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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

We’ve been left to delude ourselves that safe nuclear energy, once the dream of every warm-blooded engineer in the 1950s, is an impossibility. While we’ve spent the last 30 years since the Energy Crisis of the mid-1970s, rallying around …

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August, 2008 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) plan to turn 34 metric tons of surplus nuclear weapons plutonium into “mixed oxide” (MOX) fuel for irradiation in nuclear power reactors has stumbled into yet another serious roadblock. …

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Safety is a major issue when it comes to producing nuclear energy and lack of adherence to safety norms has resulted in nothing less than fatality. However, radioisotope thermoelectric generators are relatively safer and need only to be …

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All signatories, including the states with nuclear weapon were committed to the goal of total nuclear disarmament and the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Pakistan, Israel and Indian did not sign. …

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In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an “Osiris class”nuclear reactor from France. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. …

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… Carolina nuclear plant, two watchdog groups today called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to suspend a risky, multibillion dollar program that would use 37 tons of surplus nuclear weapons plutonium for US nuclear reactor fuel. …

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Along this flat, mostly treeless scrubland, the US government built nine reactors between 1943 and 1963, including the historic ‘B’ plant that produced the world’s first weapons-grade plutonium for the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, …

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