US nuclear reprocessing shipment heads through France by road
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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.
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A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium has left the United States for a nuclear reactor in France, drawing protests from activists who believe the shipment poses both an environmental and terrorist threat.
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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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The United States will remove from military stockpiles nine tonnes of plutonium, enough for more than 1,000 atom bombs, to demonstrate its commitment to non-proliferation, the U.S. energy secretary said on Monday.
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A UK ship carrying  a controversial load of weapons grade plutonium sets sail for France from the US.
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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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Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s coffin is loaded onto an aircraft for it&#39;s flight to Cairo after being carried by a French military honor guard, foreground, at Villacoublay airbase south-west of Paris, Thursday Nov. 11, 2004.
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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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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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France sends plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads south under heavy guard to be reprocessed.
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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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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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A trans-Atlantic shipment of plutonium from the United States appeared off France's western coast on Tuesday, activists said.
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During a one-day stop here in a country where the United States once shipped millions of dollars worth of weaponry, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came with a message of disarmament.
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Canada's MDS Nordion started shipping  medical isotopes on Wednesday after a prolonged shutdown of a  nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, disrupted the supply  of isotopes to health facilities around the world.
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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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World News, Cherbourg, France: Two armed freighters carrying plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads have docked in the French port of Cherbourg.