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Pathway away from destruction

Feature story | September 19, 2002 at 0:00

One of the most dangerous and unnecessary shipments ever to have taken place reached journey’s end on September 17th 2002 when it docked in the UK port of Barrow. The effect that this shipment’s 18,000 mile, 75-day passage, through some of the...

Shameful shipment must be the last

Feature story | September 17, 2002 at 0:00

As the two British nuclear freighters, carrying their deadly cargo of plutonium entered the port of Barrow this morning, they were again met with peaceful protests from the Nuclear Free Irish Sea Flotilla. How can those responsible for this...

Protest flotilla catches up with nuclear nomad ships

Feature story | September 16, 2002 at 0:00

The Nuclear Free Irish Sea flotilla has caught up with BNFL's deadly cargo of weapons-usable plutonium in the Irish Sea. The dangerous and unnecessary cargo has been wandering the world's oceans for the past 75 days placing millions of lives and...

Nowhere to run to....nowhere to hide

Feature story | September 15, 2002 at 0:00

Two British freighters with their cargo of weapons-usable plutonium, are now in the home straight of an 18,000 mile transport of terror. As the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal near the Irish Sea on their journey from Japan to Barrow on England's...

South Korean Government opposition to Plutonium shipment as Pacific Pintail leaves...

Press release | July 4, 2002 at 0:00

British plutonium ship with its cargo of faulty plutonium fuel departs Japan; South Korean Government opposed to transit through staits

Nuclear power reaches another dead end: UK closes Sellafield nuclear fuel plant

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | August 4, 2011

With the news that the Sellafield Mixed Oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel plant is to close , the nuclear industry finds its woeful safety record, finances and way of doing business exposed for all to see once again. Rock band U2...

Sellafield, broomsticks and the human cost of nuclear power

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | November 18, 2010 2 comments

Sellafield - © Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing How should we describe the scandal that came out of the UK’s Sellafield nuclear facility this week ? Grotesque? Sick? Organs and bones were illegally harvested from the bodies...

Nuclear News: The New Anti-Nuclear Movement

Blog entry by Andrew - Greenpeace | April 29, 2010

Originally posted by Justin on April 22, 2010 3:01 PM Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: The New Anti-Nuclear Movement ‘There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days. President Barack Obama just concluded...

Greenpeace calls for closure of THORP nuclear plant to be brought forward

Press release | August 26, 2003 at 0:00

Greenpeace today said that British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) plans to close the THORP - thermal oxide reprocessing plant- at Sellafield by 2010, bringing its end forward by 14 years, do not go far enough.

AREVA’s talk on spent nuclear fuel can’t be trusted

Blog entry by jmckeati | July 7, 2010

Some readers may remember AREVA’s unbelievably patronising nuclear waste cartoon … ‘By treating me and recycling me into MOX fuel,’ says the cute little spent fuel rod, ‘there’s less waste to watch after and...

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