Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 15:02:00

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Jun 21, 1997 (UPI) - Ohio officials said the plans to build a
low level waste dump in Ohio will be cancelled when Midwest
Compact members meet next week. The project, which already
cost $3.2 million, faced broad public resistence.

Jun 21, 1997 (Reuter) - Greenland Prime Minister Lars Emil
Johansen said his country would be a possible site to store
nuclear waste. Denmark, who formally rules Greenlands forein
and defece affairs, was rather surprised and officials said
they were not informed of the move.

Jun 21, 1997 (AFP) - The group of seven industrial powers
agreed to create a $300 million fund for the construction of a
better sarcophagus around the exploded rector of Chernobyl.
Estimates for such plans are $758 million. The group also
urged Kiev to close the still running Chernobyl reactor.

Jun 21, 1997 (UPI) - On the summit of the Eight in Denver,
U.S. Sectretary of State Madleine Albright delivered a report
saying all the states have made progress in nuclear
nonproliferation and other issues in the past year.

Jun 22, 1997 (Reuter) - The Unit 1 of the Three Miles island
nuclear plant was automatically shut down, when an external
power outage disabled monitoring equipment. The incident of
rated the lowest of the four levels defined by the NRC.

Jun 22, 1997 (Reuter) - According to the Time magazine, the
clinton administration ignored a CIA report from last October,
that China was helping Pakistan to construct a missile factory
near Rawalpindi.

Jun 23, 1997 (UPI) - Protest build up against the U.S. so
calles sub-critical tests. In Japan 850 signatures against the
tests were handed over to the abassader. A group of 39
environmental organisations will take the issue to court.

Jun 23, 1997 (UPI) - The Chicago Times reported that
Commonwealth Edison knew since 1976, that 1,200 plastic
switches in its LaSalle nuclear power plant, some used in the
reactor, would be not reliable, but did little about it. the
utility will now replace the switches, after one failed last
fall.

Jun 23, 1997 (Reuter) - 44 members of the U.S. House of
Representatives called to cancel the subcritical nuclear tests
scheduled for next week.

Jun 23, 1997 (Reuter) - Residents of the Japanese town Mitake
voted on Sunday in a nonbinding referendum overwhelmingly
against the construction of an industrial waste disposal
plant.

Jun 23, 1997 (BUSINESS WIRE) - The International Uranium
Cooperation says it has signed a contract with the U.S.
Department of Energy to process 400 tons of material, from
which it expects to extract 60,000 to 70,000 pounds of uranium
in 1997 at its White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah.

Jun 24, 1997 (Reuter) - The Russian scientist Alexander
Zakharov who died of the consequences of a last Tuesday
nuclear accident at the weapons research center Arzamas-16,
said short before his death, "slippery gloves" were partly to
blame to the accident. It is not clear yet wat he meant with
that. He had received a radiation dose of about 600 roentgen.

Jun 24, 1997 (Reuter) - Ukrainian president Kuchma said in a
speech at the international eart Summit his country would
spent a billion dollars annually on mildering the consequences
of the chernobyl accident. He also said Chernobyl would be
decommissioned by 2000.

Jun 24, 1997 (AFP) - Environmental group Greenpeace handed
over an container with radioactive water and sediments from
the shores of La Hague to the Dutch nuclear energy authority
at Borssele. Dutch nuclear waste is reprocessed in la hague.

Jun 24, 1997 (UPI) - Researcher at the University of Colorado
published a report which concludes that earthquakes could lead
to flooding the plannes high level nuclear waste dump site at
Yucca Mountain.

Jun 24, 1997 (Reuter) - The Nuclear Regulatory commission is
considering to fine Commonwealth Edison for "apparent
violations" during a February 21 shut down. NRC officials will
meet with ComEd representatives at July 3.

Jun 25, 1997 (Reuter) - Environmental group Greenpeace gave
radioactive water and sediments from the shores off La Hague
to the Belgian nuclear power plant Doel, which accepted it for
storage but said greenpeace was exaggerating the danger.

Jun 25, 1997 (PRNewswire) - In a letter to the Florida Power
Corporation the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged the
utility's efforts in improving safety at its Crystal river 3
nuclear plant, but said it wil still remain on the NRC watch-
list.

Jun 25, 1997 (Reuter) - Japan's Atomic Energy commission
confirmed the country would, for lack of resources, keep up
its nuclear program. A waste stogage facility shall be opened
in Aomori in northern Japan.

Jun 26, 1997 (Reuter) - Russia accused the U.S. to use a
scientific aircraft mission on Kazakh territory for spying
purposes. The U.S. embassy rejected these claims, saying it
was a pure geological survey.

Jun 26, 1997 (UPI) - General Binford Peay, in charge of U.S.
forces in te Middle East, said the Iran would be able to build
nuclear weapons in about 10 to 15 years and had made progress
in its submarine technology.

Jun 26, 1997 (UPI) - The Midwest Compact votes 5-0 in favor of
stopping the project of a lo-level nuclear wast dump site to
be located in Ohio. The Midwest Compact consists of Indiana,
Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. South Carolina
and Utah dumps will continue to accept Midwest waste.

Jun 26, 1997 (Reuter) - the International Nuclear Safety
Foundation was founded in Vienna by former Soviet president
Michail Gorbachev. The group is meant to adress nuclear
insecurity and safety problems, but has no specific goals yet.

Jun 26, 1997 (Reuter) - ABB's proposal of a standard nuclear
power plant, wich would be licensed in one step, was approved
by the NRC, the company said. The plant was developed by ABB,
the U.S. Department of Energy, Stone & Webster Inc and Duke
Engineering & Services.

Jun 26, 1997 (Reuter) - A Charles Souleau led commission,
which was set up by the French Environment and Health Ministry
to evaluate a study about leukemia risk near the reprocessing
plant at La hague rejected the finding of the report that
there would be a health danger.