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Monju Sodium leak fire via Wikileaks https://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_Monju_nuclear_reactor_leak

Press Release from Greenpeace.org:
“2016/03/18 NGO Joint Statement Against Secret Plutonium Shipment in Tokai-mura
プレスリリース – 2016-03-18
Tokyo, March 18 2016 – A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium scheduled to depart the port of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture this coming weekend highlights the failure, but also the proliferation risks, of the current Japanese nuclear policy, a coalition of five non-governmental organizations warned today. A cargo of 331kg of plutonium will be loaded on to the Pacific Egret, an armed British nuclear transport ship, prior to departure under armed escort to the United States. It will be the largest shipment of separated plutonium since 1.8 tons of plutonium was delivered to Japan by controversial Akatsuki-maru in 1992. The two month voyage to the Joint Base Charleston-Weapons Station will then see the plutonium dumped at the Department of Energy Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.(1)…