Subject: HEADLINES 7 December 1995

      7 Dec 1995 (Reuter) - Swedish Finance Minister and Prime
Minister-elect Goran Persson said a new referendum on Sweden's
nuclear power programme will be needed if the reactors cannot
be closed by 2010. Sweden voted in 1980 to shut down its
nuclear power stations, which supply half of the country's
electricity, as soon as was economically and environmentally
viable. Parliament later set the shut-off date at 2010. 


      7 Dec 1995 (Reuter) - A technical incident shut down a
reactor at Ukraine's Zaporizha nuclear power station for the
second time this week, further stretching the former Soviet
republic's failing power network. The director of the affected
reactor, the fifth of six 1,000-megawatt units at Europe's
largest station, blamed the incident on a drop in water levels
during a routine operation to cut capacity. He said there had
been no release of radiation and the reactor would be
restarted within 12 hours.