Date: Thu X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- headlines 7_10 1997 KIEV Oct 7 `97 (AFP)-As the Ukrainian environmental minister Yuri Kostenko was quoted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has agreed to establish a fund to collect the missing 350 million dollars for the reinforcement of the sarcophagus around the Chernobyl reactor. Total 750 dollars are needed from which the G7 will pay 300-and the Ukraine 50 mil. dollars. Further the problems of Chernobyl within the agreement between the G7 and the Ukraine to close the plant in 2000 will be discussed at a conference of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in New York at the end of November. BEIJING Oct 7 `97(Reuter)- China which will probably build on average one new nuclear power plant per year in the coming future is regarded by the Swedish-Swiss ABB as the world`s biggest potential market for nuclear technology. Robert Newman president of ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Systems Inc makes proposes that ABB exports to China which are now at about $1.0 billion will rise enormously if the U.S. restrictions on exports of American-made nuclear technology will be abolished. This can be decided at the Sino-U.S presidential summit at the end of this month. WASHINGTON Oct 7 `97 (Reuter)-On October 28 there`ll be the Sino-American summit where President Clinton can make the decision to implete the 1985 Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation (PNC) which was negotiated under the Reagan administraton. It allows the U.S. to export nuclear technology to China under the condition that Beijing stops its nuclear weapons chemical and missile exports and its assistance to the Iranian and Pakistanian nuclear weapons program. By his decision Clinton must also keep in mind that potential exports to China can be about $15 billion and create lots of new jobs. ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================