Category Archives: N-Weps
Tri-Valley CAREs Communities Against A Radioactive Environment www.trivalleycares.org Dear Tri-Valley CAREs’ members and friends. I am writing to ask you to take one quick action THIS WEEK to help prevent more funding for horrific nuclear weapons and the new bomb … Continue reading
Trip Jennings | The New Mexican Posted: Monday, June 27, 2011 – 6/28/11 A spokesman for Los Alamos National Laboratory said emphatically Monday afternoon that hazardous and nuclear materials on-site aren’t threatened by the fast-moving Las Conchas Fire. The spokesman … Continue reading
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
 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
CONTACT: Burton Glass, 434.971.1224, burton@hairpincommunications.com FOR RELEASE TODAY: Thursday, August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON DC — Possession of nuclear weapons by some countries encourages others to develop their own nuclear arsenals, according to more than two-thirds of U.S. adults … 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
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
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
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
Military vehicle carrying nuclear warheads got lost on way from Scotland to Reading | the Daily Mail A high-security delivery of nuclear warheads to the south of England turned to farce when vehicles in the MOD convoy got lost … 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
alJazeera Magazine Israel is estimated to have 200 atomic bombs. Yet it doesn’t want Iran to have a peaceful nuclear program. Israel, which is estimated to have an arsenal of 200 nuclear weapons, has two options: The first is to … 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
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
Randall Forsberg, founder of the nuclear freeze movement, dies – Los Angeles Times By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 1, 2007 Randall Forsberg, who founded the nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s and wrote its manifesto, … 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
Position Announcement – please forward. August 2007  Campaign Coordinator, Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World  The Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World (CNWFW) is seeking experienced candidates to fill the position of Campaign Coordinator. CNWFW is a … 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
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
Wisconsin State Journal Bill would tell vets about health risks JASON STEIN 608-252-6129 jstein@madison.comFormer Army Reserve soldier Chris Kornkven never saw combat in the first Gulf War, but he believes he suffered an invisible wound. Years after serving in Saudi … 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
Atomic War Vet, last of a dying breedAndy Hawkinson served on Eniwetok in the ’50s Andy Hawkinson is the last of a dying breed. He is one of the last of an estimated 400,000 American soldiers who took part in … Continue reading
Employees exposed to Santa Susana toxics look for compensation : Simi Valley : Ventura County Star Employees exposed to Santa Susana toxics look for compensation Lab workers struggle for care By Teresa Rochester (Contact) Sunday, May 27, 2007 Former Santa … Continue reading
deseretnews.com | Feds urged to expand fallout compensation Feds urged to expand fallout compensation By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News A congressman from Utah and one from Idaho have taken the first step that may result in expansion of federal … 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
Casualties of the Cold War Casualties of the Cold War Review compensation program for nuclear-arms plant workers Donald Gabel’s service to his country did not occur on a battlefield. It happened at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant outside Denver. … 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
Danger Room – Wired Blogs Nuke Lab Bunglers’ $11 Billion Reward Los Alamos gets most of the headlines. But, in recent years, security and safety at its nuclear sister, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been God-awful, too. Barely-armed guards, inhaled … Continue reading
Hanford Site: Past Horror, Future Hope Hanford Site: Past Horror, Future Hope Historic nuclear research leads to environmental disaster This feature presents the factual history of events leading to the creation of one of the most interesting, yet least recognized … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News A vow unfulfilled for ill nuclear workers 5,600 awaiting money promised three years ago George Barrie inhaled and ingested plutonium. April 27 2007 The government still hasn’t paid the money it promised 5,600 sick nuclear weapons … Continue reading
Pacific nuclear victims awarded one billion dollars – Yahoo! News Pacific nuclear victims awarded one billion dollarsby Giff Johnson Wed Apr 18, 3:49 AM ET MAJURO (AFP) – Residents from a Marshall Islands atoll exposed to fallout from US nuclear … Continue reading