GLOBE AND MAIL  MAR.17,1998 PAGE: A7  SOURCE: CP DATELINE: Ottawa ONT
 National Report Canada  Plutonium debate sought OTTAWA A coalition of antinuclear groups is challenging Atomic Energy of Canada  Ltd. to a public debate over its proposal to burn weapons-grade plutonium  in Candu reactors.

  The Moscow Times March  18, 1998  Activists Criticize Plans To Use Plutonium  Fuel BYLINE: By Natalya Shulyakovskaya   Environmentalists  this week blasted a Russian plan to use highly  radioactive plutonium  from decommissioned missiles as a base for fuel for  nuclear  power stations.

Mainichi Daily News March  18, 1998 Page 14 Cement firm reports loss of perilous isotope  BODY: KAMIISO, Hokkaido -- The Nihon Cement Co. may have allowed highly  radioactive  cobalt 60 to contaminate building materials at its plant here, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned.

Moscow and Beijing discussing nuclear power plant-MOSCOW, March 18 (Itar-Tass) The progress of the construction of the  Lianyungang atomic power plant and of two sections of the Hanzhong  uranium-enrichment plant, which Russia is building in China, was  discussed here on Wednesday by

U.S. MOX nuclear fuel plans provoke opposition LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Anti-nuclear campaigners in the U.S. are protesting against proposals by the Department of Energy (DOE) to allow the introduction of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) in U.S. power stations, nuclear newsagency NucNet