1.   A Chilean navy vessel has been sent to take samples from the south Pacific Ocean where the Russian Mars probe carrying plutonium crashed, officials said Tuesday.

2.   A ship carrying plutonium for the reactor faced similar protests.

3.   Greenpeace said the trucks were carrying plutonium from the Sellafield treatment plant in northwest England to a weapons assembly plant at Aldermaston in the south.

4.   Greenpeace activists on Thursday invaded the runway at Ostende airport in an attempt to prevent a plane carrying plutonium mixed with enriched uranium taking off for Scotland.

5.   A doomed Russian space probe carrying deadly plutonium plunged into the south Pacific on Monday after causing a scare that it would hit Australia.

6.   Three years ago, a Japanese cargo-ship carrying plutonium reprocessed in France, took the Cape of Good Hope route around the southern tip of Africa.

7.   Two years ago, a cargo ship carrying plutonium reprocessed in France back to Japan took the Cape of Good Hope route around the southern tip of Africa.

8.   Meanwhile, four anti-nuclear groups have asked President Bill Clinton to bar French military planes allegedly carrying plutonium and other nuclear bomb components from US airspace.