Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:25:40

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Jun 11, 1997 (Reuter) - Northeast Utilities said it would not
let customers pay for its nuclear mismanagement. The costs
associated with shut-down nuclear operations would be $990
million from April 1996 to December 31, 1998. anyway, a still
unnamed share of the amount will be declared a "normal" costs
and as such passed to the customer.

Jun 11, 1997 (UPI) - Short before the release of AECB's
review, James Hankinson, president of news Bruswick Power's
Point Lepreau nuclear plant said he was aware of deficiencies
in operation, but would expect the company to find the station
safe for further operation.

Jun 11, 1997 (UPI) - The Enrico Fermi Award for achievments
concerning nuclear energy is given to physisist Richard
Garwin, physician Dr. H. Rodney Witers and general scientist
Mortimer Elkind this year.

Jun 11, 1997 (UPI) - During a refueling and maintance outage,
corrosion was discovered in the generator of San Onofre
Nuclear Plant's Unit 3. Despite of that the unit will do on-
line next week.

Jun 12, 1997 (Reuter) - Japanese gouvernment officials said
the reporting of accidents has improved in the last time. A
Spokesperson of the Japanese Citizen's Nuclear Information
Centre said, "the concern is that the volume of reporting on
minor   incidents will give people a false sense of security
that big  accidents will be reported accurately."

Jun 12, 1997 (?Reuter) - 154 of the 220 pounds nuclear fuel
stolen from Ignalina nuclear plant, Lithuania, have been
seized, security officials said. Three people, all former
security guards at Ignalina, will be taken to court.

Jun 12, 1997 (UPI) - Israel's ben Gurion University strongly
rejected a suspect of the U.S. administration it would be
involved in the development of nuclear weapons.

Jun 12, 1997 (UPI) - After a landowner from Ellsworth,
Illinois, withdraw his offer to build a low-level waste
stogage on his land, the state is again looking for a proper
site.

Jun 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Inhabitants of a small Russian town 60
miles north of Vladivostok voted overwhlmingly against the
docking of a floating reprocessing plant, which shall take the
waste from the dismantling of nuclear submarines. The poll was
non-binding.

Jun 13, 1997 (UPI) - ConAm, a firm which uses radioactive
imaging, was fined $16,000 by the NRC as one employee was
exposed to 6 to 9 rems, whereas the annual dose is 5 rems.

Jun 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Greenpeace said it found radiation
levels exeeding European standards in the sea near the French
nuclear reprocessing plant La Hague.

Jun 13, 1997 (Reuter) - Following a hint of an anonymous
whistleblower, the NRC is investigating wether Maine Yankee
officials fraudently changed the results of a 1992 safety
analysis.