World ; Plutonium US war ships arrive in French port
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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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Cuban trade embargo? Not for Vermont cows. Britain, France, and Germany to offer Iran nuclear technology if it ends uranium enrichment efforts.
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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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Flamanville on Normandy&#39;s Atlantic Coast is already home to one nuclear facility, and it&#39;s about to get another. Paris plans to start building the first of a new generation of nuclear plants in 2007.
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Britain has amassed a stockpile of more than 100 metric tons of plutonium -- enough for 17,000 bombs of the size that flattened Japan's Nagasaki in 1945, a report from the country's top science institution said on Friday.
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The U.S. nuclear submarine USS San Francisco, which ran aground off Guam in an accident that killed one of its crewmen, arrived at the Pacific Ocean island on Monday, the U.S. Navy said.
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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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BORDEAUX, France  - A heavily guarded convoy of  vehicles believed to be carrying a large shipment of U.S.  weapons-grade plutonium crossed France on Thursday on its way  for recycling, despite protests by anti-nuclear campaigners.
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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, 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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An American warship arrived in Hong Kong Monday, the US consulate said, the first visit by a military vessel from that country since a November spat when a US carrier group was denied entry.
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'Filipino Monkey' strikes again Analysis Those readers who follow the non-IT'n'Paris news will be aware that in recent days a group of US warships almost fired on fast boats operated by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This was after hearing radio transmissions in which the Iranians appeared to threaten some form of attack.â¦
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A heavily guarded convoy of vehicles transporting US weapons-grade plutonium left a plant in northern France on Thursday to be driven nearly 1,000 km
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Japan sent two destroyers and a surveillance airplane to the Sea of Japan on Thursday, American and Japanese government officials said, after the United States and Japan detected
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A shipment of 140 kg of United States weapons-grade plutonium arrived in the French port of Cherbourg last night, despite protests by anti-nuclear campaigners who fear it is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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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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Plutonium from U.S. nuclear warheads &#151; enough to make nearly 20 Hiroshima-style bombs &#151; is headed for France aboard armed freighters and a new life as commercial fuel that will ultimately light American homes.