Important Workshop...Hope you can make it!

[susan maret <smaret@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU>]

Please join experts in nuclear waste transportation and  members of the
Sierra Club's Nuclear Waste Task Force in Denver, March 13,1999  for a
workshop on  "Nuclear Waste Through Your Backyard: Nuclear Waste
Transportation in the West."

This very important and timely workshop is co-sponsored by the University
of Colorado, Denver Student Activities, the Rocky Mountain Chapter, Sierra
Club, and the Nuclear Waste Task Force, Sierra Club. Funding for this
workshop is provided by a grant from the Sierra Club Foundation.

With Waste Isolation Pilot Project  (WIPP) shipments projected  to roll
from Rocky Flats and other DOE facilities sometime in 1999, this workshop
will provide an educational opportunity  to become informed on the safety,
policy  and public health aspects of radioactive waste transportation.
Topics covered at this event range from Yucca Mountain, WIPP,  the DOE
Complex, to public health issues of radioactive waste transportation.

Please circulate this message to anybody you think may be interested in
this event!

WHEN:  Saturday, March 13th, 1999
WHERE: Tivoli Turnhalle located in the Tivoli Student Union, University of
Colorado at Denver (Auraria Campus, downtown Denver).

PROGRAM:

>>>9:00-9:15 Welcome

>>>9:15-10:00
The Big Picture: Introduction to the Relationship Between the DOE Complex,
WIPP, Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Transportation. SPEAKER: Steve
Frishman, State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office.

>>>10:00-10:15
Break

>>>10:15-11:30
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. SPEAKER: Don Hancock, Southwest Research
and Information Center.

>>>11:30-12:15
Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Transportation. SPEAKER: Judy Treichel,
Nuclear Waste Task Force, Sierra Club.

>>>12:15-1:30
Lunch

>>>1:30-2:15
The Nuclear Waste and Radiation Exposure: Regulation, Classification
andStandards. SPEAKER:  Dr. Judith Johnsrud, Nuclear Waste Task
Force,Sierra Club.

>>>2:15-3:15
Public Health Impacts of Nuclear Waste Transportation. KEYNOTE SPEAKER:Dr.
Marvin Resnikoff, Radioactive Waste Management Associates.

>>>3:15-3:30
Break

>>>3:30-4:15
How to Network with Activists in Other States and Sierra Club Chapters on
Nuclear Waste Transportation. SPEAKERS:   Lea Terhune, Vermont Chapter,
Sierra Club, and Susan Curry, ExComm, Big Bend Group, Sierra Club.

The Lone Star and Rio Grande Chapters, along with the Big Bend Regional
Group, have been extremely active on the Sierra Blanca nuclear waste dump
issue. Sierra Blanca is located in Hudspeth County, 16 miles from the Rio
Grande River in Texas, and 90 miles from downtown El Paso. Texas entered
into a nuclear waste compact with Maine and Vermont, which, under the
compact, wish to send waste from their aging power plants to Sierra
Blanca. Forty percent of the residents near Sierra Blanca live below the
poverty line and two-thirds of the residents are Mexican-American. The
Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club, mobilized and created a network with
Vermont Sierra Club activists, as well as citizens along the US-Mexico
border.

>>>4:15-4:30
Break

>>>4:30-5:00 (END)
Question and Answer Panel Participants: Susan Curry, Steve Frishman, Don
Hancock, Dr. Judith Johnsrud, Tom Marshall (Rocky Mountain Peace and
Justice Center, Boulder, CO),  Dr. Marvin Resnikoff,  Judy Treichel and Lea
Terhune.

For additional information contact: Sue Maret (smaret@castle.cudenver.edu;
(303)556-4919), Nuclear Waste Task Force, or Eugene Demayo
(efdemayo@juno.com; (303)642-3117), Nuclear Waste Task Force.