Greenpeace in port to lead MOX fuel demo

THE Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, is due to arrive in Ireland tomorrow to prepare for a series of protests against the shipment of nuclear fuel through the Irish Sea within days of the anniversary of September 11.

Two armed ships, one carrying flasks of plutonium-based MOX fuel and the other providing an escort, are due to enter the Irish Sea early next month on a return journey from Japan to the Sellafield nuclear power plant in Britain.

The Japanese authorities demanded that the waste be shipped back to Sellafield after it arrived in their waters in 1999 amid the revelation that safety records at the Cumbrian facility had been falsified.