Rainbow Warrior
Protest over shipment to Sellafield
Two British ships carrying radioactive fuel to the Sellafield nuclear plant have entered the Irish Sea after an 18,000-mile voyage from Japan.
The ships are expected to dock in the port of Barrow-in-Furness in north west England tomorrow morning.
Environmental activists on board a flotilla of vessels led by the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, hope to stage a massive sea-borne protest off the coast of Cumbria tomorrow morning when the ships dock.
This afternoon up to four of the 20 boats in the Nuclear Free Irish Sea Flotilla staged a peaceful protest within sight of the ships. But the activists maintained a safe distance from the heavily armed vessels.
USI protest in DublinMeanwhile, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has organised a student protest outside the British Embassy in Dublin, in response to the shipment. USI President, Colm Jordan, said that the demonstration was arranged to coincide with the Nuclear Free Seas Flotilla.
"The anger at the situation has been re-ignited by the shipment of reject plutonium that passed through the Pacific on its way from Japan to Sellafield in the UK," he said.
