CCNS News Archive Index 2000 The following is a listing of the CCNS News Update going back to January 4, 2001. 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 26, 2001 GAO Report Calls DOE's Recommendation of Yucca Mountain Premature LANL's Anthrax Policy Under Review December 19, 2001 Congressman Markey Questions Legality of Mail-Order Anthrax Sent to LANL Biosafety Level-3 Laboratory Comment Period Extended to January 15, 2002 December 12, 2001 Rocky Flats Cleanup Levels Questioned Nevada Officials Plan to Sue on Yucca Mountain Site Guidelines December 5, 2001 LANL Says Acid Canyon Cleanup Complete; Activists Are Not Sure November 28, 2001 CDC Briefs Community on Status of LANL Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project Downstream and Downwinders Question DOE's Removal of Environmental Documents from Internet November 14, 2001 DOE Planning to Expedite Shipments from LANL to WIPP November 7, 2001 LANL Releases Environmental Assessment for Biological-Safety Lab October 31, 2001 NMED Requires Study of Closing Options for Sandia's Mixed Waste Landfill October 24, 2001 Accountability for Transportation of Nuclear Waste Urged Waste Shipments from INEEL to WIPP Halted Indefinitely 2001 A Record Year for Waste Shipped from Rocky Flats October 17, 2001 Triassic Park Hearings Begin Despite Protests from Dump Developers October 10, 2001 Radioactive and Hazardous Wastes Threaten Largest Aquifer in Western U.S., Report Says October 3, 2001 Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge Bill Passes Senate $30 Million for Uranium Mining on Dine Land Included in House Bill September 26, 2001 NMED Rejects WIPP Permit Modifications and Issues Notice of Violation to DOE New WIPP Transportation Issues Arise September 19, 2001 Santa Fe Activist Groups Speak Out Against a Nuclear Response to Terrorist Attacks 1,000 Citizens Request Governor Johnson Close LANL's Area G September 12, 2001 DOE Reprimands LANL for Nearly 50 Pounds of Unprotected Plutonium on Property Yucca Mountain Hearings Postponed for Two Weeks September 5, 2001 DOE Schedules Public Hearings on Yucca Mountain Amid Protests DOE Begins Acid Canyon Cleanup August 29, 2001 Mayors from Around the World Call for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Bush Proposes Cutting Compensation to Uranium Workers August 23, 2001 New Mexico Environment Department Holds Second Public Meeting on Cerro Grande Fire Risk Assessment DOE Announces Acid Canyon Cleanup Plans August 16, 2001 DOE Recycles Plan to Recycle Radioactive Metals for Private Use August 9, 2001 DOE Oversight Bureau Faces Budget Cuts August 2, 2001 Beryllium Disease in Private Industry on the Rise Senator Harry Reid of Nevada Joins Nuclear Regulatory Commission July 26, 2001 IFRAT Discusses Results from Cerro Grande Fire Risk Assessment July 19, 2001 Dissent Grows Over Proposed Triassic Park Hazardous Waste Dump IFRAT Meeting Scheduled July 12, 2001 Flaw Discovered in LANL's Nuclear Accounting Software Events Planned to Commemorate Trinity Day Public Meetings to Discuss Proposed Triassic Park Dump Scheduled July 5, 2001 Radiation Compensation Payment Plan Criticized Plutonium Exposure May Be Wider Than Estimated Events Planned to Commemorate Trinity Day June 29, 2001 Citizens Groups Sue EPA on the Yucca Mountain Radiation Protection Standards Nevada Scientist Finds Groundwater from Yucca Mountain Flows Towards California June 21, 2001 British Scientists Stole Bodies of Deceased Children for Secret Nuclear Tests EPA Officials Stall Investigation of Yucca Mountain June 7, 2001 Bush Administration Requests $320 million in Supplemental Funding for DOE Stockpile Stewardship and Environmental Cleanup Bush Administration Considering a $2 billion, Six-year Plan to Improve and Renovate Stockpile Stewardship Facilities May 31, 2001 DOE Plans to Ship Waste though Big I Construction to WIPP Russian Citizens Oppose Plans to Import High-Level Nuclear Waste May 24, 2001 CCNS and Department of Health Release Results of Emergency Responder Surveys Cleanup Plan for Acid Canyon Discussed May 17, 2001 State Environment Department Recommeds a Complete Cleanup of the South Fork of Acid Canyon Seven-fold Increase in Genetic Mutations Found in Children Born to Chernobyl Cleanup Crews Radioactive Roads and Rails Campaign Activities May 10, 2001 Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Council Requests Designation as an Affected Tribe in Order to Participate in Yucca Mountain Project Planning Process U.S. Geological Survey Report Finds Floodwaters Could Drain from Yucca Mountain to Nearby Communities May 3, 2001 U.S. Considers Developing New Nuclear Bomb Chernobyl Site Now Used for Research April 19, 2001 Labor Department to Oversee Compensation Program DOE Studies Waste Inspection Procedures After WIPP Drum Mix-up April 12, 2001 Acid Canyon Cleanup May be Affected by Proposed Budget Cuts April 5, 2001 Russian Minister of Atomic Power Fired By Russian President Bingaman Supports U.S. Program to Compensate Sick Uranium Mine Workers March 29, 2001 Protesters Rally Against Shipment of Nuclear Waste into Germany House Questions Importance of Nuclear Energy in U.S. Energy Plan March 22, 2001 Risk Assessment Corporation Meets with Public Concerning Study of Risks of Cerro Grande Fire March 15, 2001 Families Sure LANL Over Secret Radiation Testing on Bodies of Deceased Lab Workers U.S. to Investigate Claims that Radioactive Human Body Parts are Buried in New York Environmental Groups Speak Out Against Proposed Yucca Mountain Standards March 1, 2001 Putin Says Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is Vital to World Peace and Security Wildlife Refuge Proposed for Colorado's Rocky Flats Trucks Carrying Nuclear Waste to Undergo Stricter Inspections February 22, 2001 Security Contractor at LANL Alleges Poor Security at LAB Storage of Taiwanese Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods Proposed for Russia DOE Announces Shipments from the Savannah River Site to WIPP February 15, 2001 LANL Has Plans to Open Lab Using Live Biological Agents WIPP Truck Stranded in Springer Due to Bad Weather February 1, 2001 Objection to the U.S. Star Wars Program Continues to Grow World Wide January 25, 2001 Depleted Uranium Creating International Concerns January 18, 2001 Critics Call Nuke Waste Transmutation Project "A Shell Game" Rocky Flats "Cleanup" Continues to Put Workers at Risk Canadian Professor Speaks Out Against Star Wars January 11, 2001 Plans for U.S. New Nukes Discovered LANL Tritium Wastewater Spill New Mexico Environment Department Rejects LANL's Final Audit Report for WIPP Waste January 4, 2001 LANL Agrees to Stop Calling Weapons Bunkers Kivas Bush's Pentagon Choice Moves U.S. Closer to Star Wars back to News Archive