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Plutonium Shipment to France on the Way

Posted by michael on from the watch-out-for-icebergs dept.

duesi writes "According to BBC News a British vessel is carrying 140 kg of weapons grade plutonium from the US to France to turn it into nuclear fuel. It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to see that this is a dangerous thing... Similar shipments have happened before, for example in 1999 and 2002 but BBC writes that this is the first time weapon grade plutonium has been shipped ever."

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  1. Hypocrasy by cakefool · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is the same French nation the American government has such an intense hatred of?

    Funny how you sever all links with a country to the extent of renaming french fries, then go crawling for help when you want your Plutonium reprocessing.

    Which incidently leads me to the following -

    Nation A is shipping weapons grade nuclear material to nation B, where it will be processed and returned to A

    If A OR B != America
    THEN GoToWar ==1
    ELSE ??

    Hypocrisy - its great