Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:34:17 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R Headlines 19 - 21 september 1996 19 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - The Justice Department will review the results of an investigation of the Maine Yankee nuclear plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked Justice Department officials to review its probe of allegations that engineers fraudulently manipulated a computer code used to test a key plant cooling system during the 1980s. The 24-year-old plant has been limited to operating at 90 percent of its 910-megawatt capacity while the new tests are reviewed. The findings from the probe have not been made public.The allegations about the testing were originally made in an anonymous letter that provided substantial technical data to support the charges. 21 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry said Saturday that NATO had no plans to move nuclear weapons into new member states along Russia's borders but was making no promises to Moscow on the subject. He said Finland, which is in the process of taking delivery of 64 U.S.-build F-18 fighter jets, could be a good influence on neighboring Russia on behalf of the West. Thursday, Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, Perry and Norway's Defense MinisterJoergen Kosmo will sign an agreement under which the three nations will cooperate to halt and perhaps even clean up nuclear and other waste dumped by Russia's military in the vast Arctic. 20 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - The United States said Friday it doesnot expect North Korea's attempt to infiltrate the South by submarine to interfere with a landmark nuclear agreement and an offer for peace talks remains on the table. South Korean security forces believe several agents areholed up around disused coal mines in rugged mountains near the east coast city of Kangnung. They are the remnants of a squad of heavily armed infiltrators that landed on Wednesday. South Korea has described the most serious infiltrationsince the 1960s as a military provocation. Sept 19 (UPI) -- The controversy over storing fivestates' low-level radioactive waste in Ohio was expected to reach a peak Friday during a public hearing held by the Ohio Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development Authority. Statistically, Ohio generated the next highest amount of radioactive waste and the interstate group decided the waste would be stored in the Buckeye State in concrete-encased, 55-gallon drums housed in an above ground facility. Low-level radioactive waste is produced by nuclear power plants, hospitals, research centers and businesses. The facility would be resistant to water infiltration, tornadoes and lightning, have continuous monitoring and recoverability, a federal employee on site, and emergency on-site power sources. The Midwest group includes Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri,and Wisconsin. 20 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) completed two days of talks Friday to discuss an agreement to close the Chernobyl nuclear power station and build two new reactors. The meetings ended just days after Ukrainian officials detected high neutron radiation readings inside the cracking "sarcophagus", the structure covering the ruined fourth reactor at Chernobyl. Viktor Chebrov, head of Ukraine's nuclear authority, Derzhkomatom, played down concerns Friday over the neutron activity but repeated calls to build a new sarcophagus, The EBRD official did not say how much money was involved,although G7 nations have agreed to provide up to $3 billion for Ukraine to close the plant by the year 2000. Sept 20 (Reuter) - Bulgaria's electricity company(NEC) said on Friday Romania had given permission for transportation of Russian nuclear fuel on the River Danube for its Kozloduy nuclear plant. The NEC said in a statement that Bucharest had licensed transportation of fresh nuclear fuel on the Danube through Romanian territory until September 2001. The officials said fresh fuel would be delivered by air for recharging the Kozloduy VVER-1,000 reactor number six at the end of September or the beginning of October. This will be the second delivery by air. Fuel for recharging the Kozloduy VVER-440 reactors from Russia was sent by air for the first time three months ago. 20 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - Mordechai Vanunu might be forgiven forthinking the world had forsaken him. Lauded by activists the world over for daring to reveal details of Israel's top secret Dimona nuclear plant, Vanunu now sits alone, 30 september for 10 years already, in a tiny cell with no prospect of early release from an 18-year sentence. In the forefront of the campaigners is veteran anti-nuclear activist Professor Joseph Rotblat, winner of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. ``I find it hard to understand that a civilized country like Israel could keep a man in solitary confinement for 10 years. It is an act of barbarism,'' Rotblat said in an interview.