An empty plutonium MOX flask is loaded onto the Pacific Pintail under tight security. The Pacific Pintail and its sister ship the Pacific Teal, both armed with three 30mm cannons, are expected to sail imminently from the UK to Japan to pick up the rejected plutonium MOX which was the centre of an international scandal in 2000 after British Nuclear Fuels admitted that they had falsified crucial safety data relating to the MOX.