Carolina Peace - Help us highlight the MOX shipment. Meeting Monday, March 28, 6:00pm

Help us highlight the MOX shipment. Meeting Monday, March 28, 6:00pm

Written by Administrator

Wednesday, 23 March 2005

It was weapons grade plutonium, left over from the Cold War. Rather than being vitrified (encased in glass and immobilized), this batch is destined to be used in an experiment to determine how profitable and how "safe" it is for Duke Energy to burn MOX fuel made from weapons grade plutonium.

In September of last year, over 300 pounds of it were trucked the approximately 1500 miles from the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico to Charleston, where the deadly cargo was loaded on two British boats, the Pacific Teal and the Pacific Pintail. The ships took the plutonium to Cherbourg, France, where it was put on two trucks and driven to the Cadarache nuclear production facility near Marseilles, passing within about 10 miles of Paris along the way. At Cadarache, it was made into four lead test assemblies, leaving two assemblies of fuel that even the industry admits is not useable.

The resulting waste MOX and potentially burnable MOX appears to be on its way back to Charleston right now. All indications were that the same two ships left Cherbourg onTuesday, March 22 with their radioactive load. They should arrive in Charleston some time between April 4 and April 9.

On arrival, the four "good" assemblies will be loaded onto trucks and transported to Duke Power's Catawba plant on Lake Wylie near Rock Hill. The two unuseable ones will be returned to Los Alamos.

It is dangerous to place nuclear materials into commerce. Moving these deadly substances carries a risk of accidents, and better and safer alternatives, such as solar and wind energy, are available and should be studied and supported. Plutonium should be vitrified.

Please join us in our efforts to inform everyone of the dangers of moving or using nuclear materials. Help us make people aware of this shipment. We need artists to create banners, people who can join the caravan to Rock Hill, photographers, money, people to to pass out factsheets and flyers, and especially people with ideas.

For more information, please call 516-4681 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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