanistan: Precision Destruction – Indiscriminate Effects -  Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) Nov02

• UK Conservatives Pull the Plug on Nuclear Power  - The Independent (UK) 27oct02

• Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Enriches the City, and Paducah Pays with its Health - AP 26oct02

• North Korea Calls for New Pact With U.S. on Nuclear Weapons  - Wall Street Journal 25oct02

• Resurgence for nuclear labs: Scientists designing weapons for terror war, planning underground tests -  SF Chronicle 22oct02

• Red Storm: Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Supercomputer - SANDIA Press Release 21oct02

• N. Korea Complicates Bush 'Axis of Evil' Strategy  - Wall Street Journal 18oct02

• NRC Nuclear Agency Takes Blame for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Damage  - ENS 10oct02 

• Africa: Irradiate Them All: Nuclear Power Pushed on Africa  - The Ecologist Oct02

• A program that would find worldwide support and good will - Letter to the Editor NORMAN D. CARTER / NY Times 1oct02

• Turkish Uranium Smuggling Story Turns a Damp Squib  - The Hindu 30sep02

• '88 Warning Was Rejected at Damaged Nuclear Plant  - NY Times 30sep02

• Taxpayers to Owe Billions for Nuclear Waste Storage  - NY Times 26sep02

• Dismantling of Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility starts today  - Tri-City Herald (Pasco, WA) 19sep02

• 'Brotherhood of the Bomb': The Hunt for Oppenheimer  - Book Review / NY Times 15sep02

• Conferees Agree on the Renewal Of Nuclear-Plant Liability Limits  - Wall Street Journal 13sep02

• Navy SEALs & DOE To Test Container Ship Near NJ For Radiation - AP 12sep02

• Reactor Guards Feel Vulnerable  - NY Times 12sep02

• New Uranium Plant Will Be in Tennessee - NY Times 10sep02

• Radioactive Produce Season in Moscow  - MICHAEL WINES / NY Times 10sep02

• Davis-Besse Ohio Atomic Plant Is Investigated Over Acid Leak  - AP 1sep02

• Nagasaki Day Commemoration Sees Seven Arrests at Navy ELF Site Nukewatch Press Release 10aug02

• Nuclear Weapons Facilities Subject To Congressional Security Probe  - Daily Californian 9aug02

• Our Nuclear Achilles' Heel - Rachel's n.749,  8aug02

• Berkeley's Bevatron Blues: Plans to demolish an aging particle-accelerator facility -  East Bay Express 7aug02

• Insurance: Reactor Sales Are Said to Endanger Accident Payments - NY Times 7aug02

• Sandia National Laboratories: Patriotic Weapon Makers Honored Oakland Tribune 5aug02

• 'Stop the bomb' protesters arrested at Livermore Lab -  Oakland Tribune 4aug02

• US/Russian Lessons for South Asia -  Foreign Policies in Focus 2aug02

• Plutonium Shipping to S.C. Begins - AP 2aug02

• Russia Indicates It Might Reconsider Iran Nuclear Plants Plan  - NY Times 2aug02

• Depleted Uranium (DU) Munitions - COL J. EDGAR WAKAYAMA - OSD/DOT&E/CS (Read this report for the military's own view on risks to health and the environment) Aug2002

• Russia to Build a Second Nuclear Reactor for Iran Agence France-Presse (AFP) 26jul02

• U.S.-Europe Group Wants to Build Nuclear Fuel Plant in U.S. -  NY Times & WSJ 23jul02

• Industry Tackles Packaging of Nuclear Waste for Yucca  -  NY Times 16jul02

• Controlling Technologies - Part 1 - Rachel's Environment & Health News 11jul02

• 4.4 Quake Hits Near Nevada Site Proposed for Nuclear Dump -  NY Times 15jun02

• Bush Ends ABM Treaty - NY Times 14jun02

• Rep. Barbara Lee Files Lawsuit to Stop Bush’s Withdrawal from Treaty  - Daily Californian 14jun02

• Letter to the Editor Re: Potassium Iodide Pills - MARC SIEGEL, M.D. / NY Times 14jun02

• US Sen Torricelli: Replenish Radioactive Cleanup Fund - AP 2jul02

• Radiation Pills to Be Given Away - NY Times 1jun02

• 12 Million Could Die at Once in an India-Pakistan Nuclear War -  NY Times 27may02

• Nuclear Nightmares: Terrorism Experts Agree, It's IF but WHEN  - NY Times Magazine 26may02

• Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions 24may02

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Questions Radiate over UC campus Tritium Lab -  Berkeley Daily Planet 20may02

• Profit is the Motive Behind Push for Yucca  -  Las Vegas Sun 19may02

• Fired Official Is Critical of County Plan for Emergency - NY Times 18may02

• Demolition of Nuclear Plant Illustrates Problems Involved  -  NY Times 14may02

• San Onofre Atomic Plant Casts a Pall on Paradise NY Times 11may02

• Salt Lake City Vote Drive gaining support, though foes also getting signatures - AP 11may02

• Impact of Retiring Indian Point on Electric System Reliability -  Synapse Energy Economics 7may02

• Waste Plan Under Attack: Democrats criticize Republicans for forging ahead with a Nevada nuclear dump - LA Times 5may02

• Nuclear Fallout: Testing has killed thousands, a new study shows -  InTheseTimes 1may02

• Russian Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant Closed -  NY Times 1may02

• Study Says Closing Atomic Plant Would Raise Energy Costs - NY Times 30apr02

• Nuclear Road to Nevada - OSCAR B. GOODMAN, Mayor of Las Vegas / NY Times 28apr02

• House Yucca vote likely to mirror panel's Dump advocates hope lopsided result will sway senators -  Las Vegas Sun 24apr02

• Bankers exhorted to fight Yucca -  Las Vegas Sun 23apr02

• White House Cut 93% of Funds Sought to Guard Atomic Arms - NY Times 23apr02

• White House Hasn't Sought Money to Guard Atomic Plants - NY Times 22apr02

• Transit Crossroads Eyes Yucca Mountain: It can happen to your quaint little town too  -  NY Times 20apr02

• US Nuclear Utilities Prepare Requests Reactor-Site Funds -  Dow Jones Newswires 16apr02

• The Hole in the Reactor - DANIEL F. FORD / NY Times 13apr02

• Closing Down Indian Point: Taking a Chance  - NY Times 11apr02

• U.S. Questions Nuclear Plant's Repair Plan - NY Times 11apr02

• Guinn takes case to D.C.: Nevadans highlight risk of shipping nuclear waste - Las Vegas Sun 9apr02

• Yucca Project Believed to be 'Legally Dead' -  Las Vegas Sun 9apr02

• Yucca: Foes of Nuclear Dump Gear Up Campaign - NY Times 9apr02

• Nuclear Escape Route -  NY Times 8apr02

• U.S. Faults Nuclear Reactor Operator for Corrosion Problem NY Times 6apr02

• Cañon City, CO - A Quiet Town Confronts Toxic Dirt  - NY Times 6apr02

• Nuke Cask Test Questioned: Senators critical of NRC's use of computer models for testing ERIN NEFF / Las Vegas Sun 5apr02

• NRC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Rule for Packaging and Transporting Radioactive Materials - NRC 5apr02

• U.S. companies eye early permits for nuclear sites -  Reuters 5apr02

• $25 Millon Nuke Lobby Funds Hard to Match  - Las Vegas Sun 2apr02

• Officials debate risk of transporting nuclear waste DOUG ABRAHMS The Journal News 30mar02

• Nuclear Disaster Plans a MYSTERY to Most  -  The Journal News 27mar02

• U.S. Orders Checks for Corrosion at Nuclear Reactors  - NY Times 26mar02

• Cold Fusion Rides Again Science magazine publishes more evidence of tabletop nuclear reactions  -  SF Chronicle 25mar02

• Indian Point fuel would be trucked over Tappen Zee Bridge -  The Journal News 22mar02

• New Device Can Accurately Detect Distinct Radiation Types  -  Daily Californian 20mar02

• California Allows Nuclear Waste Disposal in City Dumps -  SF Chronicle 19mar02

• Federal prosecutors looking at Goshute nuclear waste deal  - AP 14mar02

• Data shows world awash in Stolen Nuclear Material -  Reuters 8mar02

• Non-Ionizing Radiation, Part 1: Static and Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) Electric and Magnetic Fields - v.80 - IARC Monographs Programme on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans 7mar02

• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Restructuring and Progress in Implementing Title 32  - GAO-02-451T 26feb02

• Bush Approves Yucca Mountain As a Nuclear-Waste Disposal Site -  Wall Street Journal 19feb02

• NV Yucca Strategy: Sue, Stall  -  LAS VEGAS SUN 18feb02

• Nevada Governor Defends Nuclear Waste Site Lawsuit - Reuters 18feb02

• Bush Approves Nevada Site For Disposal of Nuclear Waste - AP 15feb02

• Hematite, MO Nuclear Fuel Plant Waste Linked to Tainted Well Water  - AP 15feb02

• What is Vitrification Tri-City Herald 10feb02 & Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Soviet Atomic Bomb Testing Causes Mutation in 'Junk DNA' - AP 8feb02

• Niels Bohr's letters assail Werner Heisenberg's atom role for Hitler -  NY Times 7feb02

• What if ? - Chicago Post-Tribune 5jan02

• Science Will Catch Up at Waste Site, U.S. Says -  NY Times 31jan02

• Radiation Doses Underestimated for Native Americans  - AP 24jan02

• Surplus Plutonium to be Burned as Fuel instead of Stored as MOX - AP 24jan02

• Massachusetts Accepts Pills for Radiation  -  Washington Post 11jan02

• The Tooth Fairy Project: Tooth Donors Need a Checkup - Jay M Gould  / St Louis Post-Dispatch 8jan02

• Bonnie Urfer of Nukewatch Returned to Federal Prison (send her letters of support) - Press Release 4jan02

• Radiocesium in North San Francisco Bay and Baja California coastal surface waters - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 2002

• U.S. Nuclear Weapons Research, Development, Testing, and Production, and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Facilities  - Brookings Institution 2002