US plutonium reaches French plant
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A controversial shipment of plutonium from old US nuclear warheads reaches a plant in southern France.
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Damage to the reactor head of the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio ranks among the top five most serious nuclear plant accidents or near-accidents since Three Mile Island, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved on Thursday the first site in over 30 years that could eventually house a new nuclear power plant, but the United States is still far away from breaking ground on any new reactors.
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A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany. The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France.
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Working under tight security from helicopters and police, port crews unloaded US military plutonium from a British ship on Wednesday after its arrival in northwest France, nuclear industry officials said.
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The first of two ships carrying weapons-grade plutonium from the United States has docked in France. The British-registered Pacific Pintail is said to be carrying enough plutonium to make 40 nuclear bombs.
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The government moved a step closer Friday to gaining approval to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium by turning it into a less dangerous fuel for commercial power reactors.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday announced it has placed the biggest nuclear power plant in the United States, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, under a tighter watch because of a safety violation.
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The world's stockpiles of plutonium and  highly enriched uranium useable in atomic weapons are growing,  despite increasing fears about the security of nuclear  materials, a U.S. based think-tank says in a new report.
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World News, Cherbourg, France: Two armed freighters carrying plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads have docked in the French port of Cherbourg.
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A controversial U.S. shipment of bomb-grade plutonium escorted by armed British commandos has set sail for France, despite protests from environmental activists who fear a terrorist attack or an accident.
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PARIS, Jan. 19 -- For French President Nicolas Sarkozy, nuclear reactors are the bridge between the West and the Islamic world.
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Description: South Korea reveals it extracted small amounts of plutonium in a 1982 test and performed a uranium-enrichment experiment in 2000.
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US authorities have given a European-led consortium peremission to build the first uranium enrichment plant in the United States for 30 years.
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Satellite images show that Pakistan is building a new nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, an American watchdog group said Thursday, warning that it could contribute to an atomic arms race with archrival India.
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PARIS, Jan 5 (IPS) - The French government plans to earmark 150 billion   dollars over the next 30 years for nuclear power plants,  including the  International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor  (ITER), despite experts'  warnings on technological and  environmental problems.
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A convoy believed to be carrying a large shipment of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium arrived safely at a recycling plant in southeastern France on Friday after a long journey across the country.