Subject: HEADLINES 31 January 1996

      31 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - The Hungarian power plant Paks
rejected protests by the Greenpeace environmentalist group
against shipments of German nuclear fuel to Hungary. "The
management of Paks does not regard Greenpeace as qualified to
make a judgment in this issue, and feels no need to enter into
a debate with this organisation," the Paks management said in
a statement. 

      31 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - Norway registered radioactive
fallout for a week in January that could stem from a nuclear
reactor abroad. Finland, which was one of several countries to
be hit by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in
the Soviet Union in 1986, also measured fresh fallout in the
same period but said the radioactivity was within normal
limits. 

      31 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin
welcomed France's decision to end nuclear weapons testing and
said it made a global test ban more likely.

      31 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - President Jacques Chirac travels
to Washington to preach nuclear disarmament and seek a more
equal partnership with the United States in NATO after ending
atomic tests that damaged France's international image.

      31 Jan 1996 (Reuter) - Indonesia is considering an offer
by Canada to help build its first nuclear power plant,
estimated to cost some US$2.1 billion, the official Antara
news agency reported. Research and Technology Minister Jusuf
Habibie said the Canadian government had offered to help build
a plant, powered by either two generators with a capacity of
900 megawatts (MW) each or three, 600 MW generators.

      31 Jan 1996 (UPI) - Riding the heels of France's
decision to stop nuclear tests in the South Pacific, the
International Atomic Energy Agency met from Monday through
Wednesday in Vienna to discuss a study of radioactivity levels
at the Muroroa and Fangataufa Atolls.The study, requested by
the French government last year, would measure water and land
radioactivity levels at the South Pacific atolls and speculate
on future problems.

      31 Jan 1996 (UPI) - Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny
Primakov warned that the expansion of NATO will threaten his
nation's security and called for all "interested sides" to
come up with an alternative to the eastward growth of the
alliance. In the Belarussian capital Minsk on the penultimate
leg of a jaunt through several member nations of the
Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, Primakov said NATO
expansion to the borders of the CIS "will bring with it an
entire complex of problems."