Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:12:00 
 
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23 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - The United States received its first
shipment from overseas of spent nuclear fuel under its recent
policy of accepting the waste that contains weapons-grade
uranium, the Energy Department said Monday. The 280 spent fuel
elements -- enough to build two crude nuclear weapons -- were
from Colombia, Chile, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland, it
said, and will be stored at the department's Savannah River
Site in South Carolina and its Idaho National Engineering
Laboratory. 

23 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - The Marshall Islands Monday appealed
for international assistance to deal with damage caused by
nuclear tests after the Second World War, when it was part of
a U.S.-administered U.N. Trust Territory. Addressing the
General Assembly, Phillip Muller, the foreign minister of the
Pacific Ocean nation, said his government had recently learned
that ``the damage caused by nuclear weapon test programs
during the Trusteeship are far greater and more horrible than
that originally disclosed.'' 

23 Sep 1996 (UPI) -- The world's five nuclear powers are set
to sign Tuesday a treaty banning all nuclear explosions, the
United Nations said Monday. U.S. President Clinton will be the
first to sign the 110-article treaty in a ceremony at the U.N.
headquarters in New York before he addresses the U.N. General
Assembly. 

23 Sep 1996 (Reuter) - Westinghouse Electric Corp has
completed tests of Bulgaria's oldest reactor at Kozloduy after
its closure in May amid international concern over safety, an
official said on Monday. The analysis will be carried out
under the quality control of Germany's Siemens AG, officials
said, adding that Bulgarian experts will also participate in
the tests. If the analysis of the samples prove that the metal
is in a good condition to continue operating, Bulgaria will
restart the reactor, atomic officials said. 

20 Sep 1996 (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.