Navy and airforce to monitor radioactive fuel

The navy and air force will be deployed to monitor a shipment of radioactive fuel as it makes its way through the Irish Sea to Sellafield later this month, it emerged today.

Navy and airforce to monitor radioactive fuel

The navy and air force will be deployed to monitor a shipment of radioactive fuel as it makes its way through the Irish Sea to Sellafield later this month, it emerged today.

Patrol ships and reconnaissance aircraft will watch over the five tonne cargo of plutonium and uranium mixed oxide (MOX) which is being shipped to the Cumbrian installation from Takahama in Japan.

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