“U.S. Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Initiative,
Department of Energy Research Shows Technology Does Not Reduce Risks of Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism”

Estratto:

“It is important to understand that Department of Energy (DOE) claims these technologies are “proliferation resistant” compared with the reprocessing technology in use today in some other countries—the so-called PUREX process, which separates the plutonium from all the other elements in the spent fuel. The DOE is not comparing it to the current practice in the U.S. of direct disposal of spent fuel. None of the DOE’s proposed reprocessing technologies would be nearly as resistant to proliferation or terrorist theft as a fuel cycle in which the spent fuel is stored without reprocessing and disposed of in a geologic repository.”

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Fonte Originale: Union of Concerned Scientists

Riportata da: Rete Europea dei Giovani per il Disarmo Nucleare