Subject: Headlines 16-19 Febr. 1996

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:35:44 -0500

     19 Feb, 1996 (Reuter) - A heavily guarded train carrying
235 partly used nuclear fuel elements left Greifswald in
Germany bound for the Hungarian nuclear power station Paks,
despite protests from environmentalists who alleged the plant
did not meet Western safety standards.

     19 Feb. 1996 (UPI) -- Russian Atomic Energy Minister
Viktor Mikhailov has gone to Cuba in hopes of breathing life
into a stagnant deal to build a nuclear power plant. The two
nations signed an agreement on the project in October. But a
lack of money has delayed the start of construction on the
plant begun in 1982 by Soviet workers in Juragua.

     18 Feb. 1996 (UPI) -- The FBI investigated a group of 
Iranians shortly after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 
New York's Daily News quoted a former FBI informant as saying
the agency investigated whether terrorists were planning to
smuggle in radioactive material that could be distributed
around Manhattan.
[portzlines88 adds: The terrorists practiced at a training
camp located only thirty miles from Three Mile Island. The FBI
knew of this camp and did not alert the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission or Three Mile Island. A vehicle intrusion at the
TMI nuclear plant exposed vulnerabilities just three weeks
before the World Trade Center bombing.] 

     18 Feb, 1996 (Reuter) - German police on Sunday removed
24 Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to a container
on a railway line leading out of the disused Greifswald
nuclear reactor blocking shipment of partly-used nuclear fuel
elements to Hungary. Three containers with the rods were due
to leave the plant after Bratislava approved the shipment's
transit across the Slovak Republic last week.

     16 Feb 1996 (Reuter) - The International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) will open a regional office in Bratislava,
Slovakia next month to help former communist countries with
their nuclear programmes, a Slovak official said. It will be
one of four regional offices the Vienna-based agency has
around the world.