21.   North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods.

22.   Iran also had a nuclear plant under construction by a European firm, the West German Kraft Werke Union, at Bushehr on the Gulf coast.

23.   The Scottish authorities are particularly concerned about discharges from nuclear plants at Dounreay in northwest Scotland and Sellafield in northwest England.

24.   The German Environment Minister, Klaus Toepfer, has described the condition of nuclear plants in the Soviet Union as giving cause for concern.

25.   Friends of the Earth has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire.

26.   Greenpeace claim that alternatives involving the upgrading of the RBMK reactors, or their replacement by other nuclear plants, would be a substantially more expensive course of action.

27.   According to Tpfer, the Chinese argued that they could not apply Western European safety standards to their nuclear plants.

28.   There are plans to commission three new nuclear plants elsewhere in Ukraine to replace Chernobyl.

29.   At present there is a moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants, and the plans would need parliamentary approval.

30.   Kozloduy reopened A major leak at the Sellafield nuclear plant in northwestern England in September was spotted only through luck after detector equipment failed to notice it.