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

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>]

At 01:25 PM 7/2/01 -0400, Bauman, Rodney L. (84U) wrote:

>But if in fact, commercial reactor spent fuel plutonium is not

>suitable for weapons production, then why all the hoopla?



We can ask the same question about everything related to ionizing 

radiation. Why do we over-react to every aspect of radioactivity? This has 

been discussed many times on RadSafe.



mike

Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

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

phone: (505)667-6130



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