Subject: headlines 6 Oct. 1995

     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - Workers at the Ukranian Zaporozhe
nuclear reactor switched on a new reactor Friday, making the
six-reactor plant of the VVER-1000 950 megawatt type the most
powerful nuclear power station in Europe: 5700 megawatts.
After Zaporozhe-6 went on line, Ukraine has a total of 15
operational reactors, providing just over 34 percent of the
nation's energy needs. 

     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - German Foreign Minister Klaus
Kinkel, reacting frostily to a French offer to extend its
nuclear umbrella to Germany, said on Friday he saw nothing new
in the idea and that Bonn did not want nuclear arms.  

     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - French oceanographer Jacques-Yves
Cousteau added his voice on Friday to international criticism
of Bulgaria for restarting its oldest nuclear reactor, saying
it risked causing a disaster worse than Chernobyl. Bulgaria
says the 440-megawatt Kozloduy-1 reactor, built by Soviet
engineers and came first into operation in 1974, will resume
operations this week.

     6 OCT 1995 - (Reuter) - EU Environment Commissioner Ritt
Bjerregaard on Friday rejected France's invitation to visit
French Polynesia. "There's basically no need for me to go
there as a tourist. I would not necessary be able to ask the
relevant questions or to get the relevant answers," She would
have preferred if France had allowed EC experts access to the
test sites during their visit last month.

     6 OCT 1995 - (Reuter) - Germany sharply criticised
Bulgaria on Friday for restarting the Soviet-built Kozloduy-1
reactor. Western industrial powers and the European Union say
there are doubts over its safety, and have urged further
checks, especially on its pressure vessel. Bulgaria says four
independent institutes have studied the reactor in the last
seven months and concluded it is safe.

     6 OCT 1995 - (Reuter) - A sixth reactor began working at
the Zaporozha nuclear power station, the first to be completed
since Ukraine lifted a moratorium on the nuclear industry
imposed after the Chernobyl disaster. The reactor's capacity
would be progressively increased to 1,000 megawatts by winter.
The republic is holding a tender to build a plant to produce
nuclear fuel. The head of the country's nuclear power
authority said this week he believed a nuclear reprocessing
facility was the only way to solve the country's energy
problems. 


     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani said on Friday that a deal involving the sale of
nuclear reactors from China to Iran was still being negotiated
with Beijing. United States officials said that the deal wo
onlyuld not go forward. However, Chinese officials claim China
had "suspended for the time being" its nuclear reactor sale to
Iran. 

     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad said on Friday he would gather all 27 political
parties in the country soon to unanimously criticise France's
nuclear tests in the Pacific.


     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - A French envoy accused some
Australian schools on Friday of brainwashing students to
believe France was a criminal state for resuming nuclear tests
in the South Pacific. "I think that brainwashing children
against another country is itself an aggression to the
children," said France's ambassador to Australia, Dominique
Girard. 


     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - South Korea's Agency for Defence
Development (ADD; a think-thank for the Defenc Ministry)
denied that it almost made a nuclear bomb in the late 1970s as
alleged by an opposition member of parliament. Kang
Chang-sung, an opposition lawmaker on the parliament's defence
committee, said on Thursday he heard former president Park
Chung-hee saying in September 1978 that the ADD was involved
in building a nuclear bomb and that it was about 95 percent
complete and would be complete in the first half of 1981. The
U.S. promised to secure former president Chun Doo Hwans
position if he promised to give up building the nuclear bomb.


     6 OCT 1995 (Reuter) - French Polynesian President Gaston
Flosse accused Australia and New Zealand on Thursday of
inciting hatred of France through their anti-nuclear stance.
He told French Polynesian parliament that extremist elements