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Germany Limits Exports Of Nuclear Technology But Allows China Projects
BERLIN, March 14
(AFP) - Germany's center-left government has decided to restrict exports
of its nuclear technology but will still allow three projects, including
one in China, to go ahead, officials of the junior coalition partners the
Greens said here Tuesday. The economy ministry confirmed that three projects were going ahead but refused to say that others had been stopped. The ecologist Greens
parliamentary leaders Rezzo Schlauch and Kerstin Mueller said the project
for China was worth 300 million marks (about 150 million dollars/euros)
for electrical equipment for the control room at a nuclear plant being
built in Lianyungang. Two other projects, given approval by an interministerial working committee on Friday, were a 14-million-mark atomic waste storage unit at the Ignalina plant in Lithuania and a 20-million-mark contract for repairs at the Atucha 1 reactor in Argentina. Eleven other projects worth billions of marks, in countries such as Brazil, Turkey and Kazakhstan, as well as China, will not get export clearance, the Greens parliamentary leaders said. They said it would be a mistake to end nuclear power in Germany, as the government has pledged to do, and still export this technology abroad. 
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