LATEST: NUCLEAR TESTS
On May 15, only a few days after the NPT extension conference, China conducted a nuclear test explosion.
While there is no official word yet from France's newly-elected president, Jacques Chirac, it is likely that France will again be testing in the Pacific.
Even the US, it seems, is rethinking its moratorium on nuclear testing and is likely to conduct several tests next year with a yield of less than 200 kilotonnes TNT. "Small" explosions such as these are likely to be allowed in a (possible) Test Ban Treaty.
More on this in the next issue!
In this issue
Kurop: Condemnation of an island
US threatenes retaliation for Kiribati's attitude to NPT conference
HLW transport arrives in Japan
First Castor in Gorleben stored
Major costs overruns US radwaste facilities
Clean up of US military facilities
Short summary of the waste products produced in weapons production
Swiss radwaste facility step closer
Chernobyl: Nine years after
Chernobyl and Down-Syndrome babies
US Enrichment facility target of bomb threats
Moscow, USA and Iran
UK: Nuclear sale
Limited liability for EU companies in Russia
Maine Yankee: Cracking may indicate generic problem
In brief
WISE-Amsterdam
issn: 0169-4022
Editing and Production: Dirk Bannink, Dirk-Jan Dullemond, Thomas Geffert, Hermine Linnebank. with contributions of Anna Tsvetkova.
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