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"en.20040310.6.3-262"2
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"I accept that the presidency views this as a serious problem. However, all of us, and the EU institutions in particular, need to recognise that the plutonium being sent across the seas to Japan from both Sellafield in the UK and La Hague in France is directly usable in nuclear explosive devices. If terrorists were to get hold of this material we would be facing devastation. We have already had the example of 11 September.
This trade undermines all attempts to halt proliferation, and I would draw the presidency's attention to a statement made in Washington by President George W. Bush on February 11, when he said that reprocessing is unnecessary for civil nuclear energy programmes. The tenor of his remarks is to condemn reprocessing as a sinister activity. We need to get a grip on proliferation, and in this context the trade in nuclear technology undertaken by the EU is similar to the trade in heroin in that it is equally lethal.
I urge the presidency to take the lead in strengthening the European Union's non-proliferation credentials by pressing the UK and France to stop this commerce in plutonium, which was not named after Pluto the God of the Underworld for nothing."@en1
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