Subject: NucNews 99/11/16 Briefs Date: Mon Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.07 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Please address replies to articles to the original publisher. Please send NucNews copies? Refuting false information appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * CANADA: PLUTONIUM PROTESTS * NORTH KOREA U.S.: BERLIN TALKS * Human Error Cited in Japan Accident * Japan's rocket hopes explode * IAEA Reports on Japan's Nuclear Accident * Japan Destroys Rocket in Midair as It Lifted $95 Million Satellite * Co. Seeks Govt. Help To Buy Uranium * US Vows To Ship Plutonium to Canada * EPA Changes Colorado Waste Site Ruling * GOP senators press Clinton to tie arms pact to Chechnya * Reverse Rider * Nuclear Agency Maintains All Plants Y2K Clear * Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised Not Beaten * U.S. to Permanently Close Nuclear Reactor at Brookhaven CANADA: PLUTONIUM PROTESTS New York Times November 16 1999 World Briefings http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/world-briefing.html After protests from Mohawk Indians and some Canadian mayors the United States Department of Energy has decided not to ship to Canada as much as 33 tons of plutonium from old nuclear weapons for use in commercial reactors to produce electricity. NORTH KOREA U.S.: BERLIN TALKS New York Times November 16 1999 World Briefings http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/world-briefing.html North Korean and American officials met in Berlin to resume a new round of talks on relations. The talks follow an announcement by Washington that it was easing longstanding economic sanctions in exchange for North Korea's pledge to freeze long-range missile tests. Human Error Cited in Japan Accident By The Associated Press November 16 1999 Filed at 9:20 a.m. EST http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Japan-Nuclear-Accident.html VIENNA Austria (AP) -- Japan's worst nuclear accident was caused by human error and safety breaches but did not result in major radioactive contamination the International Atomic Energy Agency says. Japan's rocket hopes explode By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse Monday November 15 1999 BBC Sci/Tech http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_521000/521382.stm Japanese space officials deliberately exploded a 24 billion yen ($229 m) rocket on and its cargo after it veered off course on Monday just moments after lift-off. IAEA Reports on Japan's Nuclear Accident Washington Post November 16 1999; Page A28 ASIA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/16/137l-111699-idx.html VIENNA--Human error and poor design at a fuel processing plant were to blame for Japan's worst nuclear accident which occurred in September and caused no significant contamination international experts said. Japan Destroys Rocket in Midair as It Lifted $95 Million Satellite By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Times November 16 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/japan-satelite.html TOKYO -- Japan's ambitions to become a world leader in aerospace technology were dealt a major setback Monday when engine trouble forced officials to blow up a rocket carrying a $95million satellite minutes after it was launched. -- us Co. Seeks Govt. Help To Buy Uranium By Katherine Rizzo Associated Press Writer Washington Post Nov. 16 1999 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991116/aponline191427_000.htm WASHINGTON -- The company that buys up uranium from Russian warheads to keep it off the world market is seeking a subsidy from the U.S. government to make up for its estimated $200 million in losses threatening to quit the work if the money doesn't come through. US Vows To Ship Plutonium to Canada By MATT KELLEY Associated Press Writer 06:21 PM ET 11/15/99 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991115/aponline182154_000 .htm WASHINGTON (AP) _ The United States still plans to ship a small amount of plutonium to a Canadian reactor despite claims by an environmentalist group that the plan is dead an Energy Department official said Monday. EPA Changes Colorado Waste Site Ruling By STEVEN K. PAULSON Associated Press Writer 10:47 PM ET 11/15/99 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991116/aponline092047_000 .htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Superfund-Dispute.html DENVER (AP) _ The Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself Monday and recommended that radioactive waste be removed from a contaminated former chemical plant after years of complaints from neighbors and environmentalists. GOP senators press Clinton to tie arms pact to Chechnya By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 16 1999 http://www.washtimes.com/investiga/investiga1.html A group of 12 Republican senators is calling on President Clinton to refuse to sign an amended arms-control treaty with Russia this week unless Moscow halts "indiscriminate" military attacks in Chechnya. Reverse Rider Washington Post November 16 1999; Page A30 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/16/001l-111699-idx.html STILL ANOTHER rider that would vitiate environmental law has become an issue as this hapless Congress struggles to complete its year's work and go home. This one was added to the defense appropriations bill which Congress cleared and the president signed last month. Nuclear Agency Maintains All Plants Y2K Clear Filed at 7:01 p.m. EDT November 16 1999 By Reuters http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-yk-utilities.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reassured concerned lawmakers on Tuesday that the nation's 103 nuclear power plants will see no disruptions as a result of the millennium rollover. Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised Not Beaten By WILLIAM J. BROAD November 16 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/111699sci-garwin-testban.html Raw optimism is a trait not usually associated with longtime makers of atom bombs advisers of presidents and heralds of doom. But something like that emanated recently from Dr. Richard L. Garwin one of the federal government's most widely respected science advisers. U.S. to Permanently Close Nuclear Reactor at Brookhaven By MICHAEL COOPER November 16 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/99/11/16/news/national/regional/ny-brookhaven-plant.html GARDEN CITY N.Y. -- The federal government is planning to permanently close an aging nuclear reactor at the Brookhaven National Laboratory that has been shut since 1996 when the authorities discovered it had been leaking radioactive water into the ground federal officials said Monday ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefs.htm Subscribe NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.