Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:45:06 
 
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     Aug 21, 1996 (Reuter) - Engineers are investigating why
an important wire was removed that is used to automatically
activate a pump from a key cooling system of the Maine Yankee
nuclear power plant. Officials shut down the plant in
Wiscasset, Maine this Sunday. The wire could have been removed
by mistake during an earlier modification. Possibly there
could be a tampering or sabotage.  The cooling system is
designed to prevent the reactor core from melting down in the
event of problems in the main coolant system.  Design problems
were later found in another key control system.

     Aug 21, 1996 (Reuter) - The Navy said Wednesday it was
investigating the severing of electrical wires aboard the
nuclearsubmarine U.S.S. San Juan. Federal agents from the Navy
Criminal Investigation Service were conducting the probe,
begun when a watch commander spotted a non-functioning
indicator light. Upon examination, it was discovered that
several wires in the supply cabinet behind the panel had been
cut.


     Aug 21, 1996 (Reuter) - Germany's federal court said on
Wednesday it would investigate the nuclear power plant at
Kruemmel to see if it was in any way responsible for the large
number of cases (up to 70 higher than the rest of the country)
of leukemia in the area. The move by the federal court in
Berlin overturns a previous decision by the Schleswig
adminstrative court from 1994, which rejected a claim that
there was a link between the power plant and a series of
leukemia cases in the locality. The Green party in
Schleswig-Holstein said it was a small step on the way to
closing the Kruemmel plant. 

     Aug 21, 1996 (Reuter) - A battle is brewing in
Connecticut over who is going to foot the bill for all the
electricity Northeast Utilities was forced to buy this summer
to make up for the loss of its nuclear power plants. The
plants, with a combined generating capacity of about 3,282
megawatts, or about half of the state's power demand, were
shut in March and July, respectively, amid safety concerns
raised by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NU
estimates it has cost about $25 million to $30 million a month
to buy replacement power for the Millstone units from other
electricity producers.  

     Aug 21, 1996 (Reuter) - India vows to defy pressure over
nuclear treaty. New Delhi says the treaty is discriminatory
because it fails to spell out a timetable for nuclear
disarmament for the five declared nuclear powers and allows
them to refine arsenals through computerised testing while
barring other nations from tests. 

     Aug 23 1996 (Reuter) -  Following is the text of a
resolution Australia plans to present to the United Nations
General Assembly Sept. 9 to counter India's veto of a draft
treaty to ban nuclear testing, negotiated at the Geneva-based
Conference on Disarmament. Australia has submitted the text of
the draft treaty and resolution to Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali to be circulated to all U.N. members. If the
resolution is adopted,the treaty can be open for signature.
------ THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,RECALLING its resolution 50/65 of
12 December 1995, in which the Assembly declared its readiness
to resume consideration of the item ``Comprehensive Nuclear
Test-Ban Treaty,'' as necessary, before its 51st session in
order to endorse the text of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban
Treaty, 

1. ADOPTS the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, as
contained in ... (document number allocated to treaty text to
befilled in); 

2. REQUESTS the Secretary-General, as depository of the
treaty, to open it for signature, at United Nations
headquarters, at the earliest possible date; 

3. CALLS UPON all states to sign and, thereafter, according to
their respective constitutional processes, to become parties
to the treaty at the earliest possible date; 

4. REQUESTS the Secretary-General, as depository of the
treaty, to report to the General Assembly at its 52nd session
on the status of signature and ratifications of the treaty.
(end text)