From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #189 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 Thursday, September 30 1999 Volume 01 : Number 189 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:04:11 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: France for Nuclear Remediation One of the best actions to deal with the radioactive wastes issues including the mobile chernobyl Yucca Mountain plan is to actively work towards fruition of new technologies to remediate nuclear wastes onsite via the Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT) and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) processes discovered as a "flip side" to the misnamed "cold fusion" technologies still widely under development. http://www.padrak.com/ine and http://www.infinite-energy.com - -----Original Message----- From: Hal Fox To: User886114@aol.com Cc: David Crockett Williams Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:47 AM Subject: France for Nuclear Remediation >Date: 15 September 1999 >From: Hal Fox >To: >Cc: "David Crockett Williams" >Subject: France for Nuclear Remediation > >Dear Ira, > >I'm sorry I don't know your last name. Thanks to an email from David >Crockett Williams, I >have been put in touch with you. > >In our laboratory we have shown that radioactive thorium (and we assume >other dissolved >radioactive materials) can be effectively removed from the solution. We >have been working >with thorium because we do not have a license from the Atomic Energy >Commission as a >"hot lab". Our measurement show that we can remove over 90 percent of >the radioactive >material from the solution in about a one-hour processing time. There >may be some >radioactive materials in the precipitates that are formed. > >We have shown analytically that in a low-pressure gas environment, we >can provide a >positive-ion accelerator that can place "positive-ions on target" at >about one million times >higher density that with an current particle-accelerator technology. We >strongly believe that >this will lead to the complete reduction of radioactive spent fuel >pellets. > >We are seeking modest funding arrangements so that we can demonstrate >this new technology >for the handling of high-level radioactive wastes. We desire to be >affiliated with a private >funding source to avoid the possible loss of rights to our intellectual >property that can occur >when working with U.S. government funds. We would appreciate further >communication >with you. Please send us your mailing address and we can forward copies >of some of our >technical papers. > >Best personal regards, Hal Fox > - - 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: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:59:36 -0700 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Test Thursday Nuclear Test Oboe set for Thursday DOE confirms Shundahai, Gregor ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons & Healing Global Wounds Alliance ><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - - 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: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:37:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd) This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. - ---2132565244-578777658-938569077=:59199 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607 Web site: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ (352) 337-9274 - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:23:46 EDT From: MBSULL@aol.com To: globenet@afn.org Subject: Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT - ---2132565244-578777658-938569077=:59199 Content-Type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Content-ID: Content-Description: Return-Path: Received: from rly-yb04.mx.aol.com (rly-yb04.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.4]) by air-yb01.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:09:58 -0400 Received: from mc-qout4.whowhere.com (mc-qout4.whowhere.com [209.185.123.18]) by rly-yb04.mx.aol.com (v61.9) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:04:21 -0400 Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by hotbot.com; Tue Sep 28 12:04:08 1999 To: "Mary Beth Sullivan" Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:04:08 -0700 From: "Bruce K. Gagnon" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "Dave Webb" X-Sent-Mail: off Reply-To: X-Expiredinmiddle: true X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT X-Sender-Ip: 204.96.225.170 Organization: HotBot Mail (http://mail.hotbot.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MB, Please send this out to our e-mail list ASAP. Bruce REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA. BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip. I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000. We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons. I invited him to speak at our April, 2000 conference in DC on the subject. I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe. At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate. We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area had been removed and we had no further problems from them. The day before the protest we had four articles in newspapers in the region and one of them in Lompoc (the town nearest the base) had printed my letter to the base commander which detailed our reason for being here and our call for base personnel to "lay down your missiles." We also discovered that the base paper had a front page warning to base personnel about the demo which was a help in creating discussion on the base. I really believe in this kind of activity because this is how I learned of the peace movement while being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and seeing the impact of small demonstrations at the base I was stationed at in California during that period. On the day of the demo we had 60 folks come from as far away as Los Angeles north to San Luis Obispo. So we got great support from the whole region around the base and beyond. The demo went well (vigiling and speakers) and when it was over a delegation of us took my letter to the commander, which by now had been signed by all present, and asked to see the commander. They said he was not available but that we could give it to a Col. Lamb if we wished. So they called him on the phone and soon enough he arrived. I looked him in the eye and explained it all for him and asked him to tell his boss to send the letter to his bosses in Washington DC. He said that he would do so. We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day. I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper. Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows. One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice. While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997. On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am. Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us. After that I'll head home. The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2. We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base. The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental). A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little. I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful. People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future. One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system. It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature. I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth. I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment. Please help us build the pressure. I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region. The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering. In peace, Bruce Gagnon HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com - ---2132565244-578777658-938569077=:59199-- - - 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: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:06:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd) This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. - ---2132565244-60299742-938570773=:59199 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607 Web site: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ (352) 337-9274 - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:23:46 EDT From: MBSULL@aol.com To: globenet@afn.org Subject: Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT - ---2132565244-60299742-938570773=:59199 Content-Type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Content-ID: Content-Description: Return-Path: Received: from rly-yb04.mx.aol.com (rly-yb04.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.4]) by air-yb01.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:09:58 -0400 Received: from mc-qout4.whowhere.com (mc-qout4.whowhere.com [209.185.123.18]) by rly-yb04.mx.aol.com (v61.9) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:04:21 -0400 Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by hotbot.com; Tue Sep 28 12:04:08 1999 To: "Mary Beth Sullivan" Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:04:08 -0700 From: "Bruce K. Gagnon" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "Dave Webb" X-Sent-Mail: off Reply-To: X-Expiredinmiddle: true X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT X-Sender-Ip: 204.96.225.170 Organization: HotBot Mail (http://mail.hotbot.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MB, Please send this out to our e-mail list ASAP. Bruce REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA. BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip. I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000. We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons. I invited him to speak at our April, 2000 conference in DC on the subject. I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe. At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate. We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area had been removed and we had no further problems from them. The day before the protest we had four articles in newspapers in the region and one of them in Lompoc (the town nearest the base) had printed my letter to the base commander which detailed our reason for being here and our call for base personnel to "lay down your missiles." We also discovered that the base paper had a front page warning to base personnel about the demo which was a help in creating discussion on the base. I really believe in this kind of activity because this is how I learned of the peace movement while being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and seeing the impact of small demonstrations at the base I was stationed at in California during that period. On the day of the demo we had 60 folks come from as far away as Los Angeles north to San Luis Obispo. So we got great support from the whole region around the base and beyond. The demo went well (vigiling and speakers) and when it was over a delegation of us took my letter to the commander, which by now had been signed by all present, and asked to see the commander. They said he was not available but that we could give it to a Col. Lamb if we wished. So they called him on the phone and soon enough he arrived. I looked him in the eye and explained it all for him and asked him to tell his boss to send the letter to his bosses in Washington DC. He said that he would do so. We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day. I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper. Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows. One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice. While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997. On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am. Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us. After that I'll head home. The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2. We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base. The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental). A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little. I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful. People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future. One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system. It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature. I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth. I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment. Please help us build the pressure. I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region. The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering. In peace, Bruce Gagnon HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com - ---2132565244-60299742-938570773=:59199-- - - 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: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:02:47 EDT From: JGG786@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd) How can I obtain the Vision 2020 document that details the Air Force plan. Jonathan Granoff - - 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, 29 Sep 1990 04:28:29 -0400 From: hcaldic Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd) Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space wrote: > Bruce, I've been talking to Carol Rosin recently and she is also deeply concerned about weapons in space and feels that it is almost too late. Her number is 8056411999, Sincerely Helen > Bruce K. Gagnon > Coordinator > Global Network > PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607 > Web site: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ > (352) 337-9274 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:23:46 EDT > From: MBSULL@aol.com > To: globenet@afn.org > Subject: Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:04:08 -0700 > From: "Bruce K. Gagnon" > Organization: HotBot Mail (http://mail.hotbot.com:80) > To: "Mary Beth Sullivan" > CC: "Dave Webb" > > MB, > > Please send this out to our e-mail list ASAP. Bruce > > REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA. > > BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON > > Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip. I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000. We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons. I in > > I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe. At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate. We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area ha > > > > > > We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day. I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper. > > Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows. One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice. While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997. > > On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am. Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us. After that I'll head home. > > The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2. We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base. > > The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental). A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little. I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful. People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future. > > One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system. It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature. > > I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth. > > I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment. Please help us build the pressure. > > I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region. The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering. > > In peace, > > Bruce Gagnon > > HotBot - Search smarter. > http://www.hotbot.com - - 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: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:26:17 -0700 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert: Nuclear Test Thursday Shundahai Network 5007 Elmhurst Ln, Las Vegas NV 89108 Ph. 702-647-3095 fax 702-647-9384 Web: www.shundahai.org Email: shundahai@shundahai.org Hello friends. This action alert is about the sub-critical nuclear test scheduled for th= ursday. We have had great TV and press response. We hope that you can joi= n us to call attention to nuclear testing and Yucca Mountain. Shundahai N= etwork will be featured on channel 8 in Las Vegas in a five minute live = interview on the 9:30pm news. Tomorrow is Don't Waste Nevada Day. Jackson= Browne will be performing at a benefit dinner to support efforts to pres= erve Yucca Mountain at the Lake Las Vegas Resort. Don't forget your drum= s and constumes and we'll see some of you there. Shundahai, Michelle DEDICATED TO BREAKING THE NUCLEAR CHAIN Sept 29, 1999 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Michelle Xenos 702 647 3095 =09 DRUMS VERSUS "OBOE" : PROTESTORS DENOUNCE THE LAST U.S. SUBCRITICAL PLUTONIUM EXPLOSION OF THE MILLENNIUM On Thursday, September 30th at the Foley Federal Building on Las Vegas B= oulevard at Bridger, drummers will demonstrate their opposition to nucle= ar testing and waste. From 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm the musical activists from = local anti-nuclear organizations will beat drums outside the Federal offi= ces against the day's Subcritical Nuclear Test, "Oboe" (the 7th of 40 sch= eduled nuclear tests).=20 Also, some of the same activists will hold a morning Sunrise Ceremony at= the Nevada Test Site on Thursday September 30th, as one final attempt to= stop this "last blast of the century." After the ceremony the prayerful = group will take nonviolent direct action at the Test Site entrance, visib= le from the Mercury Exit on U.S. Highway 95, 65 miles north of Las Vegas.= =20 =09 Every September 30th is Nevada is Not a Wasteland Day, as proclaimed by = Governor Miller in 1997. "It is outrageous that the D.O.E. continues to c= onduct nuclear tests. Nevadans are seriously opposed to nuclear waste in = this state. When are we going to realize that nuclear weapons testing cre= ates waste that is putting more lives at risk? The D.O.E. has admitted th= eir programs have serious health impacts on the public," says Michelle Xe= nos of the Shundahai Network. In the past week there have been hearings a= nd media coverage regarding the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository,= adjacent to the Nevada Test Site (N.T.S.). Nevada is Not a Wasteland Day= was created for Nevadans to honor the commitment against nuclear waste u= ntil the Yucca Mountain Project has been terminated. Meanwhile the D.O.E.= daily dumps low-level nuclear waste at the N.T.S. that is from the nucl= ear weapons industry. Oboe is supposed to be detonated at the Nevada Te= st Site on September 30th.=20 "All these tests must be stopped now," according to Marcus P. Blaise Pag= e of the Nevada Desert Experience, "Our people--the people of the United = States--are making radioactive waste at every step in the process: from t= he uranium mining, throughh the processing into plutonium, through the su= bcritical explosion of the plutonium, humans create more of this =91poiso= n fire'." The Nevada Desert Experience has been sponsoring prayer, direct= action, retreats, and walks to the Test Site since 1982.=20 Tomorrow's afternoon action is Part Two of "Drum Down Babylon Daze," in = which peace and environmental activists visit governmental offices to req= uest the halting of all nuclear weapons tests."Don't be part of the Silen= t Majority--I'd rather hear a drum beat than a sour note!" says Gregor Ga= ble of the Shundahai Network. Free Radio Vegas will broadcast the event on 87.9 FM radio for passing m= otorists to tune in and learn about the day's activities. Gary Peck from = the ACLU will be on hand to protect the activists' civil rights.=20 ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 =20 Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 =20 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20 Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons & Healing Global Wounds Alliance ><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - - 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: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:09:19 +0100 From: "Sally Light" Subject: (abolition-usa) Tri-Valley CAREs' Press Release re: "Oboe 1" Subcritical Nuclear Test on 9/30/99 For Immediate Release September 29, 1999 Contacts: Sally Light, Tri-Valley CAREs at (510) 527-2057 or (925) 443-71= 48 Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project at (510) 663-806= 5 =93OBOE=94 SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR TEST BLASTS A SOUR NOTE.=20 OUTRAGED ACTIVISTS HOLD SAN FRANCISCO DEMONSTRATION.=20 OTHER PROTESTS WORLDWIDE. Local activists are holding a demonstration tomorrow, September 30, at no= on at the international headquarters of the Bechtel Group in San Francisco.=20 They are protesting the US Department of Energy=92s (DOE) detonation of a subcritical nuclear test, code named =93Oboe 1,=94 at the Nevada Test Sit= e.=20 The seventh such test in a series which began in 1997, =93Oboe 1=94 will = be detonated Thursday, Sept. 30). Bechtel, which operates the Nevada Test Site (NTS) for the DOE, is located at 50 Beale Street, San Francisco (1 block south of Market St., close to the Embarcadero BART station). =93It=92s an outrage that DOE continues with yet another test that flies = in the face of the US=92 international treaty obligations, including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the Non-Proliferation Treaty,=94 stated Sally Light, Nuclear Program Analyst with Tri-Valley CAREs, the=20 Livermore-based =93watchdog=94 over the Lawrence Livermore National Labor= atory where nuclear weapons are designed. Livermore Lab was the primary prepar= er of the technical package for =93Oboe 1.=94 Subcritical nuclear tests involve blowing up high explosives along with fissile material such as plutonium 239. Performed underground in special= ly prepared rooms, subcritical tests are used as a to study what happens to the plutonium during the detonations. =93Oboe 1=94 is the first in a La= wrence Livermore National Laboratory series of subcritical experiments to be conducted over the next year, focusing on the plutonium ejecta caused by the detonation of high explosives. =93Oboe 1=94 is the first subcritical nuclear test at NTS to be placed in a steel vessel underground in the U1a tunnel complex before detonation. The DOE states that the purpose of these tests is to ensure the safety & reliability of the nuclear stockpile. However, activists and other criti= cs claim the tests are related to nuclear weapons research & development, an= d, therefore, are illegal pursuant to international treaties requiring nucle= ar powers to end the development of nuclear weapons and to achieve eventual nuclear disarmament. =20 DOE also claims that, since subcritical tests do not rise to the level of self-staining chain reactions, they are not true nuclear tests and thus comply with the CTBT. Critics, however, argue that they are nuclear test= s because fissile material is used and also because they are performed to further nuclear weapons R & D, only narrowly skirting the issue of whethe= r they legally violate the CTBT. =93Certainly, subcritical nuclear tests violate the spirit if not the letter of the CTBT,=94 stated Sherry Larsen-Beville of the Livermore Conversion Project located in Oakland. S= he went on to explain that subcritical nuclear tests undermine the CTBT=92s current international ratification, a process that must include 44 nation= s. Additionally, subcritical testing also promotes an international arms race. =93We had hoped that the =93cold war=94 was really over,=94 she sa= id.=20 =93Unfortunately, Russia has answered the US=92s subcritical tests with a series of their own, which raises the spectre of a renewed arms race. Th= is is a giant step in the wrong direction.=94 =93We=92re demonstrating to make DOE and Bechtel aware that subcritical t= ests must be stopped immediately,=94 said Ms Light. =93They are a serious ris= k to the health & safety of both the Western Shoshone tribe on whose land the tests take place, a serious danger to the environment, and a serious thre= at to the planet=92s security,=94 she summed up.=20 Added Ms. Larsen-Beville, =93We ask that the US, which created the nuclea= r era, now end it. Other nations look to the US to take up the mantle of being the post-cold war leader in nuclear disarmament. Complying with t= he Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the CTBT by ending subcritical tests would be an excellent first step in the process.=94 =20 In addition to the San Francisco demonstration, others will occur in Neva= da at both the Nevada Test Site and in Las Vegas, as well as in Japan, Australia and Europe. For further information, please contact Tri-Valley CAREs at (925) 443-714= 8 or (510) 527-2057. - -30-=20 - - 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: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:19:57 -0700 From: Andrew Lichterman Subject: (abolition-usa) Michigan Teach-in Web Site The web addresses below provide information about the teach-in on nuclear weapons issues scheduled for October 4-11 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A number of Abolition 2000 groups will have speakers on panels during the course of the week. An organizing meeting for a US abolition network and campaign will be held in Ann Arbor from October 9-11. If you are interested in attending the October 9-11 organizing meeting and have not yet registered, please note that the invitation and registration information has been posted previously to this list (most recently reposted 9-28 by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation). Please note that the schedule of panels and other events for the week continues on the sub-page "Additional programs on nuclear weapons abolition" some way down this web page. Main page: http://www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu/index.html sub page with more extensive listing of events: http://www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu/haber.html - - 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: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:16:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Subject: (abolition-usa) Request for information Dear Friends and Activists, If you are planning to attend the upcoming conference for the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in Ann Arbor, Michigan, please send a brief statement concerning your biographical information to me via email to the following address: Reinacarah@aol.com Thank you for your support. I look forward to meeting you next week. In Peace, Carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation 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.wagingpeace.org/abolition2000 Join the Abolition-USA or Abolition-Global Caucus list serve to regularly receive updates about the Abolition movement. Both caucus' also provide a forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues as well as they are used to post important articles and information pertaining to nuclear abolition. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:04:14 -0700 From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NUKE-WASTE: Reuters Update on Japanes Nuclear Accident >Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:54:46 -0400 >From: Bob Schaeffer >Sender: owner-nuke-waste@igc.apc.org >Subject: NUKE-WASTE: Reuters Update on Japanes Nuclear Accident >To: "ANA (all)" , nuke-waste@igc.org >X-Accept-Language: en >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win98; I) > > Here's the international wire service Reuter's status report at >3:30pm Eastern Daylight time on Friday. > > JAPAN N-PLANT HAS 15,000 TIMES NORMAL RADIATION > >Updated 3:27 PM ET September 30, 1999 > > TOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation levels were 15,000 times normal 1.2 miles >from the site of Thursday morning's nuclear accident, a > local government official said early Friday. > > "As of late Thursday night, 3.1 millisievert of neutrons per hour, or >about 15,000 times the normal level of radiation, was detected two > kilometers (1.2 miles) from the accident site," an Ibaraki Prefecture >official told Reuters. > > The official said radiation was too high to allow safety experts to >approach the uranium processing plant. > > "It's not a situation where you can get close to the actual site," the >Ibaraki official said. "What we are trying to do now is come up with > measures to contain or extract the radiation from around it." > > The country's worst nuclear accident is believed to have exposed at >least 19 people to radiation. Two are in serious condition. > > Local authorities have also instructed 313,000 people living within >the 6-mile radius of the site to stay indoors. 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