CCNS News Archive Index 1998 The following is a listing of the CCNS News Update going back to January 8, 1998. We are dreaming of developing a search engine for the web page, but for the time being you will have to bear with us and manually search through the news archives for posted articles of interest. April 23, 1998 Los Alamos Test-Well Shows LANL Pollutants in Ground Water New Hanford Horrors: "Lost" Plutonium Tank Rediscovered Pantex Checks Atomic Weapons for Mercury Contamination April 16, 1998 Los Alamos National Laboratory Briefly Loses Control of Criticality Experiment LANL's Tritium Detectors Found to be Inaccurate Rocky Flats OK'd to Prepare Waste for WIPP Celebrate Earthday with CCNS on April 25, in Santa Fe Plaza April 9, 1998 Mayor Delgado Makes a Deal for WIPP Waste to Travel on Partially Unpaved Bypass Road Secretary of Energy Pe-a Resigns Western Shoshone Ask the U.S. to Honor Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty President Clinton Urges Senate to Ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty April 2, 1998 Criminal Investigation Launched at LANL Former Los Alamos Scientist Sentenced Study Raises New Questions about Yucca Mountain Experts Call WIPP "The Wrong Solution" March 26, 1998 International Outcry Against Nuclear Tests in Nevada LANL Scientists Celebrate New Plutonium Pit Production Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant Admits Giant Radioactive Waste Leak CCNS Hosts Dance Party to Stop WIPP, Featuring the Iguanas March 19, 1998 New Mexico has most Nuclear Warheads in U.S. Protest Delays New Weapons Testing in Alaska Russian Activists Protest Russian-U.S. Proposal to Use Plutonium as Nuclear Fuel Tigua Tribe Sues to Stop Nuclear Waste Dump March 12, 1998 Workers Contaminated with Plutonium at LANL "Subcritical" Nuclear Test to be Detonated in Nevada EPA Fines Brookhaven National Laboratory for Safety Violations Nuclear Accident Drill to Take Place on March 14 March 5, 1998 Military Study Urges Irrational Streak in Nuclear Policy DOE Wants to Leave Oldest Waste in Ground Santa Fe City Council Bars WIPP Transport on St. Francis February 28, 1998 Judge Finds DOE may be in Contempt of Court for Breaking Environmental-Review Promise High School, Pueblo Chosen as Radiation Detection Stations Iraq may be Storing Smuggled Nuclear Material in Algeria Santa Fe WIPP Bypass Route Moves Closer to Completion February 19, 1998 IBM will Build Supercomputer for Nuclear Test Simulations Chernobyl Radiation Linked to Breast Cancer Increase U.S. Opposes Iranian Nuclear Plant City Council Meeting to Air Citizens' Views on Repeal of WIPP Transport Ordinance February 12, 1998 U.S. Policy Allows Nuclear Attack on Iraq Nuclear Waste Rail Safety Study Request Denied by U.S. Dept. of Transportation Plutonium Waste Passes though Panama Canal with Protestors Onboard India will go Nuclear, if Hindu Nationalists Win Election February 5, 1998 President Clinton Visits LANL to View Bomb Test Simulation Department of Energy Budget Demands Increased Funds for Weapons, but not for Cleanup World Leaders Sign Petition for Nuclear Abolition French Government Shuts Down World's Largest Fast-Breeder Nuclear Reactor January 22, 1998 Hanford Nuclear Reactor may be Restarted, Despite Hanford's Major Safety and Cleanup Problems Citizens' Organizations Join to Target Environmentally-Harmful Projects that Waste Tax Dollars The Marshall Islands Seek Compensation to Treat Nuclear Victims Activists Forbidden to Block Transport of Nuclear Waste in the Netherlands CCNS will Host a Talk on an Imprisoned Isreali Nuclear Technician on January 28 January 8, 1998 WIPP Hearings Under Way this Week Accidental Nuclear Strike Still a Possibility International Campaign Lecture for Imprisoned Nuclear Technician back to News Archive