US Bomb-Grade Plutonium Reaches France Under Guard
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A heavily guarded ship carrying 308 lbs. of US weapons-grade plutonium docked in the French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday, defying protesters who say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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CHERBOURG, France, Oct 6  - Police threw a heavy escort around a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals as it was offloaded from a ship and taken by military convoy to a nuclear recycling plant in western France on Wednesday despite protests
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CHERBOURG, France  - A heavily guarded ship  carrying a large shipment of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium  docked in the French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday, defying  protesters who say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist  attack.
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A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium has left the United States for a nuclear reactor in France, drawing protests from activists who believe the shipment poses both an environmental and terrorist threat.
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PODOLSK, Russia, Aug. 29 -- Heavily guarded trucks rolled up to the Luch nuclear institute here on Tuesday night and unloaded five green reinforced containers holding a total of 21 pounds of uranium, about a third of it highly enriched, which had been quietly removed from a research reactor in...
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PARIS, Aug 17  (IPS) - The fatal accident at the Japanese nuclear power  plant Mihama last week has raised  fears about French nuclear  facilities -- and also the desire to have more.
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Iran on Thursday said it plans to press ahead with construction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor the U.S. and its allies fear could be used to produce plutonium to build atomic weapons hours after the U.N. nuclear watchdog denied Tehran help in building it.
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US and Russia resort to name-calling over Ukraine. The UN's atomic energy agency warns that Pyongyang has enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to six a-bombs. The Pope gets his due in a graphic novel.
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A lorry suspected to be carrying a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals, to be reprocessed in southeast France, left a retreatment plant in the country's north under heavy escort, a French television journalist at the scene said.
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A heavily guarded convoy of vehicles transporting US weapons-grade plutonium left a plant in northern France on Thursday to be driven nearly 1,000 km
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CHERBOURG, France  - A heavily guarded ship  carrying 308 lbs. of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium docked in the  French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday, defying protesters who  say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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Protests continue in France in a bid to stop delivery of  weapons-grade plutonium from the US for recycling.
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Authorities are investigating how three workers were exposed to radioactive plutonium during environmental restoration work at the Nevada Test Site, the National Nuclear Security Administration said.