Missing radioactive material found at Azerbaijan airport. A container with 763 kilograms of caesium-137, americium-241 and beryllium sent from Amsterdam (Netherlands) in December 1993 but never claimed has been discovered at Baku airport in the former Soviet Union republic of Azerbaijan. This was reported in an AFP press-release of 29 April 1995 quoting the Azerbaijan Procurator-general. OMRI Daily Digest, 2 May 1995
IPSN and PNC in FBR research. France's Institut de Protection et de Surete Nucleaire (ISPN) has signed a US$35.4 million (Ffr170 million) agreement with Electricité de France and Japan's Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Cooperation (PNC) for a research into fast reactors. A series of six tests are planned over a period of five years beginning 1996 to study accidents that could lead to partial or total meltdown of the core of a fast reactor. The work will be done at IPSN's Cabri and Scarabee installations at Cadarache (France), which have regularly collaborated with the Japanese since 1985.
PNC manages the two Japanese FBRs - the 60 MW installation at Joyo, and the 300 MW plant at Monju. EdF runs Superphenix. Power In Europe, 7 April 1995
Japan's only nuclear-driven ship gets a diesel machine.In 1969 Japan built its first nuclear-driven ship 'Mutsu' to test small nuclear machines on ships before starting the mass production of such reactors.
On its maiden voyage in 1974, however, the Mutsu already had its first incident. The wrapping around the 38-MW-reactor sprang a leak. The town Mutsu, home harbour of the nuclear ship, refused to allow the ship to return to the harbour. Thus, for fifty days, Mutsu wandered in the Pacific. No other harbour could be found due to protests of fishermen and inhabitants in various places. Finally, in 1981, the ship sailed back - not to Mutsu but to a harbour newly built in a desolate area near Mutsu. There the reactor was reconstructed. Afterwards, the ship put off to sea three more times. In 1992, the nuclear testing was stopped. The fuel rods were removed, and the reactor was filled up with concrete. Now the reactor should be removed completely. Japan officials say that there are no plans to try building nuclear-driven ships again in the future. In 1997 the ship should be put again in sea to ascertain the Pacific. Neue Zürcher Zeitung International (Sw), 11 May 1995
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