[Robe]

One would have to assume that any nuclear material would wind up at the Savanna River
Site in South Carolina. That being said it makes no sense to dock a ship at Wilmington and truck it down I-95/I-20, the most traveled/congested highways on the east coast.

Much better to dock in Charleston, with a better direct route to the Site as well as having already existing Naval Nuclear Weapons Facility in place.

This announcement may be a diversion

[Cooter]

The article mentioned equipment associated with Libya's nuclear weapons program. Could be things like centrifuges, etc. BTW, GE Nuclear Energy recently moved their HQ to Wilmington. They already have a nuclear fuel processing facility there.

[azhenfud]

"Much better to dock in Charleston, with a better direct route to the Site as well as having already existing Naval Nuclear Weapons Facility in place."

I disagree. CD and I briefly discussed this a week or so ago and thought Sunny Point Military Depot would be the site they'd pick. I believed since Wilmington has the GE Global Nuclear Fuels facility and could easily have handled the material, it was a better tradeoff than sending it overland to Aiken, SC.

I don't think it's a diversion, as I don't think Libya's nuclear program was far enough along for them to have obtained quantitative enriched fuels.