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UNITED NATIONS Sept 26 (AFP) On Friday Russia and the USA have signed nuclear disarmament accords which reduce the strategic arsenals significantly and pave the way for Russian ratification of the Start II treaty which restricts each superpower to 3500 ballistic missiles. MOSCOW Sept 27 1997 (AFP) Friday on the meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Chiefs it was stated that the nuclear arsenal is safe and under control. There is no risk of incidents like the missing suitcase-bombs which was suggested by Genaral Alexander Lebed the former head of the National Security Council. MOSCOW Sept 27 1997 (AFP) Ukraine owed 450 million dollars from selling fission material out of dismantled tactical nuclear weapons. This money will be written off against debts on oil towards Russia and repayments for government credits. VIENNA Sept 28 1997 (AFP) The 1998 budget of the IAEA is supposed to be $ 222 an increase towards 1997. The conference on Monday should impelent an agreement with North Korea on dismantling its nucler weapons programme. PARIS Sept 28 1997 (AFP) Greenpeace has measured substantial amounts of plutonium and strontium near the outlet-pipe of the Hague reprocessing plant. NEW YORK Sept. 26 1997 (UPI) Several arms control agreements are signed in New York between the USA Russia Belarus Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Russia gets time till 2007 for implementation of the Start-II treaty. ANKARA Sept. 26 1997 (UPI) Turkey does not believe the Russian affirmation the missiles delevered to the Greek Cypriot sector of Cyprus are not able to target Turkey nor any other ground or sea target. MOSCOW Russia September 24 1997 (ENS) Al Gore has promised Russia to provide some funding for the conversion to civilian use of 3 plutonium-producing-reactors in the year 2000. The plutonium produced after 2000 in these three reactors shall not be used in nuclear weapons. CMS 29 September 1997 - Due to a greater competition in the USA electricity world the danger exists the cost-cutting measures in the nuclear power plants can also have their impact on health and safety. This is said today by a NRC spokesman. Especially older npp's get trouble because of the steep rising safety costs. MOSCOW Sept 29 1997 (AFP) - 500 tonnes of enriched uranium and 50 tonnes of plutonium will be withdrawed from the Russian stockpile because of the Start II treaty writes the Russian President Yeltsin to the opening session of the IAEA meeting in Vienna. VIENNA Sept 29 1997 (AFP) - "There is no reason to celebrate" is said by a Greenpeace protest Monday at the 41 IAEA meeting. According Greenpeace the nuclear industry's days are numbered. The protest was also against the IAEA-expansion towards the East. VIENNA Sept 28 1997 (AFP) December 1 Hans Blix will be succeeded by Mohamed El-Baradei after 16 years in the International Atomic Energy Agency - office. The IAEA still promotes nuclear energy and tries to prevent the spreading of nuclear weapons. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER Texas USA 29 Sept 1997 (Reuter) - At 7:58 a.m. EDT (1158 GMT) and 17 000 miles an hour the Lewis earth satellite faultly burnt up in the atmosphere along the coast of Antarctica after being launched in August 1997. headlines 3 - 5 Oktober 1997 LONDON Oct 3 1997 (AFP) Tony Blair the British Prime Minister wants to develop an 'ethical' export policy on arms sales to coutries with poor human rigts records f.i. Indonesia where last week the export licences of a 1 million pound arms deal has been blocked. TOKYO Oct 3 1997 (AFP) The Japanese fast-breeder programme has officially been put in the mothballs after several serious accidents with the Monju fast breeder reactor. MAJURO Oct 3 (AFP) After 23 nuclear explosions the US government wants to clean-up the Bikini Atol to enable the former residents to return home. The budget comes from the US department of interior $ 9 4 million and a US stock-market- fattened compensation trust fund ($120 million?). They try to prevent the uptake of caesium in fruit (a.o.) crops by using a potassium containing fertilizer. TEHRAN Oct 3 1997 (AFP) The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said that atomic energy is necessary for Iran for limited gas and oil reserves. Iran seeks help from China and Russia to finish the the Bushehr plant under IAEA cooperation. VIENNA Oct 3 1997 (AFP) On Friday the IAEA demanded to Iraq to immediately give up all the information about suspected nuclear arms sites. VIENNA Oct 3 1997 (AFP) On Friday the IAEA urges North Korea to allow the IAEA to inspect the nuclear installations. WASHINGTON Oct 3 1997 (AFP) US president Clinton wants to sell nuclear power equipment to China. Clinton wants to certify the US congress that China does not spread nuclear weapons so Westinghouse Electric Corp can sell atomic reactors to China. VIENNA Oct 3 1997 (AFP) The IAEA wants to inflict a nuclear free zone in the Middle East without mentioning Israel's more than 200 nuclear warheads. Israel did not sign the NPT. MOSCOW Oct 3 1997 (AFP) According to the Russian counter-intelligence service the story about the suitcase nuclear bombs is absolutely absurt just like the story about the Russian exports of nuclear missiles to Iran. The Israel media play a role in bringing the last issue according the counter-intelligence service. GENEVA Oct 3 1997 (AFP) The Ecumenical Council of Churches has surveyed the age of the 10 - 15 000 nuclear workers on the French nuclear testsites in the Paific. 10 percent of the workers was under 18 and 6 percent were under 16. 0 3 percent was under 10. Almost no medical screening has been performed by the French. PAPEETE Oct 4 1997 (AFP) There have no children been enployed on the Frenc nuclear test sites in the Pacific according the French Nuclear Research Center in Papeete and: All civilian and military workers are under medical supervision . But the vast majority of the workers have no confidence in the French medical system and talk about cases of severe irradiation as well as a rise in toxic poisoning miscarriages cancer and other illnesses. MOSCOW Oct 4 1997 (AFP) 15 capsules emitting a lot of radiation were found in a unit of Georgian soldiers. Ten soldiers are admitted in a Moscow hospital with severe radiation sickness. LONDON Oct 5 1997 (AFP) The spareparts of the Trident nuclear missiles ordered in the USA are not arriving in GB. Thousants of non-nuclear parts are missing over recent years. SEOUL Oct 5 1997 (AFP) - A torn up paper found in a dormitory with the photograph of the North Korean leader was the reason for suspension the work on the construction site of the USA - South/North Korean Korea Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) nuclear reactors in North Korea. South Korea has in reaction prosponed the departure of a North Korean reactor survey team. CAPE CANAVERAL Fla . Oct. 5 1997 Continuing demonstrations are vowed against the on October 13 scheduled Cassini launch with 72 pounds of plutonium on board. 27 people are arrested for thresspassing the fence. Thousants of protesters rallied at a field near the launch site Saturday about 800 walked to a locked gate outside the facility -- with hundreds of military and law enforcement officers looking on. PHILADELPHIA 5 October 1997 (Reuter) Three Mile Island together with Sunday October 5 1997 8:39 AM EDT Three Mile Island Could be First Nuclear Sale By David Morgan PHILADELPHIA 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Three Mile Island the site of the worst commercial U.S. nuclear accident could become the first nuclear power plant in history to be sold industry officials say. With the U.S. electric utility industry moving quickly toward deregulation the owners of the crippled facility have entered talks with a potential buyer. Parsippany N.J.-based GPU Inc.said it hopes to sell Three Mile Island along with the Oyster Creek nuclear plant at Forked River N.J. as a package deal. Industry speculation has centered on Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co.and Duke Power Co. of Charlotte N.C. as potential buyers. They are two of the nation's largest power plant operators. But a GPU spokesman declined to identify his company's negotiating partner. "Because of a confidentiality agreement I can't say more than that the spokesman, John Fidler, said. When asked how advanced the talks were, he responded: Let's put it this way. We're at the point where we've signed a confidentiality agreement. I think that speaks for itself." GPU announced plans to sell its older Oyster Creek facility in April and weeks later began talking about the possible sale of both plants which generate 1 400 megawatts combined and account for $1.3 billion in net investments. Fidler said a package sale would end GPU's presence in nuclear power and help set the stage for a possible shift out of the energy generation business altogether. GPU also could get top dollar for the two facilities which analysts see as the first in a series of nuclear plant sales expected to take shape as a highly regulated industry moves to embrace the spirit of market competition. "It's only a matter of time before somebody buys it remarked Ed Tirello, an energy industry analyst at NatWest Securities in New York. Three Mile Island, located in the Susquehanna River south of Harrisburg, came close to a complete meltdown and a catastrophic release of radioactive gases in March 1979. The nuclear power industry never fully recovered from the accident and, to this day, only one of the facility's two reactors still operates. Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the sale of the Three Mile Island plant would be a first for the U.S. industry, adding that the site's checkered past would not present any extra regulatory hurdles for a potential buyer. There would be a regulatory review and the license would have to be amended and the NRC would have to make the finding that the new company had the capability to operate the plant NRC spokesman Joe Gilliand said. But there wouldn't be anything special (done) because it was Three Mile Island." PECO Energy which operates four nuclear reactors in Pennsylvania and has ownership interests in two others formed a joint venture with British Energy Plc last month with the express purpose of buying and operating U.S. nuclear plants. The joint venture is called AmerGen Energy Co. "It is a fact that AmerGen is in discussion with owners of several nuclear plants in various parts of the country. But we're not at liberty to disclose which ones they are PECO spokesman Bill Jones said. Speculation in Britain recently has favored PECO as the most likely buyer of Three Mile Island. But Duke Power, operator of seven nuclear plants in North and South Carolina, would be more familiar with the facility than other utilities because of the assistance its exectives rendered to their counterparts in Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the disaster 18 years ago. Not that Duke officials have been ready to talk about the plant. We don't respond to rumors one way or the other Duke spokesman Joe Maher. Sunday October 5 6:49 AM EDT Police Arrest 27 at Florida Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Twenty-seven anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel. Police said up to 1,200 protesters took part in the peaceful demonstration outside the gates of the air force base, where a Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an 11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday. The station is several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after a mission to Russia's Mir space station. Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station. Brevard County Jail spokeswoman Joan Heller said a total of 27 people were arrested in the protest and brought in and would be charged with trespassing on a government facility. Reporters said they included 11 elderly women who were members of a group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to climb the fence. Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of St. Augustine, Florida, the president of the group. About 20 other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by uniformed police officers. It just seems foolish to launch this rocket it just seems risky considering all the other ways they have to power it said Beth Lavoie, 22, from Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. At least when I get arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger with this launch the whole world is at risk." The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72 pounds of plutonium according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is not the highly radioactive plutonium used in warheads nor does it fuel a reactor. As the plutonium decays naturally the heat produced in three separate generators will provide power for Cassini. This is not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In the past 30 years NASA counted 23 such launches. But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape Canaveral and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours afterwards caused new concern. NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at risk. In that event NASA scientists say cancer could result. Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned. Cassini is scheduled to fly by Venus twice then fly by Earth and Jupiter gathering speed and momentum before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study of the giant ringed planet. Sunday October 5 6:49 AM EDT Police Arrest 27 at Florida Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. 5 October 1997 (Reuter) - Twenty-seven anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel. Police said up to 1 200 protesters took part in the peaceful demonstration outside the gates of the air force base where a Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an 11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday. The station is several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after a mission to Russia's Mir space station. Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station. Brevard County Jail spokeswoman Joan Heller said a total of 27 people were arrested in the protest and brought in and would be charged with trespassing on a government facility. Reporters said they included 11 elderly women who were members of a group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to climb the fence. Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of St. Augustine Florida the president of the group. About 20 other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by uniformed police officers. "It just seems foolish to launch this rocket it just seems risky considering all the other ways they have to power it said Beth Lavoie, 22, from Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. At least when I get arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger with this launch the whole world is at risk." The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72 pounds of plutonium according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is not the highly radioactive plutonium used in warheads nor does it fuel a reactor. As the plutonium decays naturally the heat produced in three separate generators will provide power for Cassini. This is not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In the past 30 years NASA counted 23 such launches. But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape Canaveral and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours afterwards caused new concern. NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at risk. In that event NASA scientists say cancer could result. Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned. Cassini is scheduled to fly by Venus twice then fly by Earth and Jupiter gathering speed and momentum before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study of the giant ringed planet. Saturday October 4 5:43 PM EDT About 30 Arrested at Florida Spacecraft Protest By Brad Liston CAPE CANAVERAL Fla 4 October 1997(Reuter) - About 30 anti-nuclear activists were arrested Saturday at the Cape Canaveral Air Station during a protest against NASA's plan to launch a spacecraft to Saturn carrying radioactive fuel. Police said up to 1 200 protesters took part in the peaceful demonstration outside the gates of the air force base where a Titan IV rocket will launch the Cassini space probe on an 11-year mission to Saturn and its moons. The White House approved the planned Oct. 13 launch Friday. The station is several miles from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center where the space shuttle Atlantis was due to land Sunday after a mission to Russia's Mir space station. Organizer Bruce Gagnon of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice earlier said some of the protesters would force their own arrest by scaling the fence of the station. Reporters counted about 30 arrests in all including 11 elderly women who were members of a group called Grandmothers for Peace. Police led the women through a gate before detaining them so they did not have to climb the fence. Among them was 87-year-old Peggy McIntire of St. Augustine Florida the president of the group. About 20 other people then scaled the fence and were arrested by uniformed police officers. "It just seems foolish to launch this rocket it just seems risky considering all the other ways they have to power it said Beth Lavoie, 22, from Atlanta, Georgia, before her arrest. At least when I get arrested it's only my personal self that's in danger with this launch the whole world is at risk." The bus-sized Cassini carries slightly more than 72 pounds of plutonium according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is not the highly radioactive plutonium used in warheads nor does it fuel a reactor. As the plutonium decays naturally the heat produced in three separate generators will provide the 744 watts needed to power Cassini. This is not the first time plutonium has been launched into space. In the past 30 years NASA counted 23 such launches. But the January explosion of a Delta II rocket over Cape Canaveral and the cloud of noxious gases visible for hours afterwards caused new concern. NASA says the risk of contamination is very low. Even if the rocket explodes and the 18 modules of ceramic plutonium are exposed -- an unlikely sequence of events -- someone would have to inhale minute particles of the plutonium to be at risk. In that event NASA scientists say cancer could result. Gagnon said activists were not trying to halt the mission but instead ground it until Cassini can be redesigned. If Cassini launched successfully it was scheduled to fly by Venus twice then fly by Earth and Jupiter gathering speed and momentum before arriving at Saturn in July 2004 for a four-year study of the giant ringed planet. -- End -- ====================================================================== World Information Service on Energy - WISE PO Box 59636 Tel: +31-20-6126368 1040 LC Amsterdam Fax: +31-20-6892179 The Netherlands Email: wiseamster@antenna.nl (Visitors: Ketelhuisplein 43) http://antenna.nl/~wise ====================================================================== ====================================================================== World Information Service on Energy - WISE PO Box 59636 Tel: +31-20-6126368 1040 LC Amsterdam Fax: +31-20-6892179 The Netherlands Email: wiseamster@antenna.nl (Visitors: Ketelhuisplein 43) http://antenna.nl/~wise ======================================================================