Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 08:55:12 -0400
 
June 5 (Reuter) - A Slovak engineer was arrested on Wednesday
on suspicion of smuggling 2.77 kg of radioactive uranium into
Germany, investigators said. The uranium was found last week
in a bank safety deposit box in the southern town of Ulm. The
material consisted partly of low-grade natural uranium and
partly of more fissile enriched uranium. State prosecutors
said they acted on a tip-off from Austrian police who told
them the man was trying to sell the uranium for $1 million.



June 5 (Reuter) - Ukrainian Environment Minister Yuri Kostenko
has urged the G7 to stop talking and start handing over the
money needed to close the country's Chernobyl nuclear power
station. "Ukraine has not received one cent for closing the
station," Kostenko said on Tuesday, the eve of a two-day
meeting with donor countries. A Western delegation of more
than 28 people, led by France's Claude Mandil,  Nuclear Safety
Working Group president, is in Kiev to press Ukraine to close
the site.



June 5 (Reuter) - India's new centre-left government said it
would retain the option to build nuclear weapons until
universal nuclear disarmament was achieved. India is under
pressure to sign a global Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty being
negotiated in Geneva. New Delhi says the treaty is
discriminatory and legitimises the possession of nuclear arms
in the hands of a few nations while blocking other countries'
access to them. Islamabad says it will not sign it unless
India does first.