Wise News Communique 483/4


December 19, 1997



Quote of the month:
"The Agency considers high burn-up reactor-grade plutonium and in general plutonium of any isotopic composition (...) to be capable of use in a nuclear explosive device. There is no debate on the matter in the Agency's Department of Safeguards." Hans Blix, Letter to Nuclear Control Institute, 1990




In This Issue


The US, UN and Iraq & being more equal than others

Austria: First country with official anti-nuclear policy

Forum against military use of depleted uranium

Managing nuclear liabilities: New report on costs of the UK nuclear program

Stranded costs: California is not a sunny example

Final report of the international MOX assessment

Tout nucléaire: Une exception française

New generations: The European pressurized water reactor

Reactor-grade PU also suitable in N-Weapons

Blackmailing the world with fear

related items:
Chernobyl already closed - forever?
Public hearings and EIA
EBRD/NSA: Not a nice place to work?
Dounreay: Decision to clean up waste shaft

Nuclear power and earthquakes
related item:
"Not supposed to happen".
Uranium mining in 1997

No radiation dose too low to cause any effect

Nuclear no solution for greenhouse dangers!

Russian N-Waste: Injections into the ground continue

New nuclear debate in France

In brief


WISE Amsterdam
issn: 0169-4022

Editing and production: Dirk Bannink, Robert Jan van den Berg, Joop Boer, Hermine Linnebank, Peer de Rijk and Susanne von Vangerow

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