Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:39:46

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Mar 18, 1997 (Reuter) - Without incidents the Pacific Teal
crrying reprocessed nuclear waste from France to Japan docked
at the port of Mustsu-Ogawara. About 150 activists
demonstrated in front of the harbour.

Mar 18, 1997 (Reuter) - After the accident at the Tokaimura
reprocessing plant the Japanese state-run Power Reactor and
Nuclear Fuel Development Corp (PNC) faces serious criticism
also from official sides. ``The PNC was overconfident about
safety and unequipped to   cope after the accident,'' top-
gouvernment spokesman Seiroku Kajiyama said. Other officials
raised the proposal of privatisation of the company.

Mar 18, 1997 (Reuter) - At the Dutch nuclear power plant in
Dodewaard about 10 Greenpeace activists chained themselves to
a truck in order to prevent a shipment of nuclear waste to
Sellafield. Plant officials denied to comment on palnned waste
shipments.

Mar 18, 1997 (Reuter) - On Tuesday talks of the KEDO and North
Korea began in order to define a protocol for the case any of
the KEDO members does not pay according to the 1994 agreement.
Then the U.S. had promised to supply North Korea with two
light water reactors worth $4.5 billion. The Korean Peninsula
Energy Development   Organization (KEDO), led by the U.S.,
South Korea and Japan was founded to proceed the deal.

Mar 17, 1997 (Reuters) - A study published in the American
Journal of Epidemiology found an significant high number of
skin cancer cases among workers at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (LLNL), a California nuclear research
center. Anyway they don't conclude them to be caused by
radiation, also because the number of leukemia and other
cancer cases wasn't found abnormal.