CCNS News Archive Index 2000 The following is a listing of the CCNS News Update going back to January 6, 2000. 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. December 15, 2000 Second Clean Air Act Audit of LANL Findings Released Opposition Heard to LANL's Use of the Word "Kiva" for Nuclear Facilities September 21, 2000 New Developments in Waging War From Space State Geologists Find that Contaminated Water at Fort Wingate Purified by Explosives-Eating Bacteria September 14, 2000 DOE Blocks Retrieval of Documents in Dose Reconstruction Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Radioactive Contamination Levels Rise in Water from Los Alamos Area Wagon Mound Dump May Become a De Facto Low-Level Waste Disposal Area September 7, 2000 USA Today Uncovers Dark Secrets of the Nuclear Weapons Work Done at Private Facilities Across the U.S. During the 1940s and 50s Another Nuclear Waste Dump is Proposed for New Mexico Near WIPP August 31, 2000 LANL Proposing to Store 1,000 Shielded Drums of Commerical Radioactive Waste Indefinitely at its Area G Dump Site State of Idaho Misrepresents Contaminants Released in INEEL Fire Debate Over Missile Plan Deepens in Washington August 24, 2000 Plans for Testing of the Space-Based Laser Will Be Announced Soon Livermore's NIF Project Running Billions of Dollars Over Budget You Can Now Buy Uranium Online August 17, 2000 Plutonium Detected at Hanford Nuclear Reservation Baffles Scientists Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Endorsed by a LANL Scientist August 10, 2000 Over 300 Peace Activists March to LANL Headquarters DOE's Plans for Nuke Waste is Deficient States a Recent Government Sponsored Report August 3, 2000 Conference on Nuclear Issues, Followed by a Rally and March in Los Alamos in Commemeration of the 55th Anniversary of the Dropping of the Bomb on Nagasaki Morale at Los Alamos National Laboratory Continues to Drop The Corps of Engineers Now Says the Pajarito Canyon Dam is not Needed to Protect White Rock, but to Protect Technical Area 18, Site of a Small Reactor July 27, 2000 U.S. Missile Defense System Receives Criticism Internationally July 20, 2000 Runoff from the Aftermath of the Cerro Grande Fire Studied Environmental Group Warns of a Lawsuit to Stop LANL Dam Senate Appropriations Committee Approved a Nuclear Weapons Budget of $4.9 billion July 13, 2000 A Brief Summary of the CCNS FIRE, WATER AND THE AFTERMATH Conference Uranium Sickness Claims Expanded Nuclear Waste Shipment from Hanford Crosses the Country to WIPP July 6, 2000 Los Alamos Lab Wants $1.6 billion for a New Weapons Facility Aerospace Corporations Running Scared as Opposition Mounts to Star Wars Plans June 29, 2000 Monsoon Season Rains Come Down on LANL's Canyons CCNS Invites Public to Participate in Conference on the Fire that Ravaged Los Alamos National Laboratory, and to Discuss the Aftermath of the Fire on New Mexico's Watershed June 22, 2000 CCNS Invites Public to Participate in Conference on the Fire that Ravaged Los Alamos National Laboratory, and to Discuss the Aftermath of the Fire on New Mexico's Watershed Concerns of Contamination Cause Many Firefighters to Leave LANL June 15, 2000 Concerned Firefighters Leave Cerro Grande Tent Camp on LANL Property Senate Confirms Air Force General John A. Gordon as National Nuclear Security Agency Head as LANL's Security Problems Continue to Unfold Senate Republicans Confirm Push for New Nuclear Weapons June 8, 2000 Cerro Grande Fire Still Burning Underground on LANL Property June 1, 2000 Aftermath of LANL Fire Remains in the Forefront for Northern New Mexico May 25, 2000 Second Santa Fe Community Meeting Held on Health and Environmental Concerns as a Result of the LANL Fire Testimony on the Retaliation Against Whistleblowers who Raise Health and Safety Concerns May 18, 2000 Cerro Grande Fire Likely to Create Runoffs From Contaminated Areas at Los Alamos National Laboratory May 11, 2000 As of Thursday, May 11, Fire Still Raging Out of Control at Los Alamos National Laboratory Laser Weapon has Passed its First Test at the White Sands Missile Range in Southeastern New Mexico WIPP Meetings on Proposed Class Two Modifications to the Hazardous Waste Permit to be Held May 4, 2000 Veto Against "Mobile Chernobyl" Still Upheld by the Senate Commitment of Nuclear Weapons States Called Inadequate, Contradictory and Vague Europeans Criticize U.S. Plans for National Missile System In New Mexico, the DOE Plans to Hold Public Meetings on the Proposed Modifications to the WIPP Waste Permit April 27, 2000 Population of Ukraine Continues to Suffer from Chernobyl Nuclear Catastrophe Ionizing Radiation Increases Risk of Fatal Cancer Virginia Power Nuclear Utility Withdraws from Plutonium Fuel Deal April 20, 2000 Russian Parliament Ratifies Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and Approves the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Judge will not Stop Russian Plutonium Shipment April 13, 2000 CCNS Members Discuss Effects of Clean Air Lawsuit April 6, 2000 City of Santa Fe asks "Nuclear Laundry" to Return Secret British Nuclear Weapons Program Documents Discovered on Street Citizens Groups Protest Planned Restrictions on the Public's Rights at Hearing March 30, 2000 Los Alamos National Laboratory Performs Subcritical Nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site Japanese Demand Disclosure of Secret Nuclear Weapons Provisions in U.S. Japanese Security Treaty March 23, 2000 Los Alamos National Laboratory Nuclear Workers Tell of Illnesses February 17, 2000 Scientist Quits Lawrence Livermore Lab and Comdemns Nuclear Weapons More Plutonium Slated for Idaho Incinerator than Acknowledged in State Permits February 3, 2000 The Department of Energy Now Admits that Certain Worker Cancers are a Result of Working in Nuclear Weapons Facilities Judge Overturns Santa Fe Ordinance Limiting the Discharge of Radiological Materials into the City's Sewer System January 27, 2000 Subcritical Nuclear Weapons Test Scheduled for February Plutonium Surprisingly Unstable According to Russian Scientists Demonstrations Against Star Wars Programs Planned for 2000 January 20, 2000 Weapons-grade Plutonium Transported by Air to Canadian Reactor Physicist Claims that Nuclear Weapons Labs Misled Senate about Test Ban Treaty State Finds Radioactive Contaminants in Los Alamos Drinking Water Wells January 13, 2000 Hazardous-waste Safety Violations Continue at Los Alamos National Laboratory Dumping of Radioactive Materials in the Irish Sea Remains Controversial Department of Energy Backs Away from Plans to See Contaminated Scrap Metals January 6, 2000 Abolitionists Welcome New Millennium with Demonstration to End the Nuclear Age Whistleblower Reinstated to Supervisory Position by Rocky Flats Security Company Federal Law may Curtail States' Oversight Authority over Nuclear Laboratories back to News Archive