Nuclear
2003

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• US-Russian Team Removes Uranium From Bulgarian Reactor - AP 25dec03

• Japan: Public Opposition Dooms Nuclear Plant - Japan Times 25dec03

• Armenia to Continue Operating Nuclear Reactor in Quake Zone - Agence France-Presse 22dec03

• Neocons: The Men Behind the Curtain -  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nov/Dec03

• DU: Army Shells Pose Cancer Risk in Iraq: Depleted uranium causing high radioactivity levels -  The Observer (UK) 14dec03

• Fallon, NV: In Tiny Town, 11 Kids Get Cancer— Why?  -  AP 14dec03

• DU: Testimony of Leuren Moret for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan Dec. 13-14, 2003, Tokyo, JAPAN 13dec03

• Nuclear Junk Science? Sidney Goodman, P.E., M.S.M.E. / Letter to the Editor / Newark Star Ledger (New Jersey) 18nov03

• Chinese Nuclear Power Plants to Go Local - People's Daily (Beijing) 15nov03

• Tooth Fairy Project: Using Baby Teeth as a Geiger Counter  - NY Times 11nov03

• Strontium-90 and Human Health -  Ernest Sternglass 8nov03

• U.N.'s ElBaradei Wants All Nukes Controlled - Japan Today (Japan) 4nov03

• Enola Gay Exhibit Omits Dropping of Bomb on Hiroshima: Criticism Meets New Exhibit of Plane That Carried A-Bomb -NY Times 2nov03

• Atoms for Peace -  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1nov03

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Told to Purify Ground Water - Berkeley Daily Planet 31oct03

• China's 2nd Nuclear Power Plant Under Construction in Taizhou - People's Daily (Beijing) 15oct03

• Energy Dept. Seeks Power to Redefine Nuclear Waste -  NY Times 1oct03

• South Africa Looks to Next-Generation Nuclear Power: Earthlife Files Papers Against a PBMR reactor near Cape Town - Christian Science Monitor 23sep03

• Nevada Nuclear Workers Infect Office Workers - AP 19sep03

• Edward Teller, Key Proponent Of Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 95 - AP, Washington Post & SF Chron. 10sep03

• John Lansdale Jr., 91, Is Dead Found German A-Bomb Project -  NY Times 31aug03

• Russian Submarine Sinks, Killing 9 Crew -  AP 30aug03

• DU: Another U.S. War Crime? Iraqi Cities 'HOT' with Depleted Uranium -  Workers World 21aug03

• Enola Gay Reassembled for Revised Museum Show at Smithsonian - NY Times 19aug03

• 9 Nukes Knocked Offline by Blackout - Reuters 14aug03

• Blurring the Nuclear Boundaries - Haaretz (Israel) 14aug03

• Gamma-Ray Weapons Could Trigger Next Arms Race  - New Scientist 13aug03

• Iraqi Kids Toil in Dickensian Desperation  - SF Chronicle 13aug03

• Dumping On The Public  - TomPaine.com 13aug03

• Plutonium Leak Contaminates Two Los Alamos Lab Employees - Daily Californian 12aug03

• Bush Nuclear Policy A Recipe for National Insecurity: Time to Change Course -  GRACE 11aug03

• Livermore Lab: More Than 1,200 Protest Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy - The TriValley Herald (California) 11aug03

• Bush and Nuclear Arms - Eric Chivian, M.D. / Op-ed / NY Times 10aug03

• Henry A. Boorse, Atom-Bomb Physicist, Dies at 98 - NY Times 10aug03

• Germany: Heatwave Hits German Nuclear Plants Forcing Shutdown of Obrigheim - Agence France-Presse 8aug03

• Russia: US Missile Shield Sparks Space Arms Race Danger -  Pravda (Russia) 8aug03

• Japan Has an Axe to Grind: News Analysis - Opinion / China Daily News 7aug03

• Chernobyl Photo by Robert Polidori  -  The New Yorker 4aug03

• DU: Amorphous Tungsten Alloy 'Safe' Alternative to Depleted Uranium Revealed  - New Scientist 30jul03

• New Zealand PM Dismisses Chirac Praise of Pacific Nuclear Testing - Agence France-Presse 28jul03

• Return to Marble Hill: Indiana's Rusting Nuke  -  The Bloomington Alternative (Indiana) 27jul03

• DU: The Agent Orange of Eternity  - Information Clearing House 24jul03

• USSR: Nuclear Submarines Project Launched 50 Years Ago - Pravda 23jul03

• The Falcon's Target (FALCON: Force Application and Launch from Continental U.S.A.) -  Der Spiegel (Germany) 21jul03

• DOE Nuclear Waste Cleanup Program Behind Schedule and Spending Far Too Much  - AP 17jul03

  • Nuclear Waste: Challenges to Achieving Potential Savings in DOE’s High-Level Waste Cleanup Program GAO-03-593 17jun03

• Senate Subcommittee Approves Money for Nuclear Bunker Busters -  AP 16jul03

• Uranium Quicksand - Editorial / NY Times 15jul03

• House Retreats From Bush's Nuclear Plan  - NY Times 15jul03

• Testimony of Leuren Moret at Public Hearing for the International War Crimes Tribunal on Afghanistan  (Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) 28jun03

• U.S. Predicts Cancer Deaths at Proposed Plutonium Plant  - NY Times 26jun03

• Michael Parker, Ex-Dow Man to Head BNFL  - The Guardian (UK) 23jun03

• 77 Tons of DU used at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge: A Deceptively Pretty Place -  Bloomington Alternative (Indiana) 22jun03

• Bush Cited Iraqi Uranium Bid AFTER Investigator Concluded Documents Forged  - Washington Post 12jun03

• Lowering the Nuclear Threshold - Asia Times 11jun03

• Casks to Bury Nuclear Waste don't meet Federal Specs Could Leak: A Nuclear Whistleblower at Home  - Alternet 6jun03

• Uranium Radiation Levels in Afghanistan: Not Attributable to Depleted Uranium - UMRC / Center For Global Research 5jun03

• Is The Destruction of Hospitals and Public Health Records a Cover Up of "Depleted" Uranium Health Impacts in Iraq? - Press Release 3jun03

• Is Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant as Safe as it Can Be? - NukSAFE / TV Show Transcript 2jun03

• Past Exposure to Densely Ionizing Radiation Leaves a Unique Permanent Signature in the Genome - Am. J. Hum. Genet. May03

• The Dark Shadow of Indian Point - (5 Letters to the Editor) NY Times 27may03

• Oyster Creek: A-Plant Electrical Workers Strike, Citing Job Reductions -  NY Times 24may03

• Buried Hanford Nuclear Waste Fires Fed-State Clash - ENS 22may03

• Senate Votes to Lift Ban on Producing Nuclear Arms  - NY Times 21may03

• Campaign Against Depleted Uranium - CADU NEWS i.14, Spring '03  - 21may03

• Nuclear Risk and Reality - Herschel Specter / NY Times 20may03

• Safety or Secrecy?  - NY Times 20may03

• DU: Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq  - The Christian Science Monitor 15may03

• LBNL Officials Use `Science Fair' to Avoid Molecular Foundry Issue  - Berkeley Daily Planet 16may03

• Panel Rejects Nuclear Arms of Small Yield - NY Times 15may03

• Navajo Miners Battle a Deadly Legacy of Yellow Dust  - NY Times 13may03

• Radioactive Waste in Household Products - NIRS 12may03

• Russian Scientists Suggest Burying Spent Nuclear in Earth's Core  Alfavit (Russia) 7may03

• Bush Administration Keen on New Nuclear Weapons  - ENS 6may03

• Vieques, Puerto Rico: What Next? - Paul Goettlich 6may03

• Nuclear Looting - Iraqi Scientist Sees Widespread Contamination  - Pacific News Service 6may03

• U.S. Colonel Admits That 500 Tons of D.U. Were Just Used in Iraq  - Coalition For Free Thought In Media 5may03

• Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted U.S. Team Unable to Determine Whether Deadly Materials Are Missing  - Washington Post 4may03

• Dismantling Nuclear Reactors -  Scientific American 1mar03

• Kennedy Warns on Nuclear Tests  - The Guardian (UK) 30apr03
• Whistle-Blower: Lawrence Livermore Lab Nuclear Snitch - East Bay Express 30apr03
• DU: Cancer Check for UK Troops  - The Guardian Weekly 29apr03
• DU: Is the Destruction of Hospitals and Public Health Records a Coverup of "Depleted" Uranium Health Impacts in Iraq? - Press Release 25apr03
• DU: Scientists Debate Depleted Uranium Weapons Effect In Iraq - AP 21apr03
• S. Sgt. Dennis Kyne Speaking on Depleted Uranium - Text and MP3 21apr03
• Texas: Nuclear Reactor in Texas Leaking Cooling Water  - NY Times 18apr03
• DU: Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops - The Idaho Observer (Spirit Lake) 16apr03
• DU: Depleted Uranium Casts Shadow over Peace in Iraq  - New Scientist 15apr03
• DU: Depleted Uranium Munitions in Iraq: Royal Society Statement -Press Release 15apr03
• Worms Sex Life of Reveals Chernobyl Effect  - New Scientist 13apr03
• Former FBI Agent Linked to China Spy Case Earned Praise in Job at Livermore Lab  - AP 11apr03
• Indian Point: From Amusement Park to Power Plant - NY Times 8apr03
• UK Audit Unearths Huge Piles of Nuclear Waste  - The Guardian (UK) 31mar03
• DU: Pekka Haavisto to Doug Rokke Regarding Depleted Uranium (DU) email 30mar03
• DU: US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal'  - Sunday Herald (UK) 30mar03
• Kursk Submarine Nuclear Fuel has been Removed  - Rosabalt (Murmansk) 17mar03
• DU: Depleted Uranium may Stop Kidneys in Days  - New Scientist 12mar03
• U.S. Withholds Approval for Nuclear Waste Storage on Indian Reservation at Yucca Mountain, NV - AP 11mar03
• DU: Depleted Uranium in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment - UNEP 10mar03
• DU: The Pentagon’s Fiery Crucibles of War Blow Holes in Cherry’s Story on DU Munitions - Leuren Moret / Olean Times Herald 10mar03
• ‘Liberating Iraq’ with Nuclear Weapons - Editorial / Global Outlook n.4, 8mar03
• DU: The War Against Ourselves -Interview with Major Doug Rokke / Yes! Spring03
• UC Official Blames Los Alamos National Lab  - SF Chronicle 26feb03
• UC Berkeley Public Health Stacks Now Classified - Leuren Moret 22feb03
• World's First Industrial-Scale Nuclear Power Plant to Close  - The Guardian (UK) 21mar03
• Letter from Leuren Moret to Congressman McDermott - with Declassified memo to Gen. L.R. Groves 1943 – a blueprint for DU 21feb03
• Nuclear Energy's Place Usurped by Wind and Waves - The Observer (UK) 16feb03
• US May Build Smaller Nuclear Bombs  - SF Chronicle 15feb03
• Pentagon Officials Say Depleted Uranium Powerful, Safe - Armed Forces Information Service 14mar03
• Japan: Nuclear Power Plants in Japan as of March 2003
• Molly & Jerry Mechtenberg-Berrigan: It's Valentine's Day in Jail for Activist Newlyweds  - Ashland Daily Press 14feb03
• 'Shock and Awe': The Pentagon's Fiery Crucibles of War  - Leuren Moret 10mar03
• NAS Report Recommends 'Staged' Approach at Yucca Mountain - NAS Press Release 6feb03
• Nuclear-powered Spacecraft Plan Feared: Chernobyl in Sky -  SF Chronicle 4feb03
• NASA's Terror, Part Two: Radioactive Fallout from the Columbia -  Wild Matters 4feb03
• DU: Hot ammo hasn't been hot topic of discussion (Maj. Douglas Rokke) - Editorial / The Times Herald (Olean, NY) 2feb03
• Plan to Haul San Onofre Nuclear Power Reactor Part in California Is Opposed - AP 2feb03
• DU: Unsafe for Friend and Foe? (Maj. Douglas Rokke) - The Times Herald 31jan03
• DU: Nuclear weapons and pollution linked to 65 million deaths  - The Independent (UK) 31jan03
• Study Warns Attack on Fuel Could Pose Serious Hazards -  NY Times 30jan03
• Nukes: To Pyongyang from Nashville?  - Time 21jan03
• Nuclear War Strategists Rethink the Unthinkable  - NY Times 19jan03
• Bush Orders Release $450 million in Federal Funds: 'Russia Arms Funds' - Bloomberg News 15jan03

• Nuclear Waste Removed at Hanford, Washington Site - AP 12jan03

• NRC Excludes Terrorism as Licensing Consideration  - NY Times 7jan03

• DU: Gulf War Legacy: Maj. Doug Rokke is Hot - InTheseTimes 6jan03

• Birds Bring Radioactivity Ashore  - New Scientist 4jan03

• Davis-Besse: Regulators' Wariness Kept a Damaged A-Plant Open -  NY Times 4jan03

• GAU-8 Avenger Gatling Gun mounted in an A-10