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03-23-2005, 03:59 PM
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Two containers containing six assemblies of Mox resulting American military plutonium dun loading left Cherbourg (Handle), in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, board Pacific Pintail to join the wearing of Charleston (North Carolina), in the United States.

The transfer of Mox, mixing fuel of plutonium oxide and dranium, ses unrolled without incidents between lusine of La Hague and the wearing of Cherbourg, specified it responsible for the communication of the site of Cogema, Laurence Pernot.

The day before, the Court of Bankruptcy of Cherbourg had enjoint the militants of Greenpeace of not sapprocher of the loading to less than 100 meters with ground and 500 meters at sea, under sorrow dune amends of 75.000 euros per infringement.

The convoy included/understood the four assemblies ordered by contract and two others of residual matters only transformed into pencils of Mox, the whole gathered in two containers.

Pacific Pintail, which remains under the responsibility of the national navy in territorial waters, installed towards 03h05 to join its "Sister Ship", Pacific Teal, which na not penetrated in French water, before dentreprendre a common crossing towards the United States estimated at about fifteen days.

Mox, resulting from 140 kg American military plutonium, is intended to feed lusine of lelectrician Duke Power de Catowba (North Carolina) who, with four packing of 500 kg each one, will be able to provide while running 100.000 inhabitants during one year, according to Laurence Pernot.

She adds that the contract including/understanding transport and the recycling of 140 kg American military plutonium reaches an amount of 27 deuros million and quil climbs to 300 million dollars with the dAreva participation in construction dune manufacturing plant of Mox, under consideration since 2008, in Savanah River (South Carolina).

This factory will allow lutilisation as combustible of 32 tons military plutonium that the Americans wish to transform.

MILITARY SAFETY

Even if Mox is, according to Henri-Jacques Neau, director of the relations foreign of Cogema-Logistics, "a civil fuel" impossible to disperse, it is protected by "packing conceived to resist aggressions and accidents as of the falls or fires".

Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal profit, as for them, dune double hull which occupy "two fifths of the width of the boat", which increases their safety notably, but does not allow them dembarquer each one quune score of containers.

This double hull can resist léperonnage by through dun boat of 30.000 tons, insists Mr. Neau. And even sil recognizes that the boats are old "dun little more than 20 years", it is said persuaded of "their excellent state", dautant quils have six months of maintenance per annum.

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