Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:04:47 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R Apr 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Ukrainian Environment Minister Yuri Kostenko rejected in a speech at the annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development a report that concluded that continued construction Khmelnitsky 2 and Rovno 4 were not feasible. He said a stop of the construction would mean a threat to the economical stability of the Ukraine. Apr 14, 1997 (Reuter) - The Goldman Environmental Foundation, which anually awards grassroots environmentalists from six regions of the world, gave this year a prize to Alexander Nikitin. Apr 14, 1997 (UPI) - According to the Russian News Agency Itar-Tass Taiwan and North-Korea will hold a meeting about further economic cooperation. Both China and South Korea are strongly opposed to those contacts. Apr 14, 1997 (Reuter) - The deconstruction of the ex U.S. aircraft and missile base at greenham Common, which was the subject of mass protests in the eighties, has begun. The women who erected the famous peace camp next to the site some 15 years ago decided to stay. Apr 14, 1997 (PRNewswire) - Opposition to Peco's try to bill customers for the next ten years for costs of its nuclear power plants, even if they decide to buy their electricity from another utility according to a 1996 deregulation law, was voiced by administrative law judge Louis Cocheres. The decision is in the hands of Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commision. Apr 14, 1997 (Reuter) - Tension rose up between Noth Korea and the U.S. as an North Korean official newspaper accused the U.S. of wanting to militarily contain it. Japanese foreign Minister said North Korea would build missiles that could reach most of Japan. In may 1993, North Korea had test-fired a Rodong-1 ballisic missile into the Sea of Japan. Apr 14, 1997 (Reuter) - Some Cadmium Dimethyl was leaked out of a plant of the Sarovo nuclear complex near Nizhny Nowgorod, Russia on Sunday. Forty three people had to be taken to a hospital. Apr 15, 1997 (Reuter) - Japanese officials said on Tuesday a complaint, the first step for formal charges, will soon be filed against the PNC by the gouvernment. PNC officials had granted to have falsified a report about the accident at the Tokaimura plant. Apr 15, 1997 (Reuter) - On Thursday an international dry-run will start about what would happen in case a nuclear power plant would suffer a serious accident. The Loviisa station in southern Finland was chosen, and experts in 26 european countries, and even in countries as far as South Korea shall "react", according to the estimated fall-out in their region. Information about the test can be obtained in the Internat at http://www.intermin.fi/sm/pelastus. Apr 15, 1997 (Reuter) - On the annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), its chief Jacques de Larosiere addressed the nuclear safety issue, naming especially RMBK reactors in Lithuatia and the Ukraine. "Ukraine has met its obligations. Now it is the turn of our partner parties to meet their commitments," Ukrain Finance Minister Mityukov said, rederring to western funds for two new reactors. Lithuanians Finance Minister Semena said he could give no timetable for the closing of Ignalina. Apr 15, 1997 (UPI) - As a new problem of the troubled Maine Yankee nuclear power station it was found that 90 percent of crucial fire-spreading containment foam seals at the plant were defective. This could further delay the restart of the reactor. which is shut down since December last year. Apr 15, 1997 (UPI) - The U.S. Senate votet 65 to 34 in favor for a central nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, but President Clinton had promised to veto the bill. Two more votes would have been necessary to override his veto. Apr 15, 1997 (Reuter) - Environmentalists from 13 countries, organised in the CEE Bankwatch network urged that future loans should be bound to closure of dangerous nuclear power plants. Apr 16, 1997 (Reuter) - With the radiation leak at the Fugen 165MW advanced thermal reactor on Mnday as the last in a series of nuclear accidents in Japan the public might lose its trust in the nuclear industry, which could further block Japans nuclear development, industry analysts said. Another source said that the delay would be not too bad for the power industry, which is under pressure to lower electricity rates, while construction of nuclear power plants costs a lot of money. Apr 16, 1997 (UPI) - Japanese gouvernmental Science and Technology Agency has filed a complaint against state run Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. The police was asked to investigate the case of the report falsified by PNC officials. Apr 16, 1997 (Reuter) - Eleven workers were exposed to small doses of radiation during a Monday acccident at the Fugen reactor in western Japan. Reports of the accident were delayed "partly because the workers were so relieved once they found the cause of the problem," a PNC spokesman said. Apr 16, 1997 (Reuter) - PECO Energy Co will try "securize" $3.8 billion, which means it refinances previous investments at cost savings which can be passed to the custumers. Judge Louis Cocheres recommended the Public Utility Commision to reject the plan. PECO owns the Limerick 1 and 2 nuclear stations and holds 40 percent in Salem 1 and 2.