World IN BRIEF : CUBA : Nuclear Reactor Faces Another Delay

Operation of Cuba’s first nuclear reactor, being built at a site about 230 miles south of Miami, has been delayed two to three years, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ramon Sanchez Parodi said. With the help of the Soviet Union, Cuba is building Juragua I and II, both 440-megawatt nuclear reactors, near the port of Cienfuegos in southern Cuba. Testing of the first reactor, originally scheduled for the end of the 1980s, has now been postponed until the end of 1992 at the earliest. The reason for the delay was not specified. Cuban officials say their nuclear program is aimed at reducing the Communist island nation’s dependence on oil.