Date: Tue X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R Friday April 10 1998 EDT Nuclear Tests Hit Future Kazakh Generations By Dmitry Solovyov ALMATY (Reuters) - During an international conference about the consequences of Russian nuclear tests in Kazakhstan Kazakh scientists described health damages the tests caused and will cause among the population. Around the Semipalatinsk test site at about 1.5 million people have been exposed to radiation. During the following decades a number of children with genetic mutations will become born. In an appeal it was asked for financial support for the victims and to solve ecological problems cause by the nuclear tests. Saturday April 11 1998 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico`s ruling party accused US of beeing racist because of the US plan to dump nuclear waste in Sierra Blanca close to Mexico`s border where mainly poor Mexican-Americans are living. Also Greenpeace this month had accused US for "ecological racism." Thursday April 9 1998 WEST NYACK N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9 1998--Brookhaven National Laboratory will start tests to find out what effects Solcorp`s MBS(R) heavy metals technology has on mixed metals radioactive wastes Solucorp Industries Ltd. announced that day. ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================