This escort cruiser is not equipped to withstand a missiles attack. This will be the first of 30 such shipments planned for the next 17 years. The plutonium was chemically separated from Japanese nuclear waste at de la Hague reprocessing plant in France and will be used for Japan's energy program, a release of five percent of plutonium shipment in conscience. A shipboard fire or a sinking can cause irreparable damage to the environment. Just one millionth of an ounce of plutonium insults to the human beings and its half life is 24,000 years.
Plutonium is also an essential component for nuclear weapons.
The Japanese nuclear program poses the threats of ecological catastrophe not only to Japan but to the entire planet. There are unacceptable risks involved in every phase of the program from the construction of nuclear facilities to the transport of radioactive wastes over sea and land. We must bring plutonium production and transport to an end in Japan and every country in the world. So this information about the shipping is very unknown in Japan, as for now. Most of the Japanese people are not aware of this danger.