1.   Indeed, the greatest risk of transporting plutonium, according to most experts, is that it might be seized by terrorists.

2.   Today, ships transport plutonium to Japanese nuclear reactors.

3.   Carter also denied claims by the environmental group, Greenpeace, that British Nuclear Fuels was planning to transport plutonium.

4.   The governor ordered authorities to prevent anyone from transporting plutonium into South Carolina.

5.   The plutonium will be transported to its country of origin or one which processes radioactive materials for power generation, he said.

6.   But Greenpeace said it was transporting plutonium for making Trident warheads.

7.   The proposal follows the alarm caused by the Pacific Pintail, a ship that was transporting plutonium to Japan by way of the South Atlantic.