For Immediate Release

Earth Day Press Conference
April 22, 1999
12 Noon, Old City Hall

Community Withdraws From Tritium Issues Work Group: Declares it a Total Sham!
This workshop was set up as a forum to address citizen concerns over the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its radiation use and emissions. LBNL, US Department of Energy, US Environmental Protection, California Departments of Toxic Substances Control and Health Services as well as community representatives.

Occurance Report Tritium Release in Excess of 20 Ci from NTLF Phil Williams, September 11, 1998 Berkeley Lab, DOE Halt Treatability Study Step Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Press Release July 30, 1998 Tritium Triggers Protest Norman Weiss, Daily Californian, October 18, 1997 Tritium Information Flyer (October 1997) Front and Back (map) Committee To Minimize Toxic Waste, Berkeley Commendation to LBNL For Agreeing to Independent Data Review and Testing Program City of Berkeley, Council Information February 25, 1997 Solution to Tritium Risk Assessment Impasse (pdf) Council Member Diane Wooley. May 11, 1999 Summary of Community Concerns regarding the National Tritium Labeling Facility (6.2 MB pdf) Committee To Minimize Toxic Waste, March 1999 CEAC Response to Dr. Shank's letter to Council (5.9 MB pdf) Community Environmental Advisory Commission, February 1999 Video Presentation: Radioactive Berkeley: No Safe Dose Berkeley City Council Summary, December 17, 1996 Resolution No. 58,649-N.S. Call for Closure of National Tritium Labeling Facility Berkeley City Council, September 17, 1996

News Articles

City Pulls Out of Tritium Talks Mark Albert, Berkeley Voice, April 29, 1999 Four Quit Berkeley lab's tritium panel Chuck Squatriglia, West County Times, April 23, 1999 Five resign from lab's emissions task force Cecily Burt, Oakland Tribune, April 23, 1999 Attention Parents: Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science Community Flyer February 1997 Lab plans high-cost cleanup of tritium William Brand, Oakland Tribune, January 20, 1997 LBNL to pay for monitoring Marc Breindel, Berkeley Voice, January 23, 1997 Radioactive Atoms cause Flap (PDF) Charles Petit, San Francisco Chronicle. January 21, 1997 Tritium testing sought William Brand, Oakland Tribune, January 8, 1997 Careful with the children (Lawrence Hall of Science) Jami Caseber, Berkeley Voice, January 16, 1997 Radioactive waste, Tritium... Al Winslow, Bay Guardian, June 1993 Tritium Support Group Collapes Pepper Spray Times, May 1999 Stop radioactive tritium contamination from Berkeley lab Carolyn Erbele and Daniel Horodysky, San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 1997 Lab Avoids talking about cleanup L A Wood, Oakland Tribune, February 2, 1997 Science of Tritium Don Barry (Univ. of Texas), San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 1997 Full Disclosure by Lab L A Wood, Berkeley Voice, May 13, 1999