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
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