[NukeNet] Weapons Lab Backs Down from DU Explosion tests

[Mike Ewall]

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/07/18373823.php
[see this page for an amazing picture of a 1961 bomb core test]

San Francisco - Nuclear Weapons Lab Backs Down

by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner ( duweapons [at] gmail.com )
Wednesday Mar 7th, 2007 6:48 AM

Bob Sarvey: We have achieved ... a major victory.

(San Francisco) March 6, 2007 - Bob Sarvey, a Tracy, California 
citizen/activist looked at the plan of the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear 
Weapons Lab and said that it was wrong. Today the giant nuclear 
weapons lab waited until the last minute and withdrew the 
controversial nuclear radiation spreading proposal.

Bob Sarvey said in a prepared statement late Tuesday afternoon, March 
6, 2007 "I just received a call from the head man at the San Joaquin 
Valley Air Pollution Control district, Seyed Saderin. He has decided 
under intense pressure from the Lab to cancel the Site 300 permit and 
the hearing is off. WE have achieved a major but temporary victory. I 
am sure that the lab will try again and the DU explosions continue 
throughout the country and the world. But tonight let us savor one 
small victory."

The controversial and secretive Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab 
detonates in the open air about 200 radioactive "dirty bombs" a year 
creating deadly and radioactive uranium gas in the heavily populated 
San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay Areas of California. About 10 
million people live and work within the large metropolitan areas.

The University of California "managed" Weapons Lab had requested to 
go from detonating 1000 pounds of radioactive uranium and tritium 
bombs a year to 8000 pounds a year on November 12, 2006. The request 
was approved by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control Board in 
nearby Modesto, California.

Bob Sarvey objected and filed an appeal. So did a large housing 
development near the radioactive bomb site in Tracy, California. The 
developer also withdrew from the case today, March 6, 2007.

Manhattan Project and Nuclear Weapons Lab retired staff scientist 
Marion Fulk said today about the withdrawal by the Nuclear Weapons 
Lab "Now they can put those deadly radioactive explosions that 
release uranium and tritium into the atmosphere underground."

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http://www.rense.com/general75/lvermore.htm