Latest from "Plutonium on the Internet" (fwd)

[Bruce Busby <bbusby@umich.edu>]

Sorry, but one last thing,

Ok.. wasn't going to send this out, but thought there might be some 
interest in this, they seem to be doing a little lobbying and have got a 
good looking web site.

This is from some group, in Wash DC called Nuclear Control Institute 
(NCI), and are active on the WWW pretty much as an anti-nuc group, at 
least anti-enrichment. Their web site is listed below, along with the 
lastest "newsletter" I got from them.

Sorry if this seems a bit off topic, but anti-nucs are becoming more 
active on the WWW, and have been getting some attention (see bottom of 
newletter). And the NCI is not one of the worst, by any means. Thought 
there might be some interest.


-Bruce Busby

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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 15:43:22 -0400
From: Nuclear Control Institute <nci@access.digex.net>
To: NCI Web Visitors <nci@mailback.com>
Subject: Latest from "Plutonium on the Internet"

Latest from "Plutonium on the Internet"---the World Wide Web site of the
Nuclear Control Institute (http://www.nci.org/nci/):

In the "What's New" section:

     -- NCI meets with Governor of Japan's Aomori Prefecture to warn of leaks
from high-level radioactive waste canisters sent from France (press release;
technical and policy papers).

     -- "Bavaria's 'Rogue Elephant' Decision to Build Reactor with Bomb-Grade
Uranium Sets Dangerous Precedent" (press release; exchange of correspondence
with Technical University of Munich).

     -- Pending Nuclear Waste Policy Act (S.1271) promotes reprocessing and
should be rejected (NCI and coalition letters to U.S. Senate; fact sheet).

     -- Department of Energy's draft Environmental Assessment of its
pyroprocessing program is inadequate and unlawful (coalition letter).

     -- Department of Energy is urged to "just say 'no'" to reprocessing
(press release, coalition letter, DOE response).

     -- "Political vs. Security Concerns in Plutonium Decision Making"
(critique of U.S. non-proliferation policy).

     -- 13 nations call on International Maritime Organization (IMO) to
tighten controls on radioactive cargos (NCI/Greenpeace International press
release; NCI technical and legal papers and letter to IMO Secretary General
W.A. O'Neil).

     -- "NCI Denounces as a Fraud a New IAEA Safety Standard for Air
Shipments of Plutonium (press release and letter to IAEA Director General
Hans Blix).

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