U.S. Nuclear Shipment En Route to France
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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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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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A tanker carrying fuel oil docked at a North Korean port on Saturday as a team of international inspectors was due to arrive ahead of a planned shutdown of the country's nuclear reactor under a disarmament deal.
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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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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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By John Gillie, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 21--Sea-Tac Airport added its fourth nonstop route to a European city Tuesday with the announcement that Air France will begin service from Sea-Tac to Paris beginning June 11.
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received a letter from Iran regarding the 20 centrifuges. It seems to cover all the elements and appears to. The United States accuses Tehran of wanting to build a nuclear bomb.
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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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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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Heavy vehicles and other equipment related to the upcoming deployment of advanced Patriot interceptor missiles at American bases on southern Okinawa island arrived in Japan on Saturday, news reports said.
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A B-52 bomber flies from North Dakota to Louisiana with a nuclear payload it didn't realize it had.
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MOSCOW. Dec. 17 -- Russia announced Monday that it has delivered an initial shipment of nuclear fuel to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, a step likely to stir alarm in Western capitals concerned about the true nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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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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A controversial nuclear waste shipment arrives at Germany's Gorleben storage site 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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ÃlectricitÃ© de France, the French national electric utility, will team up with Constellation Energy to build and operate nuclear power plants in the U.S. and Canada.
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An Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said.