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German cargo plane transports uranium to Russia

Berlin, Germany - Protests from the ecologists

326 kilograms of enriched uranium have been transported by a cargo plane from Germany to Russia. The dangerous material has been produced in a nuclear reactor built by the authorities of the ex-Soviet Union in Germany and carried to Russia enough to build many atomic bombs. There are no many other details about it, only that several ecologist associations have protested because they think this procedure...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 71529
Rome, Italy, 12/19/2006 13:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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