Lawrence Livermore labs applies to increase open air explosives testing, including use of DU, in CA

[schrodingers_cat]

This evening, in Tracy, CA, the lab will be applying to gain a permit to increase their yearly teating from 1,000# per year to 8,000#.
There is discussion that these tests will include Depleted Uranium. Depending on the size of the exposion, nearby communities may or may not be notified of the testing.

Attached are arguments/ articles from all sides:

Here is the presentation to apply for the increase. Of note is attachment A3, on page 8 of the .pdf.:
http://www.ci.tracy.ca.us/city_council/meetings/agendas/2007/01/02/09c.pdf

Here is a local news report from the Tracy press, titled "Bigger Bombs, More Explosives":
http://tracypress.com/content/view/6154/


Here is the text of a petition letter from 'trivalleycares.org, who are fighting the allowance of this increased permit:


If you are interested in this cause, or are an educated person who can decipher chemical code more advanced than H20, or has any knowledge of bomb testing or depleted uranium, please help me (us) understand the real consequences of this for open air testing.

[Tom Joad]

1. I protested on the nuclear site many years ago. We kind of wandered into the site at night

and then announced our visit in the middle of the site that morning.
Our purpose was to disrupt the testing there, and to call attention to the poison that was being released.

Perhaps such a nonviolent campaign of protest should begin again, to denounce the bipartisan push for advancement in nuclear weaponry?

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Here is a good place to look at what's been done in the past...

tons of information on what your government has been doing to you with your own dollars...

http://www.project-112shad-fdn.com/index.htm#Home%20of%20WMD

A site everyone should bookmark and check out. The folks in the western US really need to see some of the things here, but the winds that blow from west to east in the US have been carrying some very unkind things in the not so distant past. Ever wondered why the cancer rate is so high, since the government starting splitting the atom?

[schrodingers_cat]

3. My mind also vaguely remembers that in the past 4 years or so

That the running of this lab, as well as another in the southwest, was handed over to a private company, who's name just reeked of bush/cheney
inmvolvement. I'll go run off and check that. Be back!
:-)

[schrodingers_cat]

4. Here are a few snips about who runs the lab

THE NATION
Consortium wins contract to run Livermore lab
The partnership, which is given a seven-year deal, includes the UC system, which has long run the facility.

Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: Ralph Vartabedian
Date: May 9, 2007
Section: Main News; Part A; National Desk
Document Types: News
Text Word Count: 456
Abstract (Document Summary)
The management consortium, Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC, was selected to run the Livermore lab over a competing group led by Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. Energy Department officials said the consortium submitted a superior proposal and a lower bid.

Another bid was submitted by a group calling itself Green LLC, which consisted of two nuclear watchdog groups, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment and Nuclear Watch of New Mexico. Energy Department officials said Green's proposal to transform the lab into a "center for civilian science" was not responsive to the government's request.

and here are the players From the Consortium's own website - it was Bechtel that grabbed my notice....

http://www.llnsllc.com/

LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
(LLNS) offers a team of five world-class organizations whose primary objective is to deliver the National Nuclear Security Administration mission for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Our team includes Bechtel National, University of California, BWX Technologies, Washington Group International, and Battelle. Our cutting-edge science is enhanced through the expertise of the University of California and its ten campuses and our team's affiliation with The Texas A&M University System.

[proud patriot]

5. Oh No they will Not

:grr:

[scorpiogirl]

6. Thanks for posting this.

I live in a town right next to Livermore. I'm going to give this a read. I will not be happy if they do this.

[Kadie]

7. K&R

Thanks for the post.

[ourbluenation]

8. k/r n/t

[Gregorian]

9. When will we learn? America is moving in the wrong direction.

We should be reinventing our economy. Of course we already are. But we should be using our brains for good. Instead we are building equipment to use against other humans as a means of forcing our will upon them. That is a downward spiral into chaos. And the only way republicans (yes, they are the majority of these kinds) will learn this lesson is when it's too late.

It's up to us to find a way to open their eyes. I fear it's not possible. I certainly don't know how it's done without great risk to life and liberty. You guys posting upthread of this are heroes.

This is the stuff that makes life painful. What a great world it could be.