Headlines 12 - 14 Sept. 1997


PARIS
Sept 14 1997 (Reuter) - Greenpeace divers found two nuclear
waste drums
a filtration chamber and 20 metres of pipe 250 metres
off a public beach near the Cape de la Hague reprocessing plant.
During cleaning-up of the disposal pipe of the plant 50 kg of
radwaste is flown into the sea
Greenpeace said. Fishing in the area
is indefenitely banned by the Environment Minister of France.


WASHINGTON
Sept. 14
1997/PRNewswire/ -- Theodore Hall
now retired
in England
in 1943 the youngest from Harvard recruited physicist at
the Los Alamos bomb laboratory
acknowledged he has helped in 1944
the Soviet Union to make nuclear weapons. This to prevent an USA
monopoly on nuclear weapons.


LONDON
Sept 14 1997 (AFP) - Minimizing the Trident deterrent should
save money
according the British Government. Momentally two Trident
subs are in service and a third is tested. The fourth is almost
finished.


MOSCOW
Sept 12 1997 (AFP) - Russia denied again on Friday it was
helping  Iran building long-range missiles together with China. These
allegations were made by an Israeli intelligence report sent to the
CIA of the USA.


MOSCOW
Sept 12 1997 (AFP) - Israel has frozen plans to buy Russian
gas for the claim Russia helps Iran with long-range missiles
technology. Russia denies these allegations.


LONDON
Sept 12 1997 (Reuter) - The radioactive waste situation in
the UK is reexamined by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
(SEPA). For instance the Dounreay nuclear power plant in Northern
Scotland is allowed to store nuclear waste 10 years in stead of 25.
If this 10 year limit is applied for Sellafield it could have serious
implications for the return of radwaste.


VIENNA
Sept 12 1997 (Reuter) -  More than 80 member states of the
IAEA have agreed to restrict the compensation in case of nuclear
catastrophes to $ 400 milion US dollars. The definition of nuclear
damage is made wider and also the time period in which the claims can
be brought in is made longer. The signing of the agreement will start
29th of September.


PITTSBURGH (Reuter 12 Sept. 1997) - A new Radiation-Robot is
introduced by the U.S. NASA
DOE and the Carnegie Mellon University.
The $2 million robot is designed to be used in the clean-up operation
next spring of the exploded Chernobyl reactor.

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