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US Congressional Hearing: Areva MOX-Plutonium Horror Story; Joker Witnesses Kowtowing to Russia

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Oct 07 2015 3:30 PM
Plutonium Disposition and the MOX Project
Rayburn HOB – 2118
Witnesses:
Frank G. Klotz, Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Mr. John J. MacWilliams, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Dr. Thom Mason, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
For more information and witness testimony click here.
http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=104026 (Nothing there yet).

One of the Congressmen states that CBI-Areva’s US MOX project is a taxpayer horror story and it’s almost Halloween. However, all of the proposed plutonium options are also health and safety horror stories in the making. They need to find a place to put 34 metric tonnes of weapons grade plutonium. Their proposal is to dilute it and place it in WIPP, which is still closed due to an accident, which ejected plutonium and americium throughout the facility and even into the outer…

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October 8, 2015 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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  1. Thanks for this and the other reblogs. If you type “hearing mox plutonium” into google this is number one for all time! You are occupying the internet! Bravo!

    miningawareness's avatar Comment by miningawareness | October 12, 2015 | Reply


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