die Tageszeitung (FRG), 15 July 1996
Palmyra. It is hard to report this with a straight face, but an entrepreneur wants to take both Russia's and the U.S.'s high-level radioactive waste and bury it on the island of Palmyra. Palmyra consists of an atoll of some 40 islets, about 1,000 miles south of Honolulu. Until recently the island was owned by three Hawaiian brothers who are planning to sell it to a New York-based company, KVR Inc. According to published reports, a "friend" of KVR wants to turn the atoll into the world's nuclear waste dump and a U.S.-Russian spaceport as well. One of the entrepreneur's first steps was to contact Greenpeace to get its support for the mission. Big Mistake. Greenpeace blasted the concept and revealed it to the media. Said Tom Clements of their plan, "It's bizarre." A Hawaiian congressional delegation has expressed unanimous opposition to the concept.
The Nuclear Monitor (US), June 1996.
Suzu mayor election: Anti-nuke candidate loses, but pro-nuke deputy mayor is arrested.Mr. Kaizo Osamu was newly elected mayor of Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture (mid-north Japan), beating off the challenge of the ex-school-principal, Mr. Kashida Jun'ichiro, who opposes the construction of nuclear plants in the city. The poll took place on 14 July, according to the Supreme Court ruling of May 31 which nullified the original election in 1993 (see WISE NC 453, Japan nullifies election of pro-nuclear mayor). The dismissed pro-nuke ex-mayor, Mr. Hayashi Mikito, appointed Mr. Kaizo as his successor. Mr. Kaizo is for the nuclear power project, but in his victory press conference, the new mayor said that he would try his best to negotiate with the opposing residents. On the next day of the election, police searched the city administration office and related places, and arrested the deputy mayor. He had allegedly "persuaded" (virtually ordered) city employees to vote for the pro-nuke candidate, Mr. Kaizo, who won. As a public servant, his conduct clearly violated the Election Law. The arrested deputy is the loyal "No. 2" to the dismissed mayor Hayashi. The proponents of what they call "clean energy" have again failed to carry out a clean election.
Magpie Country Nukes Headliner #960715, 15 July 1996
New US Vitrification plant starts up. After 14 years of design, construction and testing, the first US plant for vitrifying high-level waste has been commissioned at West Valley, NY. This will treat 2.2-million liters of liquid high-level waste which arose from the only civil reprocessing undertaken in USA, from 1966-72. The vitrified waste will end up in 300 stainless steel containers ready for disposal. Another vitrification plant for treating military waste went into service in March at Savannah River, South Carolina.
UIC Weekly News, 12 July 1996, ENS NucNet news #332/96
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