Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:39:33 
 
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Nov 15, 1996 (Reuter) - The Bulgarian Kozloduy nuclear power
plant shall be modernized by foreign firms. A $250 million
tender to upgrade the plant was issued earlier this year. A
consoertium of Germany's Siemens AG France's Framatome and a
Russian institute is said to be amongst the bidders. Another
issue to be accessed is the storage of the waste after
contracts with Russia had expired in 1990.

Nov 15, 1996 (Reuter) - Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of
State, said China didn't do enough to restrain nuclear sales
for accessing U.S. nuclear technology. Refering to the
proceeding of the 1985 agreement about Peaceful Nuclear
Cooperation he said, "We are not at that point yet. We've made
some progress in some areas, but we're going to have to keep
working at it." Secretary of State Warren Christopher is to
visit China next week.

Nov 15, 1996 (UPI) - One of the two reactors of the nuclear
power plant in Dresden near Morris, U.S. was shut down without
giving reasons. The plant was inspected by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, which will publish its findings on
December 12th.

Nov 15, 1996 (Reuter) - The North Korean official news agency
KCNA accused on friday the US for delaying the building of the
light water reactors it has promised to privide in return for
North Korea's promise to stop its nuclear program. It said
North Korea could not keep its nuclear program frozen while it
depends on heavy oil, the delivery of which could be stopped
every moment.

Nov 15, 1996 (Reuter) - Experts rose awareness of the problem
that with the beginning of the year 2000 most computers could
crash or produce erroneous data, logging years only by the
final two digits and treating 2000 therefor as 1900. This
could effect almost any aspect of moders live, including
nuclear power plant cooling. 

Nov. 14, 1996 (UPI) - Deputy Foreign Minister of Belorussia,
Andrei Sannikov, resigned, showing disagreement with the
President Alexander Lukashenko's annuncement not to hand
nuclear weapons back to Russia unless NATO stops plans to
expand into Eastern Europe.

Nov. 14, 1996 (UPI) - The reactor 2 of Chernobyl, which was
damaged by fire in 1991, is according to Ukrainian officials
possible due to be re-opened. This was announced only two
weeks before the reactor 1 is to shut down. Analysts say this
step is mostly to put pressure on the matter of financial help
for closing down and building alternatives for Chernobyl.