Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:13:48
 
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Jan 13, 1997 (Reuter) - On Saturday a contract about the
shipment of 60,000 barrels of nuclear waste was signed between
Taiwan and North Korea. The state utility Taipower had stopped
dumping nuclear waste on its only facility in July 1996, and
keeps other options for disposal in Taiwan itself, Russia and
the Marshall Islands.

Jan 13, 1997 (Reuter) - The nuclear reactors in Wasaka Bay,
Japan, operate normally, though the seawater depending cooling
system is threatend by oil slicks from a broken Russian
tanker. Until now, special fences have kept the oil from the
intake pipes.

Jan 13, 1997 (Reuter) - The construction of the nuclear power
plant in Chashma, Punjab, Pakistan will be finished by end of
the year, Chinese officials said. The station is build by the
Chinese and under International Atomic Energu Agency
safeguards.

Jan 13, 1997 (Reuter) - 40 containers of nuclear waste left
Cherbourg, France on Monday for Japan. Greepeace activists
protested, but did not try to stop the british ship. The route
is still kept secret.

Jan 13, 1997 (? Reuter) - Victor Mikhalilov, the Russian
Nuclear Energy Minister, said the Russian nuclear industry
would focus on export of nuclear energy. Russia builds a
nuclear power plant in Iran, and plans to go ahead with
projects in China and India. Further possible partners, as
named by Mikhailov, were Indonesia, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Brazil and Vietnam.
Jan 14, 1996 (Reuter) - The U.S. Export-Import Bank and the
Export Development Co of Canada lent U.S.$ 1.84 billion to
China to fund the equipment to be imported for the Quinshan
nuclear power plant. Altogether $2.86 billion are needed for
the construction of the two 700-megawatt reactors.

Jan 14, 1997 (Reuter) - The route of the nuclear waste
transport from France to Japan will pass along Afrika and go
through the southwest Pacific. The ship shall reach the port
of Mutsu Ogawara in mid-march.