Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:31:47
 
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Apr 1, 1997 (Reuter) - Nuclear scientists found traces of
uranium in the hold of an airlainer that crashed into the sea
near the island Ustica in 1980. Media speculated that is was
meant to uranium to Lybia.

Apr 1, 1997 (Reuter) - The building of bunkers and secret
subways in order to guarantee the survival of the gouvernment
in case of a nuclear war continues in Russia, the Washington
Post said refering to a CIA report.

Apr 1, 1997 (Reuter) - 13 of 21 plannes B-2 Stealth bombers
arrived at the whiteman Air Force base in Missouri. The
aircraft, worth $2 billion, can carry special bunker-busting
nuclear bombs and 2000 pounds highly accurate conventional
bombs.

Apr 1, 1997 (Reuter) - U.S. Energy Secretary Federico Pena
said the decision on a temporary storage near Yucca Mountain,
Nevada, would depend on wether the final storage shall be
build there. The Clinton Administration is opposing a
temporary storage until the viability assessment is done in
1998.

Apr 2, 1997 (Reuter) - Juge Rosario Priore, investigating the
case of the 1980 air crash near the island Ustica, said the
scientific reports about the case were not complete yet and
definitive conclusions about wether the plane carried uranium
or not could not been made yet.

Apr 2, 1997 (Reuter) - Due to problems with projects and
wiring the planned opening of the Czech nuclear power plant at
Temelin was delayed by another year. It shall now connect to
the grid in late 1999.

Apr 2, 1997 (Reuter) - Bohdan Babiy, head of the Ukrain oil
and gas sector, and Viktor Chebrov, head of the Derzhkomatom
nuclear body were sacked by Ukrain president Kuchma because of
incompetence.

Apr 2, 1997 (UPI) - 25 of 31 operators of Commonwealth
Edison's troubeld Lasalle nuclear power plant who took a test
of their ability to handle problems failed. The test was part
of ComEd's own training-program, which lasted 3 weeks.

Apr 2, 1997 (UPI) - Native americans living around the Hanford
nuclear complex filed in a lawsuit against the U.S.
gouvernment and its partners at the project, claiming they
were used as guinea pigs. They were extraordinay at risk
because of their lifestyle and diet.

Apr 3, 1997 (Reuter) - A Japanese top energy official voiced
concern about growing anti-nuclear protests. A stop of
reprocessing and use of the Fast breeder Technology as well as
the denial to use MOX would lead to raising plutonium
stockpiles in japan, Kazuya Fujime, managing director of the
Institute of Energy Economics (IEE) said.

Apr 3, 1997 (Reuter) - U.S. energy Secretary federico pena
held talks with nuclear industry officials about nuclear
waste, which the gouvernment is required by law to take over
from the utilities and store by 1998. Twenty seven plants are
expected to run out of space at this time. The question of
compensation for the plants if the gouvernment cannot handle
the waste wasn't discussed in detail.

Apr 3, 1997 (PRNewswire) - In coorperation with the Sierra
Club the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
presented a documentary film on the case of Alexandr Nikitin,
who was jailed because he had worked on a report about the
russian Northern Fleet. The film "Secret Ecology: The Story of
Alexander Nikitin" was shown on Thursday in Washington.

Mar 31, 1997 (AP) - A memo of some energy department's nuclear
specialists, written eight month ago, was now made public. It
voices strong opposition against the possible use of the
Hanford Fast Flux reactor for production of trithium, a gas
that is needed to keep nuclear weapons functioning.