31.   The British-registered Pacific Pintail leaves Thursday from Cherbourg, France, carrying nuclear waste back to Japan after reprocessing in France.

32.   The environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday protested the arrival of a Japanese ship it says is carrying nuclear waste to a reprocessing center in France.

33.   The group is hoping to prevent a freighter carrying nuclear waste from a French reprocessing plant from passing through the Caribbean on its way to Japan.

34.   The rail cars carrying the waste were loaded onto flatbed trucks overnight at the heavily guarded depot.

35.   The train is carrying radioactive waste left over after spent nuclear fuel from German power plants was reprocessed at a French plant.

36.   The shipment is carrying radioactive waste left over after spent nuclear fuel from German power plants was reprocessed at a French plant.

37.   The train, carrying waste from two power plants in southern Germany, set out from Walheim early Friday morning.

38.   The waste is carried in glass blocks enclosed in stainless steel canisters, in turn loaded into large shipping casks.

39.   Thousands of police prevented demonstrators from blocking a train carrying nuclear waste on Wednesday, escorting the train into France on its way to Britain for reprocessing.

40.   Greenpeace campaingners have pledged to track the vessel carrying the waste all the way to Japan.