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Mar 12, 2009 12:00 AM
Environmental organisation Greenpeace was trying to drum up opposition to the departure of a shipment of nuclear fuel from the French port of Cherbourg to Japan last week.
Greenpeace, which said that the 1.8-tonne shipment would be the biggest ever involving fissile material, has appealed to the International Atomic Energy Agency to intervene.
It claimed that the plutonium/uranium-based mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel was bomb material and that the threat...
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