Plutonium cargo sails as Greenpeace bank accounts are frozen
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22/07/1999
British Nuclear Fuels Limited succeeded in freezing Greenpeace International's bank account on Tuesday 20 July, accusing the environmental organisation of breaching terms of a UK injunction that forbids Greenpeace from interfering with the sea shipment of Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel to Japan. The next day, 21 July, a ship carrying plutonium fuel elements fabricated at Sellafield met with a ship bringing similar cargo from a French nuclear reprocessing plant. The two vessels have begun the first sea transport of MOX fuel from Europe to Japan.