Georgia halts plutonium at border
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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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PARIS -- A controversial US 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. The shipment is the most contentious nuclear shipment in years with activists questioning the wisdom of transporting such security-sensitive cargo at a time of heightened risk of terror ...
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BELGRADE, Nov 17 (IPS) - Two reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in  Bulgaria that are considered dangerous will shut down Dec. 31.  And just in time, as Bulgaria joins the European Union the next  day, together with neighbour Romania.
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Two Russian weapons-grade plutonium  production reactors are ahead of schedule for shutting down and  will stop operating before this December's deadline, the U.S.  Energy Department said on Friday.
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France sends plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads south under heavy guard to be reprocessed.
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A divided U.N. nuclear watchdog has postponed until Thursday a ruling on Iran's bid for aid for a project the West fears could yield bomb-grade plutonium, but is still likely to block such assistance, diplomats said.
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A divided U.N. nuclear watchdog has put off until Thursday ruling on Iran's bid for aid for a project the West fears could yield bomb-grade plutonium, but is still likely to block such assistance, diplomats said.
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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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Protests continue in France in a bid to stop delivery of  weapons-grade plutonium from the US for recycling.
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The United States will provide equipment and training to Georgia under an accord on Friday to combat trafficking of radioactive material via the Caucasus state which said last week it jailed a Russian uranium smuggler.
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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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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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SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Savannah Port of Entry has seized more than $14 million in goods that were misdescribed in an effort to circumvent trade laws and regulations.
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HANOVER, Germany: Demonstrators in Germany chained themselves to a railway yesterday to stop a shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste from France, a day after a protester was crushed to death under the ...
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North Korea confirmed it has shut its nuclear reactor that provides the secretive state with material to make weapons-grade plutonium, a North Korean official said, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
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Working under tight security from helicopters and police, port crews unloaded US military plutonium from a British ship on Wednesday after its arrival in northwest France, nuclear industry officials said.
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A U.S.-initiated project that aims to reduce the dangers of nuclear proliferation and control radioactive waste gained support Sunday, as 11 more nations signed on with original members Russia, China, France and Japan.