nuclear transports

Judge reserves judgement over Sellafield 'MOX' plant

Last edited 12 November 2001 at 9:00am
12 November, 2001

The Judicial Review of the Government's recent decision to allow British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) to begin operations at the mixed oxide (MOX) plant in Sellafield ended at lunchtime today. The legal action was brought by Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.

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Nuclear reprocessing, plutonium and nuclear weapons

Last edited 9 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
9 November, 2001

Nuclear reprocessing was first carried out to separate plutonium from 'spent' nuclear reactor fuel - for nuclear weapons. All countries with plutonium-based nuclear weapons have reprocessing facilities.

Plutonium is the most highly prized material for making nuclear weapons. It has only existed in the environment since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the US in 1945, and does not occur naturally. It was in fact a US plutonium bomb that killed more than 50,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

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Article tagged as: mox fuel, nuclear transports, nuclear weapons, plutonium, reports, reprocessing

Rotten to the core

Last edited 1 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Revelations about BNFL's business and Sellafield since publication of the three nuclear installations inspectorate safety reports

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Nuclear Transport Routes in 2001

Last edited 1 September 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
9 January, 2001

A printable map of nuclear transport routes across the UK by land and sea.

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BNFL refuses Greenpeace attendance at Wylfa nuclear meeting

Last edited 16 May 2001 at 8:00am
16 May, 2001

Wylfa power station

British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has refused to allow Greenpeace to attend this week's Wylfa Local Community Liaison Council to ask questions about the safety of the controversial nuclear plant on Anglesey (1). 

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Leaked documents reveal BNFL in crisis with dissatisfied customers

Last edited 14 May 2001 at 8:00am
14 May, 2001
Nuclear contamination
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Greenpeace International - According to leaked documents published today in the UK 'Independent on Sunday' newspaper, customers of troubled nuclear company, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), are deeply dissatisfied over massive cost overruns and failures in key facilities at Sellafield. According to the documents, customers are considering legal action if the situation continues.

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German nuclear waste fuel shipments to UK to resume

Last edited 12 April 2001 at 8:00am
12 April, 2001

Spent nuclear waste fuel shipments from German nuclear power plants to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria are about to resume. This will be the first time waste has been transported from Germany to Sellafield since shipments were stopped in 1998.

Three casks of nuclear waste are rumoured to be due to leave the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant on 23rd April. They will travel by sea to Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and then be taken by train to the reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

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Greenpeace Challenge BNFL to debate on Wylfa nuclear power station.

Last edited 29 March 2001 at 9:00am
29 March, 2001

In response to a letter from BNFL accusing them of inaccuracies in a report on safety problems at Wylfa nuclear power station, Greenpeace today challenged BNFL to a full public debate.

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Greenpeace France protestors arrested during night of armed plutonium transports

Last edited 17 January 2001 at 9:00am
17 January, 2001

January 17th 2001, Cherbourg/Valognes, France:

Five Greenpeace France activists were arrested by French Interior Ministry police, CRS, this morning, while protesting at the gates and railway line of the Cogema nuclear transport depot at Valognes. The action, which began on Saturday, was in protest against the imminent transport of plutonium/MOX fuel from Europe to Japan. At around 1.00 am, the activists were bundled into a waiting police van after having their chains and neck locks cut from the gates of Cogema's depot.

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Deadly plutonium shipment set to leave Europe this week - Greenpeace warns en route countries

Last edited 16 January 2001 at 9:00am
16 January, 2001

Greenpeace today warned coastal nations around the world to be on high alert for a deadly weapons-usable plutonium/MOX fuel shipment from Europe to Japan. The armed nuclear transport freighters the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal began to leave the British port of Barrow-in-Furness this morning bound for the French port of Cherbourg where they will load the plutonium cargo before an eight week 30,000km journey to Japan.

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