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headlines 27 nov. 1997

MOSCOW
Nov 25 1997 (AFP) - The Russian atomic energy minister
Viktor Mikhailov told that his country will cooperate in non-
military nuclear use with every country that has put its
nuclear energy program under International Atomic Energy
Agency control. Further he assured the good security control
of Russia`s atomic weapons arsenal and he added that Russia
will sign a long-term nuclear cooperation agreement with the
USA.



ISLAMABAD
Nov 25 `97 (AFP) - During Madelaine Albright`s (the
US Secretary of State) visit to India and Pakistan last week
both countries refused to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty.
The Pakistanian Defence Secretary said Tuesday that Pakistan
wont give up its nuclear programme. The two countries told
that their nuclear programme would be non-military orientated.



TOKYO
Nov 25 `97 (AFP) - As Japan`s and France`s fast breeder
reactors which have been frozen are also able to burn long
term nuclear waste officials told Tuesday that the French
Superphenix and the Japanese Monju reactor may be will be
rehabilitated to be used for this programme.



DELHI
Nov 25 `97 (AFP) - A nuclear power deal to let Russia
build a nuclear power plant in India will be signed during
President Yeltsin`s visit in Delhi coming January
officials
told Tuesday.
This pact belongs to a programme in which India has to repay
its debts to Russia partly in importing Russish instalments.



STRASBOURG
France
Nov 26 `97 (AFP) - The British government
is accused by several people who are suffering of health
problems which as they say occured through the British nuclear
tests in 1950 on the Christmas Island. The hearing takes place
in front of the European Court of Human Rights and will
probably last several months.



CHICAGO
Nov. 26`97 (UPI) -- An independant report made by the
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) named
Commenwealth Edison Co the worst US nuclear facility
saying
they`d never had a well-run nuclear programme. Especially
worth would be its Zion nuclear power station where have
always been safety problems.
As reaction on the report ComEd officials admit that there
would be a need to improve the performance of their nuclear
programme.


WELLINGTON
Nov 27 (AFP) - To monitor the worldwide
cooperation in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty two
of its stations shall be installed on the Chatham Islands 800
kilometres east of Wellington. The stations will examine
radiation in the atmosphere  and low-frequency sound waves in
the air.



AUCKLAND
Nov 27`97 (AFP) - The Tongan government refused on
Thursday to give informations over suspections they would have
signed a contract with a Korean Christian cult to store
nuclear waste on their country.



BRUSSELS
Nov 27 `97 (AFP) - The Belgian armed forces journal
reported that US nuclear bombs are lying at a Belgian airbase
in Klein-Brogel near the Netherlands and German border.
According to the US bulletin of atomic sciences 150 B-61 bombs
are still stored in Western Europe in Belgium
Britain

Germany
Greece
Italy
Netherlands and Turkey.



BUCHAREST
Nov 27`97 (AFP) - After the Romanian police
arrested four uranium traffickers saling uranium in a
restaurant they found another 20-gramme pellet of uranium in
the ground under a tree.
On Wednesday a trial will start against seven people who are
accused of uranium smuggle in 1994.



KIEV
Nov 27 `97 (Reuters) -The Ukraine
having signed a
contract with the Group of seven industrialised countries (G7)
to get support in building new nuclear reactors as the
Chernobyl reactors shall be closed in 2000
are frustrated
about the missing financial supports from the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). They claim on
Thursday to finance the completion of the reactor works in
raising electricity prices and they told that the closure of
the Chernobyl reactors will maybe become postponed.
The EBRD said they would care about the project again in
February.



WASHINGTON
Nov 26 `97 (Reuters) - In a meeting November 25
the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO)
agreed to calculate the costs of its light water reactor
project on $5.1785. At the meeting also talks about the cost
sharing were held.







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