Subject: headlines

                  NUKE-NET  HEADLINE  ALERT  '95  
 
     (June 21) Reuter is reporting that Australia may not
purchase 45 French jet trainers as a result of France's decision
to resume nuclear testing.
 
     (June 21) Reuter is reporting that Taiwan's opposition
parties failed to freeze $4.2 billion of government spending to
build a fourth nuclear plant.  Two foreign companies,
Westinghouse Electric Corp and Asia Brown Boveri unit Combustion
Engineering Inc. of the United States are the principal
contractors.  Hundreds of demonstrators confronted riot policemen
in a protest against the construction of the plant.
 
     (June 21) Reuter is reporting that Japan's prototype
fast-breeder reactor Monju will start generating electricity in
August.  The reactor was shutdown twice this year to correct
problems.  Fast-breeder reactors produce more recyclable
plutonium than they use.  Japan regards fast breeder reactors as
a pillar of its energy policy in the 21st century, despite doubts
about their economy and criticism against shipping nuclear waste
and recycled plutonium from reprocessing plants in Europe.    
Japan is planning two more experimental fast breeder reactors for
the next century. 
 
     (June 22) Reuter is reporting that Australia is recalling
its ambassador from France to protest the decision to resume
testing.
 
     (June 22) Reuter is reporting that delegates from a group of
Pacific nations known as the Commonwealth Non-Government
Organization marched on the French Embassy in New Zealand to
present bags of garbage and dead fish.
 
     (June 22) Reuter is reporting that Cuba expects to have the
results of a feasibility study to complete two Soviet-style
reactors by the end of the month.  The International Atomic
Energy Agency has approved the safety plans of the plant.
 
     (June 22) Reuter is reporting that Iran has opened a nuclear
research facility which will experiment with fruit and vegetable
preservation.
 
     (June 23) Reuter is reporting that a crowd greeted the
Rainbow Warrior II in the Cook Islands as it approached the
Mururoa Atoll.  The crew draped a banner reading "Nuclear Free
Pacific" from the ship.
 
 
     (June 23) Reuter is reporting that a Japanese business group
is backing the Rokkasho-mura nuclear complex in northern Japan as
the site for an international project to develop an experimental
nuclear fusion reactor.  The multi-billion dollar project, called
the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, will be
jointly carried out by the United States, the European Union,
Japan and Russia.
 
     (June 23) UPI is reporting that Greenpeace is urging India
to halt construction of a controversial nuclear power plant.  The
Kaiga Nuclear Power Station's reactor dome collapsed during
construction last year and Greenpeace says shoddy construction
practices make this plant an accident waiting to happen.
 
     (June 24) Reuter is reporting that Australia's greens are
urging the government to send five warships to the nuclear
testing area to back Greenpeace's protest boat.  They are also
calling for a halt to uranium exports. 
 
     (June 24) Reuter is reporting that a Russian research vessel
is headed for a sunken nuclear submarine.  Using robotic
submarines, scientist hope to construct a shield to prevent any
radiation from leaking.  The sunken sub is armed with 20
conventional and two nuclear-tipped torpedoes and is estimated to
contain about 22-26 pounds of plutonium. 
 
     (June 24) ABC is reporting that the US launched its first
Seawolf nuclear sumbmarine.  
 
     (June 25) Reuter is reporting that the Dutch prime minister
will raise the issue of French nuclear testing at a two day
European Union summit.  Other nation's leaders have also
protested to French President Chirac.
 
     (June 25) Reuter is reporting that Swiss voters rejected a
proposal to build a low-level nuclear waste storage facility in
their country.
 
     (June 25) UPI is reporting that China is planning to
construct 10 more nuclear reactors by the year 2010.
 
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