From nukenet@envirolink.org Mon Dec 11 13:32:36 1995 Received: from envirolink.org (DOLPHIN.ENVIROLINK.ORG [128.2.22.19]) by roxy.sfo.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22074 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from (localhost) by envirolink.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA06178; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:33:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:33:33 -0500 Errors-To: mxe115@psuvm.psu.edu Message-Id: Errors-To: mxe115@psuvm.psu.edu Reply-To: wisemail@wise.antenna.nl Originator: nukenet@envirolink.org Sender: nukenet@envirolink.org Precedence: bulk From: wisemail@wise.antenna.nl To: rherried@sfo.com Subject: HEADLINES 8 - 10 December 1995 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: R Dec 10 1995 (Reuter) - French state electricity company EDF said on Sunday someone had tried to sabotage during a strike against plans of the European Union tot open the electricity sector to competition, a nuclear power station at Blaye, near Bordeaux, by pouring salt into a water cooling pipe. Dec 10 1995 (Reuter) - Company officials said on Sunday up to three tons of sodium leaked from a cooling system at Japan's most-advanced nuclear reactor in an accident critics say has cast a cloud over the country's ambitious nuclear power programme. The non-governmental nuclear watchdog Citizens Nuclear Information Centre called for the immediate closure of Monju. "We demand that the government freeze its plutonium programme and immediately begin a total revision of policy." Dec 9 1995 (Reuter) - Southeast Asian nations are going ahead with a treaty for a nuclear-weapons-free zone despite objections from the United States and China. The treaty will be signed late next week in Bangkok at a summit of heads of governments from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which groups Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Vietnam, as well as non-members Burma, Cambodia and Laos. Dec 9 1995 (Reuter) - Japan faced demands for sweeping changes in its ambitious nuclear power programme on Saturday as officials began investigations of a massive coolant leak at a prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor. Heavy smoke caused by a reaction between the leaking sodium and air delayed technicians' efforts to investigate the leak. Dec. 9 1995 (UPI) -- Japan's first prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor shut down its operations Friday night due to a liquid sodium leak which was creating a smoke cloud that was keeping investigators from finding the source of the problem. Technicians drained 80 tons of sodium to prevent more leakage. NHK television reported up to five tons leaked Friday night. Dec. 8 1995 (UPI) -- The United States has rejected a treaty that would create a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia on grounds it would not permit free transit for atomic-armed or powered U.S. ships and aircraft, Clinton administration officials said Friday. Dec 8 1995 (Reuter) - The Ukrainian Evironmental minister Yuri Kostenko on Friday praised an agreement with the West on the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant but said it would take decades and billions of dollars to complete the shutdown. Interfax Ukraine news agency said radioactive water had leaked at the South Ukraine station this week but had been cleaned up in a five-day operation. Dec 8 1995 (Reuter) - Russia on Friday praised a decision by France to end its controversial nuclear weapons test programme three months ahead of schedule, Itar-Tass news agency said. Russia has joined an international chorus of criticism against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific, saying they hampered efforts to arrange a comprehensive test ban. Dec 8 1995 (Reuter) - Japan's prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor, Monju, was manually shut down on Friday after coolant leaked from the cooling system, reactor operators said. Monju, located on the coast at Tsuruga northwest of Tokyo, is the world's second largest fast-breeder reactor and the cornerstone of Japan's ambitious nuclear-power programme. Dec 8 1995 (Reuter) - Spain, anxious to keep the diplomatic peace at next week's European Union summit, has been pleading with EU countries not to vote against Paris in a forthcoming United Nations vote on nuclear testing. Ten of the EU's 15 members came out against France in a preliminary vote in November that condemned nuclear testing. Paris reacted angrily, cancelling several meetings with EU partners and calling their opponents hypocrites.