From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #400 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Tuesday, November 14 2000 Volume 01 : Number 400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 08:06:31 -0500 From: "David Rush" Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Jinzaburo Takagi is gone Takagi was a real hero. We will all sorely miss him! David Rush, MD Professor of Nutrition, Community Health, and Pediatrics (emeritus), Tuft= s University - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mycle" Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:32 PM Subject: Jinzaburo Takagi is gone Dear Friends, Jinzaburo Takagi died on 8 October 2000 in Tokyo from cancer. On the requ= est of the Japanese Magazine Sekai, I have tried to write up a personal piece= in his memory (see hereunder). A difficult, sometimes painful exercice. Plea= se feel free to pass it on to people who cared about Takagi-san or who shoul= d have known about him much earlier. best regards, Mycle - ---------------- Jinzaburo Takagi - The Citizen Scientist is Gone by Mycle Schneider Director of WISE-Paris Chief Editor of Plutonium Investigation Paris, October 2000 "Even at this last moment, I have things to write and leave to younger generations, and as far as my health condition allows me, I will try so f= or some time". Three weeks after having scribbled with a pencil this very la= st letter to me, Jinzaburo Takagi passed away. I'll never forget his skinny, tired hand waving a slow, final, and the ultimate good-bye a few hours before cancer cut his life line. He knew, I knew. Japan lost a prolific writer and gifted teacher, a superb scientist and a= cid critic of the nuclear establishment. Democracy has to do without this tireless visionary full of stinging questions and his very own personal answers. Children wait in vain for new books. Activists, journalists, politicians have to do without his pertinent analysis and thoughtful comments. And beyond the loss of an irreplaceable colleague and advisor, = I mourn my friend. We met for the first time in Vienna, Austria, in September 1986. Five mon= ths after the Chernobyl catastrophe, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had set up a big conference to report on the origins and consequen= ces of the disaster. We called this the nuclear lobby's "Whitewash Conference= " and shared the revolting sentiment over an unbelievable =AD but neverthel= ess enlightening - statement by Dr. Morris Rosen, then head of the department= of nuclear safety of the IAEA: "Even if there was this type of accident ever= y year, (S) I would consider nuclear power to be a valid source of energy". Takagi-san and myself were members of an international task force, on the invitation of Greenpeace International, to give an independent review of = the state of nuclear safety in the world. The outcome, an impressive 600-page report, was presented to the press in Vienna in parallel to the IAEA conference and stirred up massive media attention. Takagi-san was deeply shocked by the Chernobyl accident and continued to closely monitor the health and social consequences of the tragedy. From then on, we met on many occasions around the globe. Our cooperation grew into a new dimension after Takagi-san had invited me to the Omiya International Plutonium Conference in 1991, my first visit to Japan. (Whe= n I was brought from the airport straight to a press conference - forget abou= t jet-lag or fatigue - it became obvious immediately that time management i= s different in JapanS). The Omiya Conference became a milestone in the deba= te over the separation and use of plutonium. For the first time in Japan, th= e entire spectrum of implications of the plutonium industry had been openly discussed with competence and independence. After this event we met in places like Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, for a unique fuel cycle analysis conference co-sponsored by the local authorities, the nuclear industry an= d various NGOs; in Darmstadt (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris, Kyo= to and Tokyo, to work on the International MOX Assessment (IMA); in London (= UK) on plutonium issues; in K=F6ln (Germany) where I interviewed him for Germ= an TV on the Monju accident; and we traveled Japan together on speaking tours m= ore than once. Takagi-san was a gifted teacher. When one does not understand the languag= e, one tends to observe people much closer. With my zero knowledge of Japane= se language I had ample opportunity for observation during the speaking tour= s, on- and off-the-record meetings and press conferences with Takagi-san. Hi= s audiences were fascinated by his talks. He was never acting, he just had = a very intense way of speaking, often slowly and soft, sometimes affirmativ= e and loud, but always convinced and therefore convincing. After a question= , many times he would leave a blank, not for effect, but because he actuall= y thought before he spoke. Jinzaburo Takagi grew up in a family where science became a common goal. = His elder brother by two years, Kojiro, Professor of Physics at the Toyama University, a man with a great sense of humor and the corresponding broad smile, says that his generation believed in science as a fundamental tool= to build up a new Japan growing out of the ashes of the Second World War. Hi= s eldest brother Ryuro heads a Psychiatric Clinic in Kyoto and has been a great supporter of the nine year younger brother; his eldest sister is a medical doctor. Only his lovely younger sister Hide Miyagawa resisted the call of science and entered the administration of a music school. In 1962 Takagi-san purchased second hand Glen Seaborg's 1958 book entitle= d "The Transuranium Elements". Seaborg had synthesized plutonium for the fi= rst time in 1941 and his book has deeply influenced the early Takagi-san. Seaborg wrote: "The story of plutonium is one of the most dramatic in the history of science. It was discovered and methods for its production were developed during the last war, under circumstances that makes a fascinati= ng and intriguing story. It is, of course, a continuing story, and added chapters will have to be written at a later date." At the time, Takagi-sa= n had just started working at a laboratory of the nuclear industry, a young= , dynamic research and technology sector, representing Japan=B9s future, an= d he was certain: "I resolved firmly to add a new chapter to the science of plutonium. I was 23 years old at that time." It was the intrinsic link between civil and military applications and the fascination that scientis= ts developed for both ends which first made him raise his eye brows. He was shocked that such an outstanding scientist as Glenn T. Seaborg, recalled =B3many ingenious and brilliant ideas=B2 to build nuclear weapons. The following 13 years, mainly in the nuclear industry and at Tokyo Metropolitan University, served not only to complement his education as a nuclear chemist but also to sharpen his view for the lack of independence and social responsibility in science and technology. While working on nuclear safety, he was surprised to find out =B3how little we nuclear che= mists knew about the behavior of radioactive substances=B2. That would not be a problem as such as long as Oyou know what you don=B9t know=B9 and as long= as uncertainty is appropriately taken into account in risk assessment and management. Takagi-san realized that his colleague scientists and enginee= rs brushed off growing citizen concern without having the appropriate basis = to do so. That was the =B3turning point=B2 in Takagi-san=B9s life. The time he spent as a guest scientist in Heidelberg, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in 1972-73 broadened his scientific background and his cultural and linguistic knowledge. The Vietnam War too= k a significant place in the political debate of the time and Takagi-san beca= me a profound opponent of the war. When he came back from Germany, Takagi-san went through a period of difficult, sometimes painful, but decisive personal and professional decisions. He quit his safe position as an associate professor for nuclea= r chemistry at the Tokyo Metropolitan University- and a top career -to set = up the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (CNIC). What over the years has become the key reference for independent critical information on nuclear issues in Japan - not only for journalists, scientists, politicians and interested citizens in Japan but all over the world - was almost a revolutionary idea 25 years ago. The initiative to establish high level analysis capacity outside the industry, the elite science institutions an= d the government was seen by many as impossible, by some as treachery. Takagi-san's partner Kuniko Takagi-Nakada ("Hari-san") became the central moral and mental support of his initiatives and remained an essential sou= rce of inspiration until his end. The key driving force behind Takagi-san's workaholic writing, travelling, speaking, teaching and consulting activities was his insatiable hunger fo= r justice and truth. He continued to be outraged by the decision making process on nuclear - and other - issues in Japan and believed that his ro= le as a "Citizen Scientist", a term invented by Professor Frank von Hippel w= ho heads the Center for Energy and Environment at Princeton University, was = to increase the level of democracy. The broadening of the understanding of = the implications of decisions and the progressive modification of the rules w= ere the goals. The basis for credibility are competence and independence. The long term guarantee for fundamental and sustainable change of society is only provided by absolute integrity and public accountability. This is wh= at Jinzaburo Takagi represented. This is why his disappearance hurts so many people so much. In 1995 Professor John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, nominated Takagi-san and myself jointly for the Right Livelihood Award. Gofman is also a medic= al doctor who has a PhD in nuclear/physical chemistry and shares patents on = two processes for separating plutonium from irradiated fuel and a patent on fissionability of uranium-233 with Glen Seaborg. The US based Environment= al Research Foundation's publication Rachel's Health & Environment Weekly called Gofman "one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century". We were thrilled that this outstanding and gentle man nominated us for the award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize (which he had received hims= elf in 1992). But it was only after the nomination had been re-introduced for the third time that the jury selected us for the award in 1997, recogniz= ing "a unique partnership in the struggle to rid humanity of the threats pose= d by the manufacture, transport, use and disposal of plutonium". The jury stated that "they were honored for the scientific rigor of their research and the effectiveness of their dissemination of its results, which have served to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to hum= an life, and empowered many to resist the misinformation and the secrecy whereby the plutonium industry imposes these dangers on the public". We w= ere enthusiastic about the award that we considered the most prestigious recognition for our work. The technical analysis is only the first step of the approach needed to master a given problem. The development of policy implementation strategi= es remains the core of progress towards social change. We spend many hours discussing political and institutional barriers in Japan and in France. I= n his Award acceptance speech, Takagi-san said: "There seems now no reasona= ble justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. One of the key factors which keep the program alive is above all the huge bureaucratic inertia. You can easily understand why the two countries with a very much centralized bureaucratic system, i.e. France and Japan, are going to be plutonium giants." Another barrier for change is the rigid elite system i= n both countries and the almost religious belief that top technocrats "don'= t make mistakes". In reality they have been making so many mistakes in the past, in particular in the energy sector, that both countries have been driven into a dangerous nuclear one-way street. The plutonium saga is onl= y the tip of the iceberg. Trillions of Yen have been and shall be spent on = a plutonium program that very clearly has failed to provide any net social benefit. The findings of the major two year social impact assessment into the use of plutonium fuels (MOX), directed by Takagi-san and myself, has never been rebutted by the plutonium industry. Why should the industry do so? No political decision making process forces the nuclear industry to public accountability. The public inquiries prior to licensing in the nuclear sector are a hoax, in Japan and in France, and are a shame for a so-called democracy. And thus the autocratic machinery rambles on, beyond political and citizen control. In Japan there seems to be an unhealthy leftover of the Samurai tradition: carry on straight ahead and if you wer= e wrong commit harakiri. The recent banking crisis seems to recall this mentality, no remediation measures until bankruptcy. But the plutonium industry has been off-scale in this respect. They have been wrong in ener= gy consumption forecasts, on uranium price development, on cost estimates, o= n facility construction time evaluation, on spent fuel management schemes, etc. But it simply does not matter. It just goes on. And it will go on, i= n Rokkasho-mura or elsewhere, as long as a truly democratic decision making process does not force the lobby to face public scrutiny. One week after Takagi-san went, the Japanese nuclear utilities declared their intention to conclude further contracts for oversees reprocessing -= or better plutonium production - with the French plutonium company COGEMA. T= he operational risks and the environmental pollution - the plutonium plant a= t La Hague discharges about 20,000 times as much radioactivity than an aver= age French nuclear power plant - stay in France. The nuclear risk export and = the illegal storage of Japanese wastes in France shall continue. For how long? Takagi-san's hope was always based on the young and future generations. He consciously devoted a significant share of his efforts to public education, whether in speaking or writing. Takagi-san published 58 books and co-authored 46 more. Two further books are not published yet; o= ne of which is his first short novel. Many were translated into several languages, including some of his children's books (which my children enjo= y in French). The variety of his writings, whether novels, technical report= s, biographies or children's books reflect his broad based culture. It also made it easier for him to navigate in this unofficial international netwo= rk of concerned scientists and citizens. This assisted him to make his scien= ce impeccable and his political efforts more efficient. Takagi-san decided to use the Right Livelihood Award money to launch an independent school to lead scientists in a non-academic way to system analysis and accountability towards the citizen. In his last will he confirmed this choice and calls for the creation of a Fund which will ser= ve to support young students. The great challenge will be to teach the teach= ers what Jinzaburo Takagi's ideas were all about. Because he is not there anymore to guide or even answer a quick phone call or e-mail message. I m= iss him badly already. Good bye, my friend. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:33:00 -0800 (PST) From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Clinton vetoes secrets bill/hooray Hi -- this article just in (and posted by one of our colleagues) updates a "Print Bite" piece I wrote for our November newsletter, Citizen's Watch. HOORAY, HOORAY for this veto. --mk Clinton vetoes bill to tighten secrecy By Deborah Charles CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., Nov 4 (Reuters) President Bill Clinton vetoed legislation on Saturday that could impose prison terms on officials who leak classified information, a measure that had drawn fire from news organisations. Dozens of news organisations wrote to the president to complain about the bill, saying the language was too broad and that it violated the free speech provision in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. "Today I am disapproving H.R. 4392, the 'Intelligence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2001," because of one badly flawed provision that would have made a felony of unauthorised disclosures of classified information." The legislation, which was passed in Congress, was initially requested by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Senate intelligence committee inserted the anti-leak provision into the measure after closed hearings. "Although well-intentioned, that provision is overbroad and may unnecessarily chill legitimate activities that are at the heart of a democracy," Clinton said. While Clinton said he agreed that unauthorised disclosures could be "extraordinarily harmful" to U.S. national security interests, he said the free flow of information was essential in a democracy. The CIA asked for the provision because it said it had lost agents and sophisticated surveillance methods due to newspaper articles based on leaks of classified information. The CIA has declined to comment on the bill. "These leaks risk lives and endanger intelligence sources and methods -- sources and methods that may not be there to warn of the next terrorist attack, crisis or war," Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in reaction to the veto. Still, opponents of the legislation hailed Clinton's decision to veto the legislation. "The president has taken an important step toward protecting the rights of all citizens to receive the information that keeps government accountable to its people," said John Sturm, president and chief executive of the Newspaper Association of America. "Just the threat of criminal prosecution has a chilling effect on the free flow of information to the public," he said in a statement. Unlike many other countries, the United States has never had an official secrets act. Under current U.S. law, it is a crime to release classified information if it helps a foreign power, exposes intelligence agents or relates to national defence. The new bill appears to go beyond this, extending to virtually all classified information. The measure calls for criminal penalties for anyone who "knowingly and wilfully discloses or attempts to disclose" any classified information. Those found guilty could be imprisoned and pay a fine of up to $10,000. Clinton said it was his obligation as president to protect the government's vital information from improper disclosure but also to protect the rights of citizens to receive the information necessary for democracy to work. This legislation did not achieve the proper balance, he said. "I deeply appreciate the sincere efforts of members of Congress to address the problem of unauthorised disclosures and I full share their commitment," Clinton said. The legislation as currently written could discourage government officials from holding "legitimate" official activities like press briefings and public discussions, he said. "When the Congress returns I encourage it to send me this bill with this provision deleted and I encourage the Congress as soon as possible to pursue a more narrowly drawn provision tested in public hearings so that those they represent can also be heard on this important issue," Clinton said. In a recent appearance, U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen said the biggest disappointment in his four years at the Pentagon was the constant leaks of top secret government information to Washington newspapers. The secretary lamented that he even read personal memos to him in the newspaper before they reached his desk. 17:13 11-04-00 ========================================================= Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:29:15 -0800 From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) Russian subcritical nuclear tests Thanks to Ross Wilcock (Canadian Physicians) for passing this on... http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2000/11/04/033.html Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000. Nuclear Weapons Tests The Associated Press Russia completed a series of subcritical test blasts of nuclear weapons on the Arctic Novaya Zemlya archipelago this week, the Nuclear Power Ministry said Friday. The tests were successful and radiation levels were normal in the testing area, said ministry spokesman Yury Bespalko. Subcritical experiments - in which plutonium is blasted with explosives too weak to set off an atomic explosion - are not prohibited by the international Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Moscow says it will continue the subcritical tests because they are necessary to ensure the safety of the country's nuclear arsenal. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 12:06:55 -0500 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/06 Dear NucNews friends, I'm not going to be able to be consistent in providing NucNews Briefs or archives for the next few months. We're involved in renovating larger Prop One space, in addition to keeping the vigil for global nuclear disarmament going 24 hours a day outside the White House. I hate to bow out, but must. Continuing to keep NucNews timely and available is up to you, now. If you want to know what's going on in D.C., I've found much of the Briefs information at the Washington Times/AFP Daybook. If you want to check the daybook yourself, go to NucNews Source Links at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm, then scroll down to "Nation/Politics/Daybook." By subscribing and submitting articles to the NucNews archives at OneList.com (http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews), you can help everyone keep up to date (including us). I hope, if you've found NucNews to be helpful, that you'll be an interactive member of the list. Thanks for subscribing, I wish I could clone myself, but hopefully you'll understand. Volunteers welcome at the vigil or the renovation site, as well as in collecting the news. Please continue to keep us informed! 'Bye for now.... Ellen Thomas ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:07:31 -0400 From: Peacework Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/06 Dear Ellen Thomas, Thank you for your hard work. The listings have been valuable, the work involved awesome. Patricia Watson, Peacework - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:01:37 -0800 From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) A2000 in Nagasaki Dear Friends and Activists, On Friday, 17 November 2000, the Global Citizens Assembly to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will begin in Nagasaki. If you will be attending the conference and have photographs or other historic documents of any Abolition 2000 events and activities from the past, please bring with you as we will be setting up an Abolition 2000 time-line display at the Assembly. Thank you in advance for your participation. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at this address before 10 November at 6 pm PST. With best regards, Carah Ong - -- Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 "He aha te nui mea o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata" (A Maori saying) Translation: "What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, the people, the people." PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Rd, Suite 121 Santa Barbara, California 93108 Tel: (805) 965-3443 Fax: (805) 568-0466 email: admin@abolition2000.org URL: http://www.abolition2000.org - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:42:47 PST From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) Bruce Gagnon in Hawaii! Militarization of Outer Space talk Aloha and greetings Abolitionists, Bruce Gagnon is here in Hawaii and enjoying the beautiful weather that we are having. The sun is warm and the day is just perfect. He is also on his way to Japan where many of you will see him. The Pacific Islanders are throwing a big luau party tonight for a "Decolonizing Pacific Islands Studies" Conference, but it is wonderful to have Bruce come and speak to us. Wish you all were here! Richard Salvador Honolulu, Hawai`i - --- From: richard n salvador To: Hoomau Pacific Link CC: KMA , poetalk-l@hawaii.edu, bridge-l@hawaii.edu, mial@hawaii.edu, Majid Tehranian Subject: NUCLEARIZATION AND MILITARIZATION OF OUTER SPACE (Bruce Gagnon) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:57:56 -1000 Aloha, FYI: Apologies for the delay. Please come and attend. Forward message to interested peoples. Mahalo nui loa, Richard Salvador - -- NUCLEARIZATION AND MILITARIZATION OF OUTER SPACE A Presentation by Bruce Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Gainesville, Florida Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Campus Center Room 220 (Across from UH Bookstore) University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Honolulu, Hawaii FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The US military is blunt about its plans to control space and the Earth below. "US Space Command - dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investment. Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict," trumpets the US Space Command in its report _Vision for 2020_. These words in _Vision 2020_ --its cover a multi-colored depiction of a laser weapon shooting its beams down from space, zapping a target below--are laid out like the crawl at the start of the Star Wars movies. They're not out of Hollywood, however, but in an official publication of the US Space Command which "coordinates the use of Army, Naval, and Air Force space forces," its website notes, and was set up by the Pentagon to "help institutionalize the use of space." (Karl Grossman, author of _The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet_). In a recent story about his message concerning nuclearization and militarization of space (US space defense policy) in _The Tampa Tribune_, Mr. Bruce Gagnon expresses concerns about the negative impacts of the US' multi-billion dollar space program on global peace and stability, saying, "The policy today is to create a new arms race." At the same time, Gagnon added "the most vulnerable of citizens will be impoverished to pay billions or trillions of dollars for projects like the International Space Station and even more expensive plans to mine planets and asteroids." This sophisticated militarization of space goes hand in hand with commercial exploitation of space for the sole benefit of private American aerospace corporations. Gagnon added, "I call it 'Pyramids to Heaven.' The aerospace corporations are the pharaohs of the space age." He warns "that once billions have been spent to build elaborate space networks, the government will turn the projects over to the corporations, leaving the taxpayers nothing to show for their contributions." On the other hand, there has been a growing popular movement in the United States and around the world which has been mobilizing itself against more militarization of space--reflected poignantly in the 1997 protests against NASA's $3.4 BILLION Cassini space probe, powered by 72.3 pounds of plutonium, that is planned to reach Venus. This movement questions and protests the nuclearization and militarization of space, demanding that outer space be treated rightly as the "common heritage of human beings," as elaborated by both the Moon Treaty and the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which bans nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in space. Mr. Gagnon was the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign that drew enormous support and media coverage around the world and was featured on the TV program 60 Minutes. Between 1983 - 1998 Bruce was the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice and has worked on space issues for the past 13 years. In 1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida history when over 5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II missile. Project Censored (from Sonoma State University, CA) named a story on space weaponization by Bruce as the 8th Most Censored story in 1999. Mr. Gagnon will speak on the topic of "Nuclearization and Militarization of Space" on Tuesday, November 14 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. * Co-Sponsors: TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research; The Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies; Student Peace Action Network-University of Hawaii; Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa. For More Information, Contact Richard Salvador, Hague Appeal for Peace Pacific Forum 2000 Lecture Series) via E-mail: salvador@hawaii.edu - -- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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BOX 5217, SANTA ROSA, CA 95402 Email: jelinker@hotmail.com TELEPHONE (707) 526-3997 Mr. Linker's experience, in statutory (i.e., USC:CFR 10/14/21/22/29/32/34/40/42/44/49) operations, includes: Chemical; Civil (Architectural/Construction/Sanitary/Structural); Electrical (Control Systems DCS/I&C/PLC/ RTU/SCADA); Mechanical (HVAC/Stress/Vibration); and Nuclear (BWR/FBR/GCR/HWR/PWR Safety Systems Maintenance & Production Compliance) Engineering. 9/5/00-Present CA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES’ DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Sanitary Engineer. 5/98 – 10/99 JOHNSON CONTROLS / E2 CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC. Scientist III in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Environmental Protection Department, Haz Waste Mngmt Div, Waste Generator Services Group, Waste Characterization Chemistry Team. Duties involved: applying Federal, State and internal codes to waste streams generated lab-wide; as well as development of internal profiles for streams containing both hazardous and radioactive components. 1/97 - 5/98 RGIS INVENTORY SPECIALISTS. Inventory Audits at Commercial & Gov't Facilities. 11/96 - 1/97 TARGET STORE OF ROHNERT PARK CA. Seasonal Stock Clerk. 5/95 - 7/95 SONOMA COUNTY CA, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION. Environmental Health Specialist in the HazMat Generator and LUST Sections (Field Inspections and Office Tasks). 8/91 - 2/92 NATIONAL INSPECTION & CONSULTANTS OF SC. Statutory Compliance & 10-8 SRO NUCLEAR Enforcement: K/L/P-Reactor(s) Startup Quality Assurance. 6/91 - 8/91 BELCAN TECHSERVICES OF OH. Partitioning/Transmutation MIL-STD-SNM-SIS FEMP-FMPC Refinery: SARA NPDES, RCRA-RADWASTE (Dissolver Rubble) NUCLEAR Compliance. 1/91 - 2/91 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION OF WA. RCRA: WASTE MIN & Part B Analysis Plan(s) - WAC WAP WRAP, Nuclear Criticality Environmental Safety & Health (EH&S). 7/90 - 9/90 RALPH M. PARSONS - ENGINEERING SCIENCE OF WA. HANFORD NUCLEAR ARMY, PDE-CFD-CERCLA-Finite-Element FS. Monte Carlo NEPA-KENO.V.a, Modular FUS/HAZWRAP EA WRAP FEAR Support. 9/89 - 5/90 MACDONALD STEPHENS SANITARY ENGINEERS OF CA. Tertiary Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) Civil/I&C/SCADA CAC Electrical/Structural SANITARY ENGINEERING Compliance. 9/88 - 8/89 FLUOR DANIEL - IRVINE NUCLEAR OPERATIONS CENTER. Wackenhut HANFORD Camp, KAPL GA Defense MOX-RADWASTE Vitrification Plant (DWPF-WVDP-HWVP), PRA-HAZOP-FMECA, Unit Operable RTF SYREX/TRUEX B-Plant, FB-NSR-Canyon, TOTAL Multiphasic Naval NUCLEAR Restoration, DCS Wasteform: PROCESS ENGINEERING. 2/88 - 7/88 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT. ARCO/Chevron/Phillips/Shell/Texaco/UNOCAL and Vandenberg AFB Shuttle Complex Quality: Complex-21 NESHAPS Compliance. 11/87 - 3/88 HOLGUIN & FAHAN. Port Hueneme, TOTAL Remediation: MPP CRAY-YMP Multiphasic Naval Restoration (TOTAL). 3/87 - 11/87 DANIEL GROSJEAN & ASSOCIATES (SCAQMD-CAARB). Pt Mugu Pacific Missile Test Station, Atmospheric Environmental Spectroscopic Aerosol Chemistry Research. 6/84 - 7/86 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA. NRC-ACRS FBR/GCR/ HWR/LWR Safety Systems Analysis Research. MPP CRAY-YMP BLEVE/COBRA/TRAC/RELAP5/MOD3/RETRAN/VIPRE LOCA/ECCS/HPIS/PTS MELCOR/SCDAP Transient Multiphasic Thermalhydraulicist - Nuclearemedial Molten Corium-Concrete Debris Bed Action. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA B.S. Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy - 1986 B.S. Chemical and Nuclear Engineering - 1986 Member: AIChE, American Nuclear Society, American Institute of Physics, American Geophysical Union Statement of Qualifications (4 pages) Available Upon Request 1. With the State of California Department of Health Services’ Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management, John is currently employed full-time as a Sanitary Engineer. 2. At LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY (LLNL), Mr. Linker worked with JOHNSON CONTROLS WORLD SERVICES, INC (formerly with E2 CONSULTING ENGINEERS), as a Waste Characterization Chemist (Scientist III) / Process Engineer, in the LLNL Environmental Protection Department (EPD), Hazardous Waste Management (HWM) Division, Waste Generator Services (WGS) Group, Waste Characterization Chemistry (CC) Team. Duties included use of the LLNL Total Waste Management Systems (TWMS) Database, as well as interviews with Waste Generators for the preparation of Wastestream Baseline Characterization Evaluation (WSBCE) Forms, Waste Evaluation Forms (WEFs), Waste Disposal Requisition (WDR) Templates, and Waste Characterization Summary Sheets. Primarily, duties involved the development of Internal Profiles for wastestreams coming from several different locations and programs. This included detailed characterization of wastestreams generated all over the Lab, including streams containing both hazardous and radioactive components. These tasks included application of Federal, State and internal (LLNL) codes to the generated waste. These functions included interface with different departments: Environmental Analysts (EPD), Shipping (HWM), Hazards Control, HWM Field Personnel, Analytical Lab Personnel (Chemistry & Materials Science (CMS)) and Lab Generators of Hazardous Waste. In addition, QA/QC of the overall Waste Profile system was carried our in order for it to pass State and internal inspections. These functions resulted in processing the paperwork much faster thus giving more time to HWM Shipping to find a suitable Disposal Facility. 3. With RGIS INVENTORY SPECIALISTS, of Santa Rosa, CA, Mr. Linker traveled to Commercial and Governmental Facilities, to conduct inventory audits, as an Inventory Auditor. 4. At TARGET STORE T-852, of Rohnert Park, CA, Mr. Linker acted as a Seasonal Store Clerk, with the Flow Team. At TARGET, Mr. Linker worked in Warehouse Production and as a Shelf Stocker. 5. With the SONOMA COUNTY, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION, in Santa Rosa, CA, Mr. Linker assisted with Field Inspections and Office Tasks, in the HazMat Generator and Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Sections. 6. With NATIONAL INSPECTION & CONSULTANTS (NIC) - in the SAVANNAH River Site, Reactor Restart Division, Reactor Operations Administration, Obedient Compliance Arena (RRD-ROA-OCA) - Mr. Linker completed a negotiated Six (6) Month Technical Contract assignmnent, with Disciplinary Multi-Act DUPONT/WACKENHUT/WESTINGHOUSE United States Code (USC), ICBM and SLBM, Tritium Production AP600 K/L/P-REACTOR(S), Nuclear Startup and TOTAL Quality Assurance Procedures Editing - NQA-2, USC:CFR Titles 10/14/21/22/28/29/32/ 34/40/42/44/49 Parts & Sections Inspection, Quality Area EH&S Matrix Audits & Surveillance: K-Reactor Startup Compliance Walkdown - Obedient Statutory Commercial Administration Compliance & 10-8 SRO NUCLEAR Enforcement and continuously monitored such frequencies as 30.860, 42.100, 123.050, 147.285, 151.325, 154.430, 154.905, 155.475, 155.955, 161.670, 161.700, 164.250, 164.275, 154.375, 164.600, 164.650/ 165.375. 165.260, 167..825, 167.875, 167.975, 168.450, 160.975, 416.250, 416.400, 453.550, 453.750, 460.050/460.300/465.300, 460.175/460.250, 463.225 and 465.500 MHz. 7. On temporary contract to the Partitioning/Transmutation, BELCAN TECHSERVICES, Military Standard, Special Nuclear Material, Special Isotope Separation (MIL-STD-SNM-SIS) Fernald Environmental Management Project, Feed Materials Production Center (FEMP-FMPC), in TOTAL Process SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT UNIT (SWMU) COMPLIANCE Enforcement Engineering Analysis, Mr. Linker Assisted with CFR 40:271, RCRA-RADWASTE Complex-21 3Q-FMPC-FEMP, HTGTR/HWR/LWBR Th228/U235 Fuel Fab & THORIUM Separations Refinery, CFR 10:20 - - Appendix Part B EH&S, OR/SRL Ohio EPA Dissolver Rubble, Hanford 100H THOREX Recycle, BNL/KAPL & West Valley Actinide Debris, TRU Environmental Technology: 3D Safe Geometry. 8. As a Senior Nuclear Licensing & COMPLIANCE ENGINEER with the WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (WEC), Mr. Linker assisted with the WAC, Parameters & Rationale Remote Control Systems, WASTE RECEIVING AND PROCESSING (WRAP) FACILITY Appendix B, Waste Analysis Plan (WAP), WASTE MIN initial CRAY-YMP KENO.V.a Criticality Playground Support, in recognition of the RECUPLEX PLUTONIUM Finishing Plant (PFP) Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), and the PLUTONIUM Reclamation Facility (PRF) - formerly Z-Plant, under the direction of BATTELLE NORTHWEST. 9. Prior to having joined WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC, Mr. Linker served Duty Station as Senior Engineer to the U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS with JMM-RMP Parsons Engineering Science (Parsons-ES), under supportive LATA-SAIC-SCIENTEC-TENERA, directional IFR EBRII/PBF/PREPP/SL1/SPERT/SWEPP/ZEEP, Fast Breeder Blanket (FBB) guidance. His work scope included technical support to Hanford's CRAY-YMP discretized parabolic elliptical Partial Differential Equation, Computational Fluid Dynamic WESTINGHOUSE PDE-CFD-ARMY, Title 42 USC PDE-CFD-CERCLA-Finite Element, Fixation DCM3D-DYNA3S-LSODES-MESOILT2-NEFTRANII-NWFT/DVM-PORFLO-SESOIL-SWIFT2-TAURUS-UCBNE10.4, sizzling EM ASI-IT RI/FS Feasibility Study, Smoothest CHEM-NUC/S&W/MACTEC Draft, in addition to the Modular FUS/HAZWRAP Hamiltonian, WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC WRAP, Schrodinger Hartree-Frock Molecular MINDI MINDO Orbital TRUMP-S. AMPX/MNMCP/SCALE YMP KENO.V.a-NEPA Remote Systems, Final Environmental Analysis Report (FEAR), Operable Linear/Nonlinear AP600 Nuclearestoration WRAP. 10. As a "Permanent" full-time Civil/I&C/SCADA Project Engineer with the civil sanitary engineering & Construction Management firm MacDonald Stephens Sanitary Engineers, Mr. Linker's efforts reinforced proliferating activity in Tertiary Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) plant modification to several of the smaller municipal AWT Facilities in technical Southern California. His scope of work included BOD/COD Process Calculation; Commercial Grade MCC, PLC, RTU, and Switchgear Generator Dedication; Configuration Management; Obedient CWBS Contracts Administration; MSDS Strap-On; Corporate Communications; Critical Path Projects Cost Estimation; Demographics; Construction Inspection; PERT General Planning; Engineering Plans & New Improved Standard TECH SPECS; Quality Assurance; CEGA MIL-STD EIR CAC EH&S Liaison Engineering Technology; and contractor submittal Shoppe Drawing review. 11. With the ARMY Package Power Prototype, Rocky Flats, GCEP, NPR MOX Fuel Fab, Neon Tritium Target Practice - Gas Cooled Offices of FLUOR DANIEL - following completion of Hanford's Chop Leach (SNM Metal) PLUTONIUM/URANIUM Extraction (PUREX), Process Facility Modification (PFM) Project (PFMP) and Idaho's Exxon WINCO FluorINEL FDP RMP FAST RAL ICPP Chem Plant, UNITED ENGINEERS & CONSTRUCTORS (UCAT) Liquid Effluent Treatment & Disposal (LET&D) Preconceptual Facility - Mr. Linker contributed as a modular Nuclear General Atomic sub-Task-Force Nuclearemedial Process Man to the WESTINGHOUSE HANFORD directorate, Probabilistic HWVP HAZOP-FMECA Regulatory Wasteform Qualification Feed Prep, TRU-Recycle, Time-in-Motion, WVNS-BNFL Turntable, total nonlinear fractal Chaos strange attractor, Melter/Off-Gas (MOG) perturbation, PLUTONIUM Processing Building(s) 703F/771 (PPB), B-Plant TRUEX/SYREX Pretreatment FB/HB/NSR Canyon(s), Strategic Root Cause, Source-Term reorganizational Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF) NTSB/DNFSB/NWTRB MIL-STD-UNIT(S). On the Force, Mr. Linker followed through with Operable OnSite DWPF remote control & analytical process systems spreadsheet database MIL-STD-PRODUCTION for CFR/WAC Canyon Crane accordance and Frenkel Shottke hot OnSite on-line STARTUP & MSM manipulator repair quick Stop'n-Go Cray-YMP Hot Shops of the East meets West, CFT-CWNT-FAFT-FDCT-FFT-KFT-MFT-NAFT-OACT-OANT-PFT-RAT-RCT-RLST-SCAT-SCT-SFHT-SME-SMECT-SRAT-WAT-WHT functional management support. Also, Mr. Linker assisted with totally exhaustively zoned ANSI/ASME NQA-1 AHU-HVAC/R technology assurance, chemical process penetration Hot Cell (CPC) operating process control (PCD) all discipline Control-Room Advanced Procedures bilateral verification for Vitrification Building distributed control (DCS) and glovebox snubber/jumper burnup accountability, human performance, formal Fluor-type lattice displacement process hand calculation (CALC) - PFDs and P&IDs. In addition, Mr. Linker serviced independent review to Los Alamos' Backscattering IAED RTF/WETF TA-33/55/91, WIPP MST-12, Photochromic Bursting Pumped Liquid PU-239 Modulating Nuclearemedial SP-100, disciplinary ELECTRIC environmental Sandia MIL-STD-SNM-SIS, PANTEX Metal Weapons Evaluation Test (WET) Lab, and the Homer URENCO Claiborne Parish, Louisiana Energy Services (LES-URENCO) U-235 Centrifugal URANIUM 0.025 Enrichment Project, together with assorted good Total Quality Value Engineeering Principal. 12. On Advanced "Extra-Help"/Ultratemp assignment to Santa Barbara County's Air Pollution Control District - Energy Division, as Air Quality Control (CAA-BACT/PSD. NAAQS, NAPAP, NESHAPS, NSPS, NSR) CAC Permit Licensing & COMPLIANCE ENGINEER, Mr. Linker acted principally in QUALITY ENGINEERING and regulatory technology MIL-STD-LIAISON roles for obedient grandfathered one-step two-step, Permit-to-Operate (PTO) remedial licensing of previously exempt stationary source combustion equipment - in support of Departement of Interior (DOI), Minerals Management Agency, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore oil exploration/production and the VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE STS Shuttle Transport System, Space Launch Complex ("Slick VI"). Secondarily, Mr. Linker was instrumentally attentive in providing advanced environmental assistance in Authority-to Construct (ATC) & PTO Clean Air Act (CAA) State Implementation Plant (SIP) & remedial PTPLU activity Programme managing involovement in soils and groundwater contaminated with Benzene-Toluene-Xylene (BTX), Stoddard's Solvent and Chromic Acid compounds, pursuant to SARA RCRA. 13. With Holguin & Associates, Mr. Linker applied advanced OnSite MIL-STD-NUCLEAREMEDIATION techniques to sensitive noncompliant licensees along the South Central Coast. As acting RFI/CMS Director of TOTAL ENFORCEMENT for MIL-STD-NUCLEARESTORATION, Mr. Linker performed expedited roles in Remedial Licensing, backhoe utilization, electrical work & carpentry, jack & sledgehammer operation, E&C and operations management of commercial grade Nuclearemedial NAVY Nuclearemediation facilities, groundwater monitoring well E&C, hand auger soil sampling, hollow stem auger drill rig penetration & sample logging, lysimeter installation, masonry, plumbing, soil-gas assessment and source-receptor AIRDOS modeling - TOTAL Remediation (NUCLEAR). 14. With Daniel Grosjean & Associates - Consultants in Environmental Research, Mr. Linker participated (as an atmospheric chemist) in an international interdisciplinary physical/organic MIL-STD-AEROSOL disciplinary environmental research environment on PT MUGU PACIFIC MISSILE TEST STATION, strategic San Nicholas Island. Mr. Linker's research involved laboratory analytical synthetic methods development & Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) technical writing, coupled with field sampling of primary atmospheric pollutants and their remedial secondary molecular multiphasic environmental RADM/ADOM reaction products. 15. Appointed Assistant III to the University of California, Department of Chemical and NUCLEAR ENGINEERING, Center for RISK Studies and SAFETY (CRSS), Mr. Linker participated in numerous principally environmental MIL-STD-TECHNICIAN level capacities in NRC-ACRS SAFETY Facilities Navier-Stokes support & programmatic accrediational Quality Maintenance Implementation pedagogy - Peer Review. During this period, Mr. Linker's research assignments involved arenas in: FBR/GCR/HWR/LWR severe accident analysis, Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR), heterogeneous hydroformylation Supported Liquid Phase Catalysis (SLPC), Nuclearemedial NAVY diradical-electrorganoanionic Molecular quantum multiphasic thermalhydraulic ANNA/BEBOP-BLEVE/CASMO-3/COBRA/CONcERT/DETECTOR/EAL/ EPZ/FOLLOW/G-FLOW/IFB/INCA/INCORE/INPAX-II/LOFT/MAGIC/MELCOR/ MICBURN-3G/MICROBURN-B/P/MOD03/NSSS/PAR/READS/RELAP5/RETRAN02/SCDAP /SGTR/SIMULATE-3/SNUPPSII/SOV/TABLES-3/THEATRe/TOTE/TRAC/VANTAGE5/ VIPRE/WABA boundary layer stratification, cryogenic superconducting NMR, ultasonic ultra-high vacuum detector chamber research, and interfacial PRA, event & fault tree HAZOP-FMECA CRAY-YMP transport phenomenae. As Assistant III, Mr. Linker developed in marketably vital Essential Service areas including: CNC mill/lathe machining, flash x-ray, Taylor instability, welding, hammer drill & impact wrench operation, nuclearemedial concrete-corium severe accident debris bed action, pulsating GE-EG&G tritium neutronics acceleration, alpha/beta/gamma densitometric health physics; and various other appropriately elucidated Professional Safe Engineering Practice(s). _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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