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NucNews-1-Int'l. 3/23/99 - Australia (2); Russia; Chernobyl; Korea; China (2)
NucNews-2-. 3/23/99 - DOE; Plutonium (3); WIPP Judgment

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1. Many Jabiluka protesters plead guilty
Tuesday 23 March
1999 Australian Broadcasting
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-23mar1999-21.htm
A group representing protesters arrested at the Jabiluka uranium mine says
many people have pleaded guilty because they cannot afford to return to the
Northern Territory to defend the charges.
The Jabiluka Arrestee Information and Support Group says of more than 500
protesters arrested
about 40 have returned to Darwin to face court.

2. So do we want jobs
wealth and a lace in the world? (Dr. Helen Caldicott
Debates)
March 23
1999 The Age (Australia)
By GERARD HENDERSON
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990323/news/news29.html
ACCORDING to Jeff Kennett
as a ``generalised force'' Australia counts
``for zilch''. Maybe. However
a decision by the Australian Government to
consider accepting high-level nuclear waste would change any such
perception. Immediately....

3. Senators Demand Pressure on Russia
March 23
1999 Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Russia-Iran-Gore.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bipartisan group of 34 senators wants Vice President
Al Gore to press Russia's prime minister to stop his country's cooperation
with Iran on missiles and nuclear technology.

4. Chernobyl Disaster Guides Balloon
New York Times
March 22
1999 Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Balloon-Quest-Chernobyl.html
GENEVA (AP) -- A key to the first nonstop balloon flight around the world
was an understanding of winds gained following the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster
a meteorologist for the Breitling Orbiter 3 team said today.
Knowing world wind patterns became very important after the 1986 Soviet
nuclear reactor catastrophe that spread fallout across Western Europe....

5. North Korea gets 2nd pledge of food aid
March 23
1999
By Toni Marshall
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/internatl/internatl2.html
The United States announced yesterday that it will provide an additional
100
000 metric tons of food aid to famine-stricken North Korea following a
deal granting access to a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in the
reclusive Stalinist state.

6. China Criticizes US Missile Shield
March 23
1999
Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-China-US.html
BEIJING (AP) -- China today criticized an anti-missile shield under study
by the United States as a destabilizing system that would set back efforts
for nuclear disarmament.

7. China Says U.S. Scientist Visited
but Told No Secrets
By Michael Laris
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday
March 23
1999;
Page A18
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/23/094l-032399-idx.html
BEIJING
March 22 - China's state-run media said today that a Taiwan-born
American scientist suspected of passing missile secrets to Beijing traveled
here twice
but did so only to discuss "basic scientific matters" and
divulged no confidential information.

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8. Energy secretary says Chinese government is overreacting
BY JOHN NOLAN
Associated Press
Ohio Business Journal
March 22
1999
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/001192.htm
CINCINNATI (AP) -- China overreacted when it criticized the United States
for firing an American scientist suspected of passing nuclear secrets to
China
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Monday.

9. Duke (Power
North Carolina) to participate in nuclear fuel program
March 22
1999 The Business Journal of Charlotte
http://www.amcity.com/charlotte/stories/1999/03/22/daily2.html
Two of Duke Power's nuclear plants will be involved in a contract awarded
by the U.S. Department of Energy to dispose of surplus plutonium.

10. Federal Judge Refuses To Block WIPP Shipments
By H. Josef Hebert - The Associated Press / Albuquerque Journal
March 22
1999
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1wipp03-22.htm
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Monday refused to block the shipment of
radioactive waste to a permanent disposal facility in southern New Mexico

opening the way for the first shipments
possibly on Thursday.
ALSO:
Judge allows nuke waste in N.M.
USA Today
March 23
1999
http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsmon06.htm
ALSO:
Govt. To Send Nuclear Waste to N.M.
New York Times AP March 22
1999
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Nuclear-Waste.html

12. U.S. Designates 6 Power Plants to Burn Stockpiled Plutonium
New York Times
March 23
1999
By MATTHEW L. WALD
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/washpol/us-plutonium.html
WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department chose six commercial nuclear power
plants Sunday
in the Carolinas and Virginia
to burn plutonium from
nuclear weapons stockpiles
and selected a consortium involving the Duke
Power Company
Stone & Webster and Cogema Inc.
a French nuclear company

to make the fuel.

13. Contract Awarded for Plutonium Work
March 22
1999
New York Times / Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Plutonium-Fuel.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Energy Department today awarded a $130 million
contract to a consortium
including two U.S. utilities
for the disposal of
plutonium by converting it into a fuel for civilian power reactors.
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