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

In the late 1970s, John Gofman, co-inventor of plutonium, had second thoughts about his work with nuclear power over the years. He authored a book entitled Irrevy, in which he argued that the use of nuclear power for electrical …

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The Proposed Order grants the application submitted by UniStar Nuclear Energy, LLC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to construct a third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs, ignoring substantiated appeals from local citizens concerned about the … Owned primarily by the French government, AREVA has engineered the EPR for use with fuel made with Bomb Grade Plutonium oxide, a type of nuclear fuel not approved for use within the United States. …

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By Russ Wellen The Deproliferator Those advocating nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels have been dealt some serious blows. A recent report disclosed that:Each 1000 MW [megawatts] of nuclear power that is forced into the supply … (As Cold War nuclear theorist Albert Wohlstetter facetiously wrote, since when did inalienable rights include, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Plutonium“?) But what else would you expect from a member of the Hudson Insitite like …

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The assertion that Article IV of the NPT guarantees all signers the “inalienable right” to nuclear energy is a vast oversimplification, according to Christopher Ford in a recent paper. (As Cold War nuclear theorist Albert Wohlstetter facetiously wrote, since when did inalienable rights include, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Plutonium”?) But what else would you expect from a member of the Hudson Insitite like Dr. Ford, who was the Bush administration’s Special …

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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.” ~ Albert Einstein. “The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are …. Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy. We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? …

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Tennessee Valley Authority is to negotiate the trial use of MOX nuclear fuel in its power reactors as part of the US-Russian agreement to dispose of weapons plutonium. Trials in the past were carried out at Duke Energy’s reactors. …

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In addition, a number of countries with nuclear energy programs have the capability, if they choose, to manufacture nuclear weapons within a matter of months if their security perceptions change, because they have mastered the critical technology … This would give countries confidence that they can count on reliable supplies of fuel to run their nuclear power plants, and therefore do not need to develop their own uranium-enrichment or plutonium-reprocessing capability. …

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“The fast-breeder reactor will have a major impact because, in seeming defiance of the laws of physics, it produces more atomic fuel-plutonium-than it burns.” The article stated that experts in nuclear energy were confident in the …

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For Steiner, nuclear energy will be the savior; it’s a huge bet to place, on a technology with its own well-known problems. Steiner hopes that policy choices will mitigate the inevitable crash. His timely warning is all the more poignant for the degree of human … The only way to make fission power work as a long term energy source is to use breeder reactor technology to transmute U238 into plutonium…. which raises a whole host of nuclear weapons proliferation issues. …

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