CCNS News Archive Index 2003 The following is a listing of the CCNS News Update going back to January 1, 2003. December 24, 2003 California Judge Orders Stay on Transportation of Bioagents to LANL December 17, 2003 Plutonium Found in Children's Teeth Near Sellafield Nuclear Facility December 10, 2003 Dixon Residents Address the Need for Thorough Community Monitoring Around LANL December 3, 2003 NMED Issues Draft WIPP Permit Modification Prohibiting High-Level Waste November 26, 2003 Energy Bill Provision Requires DOE Ownership of Uranium Enrichment Waste November 19, 2003 Nuclear Policy Experts Discuss New Mexico's Role in the U.S. Weapons Complex November 12, 2003 Uranium Monitoring Initiative Begins in Church Rock November 5, 2003 Lea County Residents Urge NRC to Expedite License for Uranium Enrichment Facility October 29, 2003 Cesium Found in Spring Feeding into Rio Grande October 22, 2003 Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Raises Concern About Yucca Mountain Disposal Plan October 15, 2003 DOE Plans to Move More Than 300 Pounds of Plutonium from LANL to France October 8, 2003 LANL Ordered to Stop Shipments to WIPP Following Improper Deliveries of Low Level Waste UC Regents Visit LANL October 1, 2003 Idaho's Snake River Plain Aquifer Contaminated with Radionuclides September 24, 2003 Russian Nuclear Facility May Be Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack September 17, 2003 NNSA Proposes 24 New Structures at LANL With No Environmental Impact Statement September 10, 2003 RAC Holds Progress Meeting on LANL Risk Assessment September 3, 2003 New Mexico Congressmen Attend Groundbreaking of Uranium Enrichment Facility in Lea County August 27, 2003 CCNS Releases New Report Supporting Need For CDC Dose Reconstruction Study At LANL August 20, 2003 DOE Secretary Abraham Attempts to Overturn High-level Waste Decision August 13, 2003 Santa Fe City Council Passes Resolution Opposing Modern Pit Facility DOE Secretly Ships High-Level Radioactive Waste from New York to Idaho August 6, 2003 Senator Domenici Proposal Cuts WIPP Testing Lea County Representatives Visit Uranium Processing Plant July 30, 2003 Bush Administration Disbands NNSA Advisory Committee NNSA Oversight of Tribes Prompts NMED to Request More Comment Time for MPF July 23, 2003 Director Nanos Gives State of LANL Address July 16, 2003 Local and National Officials Say, "No New Bomb Factory, No Where, No Way." July 9, 2003 LANL Secrecy Stalls CDC Dose Reconstruction Project July 2, 2003 Hundreds of Citizens Proclaim, "No New Bomb Factory, No Where, No Way." June 25, 2003 LANL Loses Two Vials of Plutonium June 18, 2003 UC Announces Appointment of New President Public Meetings to Address Proposed Modern Pit Facility June 11, 2003 DOE Appeals Federal Court Ruling On INEEL's Buried Waste Hearing to Address Special Waste Disposal at Northeastern Regional Landfill June 4, 2003 NNSA Hears Comments on Proposed Replacement CMR Facility at LANL May 28, 2003 Forum of National Experts Discusses DOE's Proposed Modern Pit Facility May 21, 2003 New Mexico Supreme Court Dismisses WIPP Lawsuit DOE Proposes Modifications to State1s Operating Permit May 14, 2003 Two-story Incinerator Found Buried in Hillside at Rocky Flats NNSA Releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Replacement CMR Building at LANL May 7, 2003 Nongovernmental Organizations Say that U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policies Threaten Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty April 30, 2003 CCNS Embarks on Second Rio Grande Sampling Trip April 23, 2003 Study Finds Higher Risk of Lung Cancer for Rocky Flats Plutonium Workers Budget Shortfalls Further Delay Payment for Sick Uranium Workers April 16, 2003 NMED To Discuss Cleanup with Top DOE Official DOE Reneges on Cleanup Budget Agreement April 9, 2003 Activist Group Wins Free Access to Information Workers Exposed in Second Rocky Flats Accident in One Week April 2, 2003 Dispute Resolution Process Begins Over LANL Air Emissions Federal Judge Orders DOE to Remove Buried Waste at INEEL March 26, 2003 Government Agencies Find Safety Deficiencies at LANL Senators Domenici and Craig Support New Reactor at INEEL March 19, 2003 Activists Charge INEEL is Violating Clean Air Act Paducah Workers Test Positive for Exposure to Beryllium March 12, 2003 Washington Sues DOE to Halt Waste Shipments to Hanford New Report Questions Radiation and Human Health Computer Models March 4, 2003 >Senator Domenici Proposes Uranium Enrichment Facility in Southeastern New Mexico NRC Proposes to Deregulate and Release Radioactive Solid Waste for Recycling February 26, 2003 Department of Health Requests Information from LANL About Firewood Study Warns of Threat to Inadequately Stored Spent Fuel February 19, 2003 Representative Wilson Endorses Return to Cold War Tactics National Groups Recommend that Congress Oppose Inflated Yucca Mountain Budget February 12, 2003 Contaminated Spring Discovered Near LANL CDC and NCI Fallout Cancer Risk Study Reviewed February 5, 2003 Elevated Plutonium Levels Found in Stormwater Runoff from Pueblo Canyon January 29, 2003 Draft DOE Policy Calls for Risk-based Cleanup January 22, 2003 University of Texas Considering Bid for LANL Management California Report Investigates Plutonium in Gardens Around Livermore January 15, 2003 UC Will Not Compete to Keep LANL Contract Despite Recommendations, Sandia Refuses to Consider Cleanup at Mixed Waste Landfill January 8, 2003 Top LANL Security Managers Demoted Following Whistleblower Firings January 1, 2003 NNSA Issues Notice of Violation to LANL for Improper Waste Storage Canadian Coalition Demands Inspection of U.S. for Weapons of Mass Destruction back to News Archive