Shipment of MOX arrives in Britain from Japan

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | September 17, 2002

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Arrival in Great Britain of a cargo of MOX coming from Japan

Tuesday September 17, 2002 - 7h42 GMT

Barrow-in-furness (England), 17 seven (AFP) - a transporting ship of nuclear fuel recycled MOX arrived Tuesday at Barrow-in-Furness (the North-West of England) coming from Japan in spite of protests ecologists, brings back a journalist of the AFP.

Pacific Pintail, party of Japan it there has 75 days with a cargo of five tons MOX, arrived Tuesday morning at the port of Barrow-in-Furness (the North-West of England), close to the nuclear reprocessing plant of Sellafield.

Greenpeace affirms that the MOX contains 255 kilogrammes of plutonium, sufficient to manufacture 50 nuclear bombs.

Five boats of antinuclear demonstrators, whose Rainbow Warrior de Greenpeace, were at the entry of bay to protest against the arrival of Pacific Pintail.

The British group of the atomic energy British Nuclear Fuelsaffirme which the MOX contains of plutonium oxide which is not of military use and which Pacific Pintail is built especially to resist a catastrophe.