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| Friday, 08 April 2005 00:00 | |||
RALLY ON
SATURDAY TO "STOP PLUTONIUM" & NEWS UPDATE ON DELAY IN
PLUTONIUM SHIPMENT VIA CHARLESTON Marion Square Charleston, South Carolina Start gathering a 2:00 p.m., Events begin at 2:30 Saturday, April 9 Contact: 864-883-3881 (harbor watch on Sullivan's Island); 843-364-3307 (Meghan Rose McKay); 202-415-6158 (Tom Clements, Greenpeace) Charleston Peace -- Carolina Peace Resource Center (CPRC) -- Greenpeace International -- Georgians Against Nuclear Energy -- Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) RALLY ON SATURDAY TO "STOP PLUTONIUM" & NEWS UPDATE ON DELAY IN PLUTONIUM SHIPMENT VIA CHARLESTON **** Photo Opportunity **** Marion Square Charleston, South Carolina Start gathering a 2:00 p.m., Events begin at 2:30 Saturday, April 9 Contact: 864-883-3881 (harbor watch on Sullivan's Island); 843-364-3307 (Meghan Rose McKay); 202-415-6158 (Tom Clements, Greenpeace) Concerned citizens and activists against the transport and use of plutonium will rally in Marion Square on Saturday beginning at 2 p.m. to express opposition to Department of Energy plans to ship plutonium fuel through Charleston. The color event will include a news update on the delay in the arrival of a plutonium shipment into South Carolina (via the Charleston Naval Weapons Station), banners and signs, various speakers on the issue, poetry, and highly a decorated "Stop Plutonium" truck. It has been confirmed that the plutonium shipment has been delayed and it is believed that the ships are simply waiting off the coast, at great expense to US taxpayers. The weapons-grade plutonium fuel (mixed oxide, MOX) on board one of the ships (Pacific Pintail) can not be off loaded and shipped to the Catawba nuclear reactor due to lack of verification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that security requirements at the site have been met. The license issued by the NRC to test the MOX contains several conditions which Duke Power has yet to meet. "Premature shipment of the plutonium fuel underscores the nature of the plutonium disposition program - that it is poorly planned and presents security risks which have not been properly addressed," said Tom Clements of Greenpeace International. For more information on the shipment, see http://charlestonpeace.net/ and for more information on plutonium & transport see http://www.stop-plutonium.org Add your comment
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