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Denver "Symposium"



For those of you who didn't get the agenda or for whom it got lost in the
ether, here it is:

ate: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 01:52:15 -0500
>From: susan maret <smaret@castle.cudenver.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
>
>Please join experts in nuclear waste transportation and  members of the
>Sierra Club's Nuclear Waste Task Force in Denver, March 13,1999  for a
>workshop on  "Nuclear Waste Through Your Backyard: Nuclear Waste
>Transportation in the West."
>
>This very important and timely workshop is co-sponsored by the University
>of Colorado, Denver Student Activities, the Rocky Mountain Chapter, Sierra
>Club, and the Nuclear Waste Task Force, Sierra Club. Funding for this
>workshop is provided by a grant from the Sierra Club Foundation.
>
>With Waste Isolation Pilot Project  (WIPP) shipments projected  to roll
>from Rocky Flats and other DOE facilities sometime in 1999, this workshop
>will provide an educational opportunity  to become informed on the safety,
>policy  and public health aspects of radioactive waste transportation.
>Topics covered at this event range from Yucca Mountain, WIPP,  the DOE
>Complex, to public health issues of radioactive waste transportation.
>
>Please circulate this message to anybody you think may be interested in
>this event!
>
>WHEN:  Saturday, March 13th, 1999
>WHERE: Tivoli Turnhalle located in the Tivoli Student Union, University of
>Colorado at Denver (Auraria Campus, downtown Denver).
>
>PROGRAM:
>
>>>>9:00-9:15 Welcome
>
>>>>9:15-10:00
>The Big Picture: Introduction to the Relationship Between the DOE Complex,
>WIPP, Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Transportation. SPEAKER: Steve
>Frishman, State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office.
>
>>>>10:00-10:15
>Break
>
>>>>10:15-11:30
>The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. SPEAKER: Don Hancock, Southwest Research
>and Information Center.
>
>>>>11:30-12:15
>Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Transportation. SPEAKER: Judy Treichel,
>Nuclear Waste Task Force, Sierra Club.
>
>>>>12:15-1:30
>Lunch
>
>>>>1:30-2:15
>The Nuclear Waste and Radiation Exposure: Regulation, Classification
>andStandards. SPEAKER:  Dr. Judith Johnsrud, Nuclear Waste Task
>Force,Sierra Club.
>
>>>>2:15-3:15
>Public Health Impacts of Nuclear Waste Transportation. KEYNOTE SPEAKER:Dr.
>Marvin Resnikoff, Radioactive Waste Management Associates.
>
>>>>3:15-3:30
>Break
>
>>>>3:30-4:15
>How to Network with Activists in Other States and Sierra Club Chapters on
>Nuclear Waste Transportation. SPEAKERS:   Lea Terhune, Vermont Chapter,
>Sierra Club, and Susan Curry, ExComm, Big Bend Group, Sierra Club.
>
>The Lone Star and Rio Grande Chapters, along with the Big Bend Regional
>Group, have been extremely active on the Sierra Blanca nuclear waste dump
>issue. Sierra Blanca is located in Hudspeth County, 16 miles from the Rio
>Grande River in Texas, and 90 miles from downtown El Paso. Texas entered
>into a nuclear waste compact with Maine and Vermont, which, under the
>compact, wish to send waste from their aging power plants to Sierra Blanca.
>Forty percent of the residents near Sierra Blanca live below the poverty
>line and two-thirds of the residents are Mexican-American. The Lone Star
>Chapter, Sierra Club, mobilized and created a network with Vermont Sierra
>Club activists, as well as citizens along the US-Mexico border.
>
>>>>4:15-4:30
>Break
>
>>>>4:30-5:00 (END)
>Question and Answer Panel Participants: Susan Curry, Steve Frishman, Don
>Hancock, Dr. Judith Johnsrud, Tom Marshall (Rocky Mountain Peace and
>Justice Center, Boulder, CO),  Dr. Marvin Resnikoff,  Judy Treichel and Lea
>Terhune.
>
>For additional information contact: Sue Maret (smaret@castle.cudenver.edu;
>(303)556-4919), Nuclear Waste Task Force, or Eugene Demayo
>(efdemayo@juno.com; (303)642-3117), Nuclear Waste Task Force. 
>
Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov

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