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

[Perron Harvard C PSNS <perronh@PSNS.NAVY.MIL>]

Everyone on RADSAFE should but, this makes a very convincing argument to the

general population who is ignorant of which isotope of plutonium constitutes

weapons grade.



H. Perron

perronh@psns.navy.mil



-----Original Message-----

From: Michael McNaughton [mailto:mcnaught@LANL.GOV]

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 8:52 AM

To: RADSAFE

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





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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