US Arms-Grade Plutonium Starts Road Journey Across France
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A consignment of US weapons-grade plutonium began a north-south road journey across France to be turned into fuel to make electricity by Areva SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of nuclear reactors, Greenpeace France said.
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France staked its claim to remain a world leader in atomic energy Thursday with the announcement that it would build the first of a new generation of pressurised water nuclear plants at a site on the Normandy ...
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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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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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France sends plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads south under heavy guard to be reprocessed.
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France's Areva CEPFi.PA is among   several companies interested in vying for a nuclear recycling   project in the United States, the world's largest maker of   nuclear reactors said.
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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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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.
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About 13 pounds of highly enriched uranium was returned to Russia from a research facility in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, the Energy Department announced. The transfer was part of an international program to better secure material that terrorists could use in a nuclear weapon.
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November 8, 2004 -- STRASBOURG, France - An anti-nuclear activist died yesterday when his leg was cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France&#39;s SNCF railway operator said.
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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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Protests continue in France in a bid to stop delivery of  weapons-grade plutonium from the US for recycling.
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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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The world's longest continually running experiment has revealed traces of plutonium in British soil from nuclear tests in the Nevada desert 50 years ago, scientists said on Monday.
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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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(Cherbourg, France-AP) Oct. 5, 2004 - Nuclear industry officials say port crews unloaded plutonium from the United States from a British ship on Wednesday morning after it arrived in northwest France.
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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.