Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>]

At 09:51 AM 7/2/01 -0400, JOHN JACOBUS wrote:

>If the United States embraces the reprocessing of nuclear waste -- something

>it has refused to do for the last 24 years -- it could lead to the

>proliferation of technologies that produce plutonium, and boost the amount

>of plutonium available around the world. That, critics say, could make it

>much more likely that weapons-grade plutonium could fall into the hands of

>terrorists or rogue nations.



I hope everyone on RadSafe knows that "weapons-grade" plutonium is very 

different from the plutonium produced in a commercial reactor. The 

difference is in the amount of Pu-240.



mike

Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov

phone: (505)667-6130



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