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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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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Secure Freight Initiative will see cargo scanned for nuclear and radiological threats before it sets off for the U.S.
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The first of two ships carrying weapons-grade plutonium from the US docked in France early this morning, Greenpeace said today. The British-registered Pacific Pintail
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A tanker carrying fuel oil docked at a North Korean port on Saturday as a team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency headed for the country ahead of a planned shutdown of its atomic reactor under a disarmament deal.
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A shipment of radioactive material  ordered by Halliburton Co. that went missing in New Jersey was  found in Boston on Wednesday, the company said in a filing to  federal regulators this week.
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A consortium of major industrial nations has not been able to agree on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor, but the European Union is making it clear that one will be built in France, in any case.
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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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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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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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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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(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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The stricken Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi is being transported back to its home base.
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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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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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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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A Halliburton Co. shipment of radioactive material that landed in New York in October was lost en route to Texas, and was not found until Wednesday, when it turned up in Boston.