Subject: headlines march 14 & 15
 
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:57:47 -0500
 

     March 15, 1996 (Reuter) - Australia's new conservative
government said it was keen to sell uranium to Indonesia for
its planned nuclear power plants, ending 13 years of
restrictions on sales. The Liberal-National coalition, which
won the March 2 election to end 13 years of Labor government,
said before the polls it would look at opening new uranium
mines. The new Resources Minister Warwick Parer said Australia
needed to take advantage of its 30 percent share of the 
world's uranium reserves and increase its 10 percent share of
the world market.


     March 14, 1996 (Reuter) - French wine exporters blamed
French nuclear testing in the South Pacific for preventing
1995 from being a record year and predicted the fallout would
worsen in 1996 even though the tests were over. Boycotts in
protest at the atomic blasts, especially in Scandinavia, the
Netherlands and Canada, knocked 750 million francs ($150
million) off expected 1995 sales.


     March 14 (UPI) - Romania's first nuclear reactor will go
through final tests by the end of this month. Work on the
nuclear plant at Cernavoda, 124 miles (200 km) southeast of
Bucharest, started in 1979, when Romania's then-communist
leadership decided to snub Soviet-type nuclear power plants
and opted for Canada's pressurized heavy water reactors.
Designed to operate five reactors, Cernavoda had to shrink to
just one 700-megawatt unit, with a consortium of Canada's
Atomic Energy and Italy's Ansaldo charging over $1 billion
finally to make it work.  


     March 14, 1996 (UPI) -- A U.S. prisoner of war killed by
the first nuclear bomb dropped on a populated area 50 years
ago will be listed as a Hiroshima victim, said a survivor of
the explosion who sought the listing. "Once you die, there is
no ally or enemy," said Shigeaki Mori, 58, who is suffering
from the effects of radiation and applied for the lising of
U.S. airman James Ryan. "U.S. citizens should also be mourned
as bomb victims." Ryan was a 20-year-old POW in Hiroshima when
the first A-bomb was dropped on Aug. 6, 1945.