NucNews Headlines - collected August 1-10, 2006 Full text of articles can be found at http://nucnews.net by date ---- NUCLEAR Astrophysicist speeds up radioactive decay Other boffins sceptical By Lucy Sherriff Published Tuesday 1st August 2006 The UK Register http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/01/faster_decay/ Helen Caldicott's new book: Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer Sunday, August 06, 2006 VHeadline (Venezuela) http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=65443 Nuclear weapons offer no security Gulf News 8/07/2006 http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/world/10058127.html ‘No danger from uranium cloud’ By Jean Christou August 7, 2006 (Cyprus Mail) Tehran Times http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/7/2006&Cat=2&Num=002 Bacteria Roll Out Carpet Of Goo That Converts Deadly Heavy Metal Into Less Threatening Nano-spheres August 8, 2006 Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060808091833.htm ---- accidents and safety What chance of being hit by a meteorite? Don't ask a scientist (Filed: 31/07/2006) UK Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2006/07/31/nmeteor31.xml&sSheet=/health/2006/07/31/ixhmain.html Sweden: Nuclear plant faced possible meltdown Aug. 1, 2006 (UPI) http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/27978 Transformer explodes at nuke plant Lake County, IL News-Sun Staff Report 08/02/06 http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/top/5_1_WA02_NUKEPLANT_S10802.htm N.Y. nuclear plant's sirens malfunction By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 2, 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060802/ap_on_re_us/nuclear_plant_sirens_2 ARGENTINA: Residents Face Uranium Threat in Water Supply Marcela Valente* - Tierramérica Aug 4, 2006 (IPS) http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34235 NUCLEAR MISHAP A Close Call with Catastrophe in Sweden? August 4, 2006 Der Spiegel http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,430164,00.html Fact Sheet on Tritium, Radiation Protection Limits, and Drinking Water Standards Monday, August 07, 2006 Nuclear Regulatory Commission http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/tritium-radiation-fs.html ---- africa Nigeria moves towards nuclear power Tuesday August 01, 2006 Sapa-AFP South Africa Sunday Times http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket6st/basket6st1154437173.aspx Nigeria's President Vows Nuclear Plant The Associated Press By BASHIR ADIGUN August 01, 2006 http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1496909406187749050536279003672194890062 Iran's plot to mine uranium in Africa Jon Swain, David Leppard and Brian Johnson-Thomas The UK Sunday Times August 06, 2006 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2300772,00.html Seized uranium was headed for Iran Aug. 6, 2006 Washington Times http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20060806-112731-4290r.htm NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR Iran's smuggling of uranium from African mine uncovered Shipment of bomb-making material from 'closed' Congo site intercepted August 6, 2006 WorldNetDaily.com http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51405 Seized uranium was headed for Iran Aug. 6, 2006 United Press International http://www.dailyindia.com/show/49005.php/UPI-NewsTrack-TopNews Iran denies reported bid to import uranium from DR Congo by Staff Writers Tehran, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) http://www.spacewar.com/reports/a060806125757.xptmmvg7.html Congo Denies Alleged Uranium Shipment To Iran From 2005 Dow Jones Newswires 08-07-06 http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20060807%5CACQDJON200608071242DOWJONESDJONLINE000433.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na ---- asia Asia Goes Nuclear to Meet Rising Energy Demands By Thomas Rippe Hong Kong 01 August 2006 Voice of America http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-01-voa10.cfm Malaysia needs nuclear power: official KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) Aug 09, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060809125000.2x8lp3rx.html ---- australia Call to Enrich Uranium in Australia Stirs Debate By RAYMOND BONNER Published: August 2, 2006 NY TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/world/asia/02australia.html?ex=1155096000&en=8f5a3f913c4ea54f&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS Australia urged to take back nuke waste August 5, 2006 The Age http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Australia-urged-to-take-back-nuke-waste/2006/08/05/1154198362273.html ANSTO seeks global nuclear experts August 9, 2006 The Age http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/ANSTO-seeks-global-nuclear-experts/2006/08/09/1154802936222.html Greens say Kitty Hawk not welcome August 10, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Greens-say-Kitty-Hawk-not-welcome/2006/08/10/1154803014732.html ---- britain TAKE A NUCLEAR PIT AND CASH IN 1 August 2006 UK Daily Record http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_objectid=17495612%26method=full%26siteid=66633%26headline=take%2da%2dnuclear%2dpit%2dand%2dcash%2din%2d-name_page.html Britain's Big Nuclear Waste Dump Seeks a Home Story by Daniel Fineren REUTERS UK: August 1, 2006 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37459/newsDate/1-Aug-2006/story.htm Two-thirds oppose replacement for Trident, CND survey finds By Ian Herbert 04 August 2006 UK Independent http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1212794.ece Reactor’s radioactive dirty laundry 06 August 2006 UK Sunday Herald By Rob Edwards http://www.sundayherald.com/57100 Nuclear power links to 'sham' energy review Firm that handled submissions 'misrepresented' benefits of atomic power Juliette Jowit, environment editor Sunday August 6, 2006 The UK Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1838079,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=15 The nuclear industry http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/nuclear/0,,181325,00.html Useful links British Energy http://www.british-energy.com/ Department of Trade and Industry http://www.dti.gov.uk/ British Nuclear Fuels Ltd http://www.bnfl.com/ Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament http://www.cnduk.org/ Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/homepage/ Come Clean WMD awareness programme http://www.comeclean.org.uk/ UK atomic energy authority http://www.ukaea.org.uk/ National Radiological Protection Board http://www.nrpb.org.uk/ Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/dump_nuclear/index.html World Nuclear Association http://www.uilondon.org/ World Nuclear Transport Institute http://www.wnti.co.uk/ [Proposition One http://prop1.org] £2m penalty for Dounreay spillage Radioactive liquid was poured onto a sealed drum Wednesday, 9 August 2006 (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/4778139.stm?ls New nuclear clean-up centre opens Dounreay is being decommissioned Thursday, 10 August 2006 (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/4777367.stm Spillages cost nuclear firms £2m fines Press Association Thursday August 10, 2006 Guardian Unlimited http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1841599,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 ---- business DoE May Expand Industry Involvement In Nuke-Dump Licensing Process August 02, 2006 The Peacock Report http://tpr.typepad.com/thepeacockreport/2006/08/doe_clarifies_n.html Nuclear Decommissioning Authority invites bids for Magnox trading co 08.02.2006, 11:52 AM (AFX) http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/08/02/afx2922194.html Nuclear resurgence fires up Cameco CEO Uranium price driving appetite for juniors By Gyle Konotopetz - Business Edge Published: 08/03/2006 - Vol. 6, No. 16 http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/13137.cfm Energy Chief Offers Nuclear Incentives The Associated Press By GREG BLUESTEIN August 04, 2006 http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1181199566256835282905698215421294024683 Nuclear Power Venture Orders Crucial Parts for Reactor By MATTHEW L. WALD August 4, 2006 New York Times Correction Appended http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/business/worldbusiness/04nuke.html?ei=5099&en=2d47c0770914e6c8&ex=1155355200&partner=TOPIXNEWS&pagewanted=print GE and STP Nuclear Operating Company Sign ABWR Project Development Agreement 07.08.2006 FinanzNachrichten.de http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2006-08/artikel-6815750.asp ---- canada Saskatchewan warming to nuclear energy: chamber Mon Aug 7, 2006 (CBC) http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/07082006/3/canada-saskatchewan-warming-nuclear-energy-chamber.html N.B. should consult widely on 2nd nuclear reactor: Liberal leader Tue Aug 8, 2006 (CBC) http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/08082006/3/canada-n-b-consult-widely-2nd-nuclear-reactor-liberal-leader.html ---- depleted uranium House and Senate finally call for investigation into Depleted Uranium (DU) poisoning of troops Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 by NewsTarget http://www.counterthink.org/019823.html Israel may misuse bunker buster bombs to fulfill broad list of targets By Nusaiba Ben-Shaibah Aug 1, 2006 Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=892632 Every time I think that things can't get worse, they do Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 1 August 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5367.shtml The Global Threat of DU Wednesday, 2 August 2006 Scoop (NZ) Opinion: Dr Robert G Anderson http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00005.htm 400,000 depleted uranium bullets stored at U.S. Kadena base in Okinawa in 2001 August 2, 2006 Mainichi Daily News http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060802p2a00m0na021000c.html Stryker Brigade training area work suspended after crew nears sacred site AUDREY MCAVOY - The Associated Press Wednesday, August 02, 2006 http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/188236/4/ http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1995297.php Armored wolves: Bradley fighting vehicles By Illinois State Rifle Association Rock River Times, From the Aug. 2-8, 2006, issue http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=23&id=13930 Troops Home Fast: Day 32, Amman, Jordan Posted on August 4th, 2006 By Cindy Sheehan http://www.troopshomefast.org/article.php?id=1157 Israel using US-supplied depleted uranium in Lebanon Written by Israeli Committee for a Middle East Free from Atomic, Biological & Chemical Weapons 5 August 2006 http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25473&l=i&size=1&hd=0 New and unknown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces 'direct energy' weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare by Professor Paola Manduca August 7, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAN20060807&articleId=2918 Up to $280M to GDLS for American M1A2 SEP Tank Upgrade Kits 09-Aug-2006 Defense Industry Daily http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/08/up-to-280m-to-gdls-for-american-m1a2-sep-tank-upgrade-kits/index.php Hibakusha dream shattered By Hamid Golpira Tehran Times Opinion Column 09/08/2006 (MNA) http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/9/2006&Cat=14&Num=001 http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=36299 Are Depleted Uranium Weapons Sickening U.S. Troops? By Deborah Hastings AP National Writer August 10, 2006 http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=200608081e http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/060810d_wire.aspx ---- europe Heatwave shuts down nuclear power plants Juliette Jowit and Javier Espinoza Sunday July 30, 2006 The UK Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1833620,00.html Spain's govt fines Endesa, Iberdrola nuclear plant 1.6 mln eur 08.02.2006, 11:09 AM (AFX) http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/08/02/afx2922070.html Sweden's Nuclear Reactor Thursday, 3 August 2006, 12:32 pm Press Release: Greenpeace http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0608/S00059.htm Swedish nuclear reactors stopped Forsmark supplies one-sixth of Sweden's electricity Thursday, 3 August 2006 (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5241780.stm On the Nuclear Shutdowns in Sweden Thursday, August 03, 2006 NEI Nuclear Notes http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-nuclear-shutdowns-in-sweden.html#links Nuclear shutdowns leave Swedes debating By Ivar Ekman International Herald Tribune Published: August 4, 2006 http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/04/news/sweden.php Swedish Politicians Question Safety of Its Nuclear Reactors By IVAR EKMAN International Herald Tribune August 4, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/world/europe/04cnd-sweden.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=europe&pagewanted=print Sweden alerted IAEA about nuclear "incident," did not request help Fri Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060804/sc_afp/swedenenergynucleariaea_060804161947 Bulgaria Denies Support for Iran Nuclear Program 7 August 2006 Sofia News Agency http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=67689 Portugal's Azores islands to have nuclear monitoring station LISBON (AFP) Aug 07, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060807163232.0mximmgp.html U.S. secretly took uranium from reactor in Poland Bryan Bender, Boston Globe Thursday, August 10, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/10/MNGLUKEOON1.DTL http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/08/10/us_recovers_uranium_from_polish_reactor?mode=PF RWE CEO Roels says co wants to build more nuclear power plants in Europe 08.10.2006 (AFX) http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/08/10/afx2940126.html Russian, Czech Bidders Improve Offers for Construction of Nuclear Plant 10.08.2006 MosNews http://mosnews.com/money/2006/08/10/nuclerplant.shtml Nuclear power's green promise dulled by rising temps By Susan Sachs, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Thu Aug 10, 4:00 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060810/wl_csm/onuclear_1 Secret mission to grab uranium at Poland site BY JAMES GORDON MEEK NY DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Originally published on August 10, 2006 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/442175p-372435c.html US recovers uranium from Polish reactor Secret effort nets nearly 100 pounds By Bryan Bender, Boston Globe Staff | August 10, 2006 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/08/10/us_recovers_uranium_from_polish_reactor?mode=PF ---- india Premature to pass judgement on N-deal: Govt Press Trust of India, Thursday, August 03, 2006 http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=71933 Senate Likely to OK India Nuclear Deal Senate Ready to Approve Civilian Nuclear Trade Deal With India Friday August 4, 3:02 pm ET By Manik Banerjee, Associated Press Writer http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060804/india_us_nuclear.html?.v=1 US officials calm Indian fears over nuclear deal by Staff Writers Kolkata, India, Aug 4, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/a060804154124.p97cbc3o.html US official says Indian nuclear deal 'on track' Mon Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060807/wl_sthasia_afp/indiausnuclearpoliticsboucher_060807165617 ---- iran Iran's Threat to Cut Oil Flow in Nuclear Dispute May Backfire (Bloomberg) August 2, 2006 00:06 EDT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=ayxk6vSDx2ik Top Iran official: nuclear work will continue Fri Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060804/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics_060804195835 Iran plans to expand nuclear activities Updated 8/6/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-06-iran-nuclear_x.htm Iran insists it will not freeze nuclear work by Hiedeh Farmani Tehran, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) http://www.spacewar.com/reports/a060806113456.7qwh2gfj.html Iran Vows More Atom Work By REUTERS August 6, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-nuclear-iran.html?pagewanted=print Iran Vows to Expand Uranium Enrichment By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 6, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iran-Nuclear.html?pagewanted=print Iran Says It Will Ignore U.N. Deadline on Uranium Program By MICHAEL SLACKMAN August 7, 2006 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/world/middleeast/07iran.html?_r=1&oref=login&pagewanted=print Iranian Leader Speaks To Mike Wallace Exclusive Interview Will Air On '60 Minutes' Sunday At 7 P.M. ET/PT Quote: "Well, please look at the makeup of the American administration, the behavior of the American administration. See how they talk down to my nation." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2006 CBS News Halting Iran nuclear program trumps oil price - Bodman Wednesday August 9, 2006 (Reuters) http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060808/3/2o78d.html ---- iraq / inspections U.S. & Israel Selecting Targets for Cruise Missile First-Strike Attack Date: Sun Aug 6, 2006 8:41 am From: "Global Network" U.S. & Israel Selecting Targets for Cruise Missile First-Strike Attack ---- japan The Hiroshima Myth by John V. Denson August 2, 2006 LewRockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson7.html Japan Surveying Radiation in Disputed Waters: Seoul REUTERS SOUTH KOREA: August 3, 2006 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37497/story.htm New North Korean Missile Bases Target US Military In Japan by Staff Writers Seoul (AFP) Aug 03, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/New_North_Korean_Missile_Bases_Target_US_Military_In_Japan_999.html Notes on Japan A-bomb program found Two scientists' notebooks in U.S. cast light on little-understood project Friday, Aug. 4, 2006 (Kyodo) http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060804a2.html On Hiroshima anniversary, Japan shifts toward militarism By JOHN FEFFER Posted: Aug. 5, 2006 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=480146 Japanese Court Supports A-Bomb Survivors Last Updated: 08-05-06 at 3:58PM 2006 Midwest Television KFMB http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.58980.html Japan court recognizes 41 A-bomb radiation victims but denies damages Holly Manges Jones Saturday, August 05, 2006 JURIST http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/08/japan-court-recognizes-41-bomb.php Nanaimo remembers Hiroshima Aug 05 2006 Nanaimo News Bulletin http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=51&cat=43&id=702527&more= Memories still strong for Japanese A-bomb survivors August 6, 2006 The Yomiuri Shimbun http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS/608060339/1002/NEWS01 A-bomb survivors leery of battleship hype The Yomiuri Shimbun Aug. 6, 2006 http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060806TDY03001.htm Peace declaration skirts new nuclear threat The Yomiuri Shimbun Aug. 6, 2006 http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/20060806TDY04006.htm Pilgrims in Hiroshima pray for peace on 61st anniversary Thousands call on world leaders to abandon nukes By ISSEI KATO Reuters News Service Aug. 6, 2006 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4097362.html A voice for healing A woman who survived Hiroshima as a child and built a new life in the U.S. heads back to her homeland, bearing a musical message of peace, love and hope for the future Sunday, August 06, 2006 KATY MULDOON The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1154742939314890.xml&coll=7 Tadatoshi Akiba Mayor The City of Hiroshima Tehran Times Political Desk August 6, 2006 http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/7/2006&Cat=2&Num=015 http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/declaration/Engl ish/2006/index.html World Conference 2006 against A and H Bombs (in Hiroshima, 2-4 August): Declaration of the International Meeting From: Sukla Sen Date: Sun Aug 6, 2006 4:10 am Never again Hiroshima! Never again Nagasaki! Club can't shake its fatal attraction The Japan Times Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20060806a1.html Japan Marks 61st Hiroshima Anniversary By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 6, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Japan-Hiroshima-Anniversary.html?pagewanted=print http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-06-hiroshima-anniversary_x.htm Hiroshima Commemorates 61st Anniversary of US Atomic Attack Sunday, August 6, 2006 by the Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0806-02.htm Photo: Paper lanterns are adrift on a river in front of the gutted A-bomb dome (rear) in Hiroshima, August 6, 2006 to comfort the souls of victims of the 1945 atomic bombing on the city of Hiroshima. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/images/0806-01.jpg Medical records detail A-bomb girl's last months The Yomiuri Shimbun (Aug. 7, 2006) http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060807TDY02001.htm Thousands remember Hiroshima 07 August 2006 NZ Stuff http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3757215a10,00.html Nagasaki Marks 61st Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/1422211 Nagasaki warns against nuclear arms on A-bomb anniversary TOKYO (AFP) Aug 09, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060809041911.8s9x1b61.html Nagasaki: U.S., N. Korea should disarm The Japan Times Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060810a1.html ---- korea Threat of repeat Nkorean missile test fades: report by Staff Writers Seoul, Aug 4, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/a060804084838.h3uovcot.html N.Korea atomic test seen harming NE Asia economies Tue Aug 8, 2006 (Reuters) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060808/ts_nm/korea_north_economy_dc ---- mideast Proposal for a 'nuclear-free Middle East' Athens News Agency, August 5, 2006 http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=4501935&maindocimg=1432305&service=102 Heading off Ankara's nuclear temptation Jon B. Wolfsthal and Jessica C. Varnum International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006 http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/08/10/opinion/edwolf.php http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/10/opinion/edwolf.php# ---- pakistan US says Pakistan's new nuclear reactor not very powerful: press Thu Aug 3, 2006 (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060803/pl_afp/uspakistannuclear_060803155858 Pakistani Reactor Not as Significant As Was Reported, Administration Says By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 5, 2006; A14 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401613_pf.html No big Pakistan nuclear buildup, envoy says: press by Staff Writers Washington, Aug 5, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/a060805053908.mba6e928.html Pakistan nuclear report disputed By Shahzeb Jillani BBC News, Washington Monday, 7 August 2006 (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5251936.stm ---- russia Officials dispel charges over uranium ignition at Urals plant 08/ 08/ 2006 (RIA Novosti) http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060808/52391504.html Russia Test Fires Another Topol by Martin Sieff UPI Senior News Analyst Washington (UPI) Aug 08, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russia_Test_Fires_Another_Topol_999.html ---- security Trumpeting the Global Threat Reduction Initiative Eric Hundman August 1, 2006 02:12 PM DefenseTech http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002630.html ow modern-day menace shut the Cold War's secret mountain Norad now obsolete as threat shifts from nuclear bombs to terrorism By Catherine Philip August 01, 2006 UK Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2293700,00.html PRESIDENT BUSH CLEARS THE WAY FOR A GLOBAL NUCLEAR EXPANSION [Rachel's introduction: In recent months, President Bush has reversed long-standing U.S. policies, intending to expand nuclear power world- wide. This inevitably expands the threat from nuclear weapons.] By Peter Montague Rachel's Democracy & Health News #866, August 3, 2006 http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_nukes_again.htm The Stakes Have Been Raised Global Hiroshima By DAVID KRIEGER August 5 / 6, 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/krieger08052006.html State simulates terror attack A drill next week will tests responses to a nuclear detonation By Gregg K. Kakesako gkakesako@starbulletin.com Sunday, August 6, 2006 Honolulu Star Bulletin http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/06/news/story09.html Nuclear agency chief supports self-policing Power plants backed for monitoring tritium By Hal Dardick Chicago Tribune staff reporter Published August 10, 2006 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/chi-0608100279aug10,1,1774116.story?coll=chi-newslocalssouthwest-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true ---- u.s. nuc weapons Nuclear terror: science and lies Greg Adamson > From Green Left Weekly, August 2, 2006. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/677/677p24.htm Kucinich introduces HR 950 to abolish all nuclear weapons From: Glenn Carroll Date: August 10, 2006 Subject: spread the word ---- u.s. nuc facilities ---- alabama Newspaper Endorses SSEB Report on Nuclear Energy NEI Nuclear Notes News and commentary on the commercial nuclear energy industry. Wednesday, August 02, 2006 http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2006/08/newspaper-endorses-sseb-report-on.html#links Browns Ferry Unit 1 restart remains on target for May Friday, August 04, 2006 Huntsville Times http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1154683207296440.xml&coll=1 ---- california Watchdogs appeal Diablo renewal In appeal of waste storage permit, Mothers for Peace cites previous violations in handling of hazardous substances By David Sneed Thu, Aug. 03, 2006 Sn Luis Obispo Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/15187114.htm * Lawsuit by Mothers for Peace (PDF) http://www.sanluisobispo.com/multimedia/sanluisobispo/archive/mothersappeal.pdf ---- florida Uranium Should Be Guarded, Says Group By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer, Tuesday, August 1, 2006 St. Petersburg Times http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=18384 ---- illinois Exelon reduces power output at Illinois nukes Tue Aug 1, 2006 12:44pm ET167 (Reuters) http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-01T164415Z_01_N01446588_RTRIDST_0_UTILITIES-EXELON-QUADCITIES.XML&rpc=66 ---- indiana Nuclear Plant Work Is Headed for Indiana Unistar Nuclear to Manufacture at Least 80 Percent of Components in U.S. Tuesday August 1, 4:58 pm ET By Dan Caterinicchia, AP Business Writer http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060801/unistar_nuclear.html?.v=3 ---- maryland Calvert County solicits reactor Seeking expansion at power plant, it offers tax break to Constellation By Jamie Smith Hopkins and Paul Adams August 9, 2006 Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-te.bz.calvert09aug09,0,7435590.story?track=rss Calvert County gives Constellation tax incentives for nuclear expansion Baltimore Business Journal - Wednesday, August 9, 2006 by Alan Zibel, Staff http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/08/07/daily14.html?from_rss=1 Md. County Offers Incentives To Boost Nuclear Operation Move Would Aid Economy, Officials Say By Dan Morse Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 10, 2006; D01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901923_pf.html ---- michigan Fire system alarm prompts Fermi evacuation By: Charles Slat, August 01, 2006 Monroe, MI News http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060801/NEWS01/108010019 Fermi reactor to be back at full power on Wednesday August 1, 2006 (AP) http://www.wwmt.com/engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=28873&template=breakout_state.html ---- nebraska Senate Race Glows With Nuclear Attack On Nelson August 01, 2006 Nebraska StatePaper.com http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/08/01/44cec2dc2f166 ---- nevada Nuke Dump Timeline Questioned Thursday August 3, 2006 11:31 PM By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5992459,00.html Yucca Mountain and Used Fuel Roundup Friday, August 04, 2006 NEI Nuclear Notes http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2006/08/yucca-mountain-and-used-fuel-roundup.html#links Loux's credibility attacked by pro-Yucca Idaho senator By Lisa Mascaro August 04, 2006 Las Vegas Sun http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2006/aug/04/566663643.html Federal appeals court rejects Nevada arguments on Yucca Mountain ASSOCIATED PRESS August 08, 2006 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/aug/08/080810526.html Court Rejects Nev. Yucca Mountain Appeal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 9, 2006 Filed at 12:15 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Yucca-Mountain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Federal Court Rejects Nevada's Objections to Yucca Mountain Waste Transport Plan August 09, 2006 — By Erica Werner, Associated Press http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11027 ---- new hampshire Lynch objects to proposal for storing nuclear waste at Seabrook August 2, 2006 Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/08/02/governor_objecting_to_proposal_for_storing_nuclear_waste/ ---- new jersey Corzine a skeptic on plant, tax Gov opposes 20-year renewal of Oyster Creek's license Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/4/06 BY BILL BOWMAN STAFF WRITER http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060804/NEWS/608040392 ---- new york N.Y. nuclear plant's sirens malfunction Updated 8/2/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-08-02-nuclear-plant-sirens_x.htm ---- pennsylvania Nuclear plant cuts power to cool water Evan Brandt, ebrandt@pottsmerc.com 08/02/2006 Pottstown PA Mercury http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16995685&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6 ‘Dry-cask’ nuclear storage worries some By PAUL RUPPEL and SARAH LARSON Bucks County Courier Times August 6, 2006 http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-08062006-694048.html ---- tennessee Concerns raised over increasing amount of spent nuclear fuel August 4, 2006 Associated Press http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5239623&nav=8fap Uranium removal is expected to end soon $27.7 million project finishing by end of year; cylinders shipped to Ohio By FRANK MUNGER, munger@knews.com August 7, 2006 Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4898883,00.html ---- texas Amarillo developer wants to build nuclear plant Aug. 1, 2006 | Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676335/posts South Texas Project chooses GE Energy to furnish nuclear reactors San Antonio Business Journal - August 7, 2006 http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2006/08/07/daily7.html?from_rss=1 ---- us nuc waste Governors oppose plan to ban nuke waste in Utah By Robert Gehrke 8/08/2006 Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4151649 ---- MILITARY Barbarians With Wings Air power was supposed to make warfare civilized. It hasn't worked out that way. By Tom Engelhardt August 6, 2006 Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-engelhardt6aug06,1,3217435.story?coll=la-news-comment&ctrack=1&cset=true ---- afghanistan Brutal US attack on unarmed Afghans captured by photos By Tom Coghlan in Kabul Published: 08 August 2006 UK Independent http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1217554.ece ---- africa “The War The World Ignores”: A Look at War-Devastated Congo & The Country’s First Multi-Party Elections in 45 Years Monday, August 7th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/1436229 ---- arms US to Supply Food With One Hand, Arms With Other by Thalif Deen August 3, 2006 (Inter Press Service) http://www.antiwar.com/ips/deen.php?articleid=9467 U.S. tests motor for new submarine missile Aug. 8, 2006 (UPI) http://washtimes.com/upi/20060808-041132-8531r.htm General Still Hopeful On Trident Funding by Martin Sieff UPI Senior News Analyst Washington (UPI) Aug 08, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/General_Still_Hopeful_On_Trident_Funding_999.html ---- britain Britain blasted over arms supply to Israel North Korea Times Thursday 3rd August, 2006 http://story.northkoreatimes.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/f554be178c7cd112/ Secret review of ID cards to be disclosed By Ben Hall and Clive Cookson Published: August 4 2006 Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/84e969be-2355-11db-848d-0000779e2340.html British troops in Afghanistan 'on the brink of exhaustion' By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 06/08/2006) UK Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=W4TGMHATDPM0TQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/08/06/nafg06.xml ---- business The Hypocrisy of Corporate Wars By Siv O'Neall Aug 6, 2006, AxisofLogic.com http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_22697.shtml http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25533&l=i&size=1&hd=0 ---- israel / palestine Survivors of 1996 Qana Massacre Sue Israel Military Chief For War Crimes Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/01/1434249 Israel ready for massive invasion · Special forces target Hizbullah official as troops plan push in south · Deadlock at UN and EU Rory McCarthy in Metula, Ewen MacAskill and Clancy Chassay in Beirut Wednesday August 2, 2006 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1835303,00.html To Israel with love Why America gives Israel its unconditional support Aug 3rd 2006 | WASHINGTON, DC > From The Economist print edition http://economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7255198 Israel's actions are same as U.S. during wartime August 6, 2006 Salem Statesman Journal http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/OPINION/608060321/1050 Death Toll in Lebanon Tops 1,000; 90% Civilians Monday, August 7th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/1436212 Israeli push risks heavy casualties By Harvey Morris in Jerusalem Published: August 9 2006 Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/60ff9414-27ca-11db-b25c-0000779e2340.html Israel must be held accountable for its international law violations Stephen Lendman August 10, 2006 URUKNET http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25643&l=i&size=1&hd=0 ---- landmines U.S.: Senators Move to Stop Landmine Production Human Rights Watch, August 1, 2006 http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/01/usdom13886.htm ---- mideast King Abdullah’s First Year: A Personal Perspective John Duke Anthony August 1, 2006 Saudi-US Relations Information Service http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/articles/2006/ioi/060801-anthony-essay.html Lebanese Red Cross Repeatedly Targeted by Dahr Jamail (Inter Press Service) August 2, 2006 http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=9462 Lebanon: Death Toll at 900, One-Third Children Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Headlines Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/149240 Saudi Arabia rules out oil weapon Thu Aug 3, 2006 (Reuters) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060803/ts_nm/energy_saudi_dc_2 US earmarks 10 million for spare parts to Lebanese army Fri Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060804/pl_afp/mideastconflictus Lebanon’s industrialists count the cost of Israeli air raids By William Wallis in the Bekaa Valley Published: August 4 2006 Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1ab10cc4-23d6-11db-ae89-0000779e2340.html Lebanon rejects draft U.N. resolution Sun Aug 6, 2006 8:51 AM ET By Lin Noueihed (Reuters) http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=TopNews&storyID=2006-08-06T125107Z_01_L06739867_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-LEBANON-BERRI.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C1-TopStories-TopNews-2 BEIRUT - Lebanon rejects a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to end 26 days of fighting because it would allow Israeli forces to remain on Lebanese soil, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Sunday. Death Toll in Lebanon Reaches 1000; Humanitarian Crisis Mounts As 1/4th of Lebanese Residents Are Displaced Monday, August 7th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/1436223 Russia Denies Supplying Hezbollah with Anti-Tank Armaments 07.08.2006, MosNews http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/07/nohezb.shtml Arab Anger at Their Governments Grow By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer Monday, August 7, 2006 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/08/07/international/i004836D12.DTL Fmr. Israeli Air Force Captain Reports Israeli Pilots Deliberately Missing Targets Over Concerns of Civilian Casualties Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/1422204 War devastation slows delivery of civilian relief By Betsy Pisik THE WASHINGTON TIMES August 10, 2006 http://washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060809-112118-9726r Lebanese fight on amid hail of bombs World opinion turns against U.S.-Israeli aggression By Sara Flounders Published Aug 10, 2006 Workers World http://www.workers.org/2006/world/lebanon-0817/ ---- prisoners of war Gitmo guards often attacked by detainees Updated 7/31/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-07-31-gitmo-guards_x.htm ---- space North American Aerospace Defense Combat Operations Center To Be Mothballed Over the next two years, 230 NORAD personnel, including 30 Canadians, will be moving out of the mountain and to an above-ground building at the at nearby Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. by John C.K. Daly UPI International Correspondent Washington (UPI) Aug 03, 2006 http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_American_Aerospace_Defense_Combat_Operations_Center_To_Be_mothballed_999.html ---- spies Report: US sailor spied for Israel David Keyes, THE JERUSALEM POST, Aug. 9, 2006 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525834949&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter ---- us Thousands of troops say they won’t fight Since 2000 about 40,000 troops have deserted By Ana Radelat Gannett News Service July 05, 2006 http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1930387.php General: Guard units not combat ready Updated 8/1/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-01-guard-combat-readiness_x.htm US war costs continue to shoot up By David Isenberg Aug 1, 2006 Asia Times http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH01Aa01.html Rumsfeld snub of Senate committee draws criticism Updated 8/3/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-02-rumsfeld_x.htm Petty officer held in secret for 4 months By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot August 4, 2006 http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108646&ran=180358&tref=po Rumsfeld Wants To Pull Army Helicopters From Drug War August 9, 2006 (NBC) http://www.nbc6.net/news/9655283/detail.html?taf=ami ---- war crimes Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately Targeting Lebanese Civilians Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/1344244 War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 9, 2006; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801276_pf.html Israeli Ambassador Grilled on Targeting of Civilians, Use of Cluster Bombs and Other War Crimes in Lebanon Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/1339247 ---- POLICE / PRISONERS / COURTS / JUSTICE ---- courts / tribunals Bush seeks expanded military tribunal role The White House is seeking legislation that would allow people not affiliated with terrorism to be prosecuted in military commissions -- with far fewer rights than afforded civilians. Washington Post Service, Wed, Aug. 02, 2006 http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15176692.htm Las Vegas Sued Over Ban on Feeding Homeless Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Headlines Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/149240 'No feeding homeless' law gets Las Vegas sued Posted 8/3/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-08-03-no-feeding-homeless_x.htm ---- death penalty ---- homeland security / national intelligence Border strength hits 6,100 By Michelle Tan Staff writer August 01, 2006 Army Times http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1991374.php Some convinced insects could be used to detect bombs By NOELLE STRAUB Billings, MT, Gazette, Washington Bureau August 4, 2006 http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/04/news/state/25-bees.txt ---- human rights At schools, less tolerance for 'zero tolerance' Updated 8/9/2006 By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-08-09-zero-tolerance_x.htm ---- investigations 9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon Allegations Brought to Inspectors General By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 2, 2006; A03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300_pf.html Pentagon silent on inquiry into Cunningham contracts It still isn't known if bribery tainted defense projects By Otto Kreisher COPLEY NEWS SERVICE August 4, 2006 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060804-9999-1n4duke.html Counterintelligence Officials Resign By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 10, 2006; A04 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901700_pf.html ExxonMobil Gets Religion on Warming -- $2.3 Million Worth Signers of Environmental Statement Funded by ExxonMobil Brian Kaylor, Ethicsdaily.com, Aug. 10, 2006 http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6038&method=full ---- propaganda wars Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: Documentary Examines US Media Coverage of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/1351216 Is America Watching a Different War? American, Lebanese and Israeli Panel on How the US Media is Covering the Invasion of Lebanon Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/1359222 Condoleezza Rice on Iraq, Lebanon and Cuba Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells NBC’s David Gregory that there are ‘sectarian differences in Iraq,’ but it is not a civil war MSNBC Aug 4, 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14189415/ News Media's Love-Hate for Nuclear Weapons by Norman Solomon (Sunday August 06 2006) Media Monitors Network http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/33757 Iran filmmaker focuses on love not war By JOHN FLESHER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Wednesday, August 9, 2006 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/1402AP_Iranian_Filmmaker.html ---- us politics Book: The Dunces of Doomsday 10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, And the Threat of an American Hiroshima By Paul L. Williams August 4, 2006 http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1838 The Dunces of Doomsday 10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, And the Threat of an American Hiroshima By Paul L. Williams August 6, 2006 WorldNetDaily http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1838 A Case for Impeachment by Norma Sherry August 10, 2006 (apj.us) http://www.americanpolitics.com/20060810Sherry.html ---- voting McKinney Loses Georgia Primary Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Headlines Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/1421245 ---- ENERGY Consumers in Nuclear States Pay 25 Percent More for Electricity, Analysis Shows Expensive Nuclear Power Calls Into Questions Key Component of Cheney's Energy Plan June 12, 2001 Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=697 ---- alternative energy Manure Mountains to Power US Ethanol Plant Story by Timothy Gardner REUTERS US: August 2, 2006 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37477/newsDate/2-Aug-2006/story.htm Energy Department to Spend $250 Million on Fuel Study August 03, 2006 — By Jim Paul, Associated Press http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10992 Brazil Could Double Ethanol Output By 2014 - Unica Story by Peter Blackburn REUTERS BRAZIL: August 4, 2006 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37518/newsDate/4-Aug-2006/story.htm Ethanol Boosts Economies of US Midwest Farm Towns Story by Chris Baltimore REUTERS US: August 4, 2006 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37519/newsDate/4-Aug-2006/story.htm Dutch Nedalco Plans Ethanol Plants in Europe Story by Anna Mudeva REUTERS NETHERLANDS: August 8, 2006 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37556/story.htm ---- energy Modern ceiling fans can cut heating, cooling costs Updated 8/4/2006 By Carol Elliott, South Bend Tribune http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2006-08-04-ceiling-fans_x.htm Did BP Purposefully Allow its Alaska Pipeline to Corrode in Order to Shut it Down and Boost Oil Prices? Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/1339232 ---- OTHER ---- environment Part of Rocky Mountain Arsenal Comes Off Superfund List DENVER, Colorado, August 2, 2006 (ENS) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-02-09.asp#anchor2 Military Waste In Our Drinking Water By Sunaura Taylor and Astra Taylor, AlterNet. Posted August 4, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/39723 Beirut oil slick devastates the Mediterranean By Anne Penketh Published: 08 August 2006 UK Independent http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1217562.ece Lebanon Oil Spill a Biodiversity Disaster, Cleanup Blocked ATHENS, Greece, August 8, 2006 (ENS) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-08-01.asp U.S. EPA Found Delinquent in Air Toxics Enforcement WASHINGTON, DC, August 9, 2006 (ENS) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-09-04.asp Lebanon Facing its Worst Environmental Disaster Ever: Oil Spill From Israeli Strike Still Untreated After One Month Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/1339238 ---- ACTIVISTS Hundreds of Thousands of Protesters Camp Out in Mexico City Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Headlines Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/01/1434239 Judge condemns anti-war protester's actions Thursday, August 3, 2006 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1705190.htm Weapons of Mass Destruction Discovered Here: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and North Dakota By Bill Quigley 08/03/06 "Information Clearing House" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14342.htm Tennessee - Peace protesters mark 61st anniversary of Hiroshima bombing Associated Press Saturday, August 5, 2006 http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/newjersey/story/6593573p-6442788c.html 8 Arrested in Tenn. Protest of A-Bomb Aug 5th, 2006 (AP) http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=872129 Sydney Protest to Mark Hiroshima Day August 05, 2006 Agence France-Presse http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20034094-5005962,00.html Local demonstration is part of international anti-nuke event Members of Peace Action Staten Island demonstrate in front of Rep. Vito Fossella's campaign headquarters Sunday, August 06, 2006 By CAROLYN RUSHEFSKY ADVANCE STAFF WRITER http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1154870523168270.xml&coll=1 On the anniversary of Hiroshima ONE LOCAL MAN RECALLS THE FORCE OF THE A-BOMB By Paul Brooks pbrooks@th-record.com NY Times Herald-Record, August 06, 2006 http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/08/06/news-pbatom-08-06.html Australian protesters rally for peace and nuclear disarmament August 06, 2006 01:37pm The Australian http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20036120-1702,00.html Hibakusha view Enola Gay, urge Bush to visit The Japan Times Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060806a7.html Survivor of both A-bombs takes message to U.N. By SEANA K. MAGEE The Japan Times Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006 http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/9-0&fp=44d60a84f5855ed8&ei=vInWRLr-Ic3caNzL3ckN&url=http%3A//search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060806a8.html&cid=0 Australia: Artwork unveiling marks Hiroshima bombing anniversary Sunday, August 6, 2006 Australian Broadcasting http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1707441.htm Israel protesters take over rally By Katherine Field August 06, 2006 AAP http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20036586-5005361,00.html Stop Israeli bombing, urges rally August 6, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/scrap-nuclear-weapons-urges-rally/2006/08/06/1154802740556.html CT Protesters Want End To Battering Of Lebanon August 6, 2006 By LYNNE TUOHY, Hartford Courant Staff Writer http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-rally0806.artaug06,0,6489262.story?coll=hc-headlines-local Peace rally draws 15,000 in Montreal Aug. 6, 2006 CANADIAN PRESS http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1154863210741&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467 Hiroshima and Empire 08/06/06 Cape Cod Today http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/Democracy/2006/08/06/hiroshima_and_empire Remember the bombing of Hiroshima at Lake Ella August 6, 2006 Tallahassee Democract http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/BREAKINGNEWS/608060320 Germans mark 61st anniversary of Hiroshima bombing India News Sunday, August 6th, 2006 http://indiaenews.com/2006-08/17581-germans-61st-anniversary-hiroshima-bombing.htm Hiroshima Horror Touches Bulgaria 6 August 2006, Sunday Novinite http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=67661 Prestwick War Crime Detectives Arrested after Boarding US Plane Trident Ploughshares | 07.08.2006 09:50 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/347142.html 'Bomb' protesters board aircraft Prestwick has become a focus for protests over cargo flights Monday, 7 August 2006 (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5251438.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5251438.stm Candle-lit vigils held across the world for Middle East ceasefire Mon Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060807/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictworld Peace convention postponed Nirupama Subramanian Monday, Aug 07, 2006 The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/07/stories/2006080704381200.htm Protesters Target Bechtel for War-Profiteering In Iraq & Its Ties to Nuclear Industry Monday, August 7th, 2006 Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/1436237 Peace rally is hijacked August 7, 2006 Australia Border Morning Mail http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/national/360201.html The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story, presented by Dr. Gary G. Kohls 2006-08-06 UN Observer http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=2518&blz=1 Please also see: Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1330 Hiroshima Day: Create Hope, Not Fear http://www.august6.org/node/50 The Hiroshima Myth http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson7.html Hiroshima marks 61st anniversary of atomic bombing with call for nuclear disarmament http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/380803 Remembering Nagasaki http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki HIROSHIMA City http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/e/index-E.html The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9, 1945 http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hiroshima1.html International Atomic Energy Agency http://www.iaea.org Hiroshima Day Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration http://www.fatherjohndear.org/sermons_homilies/hiroshimadaysermon.htm Divine Mushroom Cloud: A Call to Worship, by Karen Horst Cobb http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2318&blz=1 U.S. DEFIES U.N. DECISION - PLANS MASSIVE MILITARY DETONATION ON WESTERN SHOSHONE LAND http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2247&blz=1 IPPNW Opposes the Joint US/UK Subcritical Nuclear Testing in Nevada http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2167&blz=1 Hiroshima Mayor Lashes out at U.S. on 59th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing, notes Shinya Ajima http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1852&blz=1 Edward Teller, 'Father of the Hydrogen Bomb', has Died at the Age of 95, by Christiane N. Martens http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1034&blz=1 Letter Of Protest From The Mayor Of Hiroshima To President Bush http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=873&blz=1 Working to Abolish Nuclear Weapons http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=216&blz=1 Left-wing activists protest against 'war crimes' at IAF base (08.08.06, 13:31) YNet http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3288146,00.html Seven UK Protesters Search U.S. Plane for Israel-Bound Weapons Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 Headlines Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/08/1453221 Nagasaki marks 61 years since bombing CHISAKI WATANABE Associated Press Wed, Aug. 09, 2006 http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15234225.htm Defence firm protesters arrested Nine people occupied the offices on Wednesday Wednesday, 9 August 2006 (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4776051.stm Refusing to Fight: an interview with Resister Kyle Snyder Karen Button August 9, 2006 UrukNet http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25612&l=i&size=1&hd=0