Date: Thu X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R headlines 12/13 jan `98 PITTSBURGH Jan 9 `98 (Reuters) - On Friday a Westinghouse Electric Co unit told that they concluded a contract with Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industies Co (IHI) for their Wesflex spent nuclear fuel storage and transport system what permits IHI to construct and provide the Wesflex system in Japan. WASHINGTON Jan. 12 `98 (UPI) _ To prevent Russia to export sensitive weapons technology to Iran the Clinton administration will held a 'meeting of the minds ' with the Russian government. LONDON Jan 11 `98 (Reuters) - British nuclear electricity generator British Energy Plc took part in talks about the future of the massive critizised Canadian Ontario Hydro electricity group the Sunday Telegraph reportet. The talks could conduct to an enormous intervention of British Energy in the company`s enterprises. BEIJING Jan 12 `98 (AFP) - In charging the hydropower operator Wuling CO. to make plans for a nuclear power plant the South- central China`s Hunan province started the project to establish a nuclear power station in their domain. They hope to be chosen by the Chinese government to get the country`s next nuclear project. If this plan will be granted it would become China`s seventh nuclear power plant. But the economic five- year plan ruling till 2000 doesn`t schedule a new nuclear project. MOSCOW Jan 12 `98 (AFP) -The Start II nuclear disarmament treaty isn`t scheduled by the Russian Duma to become discussed in their first six months lasting periode. The most likely reason therefore is that they want to protest against the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. VIENNA Jan 13 `98 (AFP) - The 60 men counting UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) team which inspects Iraq for ABC weapons was blocked in Bagdad Tuesday. After this last crisis an IAEA spokesman told that their team of three or four men in Iraq wouldn`t have any problems with the Iraqi authorities. But he added that if the UNSCOM staff will leave Iraq the IAEA team would certainly follow. AUCKLAND Jan 13 `98 (AFP) - The following transport of nuclear waste from France to Japan through the Panama Canal has to reckon with massive protests from New Zealand and other Pacific Island nations Greenpeace announced Tuesday. ST. PETERSBURG Fla. Jan. 13 `98 /PRNewswire/ -- The modification works at the Florida Power`s owned Crystal River Nuclear Plant are finished. Review of the Nuclear Reactor Regulation division (NRR) is nearly accomplished so the plant is likely to restart soon. ALLENTOWN Pa. Jan 12 `98 (Reuters) - PP&L refuses to pay a penalty of $55 000 which was imposed on them by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after they had discovered a wrong control installation at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant last July. Tuesday January 13 1998; 6:21 p.m. EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The shipment of 30 tons highly radioactive vitrified nuclear waste shall leave France on January 23 for its way to Japan through the Panama Canal. The US government which is in the positon to forbit the transport of weapon grade plutonium but cannot directly prohibit shipments of nuclear waste of reprocessing through the canal is asked by Greenpeace and the private Nuclear Control Institute to intervene. The Clinton administration however refused to do so. ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================