Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:27:57 
 
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24 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh
Hasina, signed the nuclear test ban treaty on Thursday.

25 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - The North Korean electricity grid does
not fit the requirements for a nuclear power station, the U.S.
expert Ronald Hagen from the East-West Centre said. The U.S.
agreed to deliver two nuclear reactors to North Korea in 1994,
but now doubts raise wether North Korea with its lack of
computer and modern communications is able to handle the
produced power adequatly.

25 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - While the negotiations are still going
on, a lawyer said that families of 12 victums of sectret
radiation tests in the U.S. during the cold war will probably
get compensation of $4.8 million.

26 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - The IAEA ended the examination of the
Chinese Daya Bay nuclear power plant concluding it would suite
international safety regulations. The plant had been shut down
in March after serious problems.

26 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - A group of insiders to the Soviet
nuclear programme had agreed to write a history of nuclear
weapons in the Soviet Union some years ago, the Washinton Post
reported. The results of the investigation are kept secret,
but has given the U.S. valuable insights, the newspaper said.

27 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - Anti-nuclear lobbyists said the U.S.
had delocated the 90 bombs from the Lakenheath base, and
probably brought them back to America, as on no other base
anything unusual had been watched. These have been the last
american nuclear weapons still in Britain. Officials denyed
any comment on the reports.

28 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - Ukrain environmental Minister Yuri
Kosenko said the Ukraine would keep its promise and close the
reactor No. 1 of the Chernobyl plant on November 30.

28 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - During an accident on the russion
nuclear powered warship Pyotr Veliky one man was killed and
several were injured. A flange on the steampipe of the
subsidiary mechanism ruptured, an official satement said. The
accident has not affected the reactor and the radiation levels
are normal, officials said.

28 Oct 1996 (Reuter) - Speaking to the General Assembly of the
UN, Hans Blix, director-general of the IAEA, said studies show
the wider use of nuclear power could help reduce greenhouse
effect.