Date: Fri X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO X-Status: NEW YORK Sept 5 1997 (Reuter) - More than 100 suitcase-alike nuclear bombs are out of control of the Russian authorities. This was told Sunday in the CBS News '60 Minutes' program by the former Russian National Security Adviser Alexandr Lebed. BRUSSELS Sept 5 1997 (AFP) - The commitment to phase out radioactive discharges into the sea by Britain and France at a meeting of the 15-nation Oslo-Paris (OSPAR) Commission will have important implications for the future of nuclear reprocessing plants. VIENNA Sept 5 1997 (AFP) - On Friday the IAEA meeting of sixty-seven nations adopted the first convention on safe handling and transport radioactive waste and fuel. New Zealand and Pakistan voted against and Algeria China and Saudia Arabia abstained in the show of hands. New Zealand wants the right to block transport within the 200 miles zone. SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 5 1997 (Reuter) - Two Democratic members of the Californian congressional delegation Lynn Woolsley and Ron Dellums will next week write letters to NASA in a call for postponing the Cassini launch in October until alternative power sources for the RTG's (which contain 32 kilo's plutonium-238) are researched thoroughly and untill an independent safety review is completed. PITTSBURGH Sept 5 1997 (Reuter) - At the U.S. Oak Ridge atomic weapon's plant Westinghouse Electric Corp and Allegheny Teledyne Inc's (ALT) Teledyne Brown Engineering unit have submitted a proposal for a $2.5 billion environmental management contract for the clean-up and improvement of safety. ALBUQUERQUE N.M. Sept. 5 1997 (Reuter) - On the roof of the top secret Sandia National Laboratory research facility 16 undocumented Mexican workers are raided by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Three of them were arrested before. DENVER Sept. 6 1997 (UPI) -- A fully uncensored grand jury report of the three-year investigation about Rocky Flats the former nuclear weapons plant near Denver U.S. is now on an online information service by Digital City Denver. The plant violated 10 environmental laws after bargaining with the federal prosecutors the then contractor Rockwell Int. Corp. paid $18.5 million fine to the dismay of the grand jury members. BEIJING Sept 7 1997 (AFP) - According a front-page article in the China Daily on Sunday US and Chinese nuclear experts say the time is ripe for lifting the ban on nuclear technology imports from the US. The ban was imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. TAIPEI Sept 7 1997 (AFP) - 200 000 drums of low-radiation waste from Taiwan is supposed to be exported to North Korea. A group of Greenpeace activists protested in downtown Taipei against this exploitation of North-Korea dressed as barrels of radio- active waste. BRUNSBUETTEL Germany Sept 7 1997 (AFP) - An action of 60 Greenpeace activists in protest against the tranfer of spent nuclear fuel to the Cape de la Hague resulted in a banner on the wall of the nuclear power plant saying: "Nuclear waste from Germany - Leukaemia in La Hague." VIENNA Sept 8 1997 (AFP) - Reconsidering the 1960 Paris convention and the 1963 Vienna convention the IAEA brings together about 75 countries to decide about the maximumpayout of $400 million in case of a nuclear accident. According to Greenpeace (observer) the Chernobyl catastrophe is estimated between 20 and 200 billion dollars. NEW DELHI Sept 8 1997 (AFP) - No nuclear weapons will be produced by India except 'only to meet unforseen circumstances' according the prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral. HONG KONG Sept. 8 1997 (Reuter) - August 18 to 23 two U.S. ships of which one nuclear submarine (USS Portsmouth) visited Hong Kong on a 'routine test and recreation stop'. Lately U.S. warships make about 75 visits per year to Hong Kong. RESTON Va. Sept. 8 1997 (PRNewswire) -- For school-age children a new exhibit will be opened at Sept. 12 about nuclear medicine at the National Atomic museum in Albuquerque New Mexico USA. The exhibition is about all facets of the use of radiation in medicine. NEW YORK Sept 8 1997 (Reuter) - Due to design faults in the emergency diesel generators the 485 megawatt Point Beach 2 nuclear power unit is closed down over the weekend for repairs. This shutdown also will be used for maintaining the reactor of the U.S. Wisconsin Electric Power Co.