Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 14:56:15 -0500
 
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NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuter) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) fined Public Service Electric & Gas Co (PSE&G) for
$180,000 for violating security requierments and intimidating
plantworkers. PSE&G operates the Salem and Hope Creek npp's in
New Jersey. PSE&G does not denie the allegations, but might
challenge the size of the fine.

DAMASCUS, Dec. 13 (UPI) _ A five-day Arab conference on
nuclear power concluded Friday in Damascus. Recommendations
were made to build npp's for electricity generation and water
desalination. Syria has plans to purchase a npp from Argentina
to produce their own radio-isotopes, which they now import
from France and Britain. Syria says it has no plans to
purchase nuclear weapons.
MOSCOW, Dec. 14 (UPI) - Russian scientist Alexai Pustovalov
claims the plutonium-capsules from the crashed Mars-96 will
not leak within 1000 years. He told Interfax that the craft
contained 18 of these capsules.

SAO PAULO (Reuter) - German chemist Karl Heinz Schaab was
arrested on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro when he tried to extend
his visa. Schaab is suspected of selling uranium enrichement
technology to Iraq in 1989 and 1990, without permission from
the German government.

      OTTAWA (Reuter) - Canadian Environment Minister Sergio
Marchi is willing to use U.S. military plutonium in civilian
nuclear reactors. Ontario Hydro is considering to use up to
100 tons of plutonium from U.S. and Russian warheads.
A project to ship U.S. plutonium to Canada was abandoned last
month due to opposition from U.S. anti-nuclear groups.