KEEP YELLOWSTONE NUCLEAR FREE
News Update - March 11, 2000

Welcome to the weekly online newsletter of Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free.
Our goal is to bring you the latest developments, news, meeting dates, and
actions you can take to 'Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free.'
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Thanks to our massive letter-writing campaign, Senator Thomas is taking
action.

SENATOR CRAIG THOMAS TO HOLD HEARING ON
INCINERATION OPTIONS MARCH 28

Excerpts from the Jackson Hole News         March 8 and 10, 2000

US Senator Craig Thomas, head of the National Parks and Resources
subcommittee
 will hold a hearing on March 28, 2:30 p.m. in Washington to investigate the
alternatives
 to incinerating some of the 65,000 cubic meters of plutonium contaminated
waste stored at
INEEL.  "We are going to push this, as you know, until we have the answer,"
said Thomas.

RICHARDSON ACKNOWLEDGED GROWING WYOMING OPPOSITION TO
THE INCINERATOR, and has pledged to pressure his staff to find alternatives
and to issue a
policy on options to burning  within 30 days on whether to proceed with the
proposed incinerator.
Stay tunedá.
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Saturday, March 18, 7 p.m. -  Len Ackland, author of  MAKING A REAL KILLING,
will speak in the Teton County Commissioners Hearing Room.  Admission is
free.
Mr. Ackland will answer questions and sign books after his formal remarks.
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BNFL in The Newsá
*	Japan and Germany have barred BNFL from conducting business in their
countries.
*	Switzerland has sent investigators to inspect BNFL facilities.
*	Sweden will no longer allow BNFL to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel.
*	Ireland is demanding BNFL's Sellafield plant be closed due to its
radioactive
	contamination of the Irish Sea.
*	The British Nuclear Installation's Inspectorate condemned BNFL's safety
	and management records.
*	Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Sweden have demanded urgent
	talks with British ministers on the future of  Sellafield, BNFL's Cumbrian
plant.
*	BNFL's CEO resigned two weeks ago in response to the unfolding scandal

NOTE
*	BNFL has US projects totaling $6-$9 billion; the revenue the plutonium
incinerator
	will generate will account for 20% of that.
*	Plans to privatize 49 % of BNFL are in serious jeopardy because of the
recent
 	worldwide scandal over falsification of safety records.
*	BNFL has indicated they must increase profits on US projects by 15 per
cent
 	to salvage the privatization plan.
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US PROTESTORS CONFRONT BNFL
An excerpt from  The Financial Times      Feb. 24, 2000
By Matthew Jones in London and Ralph Atkins in Berlin

US anti-nuclear campaigners (Jackson residents Tat and Paul Maxwell and Jim
 Laybourn) flew to Britain on Wednesday to publicise their legal fight
against plans
by British Nuclear Fuels, the UK atomic power group, to build a $1.2bn
nuclear
waste incinerator near Yellowstone National Park.

They will deliver 350 letters of complaint against the incinerator to
John Taylor, BNFL's chief executive, on Friday.  NOTE: Mr. Taylor has
been forced to resign.
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Voice Your Concern about the plutonium incinerator!. Local radio station
KMTN
will air your 30-second message. Call Deborah McSwain at 733-0898 to
schedule.
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Order checks with The Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free logo from The
Jackson State Bank.  Call Jeremy Eiss at 307-739-3735.
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