RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

Articles and editorials

Responsibility? Yucca Choice Squanders $8B Investment, H3612 [18MR]

Yucca Plan Poses `Grave' Risk, H3612 [18MR]

Bills and resolutions

Armed Forces: award Atomic Veterans Service Medal to members exposed to ionizing radiation from the testing of nuclear weapons or under other circumstances (see S. 1128), S5819 [21MY] (see H.R. 2553), H6008 [21MY]

———identify members exposed to depleted uranium during military service and provide health testing of such members (see H.R. 177), H34 [6JA]

Arms control: apply measures to foreign persons who transfer to Iran, Syria, or North Korea goods, services, or technology that could aid such countries in extracting or milling domestic sources of uranium (see H.R. 2290), H5307 [6MY]

Dept. of Defense: carry out a study on the use of thorium-liquid fueled nuclear reactors for naval power needs (see H.R. 1534), H3437 [16MR]

———notify members of Armed Forces and State military departments of exposure to potentially harmful materials and contaminants (see H.R. 1657), H3705 [19MR]

Dept. of Energy: carry out a study on the use of thorium-liquid fueled nuclear reactors (see H.R. 2015), H4581 [21AP]

———reauthorize the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund and provide for the re-enrichment of certain uranium tailings (see S. 1061), S5555 [18MY] (see H.R. 2471), H5712 [18MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: secure domestic sources of radiological materials that could be used to make a radiological dispersion device against access by terrorists (see H.R. 2070), H4732 [23AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: include participation in clean-up operations at Enewetok Atoll as a radiation-risk activity (see H.R. 1631), H3704 [19MR]

———make certain improvements in administration of medical facilities (see H.R. 4062), H12971 [7NO]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures (see S. 757), S4063 [31MR] (see H.R. 1828), H4250 [31MR]

———extend and increase the authority for the ombudsman under such compensation program (see H.R. 134), H32 [6JA]

———include certain additional former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort compensation program (see S. 916), S4807 [28AP] (see H.R. 2114), H4839 [27AP]

———pay survivors compensation otherwise payable to a Dept. of Energy contractor employee who dies after application for compensation (see S. 1306), S6845 [19JN] (see H.R. 3063), H7445 [25JN]

Foreign policy: prohibit importation of certain low-level radioactive waste into the U.S. (see S. 232), S388 [14JA] (see H.R. 515), H324 [14JA]

Hazardous substances: certify that the Yucca Mountain site remains the designated site for development of a repository for disposal of high-level radioactive waste (see S. 861), S4573 [22AP] (see H.R. 2372), H5484 [12MY]

———condemn and encourage prohibition on transport of nuclear mixed-oxide (MOX) material by ship in international waters and urge countries to reprocess such material within their own borders (see H. Res. 402), H5169 [5MY]

Health: make the provision of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly (see H.R. 3652), H9998 [25SE]

———promote production of molybdenum-99 for medical isotope production and condition and phase out export of highly enriched uranium for production of medical isotopes (see H.R. 3276), H8494 [21JY]

NRC: retain and redistribute certain collected fines (see H.R. 1937), H4521 [2AP]

Nuclear weapons: establish the transfer of any nuclear weapon, device, material, or technology to terrorists as a crime against humanity (see S. 1464), S7639 [16JY] (see H.R. 3244), H8302 [16JY]

———protect public health and safety if testing by the U.S. is resumed (see S. 600), S3113 [16MR] (see H.R. 1417), H3145 [10MR]

———support a national day of remembrance for workers of the U.S. nuclear weapons program (see S. Res. 151), S5502 [14MY] (see H. Res. 790), H10456 [1OC]

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: make residents of Guam eligible to receive compensation (see H.R. 1630), H3704 [19MR]

———make residents of Idaho and Montana who were exposed to Nevada nuclear bomb testing fallout eligible to receive compensation (see S. 1342), S6993 [24JN]

Ventura County, CA: provide compensation for certain persons injured in the course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (see S. 709), S3785 [25MR] (see H.R. 136), H32 [6JA]

Veterans: issue a medal to those who died after service in the Vietnamese Conflict as a result of that service (see H.R. 671), H525 [26JA]

———revise eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service (see H.R. 2573), H6009 [21MY]

Letters

American Medical Isotopes Production Act: Howard W. Dickson, Health Physics Society, H12406 [5NO]

———Lisa M. Price, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Inc., H12404 [5NO]

———Michael M. Graham, Society of Nuclear Medicine, H12405 [5NO]

———Michael P. Duffy, Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., H12406 [5NO]

———Roy W. Brown, Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc., H12405 [5NO]

———Sam Nunn and Charles B. Curtis, Nuclear Threat Initiatives (organization), H12404 [5NO]

———Timothy R. Wright, Covidien (company), H12405 [5NO]

Radioactive Import Deterrence Act: Representative Rangel, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H13420 [2DE]

———Representative Waxman, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H13420 [2DE]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Defense: notify members of Armed Forces and State military departments of exposure to potentially harmful materials and contaminants, E1610 [26JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: include participation in clean-up operations at Enewetok Atoll as a radiation-risk activity (H.R. 1631), E713 [19MR]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures, H8754 [24JY]

———expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures (H.R. 1828), E1123 [12MY]

Foreign policy: prohibit importation of certain low-level radioactive waste into the U.S. (H.R. 515), H13419-H13424 [2DE]

Hanford, WA: nuclear waste cleanup funding, H8119 [15JY], H8364 [20JY]

Hazardous substances: certify that the Yucca Mountain site remains the designated site for development of a repository for disposal of high-level radioactive waste (H.R. 2372), H5588 [14MY]

———condemn and encourage prohibition on transport of nuclear mixed-oxide (MOX) material by ship in international waters and urge countries to reprocess such material within their own borders (H. Res. 402), H5388 [7MY]

———storage of nuclear waste near fresh water sources, H3147 [11MR]

———Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste disposal site funding, H2793, H2794, H2801 [25FE], H3080 [9MR], H3611 [18MR], H8338, H8339 [17JY], H10426 [1OC]

Health: promote production of molybdenum-99 for medical isotope production and condition and phase out export of highly enriched uranium for production of medical isotopes (H.R. 3276), H12401-H12406 [5NO], E2727 [5NO]

Nuclear energy: assess role in national energy policy, H6243 [4JN], H6542 [11JN]

———shipment of plutonium mixed-oxide nuclear fuel from France to Japan, H3611 [18MR]

Nuclear weapons: support a national day of remembrance for workers of the U.S. nuclear weapons program (H. Res. 790), H11992-H11995 [28OC]

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: make residents of Guam eligible to receive compensation (H.R. 1630), E722 [19MR]

Veterans: issue a medal to those who died after service in the Vietnamese Conflict as a result of that service (H.R. 671), E164 [28JA]

Remarks in Senate

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures (S. 757), S4081 [31MR]

Hazardous substances: Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste disposal site funding, S8261 [29JY]

Nuclear energy: assess role in national energy policy, S5893-S5895 [1JN], S5922-S5924 [2JN], S5992-S5994 [3JN], S6157-S6160 [4JN], S6531-S6533 [11JN], S7119-S7121 [6JY], S7350-S7352 [10JY], S9578-S9580 [21SE], S9628-S9630 [22SE], S9706-S9710 [23SE], S10087 [5OC]

Nuclear weapons: observance of a national day of remembrance for workers of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, S10912 [29OC], S11113 [4NO]

———support a national day of remembrance for workers of the U.S. nuclear weapons program (S. Res. 151), S5530 [14MY], S5766 [20MY]

Ventura County, CA: provide compensation for certain persons injured in the course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (S. 709), S3801 [25MR]

Reports filed

American Medical Isotopes Production Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3276) (H. Rept. 111-328), H12364 [4NO]

Radioactive Import Deterrence Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 515) (H. Rept. 111-348), H13465 [2DE]

Resolutions by organizations

Radioactive Import Deterrence Act: Salt Lake County, UT, Council, H13421 [2DE]

Texts of

H. Res. 790, support a national day of remembrance for workers of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, H11992 [28OC]

H.R. 515, Radioactive Import Deterrence Act, H13419 [2DE]

H.R. 3276, American Medical Isotopes Production Act, H12401-H12403 [5NO]

S. 709, Santa Susana Fair Compensation Act, S3802 [25MR]

S. 757, Nuclear Workers Compensation Act, S4082-S4085 [31MR]

S. 1306, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Improvement Act, S6846 [19JN]

S. Res. 151, support a national day of remembrance for workers of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, S5530 [14MY], S5766 [20MY]