[cdn-nucl-l] If you thought Canada was overblowing the MOX transport issue....

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Friday, September 17, 1999
--THE HOUSE CALLED FOR A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING TO BE HELD ON A MOX FUEL
shipment from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to the Chalk
River laboratory in Canada before the shipping route can be selected. The
hearing was required in an amendment Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) attached to
the DOE Research & Development authorization bill before it cleared the
House on Wednesday. The route DOE has said it would use goes through
Stupak's district in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Stupak claimed the Michigan
route is the second longest and second most hazardous of the seven routes
DOE studied. He added DOE did not hold any public hearings in Michigan even
though Gov. John Engler requested one. "None of the emergency response crews
along the route have been notified of the shipment'' planned for this fall,
Stupak said in a statement.
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...while on the other side of the Atlantic,

--THE EU SHOULD AID RUSSIA IN CONVERTING WARHEADS TO REACTOR FUEL, and
French legislators visiting the U.S. said they will press for French and
European Union (EU) contributions. Andre Lajoinie, chairman of the National
Assembly Committee on Production & Trade and leader of the delegation, told
a Washington, D.C. press conference today that all the world benefits from
U.S.-Russia disarmament treaties, and it is in France's and the EU's
interest to ensure both the sides can respect their treaty commitments. He
said nuclear weapons should be destroyed as soon as possible to prevent
their diversion to Russia's "non-peaceful neighbors" and called converting
the warheads to power reactor fuel "the only reasonable approach."
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Jaro