Subject: HEADLINES 6 DECEMBER 1995

      6 Dec 1995 (Reuter) - Sweden's future prime minister
Goran Persson said he believed the country's nuclear power
plants should be shut down by the year 2010. He added that he
stood by the result of a referendum 15 years ago when Swedes
voted to phase out nuclear power. 

      6 Dec 1995 (UPI) - France said it will end its series of
nuclear tests before the end of February, one month earlier
than previously announced. France has already conducted four
of the six underground nuclear explosions it plans in the
South Pacific, despite widespread international condemnation
of the program. 

      6 Dec 1995 (UPI) - Government scientists said they have
devised a method that could significantly extend the safe and
reliable storage of the nation's nuclear waste. The promising
approach may prolong by tens of thousands of years the
lifetime of nuclear waste storage containers at the proposed
national underground repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., the
researchers said. The method, developed at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, would use the heat given off by
the containers to produce a "dry environment" that could keep
thousands of tons of nuclear waste safely stored for tens of
thousands of years, the researchers said.