Ship likely carrying plutonium departs for U.S.

Ship likely carrying plutonium departs for U.S.

Photo taken March 22, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the British-flagged Pacific Egret, believed to be carrying plutonium and other nuclear materials, leaving a port in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, in line with a 2014 Japan-U.S. agreement to return them to the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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