1.   An alarming increase in conditions that make nuclear theft possible - even easy - are cropping up at nuclear production plants all over Russia.

2.   A cache of stolen uranium was intercepted by Georgian officials this week, underscoring the continuing danger of nuclear theft in the former Soviet Union.

3.   A debate still rages within the government over whether Trulock was right about the significance of the Los Alamos nuclear theft.

4.   Mikhailov dismisses the threat of nuclear theft, foresees a vast new generation of reactors and a pressing need for plutonium to run them.

5.   Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been an enormous concern about nuclear theft but relatively few documented cases of diversions of nuclear materials.

6.   But a Defense Ministry official noted that Chinese leaders have repeatedly denied allegations of nuclear thefts.

7.   Terekhov said Russian security experts had discussed the nuclear thefts with their counterparts in Interpol, the German security services and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.