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headlines 24 & 25 september 1997

VIENNA
Sept 24 (AFP) - The draft of the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty was put on the Internet Wednesday
under the web address:
http://www.ctbto.un.or.at/ctbto. The treaty is still waiting
ratification by 44 countries possessing nuclear sites.

LJUBLJANA
Sept 25 (AFP) - Slovenia and Croatia have yet to
resolve the future of Krsko npp. Krsko's legal status is currently
undefined
and Slovenia accuses Croatia of stalling the negotiations.
Both countries use the electricity
but Croatia claims the waste
problem is solely Slovenia's
since the npp is on Slovenian
territory.

LA HAGUE
Sept 24 (AFP) - Greenpeace found contaminated
crabs near the reprocessing plant in La Hague that contain up to
1
350 becquerels per kilo
twice the allowed European level.
Since the cleaning of an outlet pipe in July radioation levels have
gone up a 100-fold.
French Environment Minister Dominique Voynet accused COGEMA of
breaching guidelines.

OTTAWA
Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout released
a report on the potential export of CANDU reactors to Turkey. Atomic
Energy of Canada Ltd. is trying to sell Turkey between two and four
700 MWe CANDU reactors. According to the activists Canada should
withdraw from the CANDU export business.

WASHINGTON
Sept 25 (Reuter) - On Thursday a U.S. Energy Department
attorney was heard on why the department should not start moving
and storing spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors next year.
Energy Department attorney John Bryson argued that the department
did not have authority from Congress to provide temporary storage.
The attorney for nuclear utilities
Jay Silberg said that the
department was trying evade the responsibility for the waste.
Silberg argued that if DOE does not start handling the waste by 1998
the money payed to the Nuclear Waste Fund should be put into escrow.

RICHLAND
Wash.
Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- 25 foreign border security
officials that are trained by the US Customs Service in the detection
of smuggling of weapons of mass destruction will graduate tomorrow

Vancouver --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25
1997-- International Uranium
Corporation (IUC) has signed a contract with Recovery Dynamics
LLC.
(Recodyne) process approximately 16
000 tons of ore containing
uranium and other minerals. About 35
000 kg of uranium will be
extracted.


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