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HEADLINES 30 NOVEMBER 1997

AMSTERDAM
Nov 27 1997 (AFP) -  A Dutch judge forbade
Greenpeace activists in the Netherlands to block
the transport of waste from the Dodewaard power station to
Sellafield in northern England where the material is
reprocessed. He warned the organisation that it faced a 50
000
dollar fine for each day that it blocks the nuclear power
station.

MAJURO
Nov 28 1997 (AFP) - The Marshall Islands will ask
the US Congress for additional compensation to treat the
victims of nuclear tests. By early 1998 the government of the
Marshall Islands hopes to have a detailed report ready

directed to the US Congress. Recently declassified studies
revealed that many more islands were affected by the fallout
of the nuclear weapons blasts.

KARACHI
Nov 30 1997 (AFP) - During a tour of Pakistan a
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor has called the world community
to put a ban upon nuclear weapons for the sake of peace and
harmony. The devil weapons produced by people can be abolished
only by people
said the 62-year-old Aiko Sasaki. He is a
member of the Hiroshima Citizens' Group for Peace. His fellow
activists are currently in India to promote peace between
traditional rivals Pakistan and India. Both countries have not
signed the UN-sponsored Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.


PARIS
Nov 30 1997 (Reuters) - France's environment
minister Dominique Voynet and Edmond Alphandery
president of
Electricite de France (EdF) clashed with each other about the
best response to global warming at the Kyoto conference.
According to Voynet saving energy is the best way to reduce
the dangers of nuclear energy as well as the emission of gases
blamed for global warming.
Alphandery
however
said he would take in Kyoto the
nuclear programme of France as an example for limiting output
of ``greenhouse gases''.

PITTSBURGH
Nov. 30 1997 /PRNewswire/ -- The threat of the
use of mass destruction weapons against civilian populations
and hazardous waste spills can be real. Members of the EPA
will meet in Pittsburgh December 2-5 for their 9th Annual
Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Conference.
Emergency planners and responders will participate in
lectures and workshops on domestic hazmat terrorism.
Key topics covered throughout the conference will be
chemical accident prevention and process safety
HAZMAT
resource and contingency planning
crisis leadership
and risk
management and communications.
For more information visit the conference website at
www.vtec2.com.

PARIS
Nov 30 1997 (Reuters) -  The director of Electricite
de France (EDF) called the Kyoto conference an opportunity to
plead for nuclear energy as a response to global warming.
Alphandery cited France as an example for reducing output
of ``greenhouse gases
'' the main objective sought at the
10-day Kyoto meeting of 160 nations
which begins on Monday.


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