U.S. Bomb-Grade Plutonium Convoy to Cross France
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CHERBOURG, France  - A heavily guarded convoy of  vehicles believed to be transporting U.S. weapons-grade  plutonium left a plant in northern France on Thursday for a  recycling factory 660 miles southeast.
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German police stands guard along the rails as the castor transport of nuclear waste passes by Dahlenburg, near Lueneburg, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001 on its way to the interim nuclear depot in Gorleben.
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U.S. agents next week will start scanning trucks crossing the Mexico border with a device that shoots neutrons to detect what exactly is hidden in the cargo. By Ryan Singel.
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Some congressional Democrats raised security concerns Wednesday about a proposed shipment of 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the United States to France for conversion into a mixed-oxide fuel.
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France sends plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads south under heavy guard to be reprocessed.
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U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea traveled on Thursday to a reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.
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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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Nearing the end of her tour of Europe and the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( news - web sites ) moves to Paris on Tuesday where a major address will be scrutinised for signs that the ...
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PARIS, Oct 13 (IPS) - Over several days now France has been home to a new  consignment of 140 kg of plutonium, enough to build 20 atom  bombs. The plutonium from dismantling of U.S. nuclear weapons has  been sent to France for treatment.
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Two columns of Second World War tanks, trucks and cars rumbled through Paris on Wednesday to re-enact the arrival of French and United States forces 60 years ago to liberate the city from four years of Nazi occupation.
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A shipment of 140 kg (308 lb) of US weapons-grade plutonium has arrived in the French port of Cherbourg, despite protests by anti-nuclear campaigners who fear it is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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Secure Freight Initiative will see cargo scanned for nuclear and radiological threats before it sets off for the U.S.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgian customs officers sent a car carrying a mixture of plutonium and beryllium back to Azerbaijan after foiling an attempt to smuggle the materials over the border, Georgian television reported yesterday.
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France is poised to dispatch hundreds of troops Monday to support the international peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, confronting painful memories of the deadly 1983 bombing in Beirut and concerns about ...
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Two ships with plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads arrive in the French port of Cherbourg.
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A trans-Atlantic shipment of plutonium from the United States appeared off France's western coast on Tuesday, activists said.
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A heavily guarded ship carrying a large shipment of US weapons-grade plutonium has docked in the French port of Cherbourg, defying protesters who say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist attack.