Date: Mon X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R WASHINGTON June 4 1998 - The U.S. District Court of Colombia has ruled that the Oil Chemical & Atomic Workers and the Natural Resources Defense Council are entitled to sue DOE and BNFL to try to make the latter perform an Environmental Impact Statement of a cleanup project to be conducted at Oak Ridge. GENEVA June 4 1998 - India and Pakistan will not be accepted as nuclear weapons states by the five current members of the nuclear club according to a U.S. official. WASHINGTON June 3 1998 - The U.S. wants India and Pakistan to stop developing nuclear weapons and delivery systems. These goals will be discussed with the recognized nuclear weapons states on a meeting in Geneva on thursday. The G8 will meet to discuss the issue on June 12th in London. BEJING June 3 1998 - China will not resume nuclear testing in a response to the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests the Chinese president Jiang Zemin has said. Questions about China's stance were raised after a Chinese diplomat on monday noted a paragraph in the CTBT in which it says a country can back out if their "supreme national interests" are threatened. VIENNA June 3 1998 - A panel of international atomic energy experts on wednesday told that Mochovce npp is perfectly safe. Still the Austrian government hopes Mochovce will not be activated as long as Austria has doubts about its safety. TOKYO June3 1998 - Officials in Japan believe North Korea has at least one atomic bomb according to a major Japanese newspaper. There are fears North Korea might secretly develop its arsenal with the help of Pakistan. WASHINGTON June 2 1998 - Senate Democrats have prevented the vote over a temporary storage site for nuclear waste at the Nevada Test Site by voting against a motion to proceed on this issue instead of continuing the tobacco legislation discussion. The nuclear industry wants a temporary storage site since Yucca Mountain is still far from completion. TOKYO June 3 1998 - North Korea is believed by Japan's Defensce Agency to have at least one atomic bomb. A Japanese newspaper wrote this on wednesday. WASHINTON June 2 1998 - Nuclear power plant owners on tuesday rejected a proposal made by DOE to postpone payment to a federal nuclear waste fund if the utilities would drop their lawsuits over DOE's failure to remove nuclear waste from the facilities. DOE should have started to remove the waste in the beginning of this year. TOKYO June 2 1998 - Pakistan has asked Japan to mediate between Pakistan and the international community after Islamabad's nuclear tests. Pakistan made the request after Japan proposed to mediate between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir conflict. WAHINGTON June 5 1998 - Pakistan appears to be preparing a short-range missile test a U.S. official said on thursday. --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 ======================================================================