Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:59:46
 
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Feb 6, 1997 (UPI) - The U.S. declared the Russian deal with
India to supply two light-water reactors would break a 1992
treaty where the U.S., Russia, Britain and France signed not
to give nuclear assistance to a state who refuses United
Nations inspections. Russian officials countered the deal was
signed already in 1987, and the 1992 would't apply.

Feb 6, 1997 (Reuter) - The Russian Defence Minister Igor
Rodionov wrote a letter to President Yeltsin and Prime
Minister Chernomyrdin voicing his concerns about the state of
the army. ``Russia might soon reach the threshold beyond which
its rockets and nuclear systems cannot be controlled,'' he
said. Also psychological problems among soldiers would be
alarming.

Feb 7, 1997 (Reuter) - The Swedish power utility Sydkraft,
whose Barseback nuclear power plant will be closed according
to a gouvernmental decision, will ask compensation. The
company demands the electricity capacity the plant does
currently produce.

Feb 7, 1997 (Reuter) - The U.s. Department of Energy announced
that a 18 month lasting test about the possible tritium
production in commercial nuclear reactors shall be carryed out
at the Watts Bar station in Spring City, Tennessee. The
tritium would be used to maintain nuclear weapons.


Feb 7, 1997 (Reuter) - Ireland voiced concern over recent
accidents in sellafield and British nuclear safety in general.
Irish Minister Emmet Stagg, responsible for nuclear safety,
met with Ambassador Veronica Sutherland to discuss the matter
and wrote a letter to british Minister for environment, John
Gummer, urging to stop with Nirex, an underground waste dump
near Sellafield.

Feb 8, 1997 (Reuter) - Plans to build power plants in the
Ukraine in order to close down Chernobyl wouldn't meet the
European Bank for Reconstructiuon and Development's finance
criteria, The Financial Times reported. An Ukrain official
said if that would turn out to be true, they would look
elewhere for investment capital.

Feb 8, 1997 (Reuter) - Indian analysts rejected the opposing
of the U.S. against a deal about two light water reactors,
which shall be built by Russia in southern India, claiming the
U.S. would supply nuclear reactors to North Korea.

Feb 8 (Reuter) - Y.S.R Prasad, managing director of Indian
state-run Nuclear Power Corporation said on Saturday India
would be open for nuclear power plants with 100 percent
foreign ownership.

Feb 8, 1997 (Reuter) - In an overnight action, Greenpeace
activists chained themselves to the rope of a freighter in the
port of Bremerhaven carrying nuclear fuel to Dounreay. On
Saturday morning the police ended the action, briefly
detaining ten activists.

Feb 9, 1997 (Reuter) - In an interview with the television
station TF1 German Chancellor Helmut Kohl strongly denied any
rumours Germany would want access to french nuclear weapons.

Feb 10, 1997 (UPI) - The Fermi 2 nuclear plant of Detroit
Edison, which was shut down on January 17 due to a non-nuclear
incident, will not restart before late March; technicans had
discovered problems with the balancing of the rotor.

Feb 10, 1997 (Reuter) - On a session of the Indo-Russian
inter-governmental commission on trade, economic, scientific
and cultural cooperation Indian Foreign Minister I.K. Gujral
confirmed India would not sign the nuclear test ban treaty.
Russian officials assured they would go ahead with the supply
of two light water reactors to India.