CCNS News Archive Index 2000 The following is a listing of the CCNS News Update going back to January 2, 2002. December 25, 2002 Low-Level Radioactive Waste Inventory Act Signed into California Law Lockheed Martin to Manage Sandia Until 2008 December 18, 2002 IEER Releases Final Monitoring Report on Third Clean Air Act Audit, Questions Audit Practices and Results December 11, 2002 Department of Labor Upholds LANL Whistleblower's Complaint New Law Sets Schedule for Removing Plutonium from Savannah River Site December 4, 2002 Former Yucca Mountain Inspector Says Site Riddled with Problems NMED Releases Final Corrective Action Order for LANL November 27, 2002 DOE Contractors to Face Scrutiny in New Mexico and Nationwide November 20, 2002 NRC Publishes False Finding for Radioactive Dumping in Landfills DOE Announces Plan to Move More Rocky Flats Waste to WIPP November 13, 2002 Senator Bingaman Criticizes Slow Place for Workers' Claims Court of Appeals Revokes Wagon Mound Landfill Permit Modification November 6, 2002 NMED Postpones Final Corrective Action Order for LANL Kirtland Air Force Base Commits to Cleanup of Four Contaminated Sites October 30, 2002 Activist Groups Present Comments on Modern Pit Facility October 23, 2002 CCNS and IEER Fight for Fourth Audit of LANL's Compliance with Clean Air Act October 16, 2002 ANA Presents Comments on Proposed Modern Plutonium Pit Production Facility October 9, 2002 State Fire Marshal Claims that WIPP not Prepared for Transporting Remote-Handled Waste NNSA Official Refuses to Meet with Shundahai Walkers October 2, 2002 Senator Bingaman Supports ENDAUM's Fight Against Uranium Mining on Diné Land UC Regents Challenge NMED's Authority September 25, 2002 Both WIPP and LANL Proposed Locations for New Modern Pit Production Facility September 18, 2002 Savannah River Proposed Site for New Plutonium Pit Production Facility Waste Grouting Proposed in lieu of Vitrification at Savannah River September 11, 2002 DOE Awards More than Three Million Dollars to Community Reuse Organizations Congress Debates Bunker Busters September 4, 2002 WIPP Shipment Returned to Idaho After Contamination Found Bush Administration Reviewing NEPA August 28, 2002 Watchdog Group Sues DOE for More Detailed Environmental Impact Statement for LANL's BSL-3 Laboratories August 21, 2002 LANL Reports Tritium Discharges in Water August 14, 2002 DOE Plans May Move Unprotected Plutonium from LANL to Nevada Test Site August 7, 2002 ENDAUM Continues Fight Against Uranium Mining Mayor of Hiroshima Invites President Bush to Witness the Effects of Nuclear War July 31, 2002 Nevada's Lawyer Says Science Will Prevail in Yucca Mountain Fight LANL Issues Comments on NMED's Corrective Action Order July 24, 2002 LANL Planning to Replace CMR Building Sandia's Mixed Waste Landfill Plan to be Independently Reviewed July 17, 2002 Accelerated Waste Cleanup Plans Questioned Epidemiologist Dr. Alice Stewart Dies July 10, 2002 Senate Votes in Favor of Yucca Mountain DOE Requests WIPP Permit Modifications July 3, 2002 Report by Tri-Valley CAREs Critically Analyses Nuclear Posture Review June 26, 2002 NRC and DOT Propose Changes to Nuclear Transport Regulations LANL Seeks to Expand Bioagents Research June 19, 2002 Senators Domenici and Bingaman Vote to Open Yucca Mountain Mayors Chavez and Delgado Support Resolution for Senate to Postpone Yucca Mountain Vote June 12, 2002 LANL Considers Storage Facility for Transuranic Waste Fernald Cleanup Three Years Behind Schedule June 5, 2002 Final Results of Cerro Grande Fire Risk Assessment Released May 29, 2002 Abraham Admits Yucca Mountain Will Not Contain All Waste Russian Nuclear Waste Storage Complaint Upheld May 22, 2002 DOE Halts Plutonium Shipments to Livermore Due to Unfit Containers Gandy Marley Cites Terrorist Attacks for Triassic Park Delay May 15, 2002 New Mexico Congressmen Hear Concerns Regarding DOE Worker Compensation Program CCNS Releases Review of Worker Health Studies at LANL May 8, 2002 NMED Issues Draft Cleanup Order for LANL May 1, 2002 Ukraine Plans to Develop Land Around Chernobyl DOE Delays Livermore Director Decision April 24, 2002 U.S. Unseats Chemical Weapons Regulation Leader California Ruling May Halt Shipments of Nuclear Waste April 17, 2002 Vermont Ads Oppose Yucca Mountain Plutonium Shipments to South Carolina to Begin April 10, 2002 Nevada's Governor Guinn Vetoes Yucca Mountain Decision DOE Retracts Report Outlining Cleanup Cuts at INEEL April 3, 2002 Congress Corrects President's Cleanup Budget for DOE Report Says Yucca Mountain Selection Tainted by Influence of Nuclear Industry Lobbyists March 27, 2002 California Committee on Oversight of DOE Labs Meets in New Mexico March 20, 2002 NMED Approves Triassic Park Hazardous Waste Facility New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to Decide on Human-Health Standards for Los Alamos Waterways March 13, 2002 Study Finds that Worldwide Fallout Likely Caused 15,000 Cancer Deaths in U.S. since 1951 Scientists Find Birth Defects in Children Born near Hazardous Waste Dumps March 6, 2002 NNSA Approves BSL-3 Facility at LANL Hiroshima Peace Walkers Visit New Mexico February 27, 2002 Sandia Testing May Lead to New Nuclear Weapons Nevada's Governor Guinn Will Take President Bush's Yucca Mountain Recommendation to Court February 20, 2002 President Bush Recommends Yucca Mountain to Congress Bush's Plan for U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Contradicts Nuclear Posture Review February 13, 2002 Reports Indicate Genetic Mutations in Children Living in Areas of High Radioactive Fallout Native American Exposure to Radiation in the Northwest May Be Higher than Estimated February 6, 2002 Bush Budget Raises Funds for Nuclear Weapons Production, Reduces Funds for Stewardship LANL Representatives Fail to Show at UC Oversight Hearing January 30, 2002 President Bush Promises $3.8 billion for MOX Facility January 23, 2002 Attorney General May Take Action on Area G Dump Draft EPA Assessment Lowers Perchlorate Level in Drinking Water January 16, 2002 Activist Groups Calls for LANL's Closure of Area G Dump January 9, 2002 Nuclear Posture Review Recommends Diminished U.S. Dependence on Nuclear Weapons and Resumption of Underground Nuclear Testing January 2, 2002 NAU President Defends Live Anthrax Shipment to LANL U.S. to Expand Programs to Help Russia's Control of Nuclear Materials back to News Archive