From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #292 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Monday, April 17 2000 Volume 01 : Number 292 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:47:04 EDT From: LCNP@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) A2000 Annual Business Meeting - time, location Coordinates for April 30 Abolition 2000 Annual Business Meeting, New York, in connection with NPT Review Conference: Time: Sunday April 30: 9:00 - sign-in and coffee; 9:30 - meeting begins; 6:00 pm (or earlier if we choose) - meeting closes Location: 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side) Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R) John Burroughs, Executive Director Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 New York, New York 10017 USA tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 e-mail: johnburroughs@earthlink.net website: www.lcnp.org Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:07:20 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: MOX is NOT dead in U.S.! - --=====================_7770587==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks for the corrections, Mary Olson, Francis Boyle, and Hisham Zerriffim. I'll forward them to the rest of the NucNews list.... Sorry for jumping to conclusions, everybody.... Must be wishful thinking. Ellen At 03:53 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Mary Olson wrote: > > Dear Ellen -- while I am very pleased that DOE has decided to adopt a "melt > and dilute" strategy for their weapons-related irradiated fuel mess -- sadly, > MOX IS NOT DEAD in the US. Far from it!!!! The program to make MOX fuel in > the US and Russia would use already separated plutonium -- indeed, refined > weapons grade plutonium for reactor fuel, to start. It is a grave danger that > this use of plutonium would result in the future in further plutonium > separation from civilian and military irradiated fuel in order to continue > making more MOX plutonium fuel after the initial weapons plutonium is in > use....but this article has NOTHING to do with that program directly. MOX > still lurks as the 2 billion + taxpayer subsidy to the commercial nuclear > power industry that it is! > > Mary Olson > Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast > P.O. Box 5647 > Augusta, Georgia 30916-5647 USA > 706-722-8968 706-722-3506 fax > nirs.se@mindspring.com www.nirs.org > >At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote: >>Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons >>grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab. >> >>Francis A. Boyle >>Law Building >>504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue >>Champaign, Ill. 61820 >>217-333-7954 (voice) >>217-244-1478 (fax) >>fboyle@law.uiuc.edu At 03:30 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Hisham Zerriffi wrote: >MOX is not dead!!!! These are two entirely separate programs. One is >dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is >dealing with plutonium from weapons. This decision not to reprocess the >spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing >to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not. >This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium >fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors. Please do not >lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the >disposition program can be slackened. > >Hisham Zerriffi >Senior Scientist >p.s. One more point of clarification. The DOE is paying for a test of >Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada. The program is nowhere near >the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in >Canada. This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian >and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am >outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as >to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves. >> At 02:35 PM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote: >The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons grade >Plutonium to Canada as part of a MOX Program. During our hearing last >Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a scientist who >under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could kill >about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not dispute >that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to happen. >Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab > >Francis A. Boyle >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org] >>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM >>To: NucNews@onelist.com >>Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.! >> >> >>Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel >> >>By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 >>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_7770587==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Thanks for the corrections, Mary Olson, Francis Boyle, and Hisham Zerriffim.  I'll forward them to the rest of the NucNews list....  Sorry for jumping to conclusions, everybody....  Must be wishful thinking. Ellen

At 03:53 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Mary Olson <nirs.se@mindspring.com> wrote:
Dear Ellen -- while I am very pleased that DOE has decided to adopt a "melt and dilute" strategy for their weapons-related irradiated fuel mess -- sadly, MOX IS NOT DEAD in the US. Far from it!!!! The program to make MOX fuel in the US and Russia would use already separated plutonium -- indeed, refined weapons grade plutonium for reactor fuel, to start. It is a grave danger that this use of plutonium would result in the future in further plutonium separation from civilian and military irradiated fuel in order to continue making more MOX plutonium fuel after the initial weapons plutonium is in use....but this article has NOTHING to do with that program directly. MOX still lurks as the 2 billion + taxpayer subsidy to the commercial nuclear power industry that it is!

Mary Olson
Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast
P.O. Box 5647
Augusta, Georgia  30916-5647      USA
706-722-8968   706-722-3506 fax
nirs.se@mindspring.com     www.nirs.org
 
>At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:
>>Yes, but Richardson and the DOE  are still paying Russia to ship weapons
>>grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab.
>>
>>Francis A. Boyle
>>Law Building
>>504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
>>Champaign, Ill. 61820
>>217-333-7954 (voice)
>>217-244-1478 (fax)
>>fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>

At 03:30 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Hisham Zerriffi wrote:
>MOX is not dead!!!!  These are two entirely separate programs.  One is
>dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is
>dealing with plutonium from weapons.  This decision not to reprocess the
>spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing
>to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not.
>This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium
>fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors.  Please do not
>lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the
>disposition program can be slackened.
>
>Hisham Zerriffi
>Senior Scientist
>p.s. One more point of clarification.  The DOE is paying for a test of
>Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada.  The program is nowhere near
>the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in
>Canada.  This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian
>and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am
>outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as
>to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves.
>>

At 02:35 PM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:
>The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons grade
>Plutonium to Canada  as part of a MOX Program. During our hearing last
>Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a scientist who
>under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could kill
>about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not dispute
>that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to happen.
>Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab
>
>Francis A. Boyle

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org]
>>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM
>>To: NucNews@onelist.com
>>Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.!
>>
>>
>>Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel
>>
>>By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000
>>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html



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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:19:23 -0700 From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: UPDATE AND INVITATION! - --=====================_7495206==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net id SAA19039 US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network *************************************************************************= *** ******************************** UPDATE AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently re= ceived in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Reso= urce Booklet. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the Re= sponse Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of Abolition 20= 00.=20 We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN, and we want you in it= !=20 Donations are voluntary but very welcome! NOTE: If you didn=92t receive a= US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which includes our National Campaign Meeting a= nd Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How to Get Involved, and would like one, please contact Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact information will be found at the bottom of this messag= e. RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR HO= LMES NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill (H.R.2545, text a= t http://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to the list of legislative initiative= s US CAMPAIGN groups are working on! (See p. 13 of Resource Booklet. Ellen Th= omas is the convener of the Congressional Focus Working Group, please add the = Norton Bill to the Working Group description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the= phone number for Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the= US CAMPAIGN) at the bottom on the cover letter is wrong! The correct number= is (510)839-5877. US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE INVITED!=20 HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following the US CAMPAIGN Coordinating Committee=92s meeting, there will be a =93caucus=94 open to all US CAMPAI= GN groups attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus of the meeting will be: 1)= to update folks on the status of the Campaign through a report from the Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm actions that the group and organizations can take regarding the NPT while in New York and when they = return home. A meeting with the US delegation will be requested for 6 pm on tha= t day to allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US delegation. The cauc= us meeting will take place in one of the conference rooms in the UN. =20 AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will take plac= e FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance Space, 611 Broad= way, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested. Take B,D,F or Q train to Bro= adway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker Street. Entrance to 611 Broadway is on t= he west side of Broadway just north of Houston. OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM Aboli= tion 2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th Street and = First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM, Abolition 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side). Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C= , E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R). All Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome. N= etwork business will include annual reports from the international Coordinating Committee, Staff, Global Council, and Regional and Working Groups; affirming/modifying our structure for the next year and deciding who will serve; and beginning to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review Confere= nce world, including an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to host an Aboli= tion 2000 meeting next fall. FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW CONFER= ENCE: http://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html ****************************************************** Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California USA 94612 Tel: +(510)839-5877 Fax: +(510)839-5397 E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net ****************************************************** Western States Legal Foundation is part of ABOLITION 2000 A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS - --=====================_7495206==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net id SAA19039
US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network
*************************************************************************= ***********************************
UPDATE AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently received in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the Response Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of Abolition 2000.  We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN, and we want you in it!  Donations are voluntary but very welcome! NOTE: If you didn=92t receive a US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which includes our National Campaign Meeting and Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How to Get Involved, and would like one, please contact Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact information will be found at the bottom of this message.

RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill (H.R.2545, text at http= ://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to the list of legislative initiatives US CAMPAIGN groups are working on!  (See p. 13 of Resource Booklet. Ellen Thomas is the convener of the Congressional Focus Working Group, please add the Norton Bill to the Working Group description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the phone number for Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN) at the bottom on the cover letter is wrong!  The correct number is (510)839-5877.

US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE INVITED!
HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WIL= L BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following the US CAMPAIGN Coordinating Committee=92s meeting, there will be a =93caucus=94 open to all US CAMPAIGN groups attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus of the meeting will be: 1) to update folks on the status of the Campaign through a report from the Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm actions that the group and organizations can take regarding the NPT while in New York and when they return home.  A meeting with the US delegation will be requested for 6 pm on that day to allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US delegation. The caucus meeting will take place in one of the conference rooms in the UN. 

AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will take place FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance Space, 611 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested.  Take B,D,F or Q train to Broadway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker Street.  Entrance to 611 Broadway is on the west side of Broadway just north of Houston.

OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM Abolition 2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th Street and First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM, Abolition 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side).  Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R).  All Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome.  Network business will include annual reports from the international Coordinating Committee, Staff, Global Council, and Regional and Working Groups; affirming/modifying our structure for the next year and deciding who will serve; and beginning to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review Conference world, including an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to host an Abolition 2000 meeting next fall.

FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE: h= ttp://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html
******************************************************
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel: +(510)839-5877
Fax: +(510)839-5397
E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net
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Western States Legal Foundation is part of  ABOLITION 2000
A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS - --=====================_7495206==_.ALT-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:47:49 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) "Abolish Nuclear Weapons" Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: "Abolish Nuclear Weapons" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.petitiononline.com/prop1/petition.html I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself. Best wishes, - -dcw ________________________ David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:00:04 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Long term-Low dose >Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:06:09 -0400 >Subject: Long term-Low dose >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: rbassilakis@snet.net (rbassilakis@snet.net) > >New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of >nuclear workers > >EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 9 APRIL 2000 AT 17:00 ET US > >Contact: David Williamson > 919-962-8596 > > >Increasing exposure to ionizing radiation boosts the risk of >multiple myeloma, a rare but often fatal cancer of blood-forming >tissues, especially among people exposed later in life, according >to a new study of workers at four U.S. Department of Energy >plants. > >The study, conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel >Hill researchers, analyzed radiation exposures among plant >employees and compared them to health records. Older workers with >cumulative radiation doses of five rem or more were almost >three-and-a-half times more likely to die from multiple myeloma >than workers at the same plants whose cumulative exposures were >less than one rem. > >The current occupational limit for radiation workers is five rem >per year. Average background radiation is between a tenth and a >third of a rem per year depending on what is being counted, such >as radon. > > >A report on the findings appears in the April issue of Annals of >Epidemiology, a scientific journal. UNC-CH School of Public >Health authors are Dr. Steve Wing, associate professor; Dr. David >Richardson, postdoctoral fellow; Suzanne Wolf, research >associate; and programmer Joy L. Wolf, all of epidemiology, and >Drs. Douglas J. Crawford-Brown, professor, and Gary Mihlan, >research assistant, both of environmental sciences and >engineering. > >"Workers exposed to ionizing radiation at older ages appeared to >be more sensitive than younger workers," Wing said. "However, >that does not mean that it is safe for young workers to be >exposed to radiation. Exposures during the child-bearing ages >might lead to genetic mutations that could affect children and >future generations." > > >UNC-CH researchers identified 98 workers who died of multiple >myeloma and 391 age-matched controls from a combined roster of >115,143 people hired before 1979 at the Hanford (Wash.), Los >Alamos National Laboratory (N.M.), Oak Ridge National Laboratory >(Tenn.) and the Savannah River (S.C.) nuclear facilities, he >said. Information on work history, smoking, medical X-rays and >exposure to physical and chemical agents came from personnel, >medical, industrial hygiene and health physics records, including >readings from radiation badges known as dosimeters. > > >The study included workers who died through 1990 or, among >Hanford emp > >loyees, through 1986. Male workers and those hired before 1948 >died of multiple myeloma at about twice the rate of women and >workers hired after 1948, the scientists found. Blacks were >almost five times as likely as whites to have developed the >illness, although only five cases were found among blacks. > >The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health >requested and paid for the study because of previous reports >suggesting a link between exposure to ionizing radiation and >cases of the cancer at the Hanford site, Wing said. > >"Our study, which was the largest ever done on this question in >U.S. nuclear workers, was intended to include more cases of the >disease, better evaluation of radiation doses and measurement of >other occupational exposures not available in the Hanford >studies," he said. > >Investigators also tried to determine whether workers exposed to >solvents, metals, welding fumes asbestos and other agents faced >increased risks of multiple myeloma, Wing said. Records of such >exposures, however, were inadequate to enable the scientists to >calculate increased risks accurately. > >Because exposures to ionizing radiation were almost entirely >below what government regulations currently allow, the findings >could affect federal occupational exposure standards, the >scientist said. He and his colleagues initially hoped to extend >their research to other cancers of the blood-forming organs but >were required by their contract to limit the study to multiple >myeloma. > >"One important element of this work is that it comes at a time >when the U.S. Department of Energy is expressing greater concern >for workers' health and the history of radiation exposures in the >nuclear weapons complex," Wing said. > >### >***************************************************** > 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 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:46:35 -0800 From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) New organizations Dear Friends and Activists, One one week remains until the NPT Review Conference begins at the UN in New York! With less than 7 days left, there are now 1840 municipalities and organizations in 93 countries that endorse the Abolition 2000 Statement. We only 160 additional organizations and municipalities to reach our goal of 2000! My sincere thanks to all those who are working to help and achieve this goal. Please support the work of Abolition 2000 by enrolling a new organization this week. We can only reach our goals if we work together! Please join me in welcoming the following organizations who endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement during the week of 10-16 April: Vrije Bond Algemene Ledenvergadering, Utrecht/The Netherlands De Haagse Stadspartij, The Hague/The Netherlands Centre for Peacemaking & Community Development, Moscow/Russia The Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania Citizens' Budget Campaign, Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Saskatchewan/Canada Raging Grannies, Saskatchewan/Canada Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Seattle Mennonite Church, Seattle/Washington ICUCEC (Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative) Saskatoon/Canada Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition, Toronto/Ontario Fawcett North London, Leytonstone/London Older Feminists Network, Leytonstone/London Fremantle Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), Fremantle/Western Australia Abolition 2000 Network Kyoto, Kyoto/Japan Benitengu, Tokyo/Japan NEPA Coalition of Japan, Yokosuka/Japan Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), Wellington/Aotearoa Auckland District Council of Social Service, Auckland/Aotearoa Anti-Bases Campaign, Christchurch/Aotearoa Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA), Christchurch/Aotearoa Anglican Pacifist Fellowship of New Zealand, Auckland, Aotearoa. Municipality Chofu City Council (Tokyo) Thank you again for your continued support. My best wishes to you in our common endeavors. In Peace and Solidarity, Carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1 Santa Barbara CA 93108 Phone (805) 965 3443 FAX(805) 568 0466 Email: A2000@silcom.com Website http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition-Global Caucus listserv to receive regular updates about the Abolition movement. The caucus provides an international forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues. Important articles and information relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues. To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following: 1. Send a message to the list moderator at A2000@silcom.com 2. Visit the Abolition-caucus website at: Http://www.egroups.com/list/abolition-caucus/ and submit a membership form. 3. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:55:07 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE & Earth Day Expansion Call: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" For Immediate Release (Dear Editor), Monday, April 17, 2000 Contact: David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 Call for Earth Day Expansion: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth" The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to my request, in respect of Earth Day 2000 and its call for "Clean Energy Now!", to extend the public comments deadline on its new Stategic Plan draft until April 24th. Details are at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan To further the Earth Day Network's efforts to "Make Every Day Earth Day" as a way to awaken public activism for timely amelioration of today's critical environmental problems and for the cause of global peace, the Taos, NM, annual April 22nd new Earth Day event, organized by the Global Peace Walk Project, is initiating a call for expanding the original goals of Earth Day with "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" campaign to inaugurate an annual "Earth Month" from the Spring Equinox of March 21st to April 22, 2001. We hope everyone who has embraced the vision of Earth Day will in their own ways make the most of this campaign by applying a deeper understanding of the Earth Day 2000 "Clean Energy Now!" message by releasing their own minds and, as Global Peace Walk initiator Reverend Yusen Yamato says in his zen-speak way, to let the "dust out". In his letter of support for this spiritual walk across America to bring out "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, Earth Day Network's national coordinator Chris Curtis says, "Supporting the work of the Global Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day celebration is vitally important. I strongly encourage your organization to actively participate in planning and funding activities associated with this educational, action-oriented effort". Everyone should be proud of how Senator Gaylord Nelson's call for a national "Environmental Teach-In" on April 22, 1970, has been so well implemented by the Earth Day Network for over thirty years since the "natural" Earth Day idea itself was presented by John McConnell, at the San Francisco UNESCO Conference on the Environment in November 1969, as an annual Spring Equinox event to unite people of all faiths to solve environmental problems that have by today reached global emergency proportions. On the phone Saturday, McConnell shared his disappointment that the value of his initially proposed symbolic annual date for Earth Day as the Spring Equinox, originally accepted by the United Nations, has been largely overlooked but he expressed respect for the work of the April 22nd Earth Day Network. This proposal for "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" (April 22, 2000 to April 22, 2001), and an annual "Earth Month" starting next year, includes the suggestion that event organizers opt for whatever date(s) make the most sense to them to celebrate Earth Day, even "Every Day as Earth Day". Global Peace Walk 2000 will conduct a ceremony to mark the midpoint of this Year for The Earth, in New York City before arriving at the United Nations, walking from San Francisco since January 15th, for the UN 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century". We hope that Denis Hayes, John McConnell, and Gaylord Nelson and all Earth Day Networks will participate, and support Global Peace Walk 2000 carrying these messages across country to Washington DC and to the United Nations. Happy Earth Day to You, Happy Earth Day to you..... "Living on The Globe with All Our Friends" "Natural Earth Day" site: http://www.earthsite.org "New Earth Day" (Network) site: http://www.earthday.net Global Peace Walk site: http://www.globalpeacenow.org "I am glad to offer my support for 'Global Peace Now!', as an initiative that all earthlings can support and to add An Agenda For Peace to those messages that will allow Global Peace Walk 2000 to find resonance with the many hearts it will touch as it proceeds upon its journey...an agenda we must all adopt if we are to create a world in the next century that we can be proud to live in", says 1970's Philadelphia Earth Day organizer Ira Einhorn in his letter/message of support for Global Peace Walk 2000. 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