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BNFL's plutonium plans on the rocks after false data scandal

Last edited 15 September 1999 at 8:00am
15 September, 1999

Today's revelations that BNFL falsified safety records on plutonium fuel threatens to cripple its future plutonium business. The first shipment of plutonium fuel (MOX) from Sellafield is currently only a week away from arrival in Japan but may now have to be sent back to the UK for additional safety checks. The Japanese Science and Environment body (MITI) has ordered that the safety checks must take place before the plutonium fuel is used. BNFL's Japanese customers are reported to be flying to Sellafield for urgent discussions.

Greenpeace fights freeze on bank account

Last edited 23 July 1999 at 8:00am
23 July, 1999
Environmental group calls on UK government to stop expansion plans for MOX


Greenpeace today held a press conference to call on the British Government and its state-owned nuclear reprocessing company, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (BNFL) to immediately rescind the freeze on its bank account, and to end plans to expand plutonium fuel (MOX) production at BNFL's Sellafield plant in Cumbria, north England.

Plutonium fuel shipment heads for Japan via South Africa and the South West Pacific Ocean

Last edited 22 July 1999 at 8:00am
22 July, 1999
Greenpeace today called all countries on the route of the nuclear weapons-usable plutonium shipment to take all possible action to oppose the transport, which could be the first of 80 such shipments during the next decade.

British nuclear industry launches legal blitz to prevent protests against weapons-usable plutonium shipment to Japan

Last edited 16 July 1999 at 8:00am
16 July, 1999

British Nuclear Fuels Ltd is attempting to stifle public debate by seeking injunctions today in the United Kingdom and France to prevent Greenpeace protesting against a secret shipment of nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel from Europe to Japan, the environment group reported today.Two British freighters, the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal, are due to leave the port of Barrow in northern England imminently to undertake the transport to Japan.

High Court grants injunction against Greenpeace over plutonium shipment to Japan

Last edited 16 July 1999 at 8:00am
16 July, 1999
Global opposition to shipments of nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel from Britain and France to Japan will continue in spite of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. obtaining a wide-ranging court injunction preventing any interference with the transportation of the plutonium, Greenpeace said today.

Greenpeace and other groups in Ireland, Scotland, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, United States, and the Pacific region will take part in an international protest against the plutonium shipments on Monday July 19.

BNFL launches legal blitz against protesters in France and UK

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Greenpeace - Stop PlutoniumBritish Nuclear Fuels Ltd is attempting to stifle public debate by seeking injunctions today in the United Kingdom and France to prevent Greenpeace protesting against a secret shipment of nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel from Europe to Japan, the environment group reported today.Two British freighters, the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal, are due to leave the port of Barrow in northern England imminently to underta

Greenpeace statement on proposed sale of up to 49% of BNFL

Last edited 13 July 1999 at 8:00am
13 July, 1999
"The Privatisation process should expose all the hidden costs associated with spent nuclear waste fuel reprocessing. Once this happens BNFL will realise that its future lies in waste storage, clean-up and decommissioning," said Greenpeace Nuclear Campaigner, Pete Roche.

"Unless reprocessing is shut down, the only way BNFL could be successfully privatised is by the taxpayer paying for the massive hidden liabilities"

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