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Why spend $billions on an unnecessary new Uranium Processing Facility in USA?

Spending as much as $6.5 billion to construct the new Uranium Processing Facility is indefensible as the United States faces mounting federal deficits….In addition, the planned facility would have little use as the nation moves to reduce its nuclear stockpile, a

Activists Criticize Y-12 Uranium Plant Plans, NTI: Global Security Newswire – Jan. 3, 2011 An antinuclear group last week issued a report criticizing the rising cost projections of a planned highly enriched uranium processing center at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, as well as the justification and design process for the facility, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported (see GSN, Oct. 29, 2010).

Spending as much as $6.5 billion to construct the new Uranium Processing Facility is indefensible as the United States faces mounting federal deficits, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance contended. In addition, the planned facility would have little use as the nation moves to reduce its nuclear stockpile, according to the group (see related GSN story, today).

“The UPF is a provocative nuclear weapons plant that will undermine U.S. efforts to achieve global nuclear security — it will encourage states like Iran and Syria and compel Russia and China to renew their nuclear development programs,” said Ralph Hutchison, who heads the organization.

“The plans for a new bomb plant in Oak Ridge have come completely untethered from the real world,” he said. “They no longer have an anchor in reality. We’re downsizing the nuclear stockpile, so we’re building a bigger bomb plant.”…..

January 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war