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headlines 20 jan `98


SYDNEY
Strasbourg Jan 16 `98 (AFP) - In a resolution the European
parliament urges Australia not to start with their uranium mining
project in Jabiluka which would affect Aboriginal owned territory
because of human-right concerns.  Further they are calling to
member states to ban uranium imports if the uranium was mined on
the land of indigenious people.
The Australian Deputy Prime Minister reacted on the resolution
in saying that it couldn`t be taken seriously because indigenious
people in Scandinavia had much less of the rights Aboriginals
have.



BEIJING
Jan 16 `98 (AFP) -On January 12 President Clinton signed
a certification to stop the ban of nuclear technology exports to
China. China`s  very pleased with this sign.
Now they have to wait till Congress took the decision if it`ll
block the lift of the ban or not which will last till March 12
or 13.



TOKYO
Jan 16 `98 (AFP) - The Tokyo Electric Power Co. Ltd. had
to stop operations of a reactor in their Kashiwazaki Kariba
nuclear power plant because of concerns about a leakage of
radioactive material.



MAJURO
Jan 17 `98 (AFP) - Cleanup works at the  Rongelap Pacific
Island which was contaminated by an US nuclear test in 1954 on
a nearby island and  because of that for a longer time
uninhabited will start soon. For the cleanup Washington funded
8.3 million dollar.



TOKYO
Jan 18`98 (AFP) -Begin February talks about the cost
sharing of the Korean Peninsula  Energy Developpment Organization
(KEDO) project to build two light-water reactors in North Korea
will be held in New York between the executive boards of KEDO

South Korea
the USA
Japan and the European Union.



CHERBOURG
France
Jan 19 `98 (AFP) - Compagnie Generale des
Matieres Nucleaires (COGEMA) said Monday that the cargo vessel
of Japanese nuclear waste will leave Wednesday 21 january the
French port of Cherbourg.



SEOUL
Jan. 19 `98 (UPI) _ The US Sen. Carl Levin having visited
a North-Korean heavy-water nuclear facility told that it was very
likely that Noth Korea would shutdown this facility as they have
promised.
As reaction on the suspiction North Korea would build up a secret
nuclear facility he promised that Washington would seek acces to
such a facility if it really existed.



WASHINGTON
Jan. 15 `98 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive officials of
the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) promised today
that they would start with the  privatization process of USEC.









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