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IEER Postings in 2001-2002

Postings to IEER's site during the years 2001 and 2002, in reverse chronological order.

Report on the Third Clean Air Act Audit of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Report of the Monitoring Team of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
on the [Third] Independent Audit of Los Alamos National Laboratory
for Compliance With the Clean Air Act, 40 CFR 61, Subpart H in 2001
to Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
December 18, 2002

Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia [PDF only; 343KB]
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 11 Number 1
November 2002

IEER Comments on the Modern Pit Facility
IEER comments on the Notice of Intent of the National Nuclear Security Administration
to prepare a Supplemental PEIS on the Modern Pit Facility
November 22, 2002
(Posted December 3, 2002)

IEER Comments to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the proposed LES
(Louisiana Enrichment Services) enrichment plant in Tennessee
November 14, 2002

Climate Change and Transnational Corporations: Analysis and Trends
Report prepared by Arjun Makhijani for the U.N. Centre on Transnational Corporations
Published in 1992 (posted November 20, 2002)

Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm
Two Case Studies of the Bombings of Industrial Facilities at Pancevo and Kragujevac
During Operation Allied Force, Yugoslavia 1999

Press Release | Report - PDF version [566 kB; 103pages]
Press Release - Serbian | Executive Summary - Serbian
November 5, 2002

Comments of the Monitoring Team on the Third Independent Audit
of Los Alamos National Laboratory for Compliance with the Clean Air Act
October 22, 2002

IEER Letter to the National Academy of Sciences Committee that is Reviewing the
Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests
September 12, 2002

Short history of Kashmir dispute
By Arjun Makhijani
September 6, 2002

Rule of Power or Rule of Law? [PDF; 255KB]
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 10 Number 4
August 2002

Peace Plan for India and Pakistan
More Signposts for Peace in South Asia
By Admiral L Ramdas
July 18, 2002
Also see op-ed in The Hindu

Nuclear Dangers and the State of Security Treaties
Conference hosted by IEER at the United Nations in New York
April 9, 2002
Transcripts - new ones added July 12

Past and Future of Nuclear War
Transcript of a talk given at American University
April 29, 2002 (Posted June 12, 2002)

Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA: Above the Law? [PDF; 317KB]
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 10 Number 3
May 2002 (Posted June 12, 2002)

Multilateral Treaties Are Fundamental Tools for Protecting Global Security;
United States Faces Choice of Bolstering These Regimes or Allowing Their Erosion
IEER/LCNP Fact Sheet (Based on the joint report, Rule of Power or Rule of Law?)
June 2002 (Posted June 12, 2002)

Radiological Warfare Suspicions Point Up Need for
Materials Accounting and Reporting to Enhance Security
Press release
June 10, 2002

Gauging impact of a nuclear shootout: South Asian Armageddon, but limited fallout elsewhere
Link to MSNBC story
June 5, 2002

Could Asian Nuclear War Radioactivity Reach North America?
Link to Earthfiles.com interview with Arjun Makhijani, IEER
June 4, 2002

Independent Institute Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan
Safer and more environmentally sound than the proposed Yucca Mountain repository
Press release
June 4, 2002

A road map to peace
By L. Ramdas and Arjun Makhijani
Op-ed in The Hindu
May 31, 2002

Russian and U.S. Experts Respond to Summit
Press conference with Back From the Brink
Moscow, Russia (Also in Russian)
May 21, 2002

Cogéma: Above the Law?
Concerns about the French Parent Company of a U.S. Corporation
Set to Process Plutonium in South Carolina

Press release | Report
By IEER and Safe Energy Communication Council
May 7, 2002

Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties
Press release | Report
April 4, 2002

Securing the Energy Future of the United States
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 10 Number 2
February 2002

"A Complex, Ill-Defined War on Terrorism," by Arjun Makhijani
Published in Medicine and Global Survival, vol.7, no.2, February 2002

About 80,000 Cancers in the United States, More Than 15,000 of Them Fatal,
Attributable to Fallout from Worldwide Atmospheric Nuclear Testing,
Government Study Shows
Press release | Fact Sheet | Official Fallout Maps and Progress Report
February 28, 2002

Danger of Nuclear Exchange in South Asia Greater Than Ever Before,
Says Former Chief of the Indian Navy
Press release | Statement of Admiral Ramdas
February 26, 2002

President Bush Makes Historic, But Wrong, Choice on Nuclear Waste
IEER press release
February 15, 2002

A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste, Washington Post op-ed
February 13, 2002

Energy Dept. 'Cleanup' Program Invites Lax Standards, Threatens Crucial Water Resources
DOE Should Be Relieved of Cleanup Responsibility
IEER press release
February 4, 2002

Department of Energy Makes the Wrong Choice by Selecting Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a Suitable Nuclear Waste Repository
IEER press release
January 10, 2002

"If not Yucca Mountain, then what?"
An alternative plan for managing highly radioactive waste in the United States
IEER/Alliance for Nuclear Accountability fact sheet, December 2001

Poison in the Vadose Zone
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 10 Number 1
November 2001

Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations:
The Scientific Basis of Subsistence Farmer Scenario and Its Application to
the Estimation of Radionuclide Soil Action Levels (RSALs) for Rocky Flats

Press release | Report
December 11, 2001

New features added to the IEER site:
Contribute to IEER online
Purchase IEER publications online
Through a secure server
Features added December 7, 2001

Securing the Energy Future of the United States:
Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action
Press release | Report
November 28, 2001

De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers
A briefing book, published under the auspices of the
Institute of International Economy and Foreign Relations
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Briefing Book (Also in Russian ) | Press Release | IEER Statement
Moscow, 2001

De-alerting Statement of Endorsement (Also in Russian )
Signed by 20 Russian Non-Governmental Organizations
November 2001

Ecology & Genetics: An Essay on the Nature of Life and the Problem of Genetic Engineering
Entire text now available on-line
Written by Arjun Makhijani, Published by Apex Press
2001

Two Case Studies of Environmental-Security Connections
IEER's Presentation at the Environmental Grantmakers Association Meeting Panel:
"Overlooked at Our Peril: Why Military/Security Policy Is EGA's Business"
October 15, 2001

Pursuing justice for the crimes of September 11, 2001 and reducing the risks of terrorism
October 11, 2001

Poison in the Vadose Zone: An examination of the threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
IEER report and news release and statement on the IEER report by the U.S. Dept. of Energy
October 9, 2001

Reflections on September 11, 2001
Also in: (Chinese) Français (French) (Russian)

Call for Meetings on October 2, Gandhi's Birthday
to Reflect on Non-Violent Responses to the September 11 Tragedy
Also in: (Chinese) (Japanese) Français (French) (Russian)

Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant
Joint Press Release of IEER and Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (Tokyo)
27 September 2001

"Inherently Safe" Reactors: Commercial Nuclear Power's Second Generation?
Chapter 7 of the book, The Nuclear Power Deception
by Arjun Makhijani and Scott Saleska (New York: Apex Press, 1999)
(Posted September 11, 2001)

U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 9 Number 4
August 2001

Government should bear the burden of proof in compensation cases
IEER op-ed on nuclear workers, published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 16, 2001

Cheney Energy Plan and Spin-off House Bill Are Not Based on Sound Science
IEER press release
IEER's critique: "The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable"
August 9, 2001

Uranium Workers Subjected to Dangers Should Be Compensated and Treated Now
IEER press release
June 25, 2001

IEER Reports on Two Independent Clean Air Act Audits of Los Alamos National Laboratory
IEER Report on First Audit, 11 April 2000
IEER Report on Second Audit, 13 December 2000
(Posted July 9, 2001)

EPA's Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards
IEER press release
June 6, 2001

Ecological Impacts of Genetically Engineered Plants Could Be Severe and Possibly Worse than Chemicals
Summary, press release, and statements on new report
June 4, 2001

Law and the Nuclear Establishment
Science for Democratic Action, Volume 9 Number 3
May 2001

Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan
Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers
IEER press release
May 17, 2001

Letter to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
on unresolved issues regarding the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain
May 15, 2001

Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program
IEER press release
May 11, 2001

Les erreurs du vice-president americain Cheney sur le programme de stockage
de dechets nucleaires français
Communiqué de Presse d'IEER
11 mai 2001

Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor
IEER op-ed in The Hindu
April 25, 2001

Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission
Science for Democratic Action, vol. 9 no. 2
February 2001

Saddam's Last Laugh: The Dollar Could be Headed for Hard Times if OPEC Switches to the Euro
By Arjun Makhijani, Featured on TomPaine.com
March 9, 2001

Letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the application to construct a MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility submitted by Duke Cogema Stone & Webster
Joint letter from IEER and the Nuclear Control Institute
March 9, 2001

Discover Dialogue: Arjun Makhijani The Nuke Slayer
Featured in the April 2001 issue of Discover Magazine

A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
by Dingli Shen, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
February 20, 2001

Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia
by Admiral L. Ramdas (ret.), Former Chief of the Indian Navy
Transcript of Press Briefing
May 8, 2000 (Posted February 2001)

Plutonium End Game: Managing Global Stocks of Separated Weapons-Usable Commercial and Surplus Nuclear Weapons Plutonium
IEER report by Arjun Makhijani
January, 2001

The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble: An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy
Technical report | Article summarizing the report

Report and article published May 2000; full report web posted May 16, 2005



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