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 Monday April 29, 2002 11:06 by Andrew - The Struggle Site
 Report and pictures of the embassy demonstration on Friday in Dublin Sellafield protest A small protest took place in Dublin on Friday afternoon to mark the departure of two ships from Barrow-in-Furness to Japan. Greenpeace describing the shipment said it "may prove to be the most controversial nuclear shipment to date. They travel to Japan to collect and return to Sellafield 225 kg of plutonium contained in 8 MOX fuel assemblies which were rejected for reactor use because critical safety checks and data had been falsified." The ships started out on the 16th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. At the British embassy a hand appeared through a slit in the bunker style gatehouse to accept the protest letter. At the Japanese embassy two of the staff actually came out and formally accepted the letter, perhaps they were pleased that they could now hold their heads up at inter-embassy parties when the subject of protests came up? There were three banners on the demonstration including one in Japanese. Tim Hourigan who had prepared it translated the slogans as reading For a discussion on the tactics that are needed to shut Sellafield see |
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