Irish Demand Action to Halt Plutonium Shipments

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The Irish Government was today urged to intervene to bring a halt to the shipment of weapons-grade plutonium being transported off the Irish coast.

Irish Labour Party chief whip Emmet Stagg called on the new Environment Minister Dick Roche to take the lead at European level to bring an end to such shipments.

He said: “This lethal cargo of plutonium, which is in transit from the United States to France is a nuclear hazard which would have enormous consequences for marine and human health were it to leak or explode.

“It is simply not good enough for the Minister for Environment to say he can do nothing.”Mr Stagg claimed that by transporting the lethal cargo across the Atlantic, the French and US Governments were posing an unnecessary threat to the environment and human health.He said the international community should be hugely concerned about the extent and nature of the shipments, particularly at a time of heightened international terrorism.

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1. Are these shipments regulated

by the IAEA or other agency?