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Foes slam nuclear waste plan | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Foes slam nuclear waste planOak Ridge is among recycling-site optionsBy Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • November 27, 2008

A Bush administration project aimed at reprocessing nuclear waste in a global sharing arrangement is bringing opposition that’s not always from anti-nuclear advocates as public hearings come to Oak Ridge and Paducah next week.

Both of those locations are potential receiving sites for what could be domestic and foreign waste. In the case of Oak Ridge, at least part of the highly radioactive materials could travel through Nashville……………………….

“If you ‘recycle’ plutonium, it doesn’t help at all,” said Professor Frank von Hippel, of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University.

“You still have huge amounts of plutonium in the spent fuel, and you’ve created a lot of new waste streams.”

Von Hippel, unlike some critics of what’s called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, is anti-reprocessing but not anti-nuclear.

Foes slam nuclear waste plan | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

December 1, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized