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TEHRAN
Sept 3
1997 (AFP) -
Former head of Iran's oil industry is assigned head of the
Atomic Energy Organisation in a difficult time when the US
urge for a check on Iran's nuclear situation. In June the
Pentagon accused Iran to have ambitions for nuclear weapons by
the year 2000. At the same moment
both the US and Israel
reproach Russia for helping Iran building a nuclear power
plant in Bushehr.


BRUSSELS
Sept 3 (AFP) -
The European Union share for Ukraine's work on a sarcophage
for the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl will be 108
million dollars. Approval has yet to come from the EU finance
ministers.



MOSCOW
Sept 3 (AFP) -
A malfunction in the electricity distribution of the RBMK
nuclear power plant 2 in Kursk
forced a stopping. The
accident was classified at level zero on the danger scale.


CHICAGO
Sept. 3
1997 (UPI) --

ComEd
operator of the Zion nuclear power station may be fined
$330.000 for safety violations. The plant was closed in
February. ComEd wants to reopen the plant in October. The
utility has already been threatened three times with fines
because of several safety incidents in the beginning of this
year. The plant will probably shut down for good before 2005.


BUDAPEST
Sept 3
1997 (AFP) -
Caesium-137 was found in the mud of several lakes near
Budapest. These were closed for fishing. Experts don't exclude
the possibility that the Caesium-137 isotopes originate from
the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Since 1995
when masses of
fish were found dead
they have been examining the lakes.



UPI Science News
WASHINGTON
Sept. 3
1997 (UPI) --
After hundreds of simulating accidents
the nuclear power
source of the Cassini spacecraft is considered to be safe to
Earth when launched. This is said by NASA engineers and the US
Department of Energy. Critics
like the New York physicist
Michio Kaku
do not trust the performed tests and call them
pure guesswork
.




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