ML19330A283
| ML19330A283 | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 10/15/1976 |
| From: | Griffin R SENATE |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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DETROIT l'REE PRESS lilonday. Oct. 4. *76 Plunge into Plutonium Era Could Be a Disastej BY RODERT KLEIMAN Virtuallyallthe tvorld's civilian power reactors plant" to test the economics of plutonium recy-
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-cling as well as health, safety and environmental NEW YORK.- A hig' -level study of national ' fuel, which cannot be exploded. Plutonium, a precautions.
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,and Int:rnational nuc! car energy policy ordered man.made element; Is also usable as i fuel, but a The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after a
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cmy.jnd the wofld toward afplutonium econ-now being produced by, nuclear power reactors But it is still holding up an operating license for I(g i
Nevertheless, a crash decision to move WM 1:wasd commod use of. plutonium as a fuel in outsidh the United States and Russia, a !!gure the South Carolina plant out of concern that It nuclear power' reactors seems to be in the mak-that will be tripled in third.world countries alone would trigger plutonium reprocessing around'the
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in the 1980s. But for the. moment, the world's. world before creation of effective safeguards b -s.
The key Issue is whether to begin car'y com-rapidly growing supply of plutonium is not easily against the spread of national and subnational
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radioactive reactor wastes and to fabricate so almost any determined government or terrorist
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giant South Csrolina plant, under constrution for" To extract this plutonium economically from rated plutonium could be made into bombs by L
sl:n - at Icast until the next administration, but poisonous a substance into new fuel rods requires ' groupin a matterof days or weeks.
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spent reactor fuel rods are being stored every ' controlled demonstration plant.
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Titt dIesn't mean stop,it nicans,for heaven's The majority view empressed by the president's - to be judged in the heat of a presidential saka stcp to think," as the chairman of Britain's study group is that the stalled South Carolina campalgn. Ford would be well-advised to take.
E. nods g&nium kr M or wu Hirm Riysf Rmmission o'n Nuclear Energy said af ter a reprocessing facility. whleh awaits licensing by the issue out of the campaign by deferring the
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