Their polished performance has paid off. The two activists warned that there was no time for complacency now that the news had broken that the two British ships, which sparked the latest protests, rounded the Cape coast without incident this week. The Pacific Teal and the Pintail, which are transporting 450kg of mixed oxides of uranium and plutonium fuel from France to Japan, are now on their way towards Australia and New Zealand. This was just the first trip. We are about to see a massive escalation around the Cape coast.
More ships are on their way.
It was Greenpeace that alerted South Africa to the route of the two shipments a month ago. In response to our efforts they did announce a route - two days after leaving. I call that dictation, not consultation. For instance, Greenpeace refused to accept the argument that the shipments were safe. Together, they are carrying the equivalent of 60 nuclear warheads of plutonium, the ships have 13 heavily armed private security officers on each vessel.