Plutonium to be transported to S. Carolina from Japan

Plutonium to be transported to S. Carolina from Japan

Photo taken March 22, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Pacific Egret (rear) docking at a port in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, under the vigilant eye of a Japan Coast Guard vessel. The British-flagged ship is believed to transport the plutonium which Japan agreed to return to the United States to South Carolina, where the U.S. government-run Savannah River Site nuclear facility is located. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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