Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:26:05

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Mar 15, 1997 (UPI) - U.S. two biggest nuclear utilities
Commomwealth Edison and Duke Power together with European
companies founded the project Plutonium Excess Arms Converted
to  Electricity (PEACE) for burning plutonium from nuclear
weapons in comercial reactors. The first test burn shall be in
1999. Three stations of Commonwealth Edison are on the NRC
watch-list of unsafe plants, and the companies cabability of
providing the necessary safety is widely doubted.

Mar 15, 1997 (Reuter) - Northern Illinois' Unicom Corp.
(owning Commomwealth Edison) and North Carolina's Duke Power
Co. would team up with european nuclear plants in the project
PEACE (Plutonium Excess Arms Converted to Electricity) in
order to burn altogether about 50 tonnes of plutonium from
nuclear weapons in comercial nuclear plants.

Mar 16, 1997 (Reuter) - Greenpeace Japan says it plans actions
against the arrival of the Pacific Teal, carrying nuclear
waste, at the port of Mutsu-Ogawara. Anti-nuclear activists
had met to prepare rallies. The final destination of the waste
is still unclear. Tokyo plas to ship 7,100 tonnes of spent
fuel to France for reprocessing.

Mar 16, 1997 (Reuter) - The Italian journalist Antonio
Pagnotta approched the explosion site of the Tokaimura plant,
Japan, to 300m. He had entered a gate and climed over a fence
before being noticed by guards. Operator of the plant, state-
run PNC granted that they didn't warn a group of students and
foreign trainees who were touring the plant at the day of the
accident.

Mar 15, 1997 (UPI) - The Pantex plant at Amarillo, Texas,
which stores and disassembled nuclear weapons, may face a
strike of its guards on Sunday. Another guard force was
already bought in to maintain security.

Mar 14, 1997 (Reuter) - Protesting against the Taiwanese
nuclear waste shipment to North Korea, South Korean activists
went to high seas with a 100-ton vessel carrying fake waste
barrels and having North korean and Taiwanese flags hoisted.
Then a blokade was played. The first shipment is expected in
July.

Mar 14, 1997 (Reuter) - An Nuclear Regulatory Commission
official is pleaded guilty for having leaked a report on
testing of a key safety system to Maine Yankee.

Mar 14, 1997 (UPI) - Gov. Pete Wilson of California called for
congressional investigation into the case of the transfer of
federal land for the low-level nuclear waste dump site at Ward
Valley. he said the withdrawl from the transfer would have
political and not scientific reasons.

Mar 14, 1997 (Reuter) - California Gov. Pete Wilson accused
the federal gouvernment of delay tactics, when he rejected a
call from the Interior Department for joint safety tests.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Inonesian analysts they the project of
a nuclear power plant had been postponed because the costs of
$7 billion would have been unaffordable and a strong anto-
nuclear protest had been formed.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Iran denied a report of the Los
Angeles Times, according o which U.S. intelligence reports
indicate a sale of russian SS-4 missile technology to Iran.
Iran also denied any efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Japanese public voiced criticism and
anger about the circumstances of the accident at the Tokaimura
plant, including delayed notification of the residets and
insufficent firefighting equipment. No fulltime plant employee
was on duty when the fire broke out.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Operation of the 1100-MW reactor at
Niigata, Japan, was stopped for safety concerns by its
operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc. A valve in the reactor
container was found malfuntioning, the company said.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Having reached a consensus on coal
subsidies, the conservative german gouvernment could come to
an understanding with the Social Democrats on the question of
nuclear energy, a gouvernment spokesman said.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - The Uraine Chernobyl nuclear power
station has halved electricity output and will likely have to
stop operation within a month for lack of fuel. If the station
stops operation all safety systems and measures to keep the
reactors warm would depend on the unreliable grid. the station
owes Russian producers $3.5 million.

Mar 13, 1997 (UPI) - Commonwealth Edison's Zion nuclean power
plant 50 miles north of Chicago is proposed by the NRC for a
$100,000 fine, the reasons for which are engeneering and
safety violations, inadequate documentation. Both reactors of
the Zion station will stay shut down until the problems are
solved.

Mar 13, 1997 (Reuter) - The Clinton administration said it
would veto a bill passed by a Senate panel which urges the
nuclear waste storage site at Nevada to be ready in 1999.