Subject: HEADLINES 21 September 1995

(21 Sept. 1995) UPI: - Seven leading industrial nations asked 
Bulgaria to shut down a nuclear reactor at the power plant 
Kozlodui but the Sofia government refused, insisting the reactor 
did not pose a safety risk. Russian experts have proclaimed the 
aging Russian-built 440-megawat reactor safe for operation until 
the year 2003. The unit 1 of the reactor was closed in February 
for repairs and is sheduled to go back on line before the end of 
October.


(21 Sept. 1995) UPI: - The Indonesian government is willing to 
hold a public hearing on its controversial plan to build 
Indonesia's first nuclear power plant in densely populated 
central Java. Indonesia hopes to develop another 12 nuclear 
plants in the next 25 years.


(21 Sept. 1995) UPI: - The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for 
nuclear weapons should be ready to be signed in 1996. The 
document has been revised twice this year and substantial 
progress had been made, spurred by the decision of France, 
Britain and the United States to agree to a total ban, including 
the smallest laboratory test. The conference on disarmament (38 
member states) also agreed to take steps to expand its 
membership, although the United States objected to Iraq's 
inclusion on the list of 23 new me mber states.

(21 Sept. 1995) UPI: - Greenpeace will send a flotilla to the 
site of an upcoming European Union summit this weekend on the 
Mediterranean island of Majorca to protest France's renewed 
nuclear tests. The EU Commission, the union's administrative arm, 
has come under pressure to use special powers laid out in the 
Euratom treaty to halt the further tests planned by France. So 
far, the Commission has only asked for further information, which 
France has agreed to provide.

(21 Sept. 1995) UPI: - The French Ambassador to Australia has 
warned that Paris will cancel contracts worth $56 million to buy 
Australian uranium if union bans on shipments threaten supplies 
to France's nuclear power stations. Any further "abuse" over 
French nuclear testing in the South Pacific would be 
"disasterous" for ties between the two countries, he said.

(21 Sept. 1995) Reuter: - France released two Greenpeace 
activists 36 hours after detaining them on the nuclear test site 
Fangataufa, where the activists would chain themselves to the 
drilling rig.

(21 Sept. 1995) Reuter: - France is considering redefining its 
vital national interests to give its nuclear deterrent a European 
dimension, without relinquishing its finger on the trigger. 
France will perhaps cooperate in future with the United States in 
sharing data on simulated nuclear explosions