Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:34:13
 
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Jan 10, 1997 (Reuters) - A report published in the British
Medical Journal claims that radiation from the reprocessing
plant La Hague caused leukemia among children playing at the
beaches and eating local seafood.

Jan 10, 1997 (Reuter) - Oil from the broken Russian tanker
Nahodka, which sank eight days ago, is threatening the cooling
systems of 15 Japanese reactors, which are cooled by seawater.
Utility officials said the intake pipes would be four to seven
meters below the surface and oild fences had been erected.
There were no plans to shut down the reactors temporarly.

Jan 10, 1997 (Reuter) - 40 tonnes of nuclear waste were
shipped last night to Cherbourg, France, to be sent back to
Japan, which had been sending its nuclear waste to La Hague
for reprocessing. Greenpeace expects the waste to be carried
by the british vessel Lean, which would leave on January 16.

Jan 10, 1997 (Reuter) - After the closure of its Haddam Neck
nuclear power plant Northeast Utilities has to file a safety
analysis and a plan of thei activities, NRC officials said.
The dismantling will start earliest in 1998 and is estimated
to cost about US$ 425 million - US$225 million more than the
plant saved fot dismantling.

Jan 11, 1997 (? Reuter) - The U.S. Department of Energy said
keeping the option of produing trithium with the Fast Flux
Test Facility reactor at the Hanford site would be cheaper
than the alternatives. Trithium is mainly used for nuclear
weapons.

Jan 11, 1997 (? Reuter) - Japan trys everything to keep the
oil from the sunken Russian tanker off Wakasa Bay, where 15
nuclear reactors depend on seawater for their cooling systems.
Though 28 ships and six aircraft are used, the sludge could
reach the shore on Sunday, a Maritime Safety Agency spokesman
said.

Jan 12, 1997 (UPI) - The move of a Hong Kong low-level nuclear
waste storage, which is situated in the downtown and had been
ruled unsafe in 1992 delays for at least 18 months as the new
facility on a deserted island is't ready yet.

Jan 12, 1997 (? Reuter) - Japan's marine agency succeeded in
keeping the oil from the recently sunken Russian tanker from
the 15 nuclear reactors, the cooling systems of which depend
on seawater.