Pressure Seen on UK, French Nuclear Reprocessing -Reply

["Michael S Ford" <MFORD@pantex.com>]

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>>> sandyfl@earthlink.net wrote Tue 8 Feb 00  13:08 >>>
Tuesday February 8 5:45 AM ET 

Pressure Seen on UK, French Nuclear Reprocessing  

LONDON (Reuters) - Pressure to end British and French reprocessing of old nuclear fuel has increased following a U.S. decision to pay Russia to halt its civilian nuclear reprocessing program, environmentalists said on Tuesday....  

Environmentalists said the deal will add pressure on Britain and 
France to phase out their multi-billion dollar reprocessing 
industries which daily add to the world's stockpile of plutonium, one of the world's deadliest substances. ``This is the final nail in the 
coffin of Sellafield. British Nuclear Fuels will have to end reprocessing,'' Greenpeace nuclear campaigner Peter Roache told 
Reuters, referring to the UK plant....

<snip> Pure wishful thinking on the part of Green Peas ;-) <snip>

``The U.S. has tremendous clout and this puts severe pressure on the UK and France. America retains certain rights over the uranium it sells to Japan as nuclear fuel, including whether it can be sent for 
reprocessing.''  

<snip> The U.S. has very little clout in this area... especially where the French are concerned. <snip>

... BNFL and France's Cogema are the world's only major reprocessing companies outside of Russia, in part because the U.S. banned reprocessing in 1977 in order to stop the  proliferation of 
plutonium.

<snip> ... and we see how well that worked to stop proliferation.....
v/r
Michael
TRAB
mford@pantex.com

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