For more information, contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 For immediate release, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Livermore Lab Caught Conducting Illegal Restricted Bio-Experiments Tri-Valley CAREs recently received documents that the group had long been seeking under the Freedom of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Fuel-Cycle
 A new energy future means a new Energy Department Bulletin of Atomic Scientists By Robert Alvarez | 8 January 2009 Article Highlights Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu’s most daunting challenge may be reforming the department. Energy’s existing structure isn’t well-suited to … Continue reading
November 21, 2008 Water Protectors and Human Rights Activists Granted Standing to Oppose the World’s Largest Uranium Producer Transnational Corporation: Cameco, Inc. PINE RIDGE SD- An Atomic Licensing Board (ALB) judges’ panel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ruled in … Continue reading
CCNS NEWS UPDATE Runs 8/22/08 through 8/29/08 This is the CCNS News Update, an overview of the latest nuclear safety issues, brought to you every week by Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Here is this week’s top headline: • NRC … Continue reading
Uranium-Action-Day – Europe’s Nuclear Heritage European uranium action day 20th of September everywhere Stop nuclear waste before it is produced! A lot of countries have uranium mines and uranium factories. For example Urenco is one of the biggest multinational companies … Continue reading
All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. : Indybay All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. by Francisco Da Costa Sunday Jul 6th, 2008 … Continue reading
Navajos won’t allow uranium mining, President tells subcommittee, for March 30 NEWS FROM THE NAVAJO NATION OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30, 2008 NAVAJO PRESIDENT JOE SHIRLEY, JR., TELLS CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE NATION WILL NOT … Continue reading
DOE is moving ahead to make the sacred Shoshone Yucca Mountain that is also leaky and geologically unstable the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump (the vast majority of the waste that would go there is from making electric power East … Continue reading
Majority of Portsmouth/Piketon Sick and Dying Atomic Workers of The Cold War Still Not Compensated National and Local Activist Groups Lobby Congress To Intervene Over 70% of eligible nuclear workers formerly employed at the nuclear weapons complex in Piketon during … Continue reading
La Jicarita News – Community Advocacy for Northern New Mexico Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process By Mark Schiller In the October 2007 issue of La Jicarita News I wrote an article about the dysfunction and corruption that … Continue reading
  New AMACOM Book Chronicles the Story of One Community’s 18-Year Struggle with Big Government and Big Business NEW YORK, NY, November 2, 2007 –/WORLD-WIRE/— AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association, has released a new book, NUCLEAR NEBRASKA: … Continue reading
PETITION FOR CONGRESS TO END NEGLIGENT DELAY OF COMPENSATION TO WORKERS MADE ILL FROM SERVICE IN THE COLD WAR IN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX Mismanagement, misrepresentation and misplacement of workers’ medical records by the U.S. Department of Energy … Continue reading
Panel weighs new information in Rocky Flats case : The Rocky Mountain News Federal scientists acknowledged Monday they have records suggesting workers from 19 buildings at the top-secret Rocky Flats site near Denver may have risked exposure to dangerous … Continue reading
Cibola County Beacon – Former workers meet with federal caseworkers GRANTS – Only one third of the uranium workers who could be applying for compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program and Part E of that program … Continue reading
Department of Energy – U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition WASHINGTON, DC –U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Director Sergey Kiriyenko have signed a joint statement outlining a plan … Continue reading
POWER Magazine : DOE pushing to recycle closed plants’ spent fuel The Energy Department is planning to ask Congress in next year’s budget request for authority to take title to spent nuclear fuel stockpiled at closed U.S. nuclear plants … Continue reading
Over 50 years of exposure but still no comprehensive health studies on Navajo – Kathy Helms Gallup Independent By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau Thursday, November 15, 2007 WINDOW ROCK – No health studies, no problem. A burgeoning list of cancers, … Continue reading
http://socket.kongshem.com/2007/10/farallon-islands-nuclear-waste-dump.html#links The Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may be surprised to learn that “more than 47,800 drums and other containers of low-level radioactive waste were dumped onto the ocean floor … Continue reading
TheStar.com | sciencetech | Port Hope radiation tests ‘alarming’ New tests that show radiation contamination in a few Port Hope residents should compel the federal government to put the town under a health microscope, local advocates say. The results, … Continue reading
Senator Domenici calls for near-term nuclear reprocessing in US Platts The US needs to build a current-generation nuclear reprocessing plant tohandle spent fuel because the Department of Energy’s current plan is "a50-year program, and we can’t wait 50 years for … Continue reading
Native American Times – Navajo Leads Uranium Roundtable on Capitol Hill Three members of Congress joined the Navajo Nation last week in a discussion on the ban of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation. “Over a half century ago … Continue reading
The VA’s Claim Dodge | The American Prospect Beyond the awful conditions at Walter Reed hospital, something smells fishy in the government’s handling of veterans’ claims. One appalling case study suggests what might be happening and why. … Continue reading
Atomic vet dies with no compensation OTTAWA – Donald Bernicky, one of a group of atomic veterans fighting the government and the Defence Department for recognition and financial compensation, died on Remembrance D … Continue reading
globeandmail.com: Town’s residents test positive for uranium contamination The result of testing conducted on a small group of residents of Port Hope has found contamination by uranium of military or industrial origin. Four of nine people tested had unusual … Continue reading
CTV.ca | Angry residents want federal contamination study Residents of a small town east of Toronto are demanding the federal government investigate new data that shows radioactive chemicals are making their way into humans. According to the Port Hope … Continue reading
The Tribune – Salazar joins list of lawmakers concerned about uranium mine Another Colorado lawmaker is voicing concern about the proposed uranium mine located north of Nunn. U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., said Tuesday he was asking the Environmental … Continue reading
Congo authorities find 17 tons of dumped radioactive material – International Herald Tribune The Associated Press Published: November 8, 2007 KINSHASA, Congo: About 17 tons of unidentified radioactive material have been found dumped in a river in southern Congo’s mining … Continue reading
Talks focus on impact of uranium on Navajo – Kathy Helms DC talks this week on Navajo uranium impacts By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau November 05, 2007 WINDOW ROCK – In 1989, the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency and its … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News November 7, 2007 More than 800 people who worked in the top-secret Building 881 in the early years of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site will now qualify for automatic … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – Judy DeHaas The Rocky © Marlene Shannon’s husband, Mike Shannon, died more than four years ago from cancer. For years he worked in Rocky Flats Building 881 where, according to records, workers were exposed to neutron … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues opposing the Yucca Mountain dump, Â Judy Treichel with Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force has drafted a letter to the NRC’s Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB)Â panel presiding over the Yucca Mountain dump proceeding. Her letter expresses support for … Continue reading
Catalyst: Beverly Uranium Mine – ABC TV Science Beverly Uranium Mine Reporter: Mark Horstman Producer: Mark Horstman, Paul Costello Researcher: Mark Horstman Camera: Susan Lumsdon Sound: Lauren Howard Editor: Chris Spurr Transcript Related Info 17 May 2007 Australia’s uranium reserves … Continue reading
The Coloradoan – www.coloradoan.com – Ft. Collins, CO. With all the progress and momentum being made in our state regarding renewable energy, I have been stunned by the plan to mine for uranium right here in Weld County, 11 miles … Continue reading
Court clears way for suit over uranium plant By Brett Barrouquere Associated Press A federal appeals court has ruled that a 10-year-old lawsuit alleging that water leaks from a Western Kentucky uranium enrichment plant hurt property values can go forward. … Continue reading
Dozens of Organizations Ask Congress To Eliminate Funding For Dangerous Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Program Letter to Congress regarding GNEP Funding National Academy of Sciences on GNEP More than 40 national and local environmental, science and national security organizations this week … Continue reading
Taipei Times – archives Potential nuclear waste sites to be revealed in list … Continue reading
Buried documents at center of debate – cleveland.com Monday, August 06, 2007 Associated Press Dayton- Contaminated documents buried in a radioactive waste landfill in New Mexico won’t be needed to determine if cancer-stricken workers from a former nuclear weapons plant … Continue reading
Independent – July 24, 2007: Texans: Say no to uranium mining Texans: Say no to uranium mining By Zsombor Peter Staff Writer CHURCH ROCK — In the late 1980s, representatives of Uranium Resources Inc. came to the small Texas town … Continue reading
Ex-Oak Ridge contractor charged with taking restricted materials (CNN) — A former government contract employee was indicted on charges of stealing restricted nuclear energy-related materials and putting the United States at risk, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Sources say … Continue reading
Carlsbad Current-Argus – Errant drum stops many WIPP shipments Errant drum stops many WIPP shipments By Kyle Marksteiner Article Launched: 07/18/2007 09:30:34 PM MDT CARLSBAD — Many shipments of radioactive waste being sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near … Continue reading
The Spectrum – www.thespectrum.com – Downwinders concerned about Milford Flat Fire radiation By RYANN RASMUSSEN rrasmussen@thespectrum.com CEDAR CITY – When it comes to data from the National Nuclear Security Administration concerning increased radiation levels in Southern Utah – presumably because … Continue reading
Hanford News Hanford news briefs This story was published Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 the Herald staff Board hears comments on ill Hanford workers About 50 people showed up at the public comment session of a Richland meeting of the Advisory … Continue reading
aaenergynet’s bookmarks tagged with “wiki” on del.icio.usBradenton.com | 07/17/2007 | Anywhere but here Anywhere but here A Tallevast woman says her contaminated home has sickened her family for years TALLEVAST, 7/12/07–Zasue Pitts-Alston and her son, Bobby, in their home in … Continue reading
Custodian … Jeffrey Lee at an outcrop sacred to his clan. “I can go fishing and hunting. That’s all that matters to me.” Photo: Glenn Campbell Sole survivor sitting on a $5b fortune – smh.com.au As the only member of … Continue reading
KnoxNews: Columnists Retirees produce DVDs to document their plight By FRANK MUNGER, munger@knews.com June 13, 2007 picture The Coalition of Oak Ridge Retired Employees, representing about 12,000 contractor retirees or surviving spouses, has been pushing for a pension adjustment for … Continue reading
STLtoday – News – Illinois News Former Dow workers here keep up compensation fight By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 06/11/2007 Dow plant Don Thompson (right) and another worker man machining station at a metal working plant in Madison, Ill. … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – Senators seek Flats inquiry Salazar among 15 who want probe of compensation gap By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News June 5, 2007 Fifteen U.S. senators, including Colorado’s Ken Salazar, called Monday for a congressional hearing into … Continue reading
North Jersey Media Group Radium found in drum at scrap metal recycler The Record Thursday, May 31, 2007 By EUNNIE PARK STAFF WRITER BERGENFIELD — The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a drum at a local scrap metal … Continue reading
Rocky Flats project reveals long-hidden stories : County News : Boulder Daily Camera Rocky Flats project reveals long-hidden stories By Emily Tienken, Camera Staff Writer Saturday, May 12, 2007 Decades of secrecy surrounding the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant have been … Continue reading
Thousands of Nuclear Arms Workers See Cancer Claims Denied or Delayed – washingtonpost.com housands of Nuclear Arms Workers See Cancer Claims Denied or Delayed By Michael Alison Chandler and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, May 12, 2007; Page … Continue reading