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Nun arrested for vandalism at US nuclear facility

Published: August 07, 2012

An 82-year old nun will appear in an American court after being arrested for vandalism and trespassing at a nuclear facility in America, reports The Tablet.

Sr Megan Rice, a Sister of the Heart of the Child Jesus, is part of a group called Transform Now Plowshares, who broke into the Highly-Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility (HEUMF) in Oak Ridge Tennessee last week.

The facility is the American Government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium.

Sr Megan and two other activists allegedly broke through four perimeter fences and walked for two hours through a "fatal force zone" patrolled by guards and attached two banners to the pillars of the building housing the HEUMF saying: "Transform Now Plowshares" and "Swords into Plowshares Spears into Pruning Hooks - Isaiah".

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Activist nun arrested (Tablet)

 

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  1. Good one, Sister Megan Rice.
    Beats the Olympic Games news, I reckon.

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