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Fatal blow to GNEP?

Fatal blow to GNEP? World nuclear News 29 June 2009 The US Department of Energy is cancelling the wide-ranging environmental analysis of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) project. Its decision follows a change in government policy on commercial reprocessing…………………..So far, 25 countries have joined the GNEP partnership.

 In a notice published in the Federal Register, the Department of Energy (DoE) said that it had decided to cancel the GNEP programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) because it is no longer pursuing domestic commercial reprocessing, which was the primary focus of the prior administration’s domestic GNEP program…………………….In 2007, a panel of the US National Academy of Sciences suggested that the commercial-scale reprocessing facilities envisaged under GNEP were not economically justifiable.

 

Fatal blow to GNEP?

July 1, 2009 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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  1. […] facility in Nevada, was “zeroed-out” of the 2009 budget. Second, the administration has just ended U.S. participation in a new nuclear fuel recycling project, one that would extract more energy from […]

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  2. Donald Hertzmark has written about a sad little story of how nuclear power’s future in USA is being hobbled. He bemoans the fact that:

    “Under current regulations, U.S. utility companies can apply for a license to construct new nuclear power plants. But there is just one problem. They have to have a nuclear waste plan in order to receive an operating license once construction is completed. There lies the Catch-22 of U.S. nuclear policy.”

    But, I ask, why shouldn’t they have a nuclear waste plan? It seems that nobody in the world has a real plan for disposing of nuclear wastes that last for thousands of years.
    So the pro-nukes think that they can just keep on producing the stuff – and that reprocessing is the answer, despite its greater risks and its intimate connection with nuclear weapons.
    France is no longer the poster boy for this toxic industry – AREVA now demonstrating to the world that nuclear costs are astronomic – even to the present generation.
    Of course, nobody can estimate the costs to future generations of security measures and perpetual attempts to clean up the waste.

    Comment by christinamacpherson | July 17, 2009 | Reply


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