Word: plutonium
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...depends on the amount of nuclear weapons produced Energy Secretary James Edwards has announced that 17,000 atomic warheads will be made in the next five years. The national problems of inadequate waste disposal procedures can be expected to worsen soon, because building nuclear weapons requires the production of plutonium waste by reactors. By covering nuclear energy and nuclear arms as separate issues, the press obscures the implications of the arms build...
...Pont operates Savannah River, near Aiken, S.C., on a non-profit basis for the government. Built by the chemicals giant in 1950 at the behest of the DOE's ancestor, the Atomic Energy Commission, the plant produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons production. Harvard owns almost $5 million of Du Pont stock...
...Pont technicians also conduct research at Savannah River on various parts of the nuclear fuel cycle and manage the only two facilities in the country which can reprocess plutonium and uranium from nuclear waste produced by the defense program...
Hoffman, better known for his anti-war, anti-establishment activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s, now lives in suburban upstate New York. His home is near a bridge the government wants to use to transport excess plutonium from nuclear power plants...
...Pont technicians also conduct research at Savannah River on various parts of the nuclear fuel cycle and manage the only two facilities in the country which can reprocess plutonium and uranium from nuclear waste produced by the defense program...