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

NEI Nuclear Notes: News and commentary on the commercial nuclear energy industry. … News and commentary on the commercial nuclear energy industry. ….. reprocessing with recovering of a slightly enriched uranium and of plutonium to makes MOX fuel (mixed oxide U/Pu: you burn the Pu in pressurized water reactors and you store U238 for future breeders reactors. Note that you will burn your military Pu that way (agreement with Russia) - Vitrification of fission product and …

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Nuclear energy isn’t the solution to our energy needs, or any other problem. The more obstacles to it, the better. There is a design for a ‘negative reactor’ that burns up reprocessed nuclear waste and itself has very little nuclear waste residue. … France’s nuclear industry is based on breeder reactors, which create large amounts of Plutonium as a waste product, which can then be reprocessed and fed back in to the plants. Plutonium is the last thing you want to be …

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu sought Wednesday to assure skeptical senators that the Obama administration supports continued development of nuclear energy, even as it backs away from building a nuclear waste dump in Nevada. …

But Chu said more research is needed because current methods of reprocessing used in Japan and Europe raise concerns about nuclear proliferation because they produce pure plutonium.

Obama’s proposed budget calls for eliminating funding …

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WASHINGTON – Energy Secretary Steven Chu sought Wednesday to assure skeptical senators that the Obama administration supports continued development of nuclear energy, even as it backs away from building a nuclear waste dump in Nevada. ” Nuclear is going to be part of our energy future. … But Chu said more research is needed because current methods of reprocessing used in Japan and Europe raise concerns about nuclear proliferation because they produce pure plutonium. …

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We came across a piece recently which should interest anyone who is willing to be objective on the subject of nuclear energy. According to the ABC, there appear to be some truly exciting technological advances arriving on the scene. Why Old Nuclear Power is Not New … There is enough energy in already-mined uranium and stored plutonium from existing stockpiles to supply all the world’s power needs for over a century before we even need to mine any more uranium. …

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In Stage 1, natural uranium would be used as fuel and a Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) would produce plutonium 239 (Pu-239) as a by-product. In Stage 2, Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs) would use the Pu-239 as fuel to produce uranium … Under the current terms of the deal if India were to experience unwarranted disruptions in the supply of fuel to its safeguarded civil nuclear energy establishments, the IAEA would assist and take legal recourse and India would have …

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… plans for “the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a costly, dangerous program that attempts to reuse—or “reprocess”—commercial nuclear waste by extracting weapons-usable plutonium from spent fuel from nuclear power reactors. …

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev engineers have developed a technique to “denature”plutonium created in large nuclear reactors, making it unsuitable for use in nuclear arms. By adding Americium (Am 241), a form of the basic synthetic …

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said if the United States, Russia, Germany, France and. Japan agreed to add the denaturing additive into all plutonium, it would affect other nations now develop- ing nuclear power. “When you purchase a nuclear reactor…

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“When you purchase a nuclear reactor from one of the five countries, it also provides the nuclear fuel for the reactor,” said Ronen. “Thus, if the five agree to insert the additive into fuel for countries now developing nuclear power …

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