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abolition-usa-digest       Friday, April 7 2000       Volume 01 : Number 284




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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 06:38:03 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/06:  DC Hearings 

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(1)  April 7, 2000 Washington Times
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20004721156.htm

    Environmental summit =97 9 a.m. =97
                     The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
                     Environment and Regulatory Affairs
                     Division holds its "Environmental
                     Summit 2000." Utah Gov. Michael O.
                     Leavitt, National Governors
                     Association chairman, delivers the
                     keynote address. Location: 1615 H St.
                     NW. Contact: 202/463-5682. Asian
                     economics discussion =97 noon =97 The
                     Council on Foreign Relations holds a
                     discussion, "Securing the Sustainability
                     of Asia's Economic Recovery." The
                     speaker is Tadao Chino, Asian
                     Development Bank president. Location:
                     St. Regis Hotel, 16th and K streets NW.
                     Contact: 212/434-9537.

[Downwinders, here's one for you...]

                          Reno speech =97 12:40 p.m.
                     =97Attorney General Janet Reno
                     addresses the National Organization for
                     Victims' Assistance. Location: 2237
                     Rayburn House Office Building.
                     Contact: 202/616-2771.

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(2)  NUCLEAR PLANT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS ON LINE

AmeriScan: April 6, 2000
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-06-09.html

                 WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2000 (ENS) - The
                 Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has
                 completed its Plant Performance Reviews (PPRs)
                 for 90 nuclear power plants and is making them
                 available on the NRC web site. Thirteen nuclear
                 plants, which participated in a pilot test of the
                 agency's revised reactor oversight process,
                 received their performance assessments late last
                 year. PPRs are an interim measure the NRC has
                 used to assess nuclear power plant safety, after
                 suspending the Systematic Assessment of
                 Licensee Performance in 1998 while it developed
                 a revised reactor oversight process. PPRs consist
                 of an in depth, integrated assessment of overall
                 plant performance. The primary purpose of these
                 reviews is to evaluate safety performance
                 information and identify any changes in plant
                 performance so NRC can allocate inspection
                 resources. The text of each PPR letter is
                 available from the NRC Office of Public Affairs
                 and has been posted at:
                 http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/ppr.=20

                 An important element of the previous SALP
                 process was the public meeting the NRC
                 conducted with the licensee to discuss the
                 assessment results. During the interim process,
                 the NRC has continued its practice of meeting
                 publicly with licensees to discuss its performance
                 assessments. Most plants have had recent public
                 meetings and therefore few meetings will be
                 scheduled for these PPRs. These PPRs mark the
                 last assessments before initial implementation
                 begins this month of the revised reactor
                 oversight process. Under the new program, the
                 NRC will conduct quarterly reviews of
                 performance indicators and inspection findings
                 and issue semi-annual assessments and updates
                 to each plant's inspection plans. A full
                 description of the revised reactor oversight
                 process is available at:
                 http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/primer.htm or
                 http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/index.html

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<html><div>(1)&nbsp; April 7, 2000 Washington Times</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20004721156.htm"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20004721156.htm<=
/a></div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Environmental summit =97 9 a.m. =97</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Environment and Regulatory Affairs</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Division holds its &quot;Environmental</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Summit 2000.&quot; Utah Gov. Michael O.</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Leavitt, National Governors</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Association chairman, delivers the</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
keynote address. Location: 1615 H St.</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NW. Contact: 202/463-5682. Asian</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
economics discussion =97 noon =97 The</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Council on Foreign Relations holds a</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
discussion, &quot;Securing the Sustainability</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
of Asia's Economic Recovery.&quot; The</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
speaker is Tadao Chino, Asian</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Development Bank president. Location:</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
St. Regis Hotel, 16th and K streets NW.</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Contact: 212/434-9537.</div>
<br>
<div>[Downwinders, here's one for you...]</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb=
sp;
Reno speech =97 12:40 p.m.</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
=97Attorney General Janet Reno</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
addresses the National Organization for</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Victims' Assistance. Location: 2237</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Rayburn House Office Building.</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Contact: 202/616-2771.</div>
<br>
<div>----- </div>
<br>
<div>(2)&nbsp; NUCLEAR PLANT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS ON LINE</div>
<br>
<div>AmeriScan: April 6, 2000</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-06-09.html"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-06-09.html</a></=
div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2000 (ENS) - The</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
completed its Plant Performance Reviews (PPRs)</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
for 90 nuclear power plants and is making them</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
available on the NRC web site. Thirteen nuclear</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
plants, which participated in a pilot test of the</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
agency's revised reactor oversight process,</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
received their performance assessments late last</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
year. PPRs are an interim measure the NRC has</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
used to assess nuclear power plant safety, after</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
suspending the Systematic Assessment of</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Licensee Performance in 1998 while it developed</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
a revised reactor oversight process. PPRs consist</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
of an in depth, integrated assessment of overall</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
plant performance. The primary purpose of these</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
reviews is to evaluate safety performance</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
information and identify any changes in plant</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
performance so NRC can allocate inspection</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
resources. The text of each PPR letter is</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
available from the NRC Office of Public Affairs</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
and has been posted at:</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href=3D"http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/ppr" EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.nrc.gov/O=
PA/ppr</a>.
</div>
<br>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An important element of the previous SALP</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
process was the public meeting the NRC</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
conducted with the licensee to discuss the</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
assessment results. During the interim process,</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
the NRC has continued its practice of meeting</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
publicly with licensees to discuss its performance</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
assessments. Most plants have had recent public</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
meetings and therefore few meetings will be</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
scheduled for these PPRs. These PPRs mark the</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
last assessments before initial implementation</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
begins this month of the revised reactor</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
oversight process. Under the new program, the</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NRC will conduct quarterly reviews of</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
performance indicators and inspection findings</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
and issue semi-annual assessments and updates</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
to each plant's inspection plans. A full</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
description of the revised reactor oversight</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
process is available at:</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href=3D"http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/primer.htm" EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.nr=
c.gov/OPA/primer.htm</a>
or</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a=
 href=3D"http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/index.html"=
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:07:50 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <kmartin@fourthfreedom.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe action alert

 =93We=92re to blame, both of us. We let our machines get out of hand...W=
hat
we put between us, we can remove.=94
                                        -the president, played by Henry
Fonda, to the Soviet premier in the
                                            original 1964 movie version
of Fail Safe

Dear Friends,

The quote above is the message of Fail Safe, and it=92s even more urgent
today.  If we the people demand the worldwide elimination of nuclear
weapons, it can and will happen. While it may seem odd to organize
around a television show, we have gotten an enthusiastic response to our
watch party campaign from activists around the country (also in Canada
and Argentina!) and from the media.  So here's an activist to-do list:

1.  Even if you aren't hosting or attending a watch party, tune in to
CBS television for the live remake of the anti-nuclear thriller this
Sunday night at 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central, 7:00 mountain, and 9:00
pacific times.

2.  Write a letter to President Clinton demanding he take action to
eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide.  A sample letter can be found at
www.disarmament.org/presltr.htm

3.  Call the White House Monday (202/456-1111 or 202/456-1414) on
National Fail Safe Call-In Day with the same message. We need to jam the
White House phone lines! A flier for the call-in can be found at
http://www.fourthfreedom.org/hottopic/fail_safe_poster.htm
If you can make two more calls, call the Bush and Gore campaigns and
demand that they address nuclear disarmament in the presidential
campaign.  Bush HQ: (512) 637-2000, Gore HQ: (615) 340-2000.

4.  Even if you aren't holding a house party, contact local media and
offer yourself or someone from your peace group as a spokesperson to
respond to Fail Safe.  Priority contacts are your local CBS station and
local newspapers. A few talking points: We need to be careful not to
allow anyone to dismiss Fail Safe as a Cold War anachronism. There are
still 35,000 nuclear warheads worldwide. While the scenario in Fail Safe
of nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert no longer applies, the reality is we
are in a worse situation with our missiles on 24-hour hair-trigger
alert, ready to be launched on a few minutes notice, able to strike
their targets less then 30 minutes after launch.

The timing of this action, just a few days after the latest U.S.
hypocritical (I mean subcritical) nuclear test and just a few weeks
before the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, couldn't
be better.  Politicians and the media think nobody cares about the
nuclear threat anymore.  Here's a chance to raise our voices.  Let's not
miss it.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
                                -A.J. Muste

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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:57:28 -0400
From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: UN Secretary-General's report to Millennium General Assembly

Dear Friends,
I think we should all write to Kofi Annan and support his idea for a
conference
on nuclear disarmament.  Write to him at:
The United Nations
New York, NY 10017
>
>Excerpt from UN Secretary-General's new report to the
>Millennium General Assembly.
>
>Nuclear weapons
>
>248.  Let me now turn to nuclear weapons.  When the bipolar balance of
>nuclear terror passed into history, the concern with nuclear weapons also
>seemed to drift from public consciousness.  But some 35,000 nuclear weapons
>remain in the arsenals of the nuclear powers, with thousands still deployed
>on hair-trigger alert.  Whatever rationale these weapons may once have had
>has long since dwindled.  Political, moral and legal constraints on
>actually
>using them further undermine their strategic utility without, howver,
>reducing the risks of inadvertent war or proliferation.
>
>249.  The objective of nuclear non-proliferation is not helped by the fact
>that the nuclear weapon states continue to insist that those weapons in
>their hands enhance security, while in the hands of others they are a
>threat
>to world peace.
>
>250.  If we were making steady progress towards disarmament, this situation
>would be less alarming.  Unfortunately the reverse is true.  Not only are
>the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks stalled, but there are no negotiations
>at all covering the many thousands of so-called tactical nuclear weapons in
>existence, or the weapons of any nuclear power other than those of the
>Russian Federation and the United States of America.
>
>251.  Moreover, unless plans to deploy missile defences are devised with
>the
>agreement of all concerned parties, the progress achieved thus far in
>reducing the number of nuclear weapons may be jeopardized.
>Confidence-building is required to reassure states that their nuclear
>deterrent capabilities will not be negated.
>
>252.  Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at
>the
>highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing
>nuclear
>weapons and from further proliferation.
>
>253.  To help focus attention on the risks we confront and on the
>opportunities we have to reduce them, I propose that consideration be given
>to convening a major international conference that would help to identify
>ways of eliminating nuclear dangers.
>
>
>
>Suzanne Pearce, Coordinator
>Middle Powers Initiative
>727 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139,  USA
>Tel:  617 492-9189  Fax: 617 868-2560
>MPI webpage:  www.middlepowers.org
>  
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  (212) 726-9161
fax:  (212) 726-9160
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:10:00 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@lightspeed.net>
Subject: (abolition-usa) *by10Apr!! Comment on DOE Energy Strategic Plan2000

I am not sure what the distinction here is between the "New National Energy
Policy Plan" (CNES Comprehensive National Energy Strategy) prepared by DOE
after three public hearings in 1998 and submitted by President Clinton to
Congress, <http://www.hr.doe.gov/nesp/cnes.html>, and the below described
"DOE Energy Strategic Plan" apparently open to public comments since
8Feb2000 at invitation of Secretary Richardson but only today appearing in
the realm of one of my email interest groups and indicating a deadline of
three days from now of Monday, April 10, 2000 (apparently extended from
March 31, 2000) courtesy of Mr. Wiggins (cc above).

I would suggest to Mr. Wiggins and DOE by this email, and those in agreement
following copied to <StrategicPlan@hq.doe.gov>, that this deadline should be
extended to the end of April 2000 so as to take advantage of the "Clean
Energy Now!" campaign being fostered by the EarthDay2000 events across
country so that this network of activists including many clean energy
experts have a chance to offer their public input.

I am again disappointed at the low degree of public outreach apparently
effected by DOE on this most important matter of our national energy
strategy revisions especially in light of the mounting evidence of imminent
global warming environmental catastrophes at hand in the coming few years
and I most urgently ask for such public input deadline extension to end of
April 2000.   I would at least have expected DOE to notify public commenters
on 1998 CNES about this new public input solicitiation.

I was among a small number of people who found out in time to offer oral and
written testimony to DOE CNES hearings in 1998 and my public comments were
excerpted on p55 of first draft and p57 of final draft April 1998 as "One
commenter recommended that DOE look into zero-point energy and referred to a
specific technology for harnessing it called the "N" machine.  He challenged
the Secretary of Energy to fully investigate this technology and let the
American public know about it." [<http://www.depalma.pair.com> ]

One of the two people I was able to alert in time to testify at the last
public hearing on CNES, in Washington DC chaired by Secretary Pena, Thomas
Valone of Integrity Research Institue, got some of his recommendations
included in CNES public comments record following the above remarks as
"Another commenter encouraged DOE to form an office for emerging
technologies.  The commenter explained that truly new groundbreaking
technologies would emerge only when an office is established to engage
scientists and researchers who are on the fringe of technology."

The other person I alerted who testified there, William Thomas of
Proposition One in Washington DC, on February 19, 1998, queried the Energy
Secretary as to DOE position on these new clean energy technologies,
<http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/980219.cnes.htm> "Allegedly,
this new genre of zero point energy technology needs no fuel, is freely
available, and is free of pollution. Assuming this is true, obviously this
technology would entirely replace fossil and nuclear power and form the
foundation of the optimal national, even international, energy policy."
<http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/980219.transcript.htm> and
Secretary Pena ordered a letter sent to him which was received dated May 12,
1998, over the signature of Robert W. Gee, Assistant Secretary, DOE Office
of Policy and International Affairs, after he submitted additional written
comments on February 25, 1998
<http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/980225.cnes.htm> and sent a
letter to his Congressperson April 29, 1998 asking for her help
<http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/980429.norton.htm>.  This letter
of May 12, 1998,
<http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/980512.khan.htm>
closed with the comment "If you have further questions, please contact Ehsan
Khan of the Office of Energy Research at (202) 586-4785" [Dr. Khan referred
David Hamilton or David Goodwin as the new DOE point of contact on 20Sep99]
The letter contained an attachment describing the DOE's recent acceptance of
evidence for the potential of the idea of Zero-Point Energy (ZPE) devices
<http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/casimir.htm> saying,
"The energy associated with the ZPE is known to be essentially inexhaustible
and ubiquitous, so a question that arises in the mind of the technologist is
whether such energy can be 'mined' for practical use and thereby constitute
the "Holy Grail" of energy research. "

I subsequently solicited from my network additional input to Dr. Khan, as
the then point of contact at DOE, on these emerging energy technologies and
additional information was offered by Thomas Bearden, Hal Fox, and Eugene
Mallove, which resulted in an expressed interest and faint hope that the DOE
would further investigate more seriously the other variations on this new
clean-energy genre also known under the various names of Cold Fusion, High
Density Charge Clusters, and the Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation devices
proven to neutralize radioactive wastes as well as liberating energy
apparently/possibly from the ZPE.   Due to the controversial nature of this
new science which was until recently well ahead of contemporary theoretical
physics now being evaluated by Sarfatti, et al, no apparent progress has
been made towards updating new Energy Secretary Richardson on these
developments.

Or possibly, as claimed by journalist Jeane Manning in her book about some
of these technologies, The Coming Energy Revolution, there is in another
department (DOD?) a "dual-use" secrecy restriction hampering their public
development while evidence exists that the new science behind them is being
developed covertly inside and outside the US for advanced electromagnetic
weaponry.

I am submitting below my recent brief summary of these new emerging
clean-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power and
neutralize radioactive wastes, in the form of my appeal for this issue to
become a mainstream issue in this year's political arena for national
elections in November.

The text of my DOE CNES 1998 hearing testimony and following written public
comments detailing these arguments/data in context of CNES codifications is
posted at http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier/8.html

I fully agree with Dr. O'Leary that we need a global emergency level
"crash-program" (a "New Manhattan Project" analog) to rapidly complete
research and development on optimum emerging energy technologies for
immediate deployment to address global climate change before it is too late.
I also agree with his assessment of the need for relegalization and
widespread cultivation of the industrial hemp plant to replace the need to
cut trees and as the most efficient biofuels source.   Even if we had these
new clean-energy technologies fully implemented today, this would only slow
the present atmospheric degradation because so many trees have already been
cut.  To reverse the greenhouse effect and replenish atmospheric oxygen
needed to heal the ozone layer depletion we need to rapidly regreen the
planet
with a global emergency level program that would best include a contemporary
revival of the USDA's 1941-45 "Hemp for Victory" program that was
implemented in spite of the 1937 fraud on the American Congress and people
by which hemp was outlawed as marijuana. http://www.jackherer.com
http://www.chrisconrad.com

With the US now beginning to commit itself to another "Vietnam War", in
Columbia striving for oil resources access/protection while deploying
purportedly ongoing Iran/Contra-style CIA drugwar strategies/skullduggery
http://www.egroups.com/message/global-peace-walk/318 in this year of High
Level Oil Prices & DrugWar Electioneering, all these issues need to be
reexamined carefully in light of hidden history coming to light
http://www.copvcia.com


- -----Original Message-----
From: carl.wiggins@gsa.gov <carl.wiggins@gsa.gov>
To: greenbuilding@crest.org <greenbuilding@crest.org>; green-power@crest.org
<green-power@crest.org>
Date: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: GP: Your turn to comment on DOE Energy Strategic Plan


>YOUR TURN: COMMENT ON OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
>A draft copy of
STRENGTH THROUGH SCIENCE: POWERING THE 21ST CENTURY, the
> Energy Departments strategic plan is available on the world wide web for
> public comment through Monday, April 10.  This draft will evolve into a
> final Strategic Plan through consultation with you. DOE plans to publish a
> final version of the plan this Spring with your help. This document
> outlines the agencys long-term directions and policies. It establishes the
> mission, objectives, performance goals and strategies for the department.
> It is available at www.doe.gov/strategic_plan
>
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
_
>This discussion group is sponsored in part by:
>* Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology,
http://www.crest.org
>* Global Environmental Options, http://www.geonetwork.org
>Archives and related documents can be found at at:
http://www.green-power.com
>


From: David Crockett Williams <gear2000@lightspeed.net>
To: EarthDay2000 Chris Curtis <ccurtis@earthday.net>
Cc: Baseline Mansion <BaselineMansion@aol.com>; *Global Peace Walk Project
<GPZone2000@aol.com>
Subject: Clean-Energy Campaign 2000
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:41 PM

From: David Crockett Williams <gear2000@lightspeed.net>
To: Nader for President <info@votenader.com>
Subject: Important: New-Energy Science can win Presidency
Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 1:24 PM

Dear Nader for President Campaign 2000, Green Party, Mr. Ralph Nader, et al:

I saw Ralph Nader on CSPAN yesterday speaking at University of Maryland
College Park, listened carefully to his message and responses to
questioners, and suggest you read very carefully the extremely important
information below which can help greatly the success of his US Presidential
Campaign and/or the campaign of any understanding candidate.

I am emailing to suggest strongly that he investigate and include in his
Presidential Campaign issue under the banner of "Clean Energy Now!"
(EarthDay2000 slogan) the need for adequate funding to finish the research
and development on the new so-called "free-energy" or "new-energy"
technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, as for example, one
class of which (devices to harness the "Zero Point Energy" field of the
space in which matter resides) made passing mention on p.57 in the public
comments section of the new national energy policy plan (CNES Comprehensive
National Energy Strategy http://www.hr.doe.gov/nesp/cnes.html ) prepared by
the DOE and submitted to Congress in 1998 to address Kyoto protocol goals
for US energy industry carbon emissions to ameliorate global climate change.
In addition, in a formal scientific letter to our representative ordered by
then Energy Secretary Pena, in May 1998 the DOE acknowledged the existence
of the Zero Point Energy field and called such potential devices to harness
it the "Holy Grail of energy research" (for details and copy of this DOE
letter, see story and follow links from "energy" button at bottom of
http://www.prop1.org ).

Further, I would strongly urge Mr. Nader to consult on this matter with
those cc'd above including former astronaut and physicist/astronomer Dr.
Brian O'Leary (cc above) who was the science and energy policy advisor and
speechwriter to four previous US presidential candidates (beginning with
Udall and ending with Jackson) before in recent years becoming familiar with
many of these new energy technologies and their inventors/researchers and
then writing a popular book about them called "Miracle in the Void" and the
foreword to Canadian journalist Jeane Manning's book on some of these
inventions and researchers called "The Coming Energy Revolution".  (I
suggest you start with Appendix II in O'Leary's book which is a speech of
his from 1994 with good overview, entitled "Green Power")
http://www.maui.net/~oleary

A "flip-side" benefit to one class of this new genre of fuel-less energy
technologies, a class (related to what was initially labeled "cold fusion"
and then suppressed/debunked publicly before the last decade of quiet
serious research has shown its underlying working principles proven sound)
including labels of "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" and "High Density Charge
Clusters", has actually demonstrated the ability to neutralize radioactive
wastes rapidly as was shown on ABC Good Morning America news in early June
1997 where the radioactivity of uranium was reduced over half in less than
two hours by the Patterson Power Cell.   Dr. Mallove's Infinite Energy
Magazine http://www.infinite-energy.com and the peer reviewed publications
of the Institute for New Energy edited by Hal Fox http://www.padrak.com/ine
provide additional and more technical details on latest research in these
areas.

I suspect that Mr. Nader has the experience and background to appreciate the
government/corporate dynamics factors which have been hindering the
development of these new energy technologies over the past two decades of my
interest and involvement in this area of research.   He may also appreciate
the reference in Jeane Manning's book to the government secrecy orders under
which she claims these new developments are being ordered secret and
suppressed, austensibly for national security reasons but apparently to
protect entrenched corporate profiteering and energy industry global
economics and governments control.

For additional references among cc's above for more information you may also
want to check with Col. Bearden and Moray King regarding details on Zero
Point Energy perspectives on this new science;  with Thomas Valone of
Integrity Research Institute there in Washington DC
<http://users.erols.com/iri>
who has done some conferences there on this topic;  with Randell Mills of
Blacklight Power <http://www.blacklightpower.com>; with systems theory and
radar pioneer Dr. Fred B. Wood, Sr.,
<http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/fwood.html> who is worried about
secrecy policies on this new science as relates to covert advanced
electromagnetic weaponry potentially under development by the US and perhaps
even more advanced in countries hostile to the US;  and with Dr. Jack
Sarfatti who with the support of former US West CEO Joseph Firmage is making
rapid progress via global internetwork of researchers on the advanced
theoretical physics of new energy and vacuum propulsion technologies
especially as connected to physics of consciousness research and
investigation of purported reverse engineering of UFO technologies
<http://www.stardrive.org>.   Mr. Firmage's new personal assistant, Andrew
Mount, was for 9 years the personal assistant of the late Bruce DePalma
whose research leading to the 1979 tests of the n-Machine "free-energy
generator" mentioned on p.57 of DOE's CNES http://www.depalma.pair.com also
has antigravity technology implications.   He and Adam Trombly with Project
Earth <http://www.projectearth.com>, who patented internationally one Zero
Point Energy generator, both reported death threats since the early 1980's
over suppression of this new science.

Although this new energy science is still very controversial since the
experimental results have not yet been reconciled in the "mainstream
scientific establishment" with commonly accepted 20th century theoretical
physics (eg, <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9951/baard.shtml>),
nevertheless I strongly urge you to consider the underlying potential and
voluminous evidence available and insist that this topic become more deeply
investigated and that it become a main topic of discussion in this year's
Presidential and Congressional elections.

Nowhere is this controversy more evident, and the lack of common agreement
among these new energy researchers as to how all these different results and
theories can be understood in common terms, than in the work over the last
three decades of inventor Joseph Newman from Mississippi now living near
Phoenix, Arizona <http://www.josephnewman.com>.  His experimental results on
the Newman Energy Machine, contrary to Mr. Newman's theoretical
understandings, seem to some influential scientists as "violating the laws
of physics".  Even so, he gained sufficient testimonies from top scientists
who witnessed tests of his energy machine that by the 1980's he earned the
support of the Republican Congressional Caucus and 11 different Members of
the House of Representatives separately introduced (unsuccessful) bills into
Congress to give him a patent by congressional act to over-ride an
intransigent US Patent Office's refusal.  Today he is marketing a production
model of his energy machine apparently under NAFTA-guaranteed foreign patent
protection.  [note/addendum of 7Apr00:  Correct or not, Mr. Newman's
theoretical understanding of how his generator works is by converting a
small amount of matter (copper?) into a large amount of electricity in his
device, which sounds a lot better than doing this with uranium or plutonium
in nuclear reactors]

Please ask Mr. Nader and his staff to carefully and thoroughly investigate
this information as soon as possible.  He is in a position, by his candidacy
now gaining momentum for the US Presidency, to insert this information into
the national election arena and compel all candidates and the public to push
for rapid implemetation of this new science which has the potential to help
end energy industry pollutions, more fairly restructure the global economy,
and help ameliorate global environmental threats before it is too late to
save all life on Earth from otherwise certain destruction.

Finally, I would invite Mr. Nader to offer his letter of support for Global
Peace Walk 2000 with his message which this walk to Washington DC and the
United Nations can help publicize and carry for delivery with other such
messages in Washington DC and to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary
and to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace
for the 21st Century.  Since Global Peace Walk 2000 will be conducting en
route its annual April 22nd event in Taos, New Mexico, as one of the many
global EarthDay2000 events, as soon as we receive Mr. Nader's letter we
would like to send it to all the EarthDay network organizers and ask that
they copy it and references to above new "Clean Energy Now!" information to
their EarthDay2000 event attendees.

With the support of some of those cc'd above we are planning to have a major
conference on these new energy technologies in Washington DC toward the end
of the first week of October just preceding the walk's arrival there for a
ceremony October 9th to rededicate the Washington Monument as a symbol of
the message of peace.

We hope you will commit to attend this ceremony and that those receiving
this post will help us achieve the goal of gathering over one million people
for that ceremony including prominent politicial officeholders and
candidates.

With my fervent prayers for your serious consideration and response to the
above suggestions as soon as possible, and appreciating your website at
http://www.votenader.com,

Sincerely,

CLEAN-ENERGY CAMPAIGN 2000

David Crockett Williams  gear2000@lightspeed.net
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CSUN, CA, 1969)
Chartered Life Underwriter (American College, PA, 1971)

Independent Candidate for United States President 2000
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