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Who’s minding the nuclear file? Oversight needed for New Brunswick’s risky plutonium plan via NB Media Co-op

$50.5 million in federal taxpayer dollars for controversial technology to “recycle” used nuclear fuel by Susan O’Donnell and Gordon Edwards Pierre Elliot Trudeau banned the extraction of plutonium from used nuclear fuel in Canada. Yesterday Justin Trudeau lifted the ban under … Continue reading

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For the NPT to work, plutonium has to go via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | March 15, 2021 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), whose tenth review conference is coming up in August, is in trouble, and not only because of the crescendo of complaints about the failure of the nuclear-armed states to implement nuclear … Continue reading

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The long-term problem of “peaceful” plutonium via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Robert Alvarez […] Seaborg and the AEC projected the growth of nuclear-powered electricity would be so great that global supplies of uranium would be exhausted, paving the way for the recovery of plutonium from spent power reactor fuel for the … Continue reading

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Applause for Perseverance Ignores Plutonium Bullet We Dodged via FAIR

Karl Grossman With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances—and nowhere in media was the NASA projection that there were 1-in-960 … Continue reading

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Air Force Veterans of Plutonium Dust Disaster Win Class Action Standing via CounterPunch

BY JOHN LAFORGE Air force veterans exposed to plutonium after a first-ever US nuclear weapons disaster in Spain have won extremely rare recognition as a class in a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. On Jan. 17, 1966, an air … Continue reading

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US Nuclear Dump Facing Space, Staffing Challenges via Manufacturing.net

The repository is at the center of a multibillion-dollar effort to clean up waste from decades of U.S. nuclear research and bomb-making. Dec 1st, 2020Susan Montoya Bryan ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government’s only underground nuclear waste dump could … Continue reading

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Japan to resume accepting nuclear waste from UK via NHK World

The operator of a storage facility in northern Japan is making arrangements with power companies to resume accepting shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessed in Britain. NHK has learned that Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited has started … Continue reading

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Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare via Arms Control Association

November 2020 Nailing the Coffin of Civilian Plutonium Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a NightmareBy Frank von Hippel,Masafumi Takubo, andJungmin KangSpringer Press198pp. Reviewed by Thomas Countryman […] The earliest rationale for using plutonium as a nuclear fuel rested … Continue reading

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Fukushima may have scattered plutonium widely via Physics World

Tiny fragments of plutonium may have been carried more than 200 km by caesium particles released following the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011. So says an international group of scientists that has made detailed … Continue reading

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Plutonium mishap at Los Alamos National Lab accentuates pit production worries via Aiken Standard

By Colin Demarest Fifteen workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory might have been exposed to plutonium, a potentially grave mishap that some industry observers and critics say portends trouble for plutonium pit production, a separate cross-country nuclear weapons mission. At … Continue reading

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