JPRS ID: 9508 WORLDWIDE REPORT NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT AND PROLIFERATION

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27 January 1981
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WORLDWIDE REPORT
NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT AND PROLIFERATION
(FOUO 2/81)
- CONTENTS
WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS
Briefs
French-Nigerian Cooperation 1
ASIA
JAPAN
ROK Quizzes Japa.n on Ato~ic Fuel Reprocessing Possibility
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURBiAL, 9 Dec 80) 2
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAQ
Damage to Osira.k Dome Reported
(L'~PRESS, 18 oct 80) ..e 3
SuB-SAHARAA AFRICA
NIGERIA.
~riefs
Ambitions in Nuclea.r Field 5
WEST EIJROPE
FRANGTE
~Jatioa's Nucleax Pvurer Progress, Plans Revieved ~
(Jean Gloaquen; L'EXPRESS, 15 Nov 80) 6
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- ITALY
Res~ption of Work at Montalto Nuclear Power Plant Authorized
- (ATOMO E INDUSTRIA, 1 Aov 80} 13
Names, Addresses of Companies in Nuclear Industry
(aTOMO E INB~'STRIA, 15 Oct 80~ 14
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. FRENCH-NIG~RIAN COOPERATION--On 8 December, France proposed the construction of
a nuclear power station in Nigeria to increase the production of electricity
produced mainly by cl$ssic thermal power stations. This proposal was transmitted
by Yves Plattard, ambassador from France to Lagos, to the Nigerian minister of
Mines and Power, Ibrahim Hassan. [Excerpt] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUR ET
MEDITERRANEENS in French 26 Dec 80 p 3542]
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R~DK QUIZZES JAPAN ON ATOMIC FUEL REPR~OCESSING POSSIBILITY
Tokyo JAPAN ECONOMIC JQURNAL in Eaglish 9 Dec 80 p b
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A member of the Republic of ~y�~~ told the ~on ~ t?~e ;oresee,able future.
press after the meeting that the ~ey cited the fact that Japan
Korea Atomic Energy Commis- ~q~, had not been official. i~ ~ operating just a single
sion recently in9uu'ed ~�~I' ~ Japan is yei to have enough of ~t type of spent nuclear fuel
c~al~y about reprocessing ?n a spent uranium fuel ~p~ocessing plant with an
Japan spent nuclear fuel from reprocessing capac~h' anauai capacity ot only 210 tons _
Korean nuclear power reactors. S~h ~~~~o~l service, ot plutonium.
The Japanese atomic energy ~~d g~ ~ cited ~n idea re- too, the future of
commissioner responded favor- cently aanounced by Dr. Japan's own reprocessin8 Pro-
ably, it was learned.. Hiromi Arisawa. chairman of gTam, tentatively started with
According to informed ~e Japan Atomic Indastrial W~ington's provisional nod.
s~urces, the inquiry was ~nade ~-o~~ to create an "Asian stitl delicately hinges on -
late in November by Pak Gun ~i~~ o~~ fuel center" in w~~~. ~y~hington will ulti-
Sik, Seoul's AEC member, Japan to do reprocessin8 and mately okxy Japan's continua-
when he met four members of ~~~g services for friendly mf ~e program under its
the Japan Atomic Energy Com- Asian cotwtries. Kiynnari th~ international nuclear non-proli-
mission in Tokyo. Pak had been T~~~ that Japan will, and feration policy introdirced bY
visitu~g Ja~an to attend a ~Wd, accept tt~e re~Qu~+t of ~~~g preside~t Jimm~ -
- Japan-Republ~c of Korea Korea and other nei~borin8 Carter. A new round of Japan
atomic energy industrial ~40~, U.S. atomic energY talks unde~'
seminar held in the Japan~ese P~,S ~~g out of Japan a treaty concerned is sdyeduled
capital. was a clear indicatinn the sFarUy.
Susumu Kiyonari, actin~ ~ublic of Korea has a strong But some othar saw a possi-
chairman of the Japanese rnm- desire to have its speut bility that the coming U.S. ad-
mission, one of the quartet, was f~ ~r~~~ ~d m~tration of president-elect
extren,ely cooperative in ao- ~ilize plutoaium resultin8 Ronald W. Reagan would 8ve .
swering the ~nquiry� He said f~ s~ ~~~~g, the o{~ay and' allow Japan's
that since ROK ~s Japan's .rne however, said yuick progress with the pro-
r,eighbor. his commission and ~e Japanese nnclear energy or gram in view of his apparently
other Japanese nuclear energy other experts' views are better ~derstan~ng of it. Such
.~,ices will be willing not only ~vided as to their pcaspect of ulternational cooperation then _
W accept such a repra.~essin8 Such Japanese cooperation with could be studied and okayed in -
job, but to cooperate in enrich- gOK. Ma~+ were skeptical of future Japaa-U.S. talks, they
ing uranium and treatin8 radio- ~~ibility of sach couPet'a said.
active wastes..
COPYRIGHT: Nihon Keiza3. Shimbun 1980
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DAMAGE TO OSIRAR DOi~4E REPQRTID _
Paris L'F~�RESS in French 18 Oct 80 p 125
~Text~ Is Osirak undamaged? In thia exclusive photograph taken on Wednesday,
1 October, with telelenses, at a dietance of 8Q0 meters from the French-IraQi nucl~ar
r~search eenter of Tamuz, the huge mass of concrete which houses the resesrch reac- -
- tor does not seem to have suffered aay dar~ge.
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One must not rely on appearances. In spite of the fact that since their return
the 75 French technicians, who were there when the bombing took place, have been
en~oined to remain silent, soane information has leatied. The Osirak pro~ect is going _
to be at least 1 year b~hiad schedule, Aad probably ~tuch more *han tnat. To quote
one of the top Prench intelligeace sources, the flyerB who carried out Che air raid
were "msgnificeat pilots." Flqing at a very law altitude, they aimed their de-
vices--probably American made sir-to-surface Shrike nissiles--against the lcnaer
part of the concrete dome.
The result: on the outside same unspectacular damage which led nuclear physicists
to conciude rather hastily that the bombing had failed. But people who spe~ialize
~ in co~ncrete construction w~re Quick to understand. The explasions caused cracks
ana a general weakening of the br~ilding. The reactor core is undamaged but the en-
tire atructure will have to be underpinned. And perhaps one will have to start all
over again.
What w,as the nationality of those "magaific~at pilots?" Israeli, as was n~ored
on the very daq of the attack.
Teday, it is known fram more reliable sources that the two Zsraeli Phantom places
took th~e shortest route and did not hesitate to fly over southern Syria before
penetrating at low altit~~de towards Baghdad. Neither the Israeli offic.ial denials
strangely made on the day after t:~e raid ("antise~mitic s].anders") nor the alertness
of the military censura in Tel Aviv have been able to conceal this essential fact:
_ Israel took advantage of the war which is going on in the Gulf to win time and de-
lay the threat af tk~e ':4rab bomb." Its caa~aados had alreadq sabotaged the core
of the La Seyne reactor near Toulon.
This noW unavoidablE: setback in the Osirak pro~ect has prompted mild reactions in -
Paris. The ~ngez ai some officials is strongly neutral.ized bq the relief felt by -
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by aame highranking diplomats and by.manq t~~it3aas Fram the Atomic Eaergy Commis-
sion. They were having serious miagivings a~s the date when the research reactor
would go intA service came nearer; a reactor which could rapidly give nuclear mili-
Cary capability to Iraq. This, in spite of all the off icials denials.
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AMBITIONS IN NUCI.EAR FIELD--Nigeria's nuclear ambitions are asserting themselves.
President 5hehu Shagari reportedly has told his aides that only the dismantling
of Pretoria's nuciear installations (South Africa reportedly has mastered the
process for the miniaturization a= the bor+b) could now be a factor in preventing
his country from acquiring nuclear weapons. ~Text] [Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE in
French 24 Dec 80 p 38 ]
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FRANCE
NATION'S NUCLEAR POWER PROGRESS, FLANS REVIEWED
Paris L'EXPRESS in Fr.ench 15 Nov 80 pp 112-116, 125-126 -
[Article by Jean GloaquenJ
[Text] From production to reprocessing, in 20 years
France has moved to the forefront in nuclear energy.
In the next 10 years its power plants will have a
capacity equivalent to that of Japan, the Federal
Republic of Germany, and Great Britain combined.
However, Jean Gloaquen explains that the big wager
on the atom has not yet been won.
Tours, 30 October (AFP)--The site of the nuclear power plant at Chinon (de-
partment of Indre-et-Loire), the first to have been put into operation, and
which ceased operating in 1973, may be conve rted into a museum...to be "a
reminder that this experimental station of a very special type was the first
p rototype of the French system."
A tremendous paradox. Thus, as at Plogoff, there are Frenchmen who still
oppuse the installation of. new nuclear power plants while others already
_ figure in the industry's ancient history.... -
Chinon, Plogoff, and Reggane, Marcoule, Fessenheim, Le Tricastin, and La Hague
also: evidences of most recent date for posterity of the great ventures of
France, along with Europe, landmarks of a new frontier which the French con- _
quered, like it or not, behind a small band of determined decision makers who _
the day before yesterday were named Frederic Joliot-Curie or Felix Gaillard, -
yesr.erdav C~arles de Gaulle or Pierre Messmer, and today Andr~e Giraud or
_ Valery Giscard d'Estaing. ,
Plogoff, despite Chinon. The anguish of some manifests violently remains
f or the great majority of the French--at the very least a great perplexity.
The long list of "black faces" who have died down in the mines forcefully
collides with another argument: bombs are not made from coal. The civil atom
will forever be taintad with the original sin of Hiroshima. -
The uneasiness, dramatic among some, latent among others, has not stopped
France from continuing on its risky path. Since the beginning of the year
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_ five nuclear power plants have commenced production. There are 41 under con- -
struction, a pro gram whose pace arouses envy or amazement a~road. From Tokyo
to Bonn to Washington, plans for nuclear ir.stallations are a11 in a bind,
� paralyzed by weighty disputes. Like an athlete not sure of himself but
thcroughly trained France is indeed galloping to a world's record: ii~ 1990 it
- will have twice as much nuclear electricity as the Americans, Germans, or
7apanese. At th at same time French nuclear power stations will have a capa-
city equal to those of Japan, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Great
Britain combined.
A record warranted by the search for a minimum degree of energy independence.
Octob~r 1973--the Yom Kippur war. The petroleum bill quadrupled. France dis-
covered above all the mo rtal risk of an oil embargo by the Arabs upon whom
it depended for 70 percent of its requirements. "Nuclear power is the only
salvation" shouted a chorus of experts. Whence the program launched in the
spring of 1974 by Pierre Messmer, then prime minister: from 5,000 to 6,000
megawatts [sic--megawatt hours?] of nuclear electricity annually. Five or six
power plants would each save 1.5 :nillion tons of petroleum.
Giscard, when t~e became president of the republic, confirmed that in 1990
three-quarters of the electricity will be provided by 60 enriched uranium
reactors installed upon 20 sites. In the manufacturing domain, boiler fabri-
cation monopoly has been conferred upon Framatome, subsidiary of Empain-Schneider.
No question, however, of falling out of one dependence into another. In order
- to operate,a nuclear power plant also needs fuel--enriched uranium. France has
placed its bet upon prospecting for natural uranium and has started construction
of the Eurodif plant at Le Tricastin in the Rhone valley for enriching the ore.
But in operati~n a power plant produces an infamous rubbish--the radioactive
wastes. It beco;ves impossible to operate the reactors if it is not known what
to do with these lethal wastes. France is therefore developing the reprocess-
ing installations at La Hague, From raw ore to waste purification it is thus
controlling the entire nuclear combustible cycle, the only way to be dependent
upon no one.
- 'I'oday and tomorrow, in any event. Because over the long term uranium shortage
must be foreseen, that is, a new external constraint. How do we surmount this?
By making ready the breeder reactor, the miraculous reactor which will produce
as much plutonium (a derivative of uranium) as it will burn--perpetual motion
of a sort, and at the lowest cost. For France it will be the prototype Super-
Phenix which will be operative at the end of 1983.
- A stiperb program but obviously burdensome; an investment of 250 billion francs,
_ ~he cost of 6 million vehicles. But the logic behind nuclear energy, to the
responsible French officials, is relentless. First of all it is going to per-
- mit the energy autonomy of the country to be doubled by progressively restrict-
ing the needs f or petroleum to its compulsory utilizations--the automobi?_e,
for example. Next, in this "all-electric" approach nuclear energy to produce
- electricity is the best possible bargain. On this point of the best possible
_ bargain, it is explained at the French Electric Company (EDF) that the entire
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world will come around to it. It will then be possible to kill several
birds with one stane: the civil atom is going to become one of the spear-
heads of. ~'rench industry's expor~s. The sale of an dtomic power plant _
abroad represents S or 6 billion francs in foreign exchange, almost a 10th -
of France's present bill for petroleum. Customers will be a1Z the more will-
ing to buy from France if it can provide them at the same time with the fuel _
(enriched uranium) and the after-sale service (reprocessing of wastes). To
close the loop completely and have a totally free hand, it remair.ed only for
France to separate itself from its tutor, the American Westinghouse firm,
which has allowed Framatome to build its boilers under 3.icense; the boilers
will be "Frenchified" in 1981.
France's joint venture with the atom has become a marriage of convenience but
at the beginning was also an extreme passion. Generations of schoolchildren
_ h4ve learned with pride that Henri Becquerel and the Curie`s (Pierre and Marie)
H~on Nobel p rizes at the beginning of the century for their discovery of radium
and radioactivity. Jean Perrin, the Joliot-Curie's (Frederic and Irene) and,
more recent ly, Loui~ Neel have also seen their work on the neutron alchemy
r.ecognized by the prestigious award. In no other field can French science
boast of such a list.
~ Zoe at Fontenay
It was Frederic Joliot-Curie, the first high commissioner of the Atomic Energy
Commission (CEA) who brought the French atom into the industrial era. Despite
the lag beh ind the British, Canadians, and especially the Americans which
accrued during the war, the f irst "nuclear fir.e" was lighted in the Paris area
in the Zoe pile (Fontenay-aux-Roses) at the end of 1948.
Several weeks before that, without publicity, former resistance fighters who
had exchanged machineguns for Geiger counters discovered the uranium deposirs
- at La Crouzille in the Limousin region. The CEA and some French private groups
would continue to discover more uranium. Today the number among the world's ~
largest proprietors of the precious metal with deposits distributed throughout
metropolitan France and French-speakin~ Africa (Niger and Gabon).
Very quickly the CEA became interested in reactors,to produce electricity.
The choices were many; 18 types of power plants were now operating in the
worl.d. 'ihe French atomic organization placed its bet upon natural uranium -
zs the fuel, graphite as the moderator, and gas as the heat recovery agent.
Studied at Saclay, the graphite-gas system was tested in the two twin reactors
at Marcoule, each one as large as three Ares de Triomphe. The EI3F adopted it
for its first atomic power plant at Chinon. It ordered four more of them, and
then stopped purchases. The reason: the French techn~logy was not competitive. _
At the conc lusion of a spectacular political, economics and scientific debate
Georges Pompidoti declared that the EDF was right. The next year, in 1970, the
EDF purchased its first "American" power plant from Framatome. The site
selected: Fessenheim, in Alsace. Since that time the plants designed by West-
inghouse (enriched uranium) have been the basis of the nuclear electric program.
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Although elimi~.iated, the graphite-gas system nonetheless opened the way to _
breeder reactors. At the time of Marcoule, in fact, the CEA contemplated us- -
- ing the plutonium contained in the burned natural uranium in these reactors -
of the future. Had not thz Americans produced their first nuclear electricity
with a breeder reactor% The Rapsodie study began in 1958. The larger capacity ~
Phenix followed. Today the Super-Phenix is its big brother.
Actually, froin the beginning the plutonium option has also, and above all, a
military purpose: That material is the easiest way to have the 't,omb. It was
plutonium which caused the first French atom~c mushroom to rise at Reggane in
the Sahara on 21 Februa ry 1960. However, it was already known that a defense
based upon the atom (the engines of the atomic submarines in the foreground)
would have to use highly enriched uranium. But the Americans had a virtual
monopoly of that uranium and strictly controlled its exportation in the name
of "nonproliferation." Another problem: the technological difficulties and
enormous cost of an enrichment plant. Nevertheless, in 1957 France decided
- to construct the Pierrelatte plant, a unit with a military purpose. The exper-
ience thus acquired would then be of use in the civil plant at Le Tricastin
whose first segment was begun in 1979. At full capaci*y Le Tricastin, with ~
its lOd million isotopic t~arriers, whose technology has been kept secret, will
be able to supply 100 power stations annually.
Five Hundred American Delays
So, up to the time of the Yom Kippur War it was indeed the military underlying
the French atomic venture. Abroad, nuclear electricity was already being -
freely produced. In proot of this, the number of plants operating worldwide
at ti?e end of 1979: 205 power plants with a capacity of 118 billion watts -
(3 times the total installed capacity of the EDF). In t he lead, the Uni.ted
States (73 reactors, 54 billion watts), followed by Japan and the Federal
Republic of Germany. Sweden, Switzerland, and Belgium also played the nuclear -
card. Not asConishing, therefore, that the f irst petroleum crisis led all
tdestern countries to decide upon acceleration of their atomic programs. That
_ is the only way to oppose the pretensions of the petrole~ producers united in -
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) . In 19i3 the OECD
- [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] expected that there -
wotild be 550 billion watts installed in the free world in 1985. Four years
later those preciictions were revised downwards--by half.
It is because disputes were let loose. A veritable tidal wave. In the United
States antinuclear forces have obtained fram the courts more than 500 decisions
delaying construction r~r expansion of power plants. In West Germany they have
finally blocked construction at Whyl. In Great Britain, in Italy, in Japan,
in Sweden...everywhere huge demonstrations have taken place. And everywhere ~
ttle responsible politicians are yielding. They have limited themselves to con--
- tinue work already under way hoping that, contrary to Zwentendorf in Austria,
- ~ once the power plants have been completed they will t~ allowed to operate. As
for breeder reactors and reprocessing installations, even more hotly disputed
than power plants, there is practically a moratorium.
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"The disintegration of matter...at last even the most stupid understand what
this means: it was indeed toward such anr~ihilation that people are maxching,
it was toward such planetary suicide," wrote Francois Mauriac the day after
Hiroshima. Up to 1970, however, the anguish remained confined to the apoca-
- lypse of atomic warfare. Is it the feeling of impotence in face of the mega-
tons whic h later caused it to be fixed upon civil uses of the atom? Some
psychoanalysts assure us that is so. Others see in the nuclear revolt a plot
financed by the Libyans--only the rich are blamed. The opposition to civil
- nuclear utilization revolves around three theses:
--The danger of a nuclear installation poorly controlled technically: it is
imagined that an accident would cause a gigantic cataclysm. With a breeder
reactor or reprocessing plant it would be even worse. Moreover, those two
kinds of installations are accused of promoting proliferation of atomic wea-
pons. And then to future generations, to our children, shall the fearsome
radioactive wastes be bequeathed?;
- --The rejection of the nuclear society: the energy shortage predicted by the
- nuclear partisans is only the .reflection of society proceeding to consume at
full speed. It is leading to gigantic power stations surrounded by barbed
wire. To electro-fascism, in short; and
--Skepticism about the exports. There are alternatives to the nuclear: energy
conservation, coal, "soft" forms of energy, and so forth. But the nuclear
lobby makes it appear, falsely, that they are not sufficient to meet the needs.
The defense of the atom, even more so, becomes suspect.
To this mixed bag of technical arguments and those of 1968 vintage, France,
- like other countries, is sensitive. In the spring of 1977, ecologists scared
~ains in the municipal elections. Several weeks later clashes between demon-
strators and police resulted in a death at Creys-Malville. But the program
continued no less. Since then there have been several disturbances at new
sites, as at Plogoff: never big enough to make the government back off.
Everything is proceeding as though the majority of the people accept the
nuclear facts of life, consider it a necessary evil.
"The leaders of the other industrialized countries envy us," boas~ the respon-
sible French officials. As a matter of �act, at the recent Tokyo and Venice
s wnmits the i?eads of state of the large Western countries reaffirmed the neces-
- sity for resorting to atomic energy. Only the French are practicing what the
other countries are preaching.
By what mysterious means? �'The French are aware that their strategic depen-
. dence is greater than that of most of the other large industrialized countries,"
explains Michel Pecqueur, head of the CEA. In contrast with the United States,
~ the Federal Republic of Germany, and Great Britain, France cannot count upon
the petroleum or coal in its subsoil. But, then, how to explain that Japan,
so often cited as an example, has placed nuclear energy in hibernation even
though still worse off than France?
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- Support of the Communist Party =
The reai French atomic secret is its institutions. Here, neither judges who
are masters of the game nor regional or local roadblocks, but authority con~-
centrated in a few hands. What--the Jacobin state? One may value it or cri-
ticize it but at least it must be recognized that there is the ability to
,:arry out a program once it has been chosen.
The first point is that no one has ever doubted the pxofound determination
in nuclear matters of the three presidents of the Fifth Republic. For almost
a quarter of a century now, the Elysee* has not deviated one iota. Elected ~
for a 7-year term, the French chief of state is much less sensitive to the
turbulence of public opinion than the American president or the German chancel-
lor who must campaign every 3 or 4 years.
All the more so because there is a virtual consensus of the large parties, in-
- cluding the Socialist Party, perhaps divided into several factions, but basic-
ally accepting nuclear power as inescapable. Including, especially, the
' Communist Party. "In truth, it was our fortune [o have the unswerving support
of the PC [Communist Party] and thus, of the CGT [General Confederation of
Labor). Without the agreement of thi:s union the EDF w~uld constantly collide
with the CEA and it would have been practically impossible to go forward," is
Che opinion of a former head of the Atomic Energy Commission. Further, on
31 October L'HUMANITE ran a six-column headline "The Nuclear--a Trump for
France" and Georges Marchais unfolded--nationalization of Empain-Schneider and
Pechiney-Ugine-Kuhlmann apart--arguments extremely close to those of the govern-
ment. The PC is in fact still somewhat cons~idered ta be the "father"of French
nuclear power since the time that Fr~deric Joliot, an avowed communist, got the
CEA under way, surrounded with his political friends.
The development of nuclear power in France, it is true, was and remains the
result of the activity of a handful of inen. First, Feli}: Gaillard, a pioneer
indeed forgotten, who was secretary of state in three consecutive governments
- of �the Fourth Republic; he "sold" Marcoule and its plutonium to the deputies
~ an~i then, becoming council president at age 38, decided to construct the bomb.
A bomb in whose construction Yves Rocard, the father of Michel, would take
part.
Under de Ga.ulle nuclear industry specialists acceded directly to government
resp~nsibilities. Pierre Guillaumat quit as CEA director to become armed
forces minister. Oliver Guichard, former press officer of the commission,
- was deputy director of the general's cabinet before he, too, became a minister.
In the government he again found Robert Galley, the responsible engineer of
rtarco~ile and Pierrelatte. Giscard, not to break the tradition, would call
upon r:ndre Giraud, head of the CEA, to be responsible for energy in the capa-
city of minister of industry.
*[Elysee Palace--official residence of the president of France]
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Another essential element of cont~nuity is the extraordinary stability oE
_ the officials re~ponsible for energy. `1'hree men, al1 corning from the corps
of. ~the Ministry of) Mines, Pier.re Guillaumat, Jean Blanchard, and Andre -
c:iraucl, pulled the strings for practically rhe whole of the energy policy
nnd pr~~pared all the large arbitrations related to coal, qetroleum, and the _
~t~~m. Verltahle "czars" who:~e counterparts will be sought in vaia abroad.
'I'he final French nuclear trump: industrial monopolies. Only three players on
the. fi.eld: the CEA with its research teams and control. of the fuel cycle; t~e
l:1)1~, owner and operator of the power plants, anc3 Framatome, the constructor of
' tliose r.l~attts. It is d~fficult to be so efficiPnt. The F.DF, for example, by
comhlning tts orders (16 in 1974 and 8 in 1975) obtains mass production prices
and ~3uwn through the years, equipment which is more and more reliable and with
whici~ it~ personnel is more and more familiar--an essential factor of safety.
[n c�.untrast, as a consequence of the multiplicity of private electric power
companies practically all the American, German, and Japane.,e power plants are
different.
- 'I'lii5 monolit}iic. political-administrative-industrial complex, with unfailing
certainty, ].eaves no opportunities for a weak and divided oppositi.on. How
can its competence or its technology be impugned? How can it be competed with 1
Ec~r. information to s~ipply to the publ.ic, released, incidentally, in accordance
with the best principles of psychologicaJ_ action?
I~or al.l. that the French nuclear wager is not yetwon. Nobedy dares contemplate
t}~e financial disaster that would result if the present program were thrown
int~ dc~~ibt. That does not stop a question which is beginning to arise which
is: Can Fr.ance for long act alone? If the atom remains accursed everywtlere,
one d1y c~r. another, France risks being accused of playing the sorcerer's
npprentice. Tt is always difficult to be the only one who is right--for a
l~n~ time.
"'I'h~ risk is limited. .~ll the other large countries will have, sooner or later,
~c~ lnunc~h out into nuclear energy in order to avoid energy catastrophe," a min-
ititer ~~ssures us. A de~~laration of faith to which the petroleum consequences
of ttur war between Iraq and Iran give additional credibility. _
COPY}tl(;H'C: 1980, S. A. Groupe Express
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ITALY
?tESU1~TI0N OF WORK AT MONTALTO NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AUTHORIZED
Rome ATOMO E INDUSTRIA in English 1 Nov 80 pp 12-11
[Text J
In the last few days the M!nister . The suspens?on - Enei poFnts At the last mome~t, at ~a tearned
of Indvstry, Sen. Mtonfo Bisaglia, out finally - hss csused seven that the meettrtig has been post-
has isqued the suthorization for the monihs' delay !n ihe cos~r;;ctlon of poned to 6 November because Se-
res~xnption of work on hhe nucleer the fwwer atailon and a consWe- ~ator Bisaglla tnt~ormed thet he
power stetlon at Montalto di Ca- raWe losa for ihe fiatlonal cornrnu- had to parflcipate in a meeting of _
stro. As is knrnnn, work had been :~;z.�. This loas cen be expressed In the Co~x~cil of ~IUllni~sters and, In -
susperrded, in February last, as the i.';rures as 1.6 mllllon tons of fuel addition, tfiat he wanted to take
result of e decree of the then o+; to be lmported end ea an sd- up the quastlon of {Ulontalto with
Meyor of Mantalto dl Castro, the d!~'onal coat ol over 200 bill/on ihe competent Irtdustry Committee
Re~pub~lican ~Alfredo Pallotti. Iirc~ i~r t 230 milllon) of the ener- of the Senate. _
Enel reports this in a press cort?- gy produced ln !ts place by Enel�.
munlqu~ issued on 26 October. 1Nork, iw+nfever, fias ~ot been ra
_ The decision to euthorize t#~e re- sun~ed as woufd #?a~vo been expec4-
sumptlon of woric was taicen after ed, ow;.+?g to the Qrotests ralsed in
the answsr regarding the seismic the ~ocai ~ndministrations whlch
- safety of the site given by the oo~ k?in that they ~ave been keQt
Commission of Geologists +~anir+~~t- M tt~e daric o~bout the decision. A
' ed by GVEIV e~d preskied wer by first mave v~as made by the pro-
Prof. Fellce Ippolita tAel, 15 Oa sent Mayor of Montalto, the Cort?- .
tober 1980). munist Ffancecso Serafinelli, who
� The M(nistry of lndustry - we sent a telegram of Qrotest both to
_ rez~ among other things !n �nei's Enel a+x! to the ~Ainistry of ind+?-
communiqub ~ taking into account stry. 'fi~ere fol{awed a simikr pro-
rhe prominence glven to the case test af the President of the Pra
- In natlonal pub!!c oplnlori, hod, !n vincial y4dministration o� Vlterbo.
lact, given CNEN the mandate to the Corrxnunist iJgo SqosetN, ~ho
study, wfth the help of a commfs- . compla'med that � the agreement to
- sfon ot hlghly competeni experts, communJcate the decisfon to the
the selsmotectonlc analyses of Munlcipallty has not been kept
tf~e aree concerned. {n a car~nunlqu8 tssued by the
� The Comm/sslon - the note ~ organizations ~ Ene! !s ceutlon-
goes on - conflrming the fJndings ~ not to resume the work, s
of the studfes duly cerrled out ~t clear declslon of the Government
the invesflgafton In eccordenca ~)ny necessary /lrst T#~e comrtx~-
w(th Khe ~egulatlons In force, hsa niqu~ asked for e meeting wlth the
wlth Ifs concluslons met !he condl- Minister of Indus!ry befare the r~
tlons set by the Councll ol Stete, g~rnptron of worfc on the plant. The
during the Jurldlcal eveluatlon of heads of the two adminlstrationa ~
- the questJon, for the contlnuatlon have been corrvened to Aome by
of the work Minlster 8isaalia for 31 Ck:teher
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ITAI~Y
NE1MES, ADDRESSES OF COMPANIES IN NUCLEAR I1dDUSTRY -
Rome ATOMO E INDUSTRIA in Italian 15 Oct 80 p 2
_ [Text] AGIP NUCLEARE SpA. Corso di Porta Romana, 68. 20122 Milan. P.O. Box
1629. Phone: (02) 53 531. Telex: 320192 AGN. Industrial activities in the area
of the nuclear fuel cycle, from the marketing of ura*aium products to the productjon
and reprocessing of nuclear fuels. Research and dev~elopment in the area of the
fuel cycle.
AMN [Ansaldo Meccanico Nucleare]. Via D'Annunzio, 113. 16121 Genoa. Phone: (O10)
5381. Telex: 270008. Steam and gas thermoelectric pow~r plants. TJuclear power
plants. Diesel-electri;, power plants. Thermoelectric power plants with [heat] re-
covery for industrial installations and for urban heating. Geothe~al power plants.
Installations for the utilization~ for the utilization of solar energy. Energy
saving.
ANSALDO SOCIETA GENERALE ELETTROMECCANICA SpA. Via Pacinotti, 20. 16151 Genoa/
Sampierdarena. Phone: (O10) 41031. Telex: 270006. Research, design and supply-
ing of thermal and electric machinery for conventional and nuclear power plants:
turbogenerators, motors, instrumentation and operating units. Automatic control
and regulatory systems.
AUMA ITALIANA SpA. Via Teodosio, 57. 20131 Milan. Phone: (02) 284389/2841230.
Electric actuators and adaptors for industrial valves, sluice-valves and gate
valves [serrande) for electronuclear and conventional power plants.
BELLALI INDUSTRIE MECCANICHE SpA. Strada Cipata, 81. 46038 Frassino (Mantua).
- Phone: (0376) 26561-370271-362746. Telex: 30517. Steam generators, vessels
and internals for light water nuclear power plants. Heat exchangers, primary pip- -
ing and mechanical components for nuclear power plants. Mechanical assemblies for
nuclear power plants (nuclear site and conventional site).
BORGHI. Nuclear transports. 00198 Rome, Viale Liegi, 33. Phone: (06) 860493-
864055. Telex: 611216 "BORGHI I", 20124 Milan, Via Vittor Pisan3., 31. Phone: _
(02) 6268. Telex: 311596. Shipping agent chosen by official national and inter- ~
national nuclear agencies for transport of nuclear fuel--especially irradiated and
from radioactive sources--in Italy and abroad, via road, rail, air and sea. Own
technical offices and special motor vehicles. Design, construction and rental of.
- containers.
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- BREDA TERMOMECCANICA SpA. Viale Sarca, 336. 20126 Milan. Phone: (02) 6997.
Telex: 33128C BREDATER. Design and production of reactor pressurized containers
for P4.'~ [pressurized water reactor] and BWR [boiling-water reactorJ-type nuclear
power plants, steam generators, pressurizers, primary system piping, main compo-
nents and heat exchangers for sodium fast reactors, components for ~odium fast
reactors, components for heavy water reactors. -
_ BUREAU VERITAS. Via XX Settembre, 14. 1b121 Genoa. Telex: 270133. Phone: 564 -
279,543 368. Technical inspections. Quality control. Checking, testing of mater-
ials and ~quipmPr.,t for nuclear installations.
CARLO GAVAZZI SpA. Via G. Ciardi, 9. 20148 Milan. Phone: (02) 4020. Telex:
331086. Plants: Belluno, Marcallo (Milan), Pocapaglia (Cuneo~.- Offices in Italy
and branches abroad. [Fuel] rod hydraulic control system. Instrumentation. Con-
trol rooms and logic systems. Installation of instruments. Seismi.c quality con-
trol. Installation of vessel internals.
CEISUD SpA. NUCLEAR DIVISION. 80125 Naples. Via Kennedy, 5. Phone: 619177
(5 PIlX lines). Telex: 710463 CEISUD. Design and construction of equipment and
special techniques for pro~ects in the field of radiation. Design and production of
modifications for existing parts and systems. Civil, mechanical and electrical main- -
tenance in radiation areas. Decontam~ination work.
CIMI. COMPAGNIA ITALIANA MONTAGGI INDUSTRIALI [Italian Industrial Assembly Company]
SpA. Finsider Group. Corso Europa, 13. 20122 Milan. Phone: 77 93. Telex:
312051. Supply and assembly of safety containers for nuclear power plants. Mechan- _
ical, electrical and instrument assemblies for nuclear and conventional thermal
power plants, including assembly of pressure vessels. -
COREN. 13040 Saluggia (Vercelli). Phone: (0160) 48401. Telex: 200064 SORINSAL
c/o CUREN. Production of nuclear fuels.
EI. ELETTRONUCLEARE ITALIADTA. 20094 Corsico (Milan). Via Caboto, 5. Phone: (02) -
448~~1. Telex: 310211 SICOM I(c/o EI). Electronuclear power plants with light
wat~r reactors. -
FBM.. Mechanical Construction SpA. Via Lambruschini, 15. 20158 Milan. Phone: _
(02) 37761. Telex: 331154. Pressurizers for reactors. Heat exchangers. Steam
generators. Pre-heaters for supply water. Reactor internals: steam separators,
dia$rids. Installations with liquefied sodium, demineralized water--light and heavy.
"Radwaste Systems." Evaporators. Solidifiers [cristallizzatori].
FIAR. FABBRICA ITALIANA APPARECCHIATURE RADIOELETTRICHE SpA. [Italian Radioelec-
trical Equipment Works, Inc.] 20156 Milan, Via Montefeltro, 8. Phone: (02) 30
65 91/30 57 21-2-3-4-5. Telex: 331140 FIARMO I. Electronic systems for control-
ling the recirculation of water. Monitoring of the neutron flux, process radiation
and anbient radiation levels in containment. Control and monitoring of the [fuel] �
rod position. Protection of the nuclear site. "Nuclenet 1000" monitoring and
control unit.
FIAT TTG SpA. Nuclear Products Department. Via Cuneo, 20. Turin. Phone: (Oll)
26002. Telex: 221050 FIATTG. Services and supplies ~or nuclear installations for
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surface and sea uses; mechanical and electromech~nical componentsfor tested and
- ~ advanced riuclear reactors; control systens; systems for sodium and water; design
and implementation of civilian pro~ects.
FRANCO TOSI SpA. Piazza Monumento, 12. 20024 Legnano. Phone: (0331; 547590 and
541112. Telex: 330661 F TOSI. Steam turbines. Condensers. Steam geiterators.
Heat exchangers. Moisture separators. Pumps. Compressors and blowers. Desalini-
za~ion plants. Piping and valves for gas, steam and liquids. Precision mechanic4l
constructions.
GAMMATOM SpA. Via XXIV Maggio, 22070 Guanzate (Como). Phone: (031) 93 60 35-6. `
Equipment, radioactive sources and services for nondestructive tests, manual and
automatic ga~a counters, ga~a radiation (sterilization,treatment, szimulation)
for third parties. ~
GONDRAND. Nuciear transports. Via Dante, 134. 200090 Pioltello-Limito. Phone:
(02) 903661. Telex: 330341. Telegrams: GONDRAND. Specialized organization for -
: domestic and international transport of radioisotopes, sources of all kinds, special
y
�issionable products, fresh and irradiated fuels and all related operations. 220
other offices of the CONDRAND group in Europe and agents everywhere.
ITALIMPIANTI. IT. SOCIETA ITALIANA IMPIANTI PA. Piazza Piccapietra, 9. 16121
Genoa. Phone: 59 981. Research, design, consulation on conventional engi.neering
and construction of nuclear installations.
~BEN. Via Bassini, 15. 20133 Milan. Phone: (02) 2365551. Telex: 312451 Laben.
Analogical and digital electronics for nuclear physics. Monitoring of ambient ra-
dioactivity. Integrated systems for analysis of experimental data.
NIRA. NUCLEARE ITALIAAIA REATTORI AVANZATI. Piazza Carignano, 2. 16128 Genoa.
Phone: (O10) 5996. Telex: 33101+8. Research design and construction of nuclear
sites equipped with heavy water r~actors, advanced converter reactors and fast reac-
tors.
NUCLITAL. Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 113. 16121 Genoa. Phone: (O10) 5381. Telex:
- 270008 AMEC. Telegrams: MEC-Nucleare. Design and development of cores and light
water reactor fuels.
NUOVO PIGNONE SpA. Via Matteucci, 2. 50127 Flarence. Phone: 43921. Telex:
571320. Subsonic, transonic and hypersonic axial compressors for installations for
enrichment by gaseous diffusion. Ultracentrifugatior~ technology for enrichment.
Components for nuclear reactors: pxessurized vessels, heat exchangers and steam
generators, on-off valves and regulator valves for UF6, containers of UF6, pumps
circulators, electric actuators for nuclear power plants and miscellaneous.
SIGEN. 20094 Corsico (Milan) Via S. Caboto, 5. Phone: (02) 44841. Telex: 310211
_ SICOM (c/o SIGEN). Plans and construction for nuclear sites and systems with pres-
surized water reactors.
SNI~, TECHNIT. TECHNOLOGIE ENERGETICFIE AVANZATE SpA. [Advanced Energy Technologies,
Inc]. 00153 Rome, Via Bargoni, 34. Phone: [phone]. Telex: 614354 SNITEC. De-
sign, construction and assembly of inechanical and plan~ engineering systems for
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electronuclear power plants. Com~lete research and development laboratories. Nu-
clear fuel cycle plants. Advanced systems for energy production.
SOCIETA LOMBARDI DI TII,EVISIONE Srl. Viale Montesanto, 1~ 201~4 Milan. Phone:
(02) 6598136-652412. Telegrams: TII.ERADIUM. Ga~a sterilization plants for in- _
dustrial use. Irradiation unit for research and teletherapy using cobalt. Linear
accelerators. Equipment for nuclear medicine, medical physics and dosimetry. Ra-
diation-monitoring systems for nuclear power plants. Neutron detectors.
SOPREN. Via Cuneo, 21. Tui:n. Phone: (O11) 26001. Te1ex: 221050 (c/o SOPREN).
Design of reactors and nuclear fuels.
TERNI. Industry and Electricity Company. Ironworks: Viale B. Brin, 218. 05100
Terni. Phone: (0744) 490. Tele~e: 660008-660016 TERNISID. Vessels for BWR and
PWR nuclear reactors in welded sh~eetmetal or forged. Pressurizers. Welded and
forged single-unit [monoblocco] pump-castings. Pressurized vessels for primary and
~;econdary systems. Flanges, ferrules, nozzles, tube plates, core supports, valve
casings, constructed and moulded from sheetmstal or forged.
CSO: 8128/8113 END
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