Despite growing public and political concern about nuclear proliferation, a lightly armed UK-flagged commercial nuclear ship left Charleston, South Carolina carrying 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium for transport to France.

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Aerial view of Rokkasho-Mura Reprocessing Plant, Northern Japan, taken from Greenpeace sampling kite.

The Pacific Pintail 200 miles south of Cork (Ireland).

BNFL ship Pacific Pintail arrived this morning to port with its cargo of rejected plutonium fuel at the end of its voyage from Takahama, Japan.

The Nuclear Free Irish Sea Flotilla peacefully protesting against BNFL shipment of plutonium.

The nuclear free Irish sea flotilla, (made up of yachts and vessels from England , Wales and Ireland), supported by the Greenpeace ship SV Rainbow Warrior.