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Mar 7, 1997 (Reuter) - The decision of the State Environment
Minister of Hessen, Germany, Margarethe Nimsch, to withdraw
the operating license for Germany's oldest nuclear power plant
at Biblis, was thwarted by the federal gouvernment. The argue
is about on wether the safety upgrades at the plant are
sufficent.

Mar 7, 1997 (Reuter) - U.S. Senators Feingold of Wisconsin and
Wellstone of Minnesota called the U.S. Secretary of State to
engage for Mordechai Vanunu, who is imprisones in Isreal for
ten years now. He had discovered secrets about the Israeli
weapons program.

Mar 8, 1997 (Reuter) - Phillipine Foreign Secretary Domingo
Siazon and Pakistani Foreign Minister Minister Gohar Ayub Khan
signed an agreement on nuclear coorperation on Saturday.

Mar 8, 1997 (? Reuter) - On sunday greenpeace activists
erected a 36 feet tall tower in front of the nuclear power
plant at Beznau, Switzerland, to stop a shipment of spent fuel
to Sellafield or la hague for reprocessing.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - At the meeting of Clinton and Yeltsin
in Helsinki March 19-20, U.S. officials said their will be
talks about further reduction of strategic nuclear weapons,
but the outcome would be still very unsure as the Russian has
not yet ratified Start II.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - The Japanese power company Kyushu
Electric Power Company has cancelled a plan to build a nuclear
reactor on the southern island of Kyushu, bowing to the threat
of a negative referendum result, planned this summer.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - Ten workers at the Japanese Tokaimura
reprocessing plant were exposed to radiation after a fire
broke out on Tuesday 10.08 a.m. According to a Power Reactor
and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp's (PNC) the workers were
exposed to a small amount of radiation and a small amount was
released into the environment.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - The Japanese Federation of Electric
Power Companies (JFNL) and Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd said that
the British ship Pacific Teal with about 20 tonnes of
reprocessing waste from La Hague, France, will arrive at the
port of Mutsu-Ogawara in northern Japan on March 18.
Environmental groups plan to demonstrate against the arrival
near the complex the day before.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - The export of French wine and other
alcohlics recovered from a boycott after the nuclear tests in
the Pacific. Export income rose 5 percent in 1996 to 36.2
billion francs ($6.3 billion), industry spokesmen said
Tuesday.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - After an earlier fire an explosion
occured at the Tokaimura reprocessing plant. Several windows
were broken and smoke had escaped from the waste vitrification
plant. No details were given on radiation exposure and release
into the environment.

Mar 11 (Reuter) - A spokesman for the Power Reactor and
Nuclear Fuel Development Corp.'s (PNC) said there was no
evacuation planned because of the explosion at the Tokaimura
reprocessing plant and the amout of radiation ten workers were
exposed to would have been "extremely, extremely small."

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - Foreign Minister of Sweden, lene
Hjelm-Wallen called the nuclear weapons states on the
Conference for Disarmament for taking their nuclear forces off
alert. She also called for negotiations in order to halt
production of weapons grade nuclear material.

Mar 11, 1997 (Reuter) - Due to serious safety lacks at the
Beaver Vellay, U.S.,  nuclear power plant the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission fined the operator, Duquense Light Co.,
US$ 160,000.