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...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...
Administration officials expected to lose the House committee vote but thought that they had a narrow chance in the Senate. Muskie argued at a closed-door hearing that canceling the sale would damage relations with India. Moreover, the Administration noted, New Delhi would be encouraged to reprocess its spent uranium into new fuel, with plutonium as a byproduct...
...license.) A prototype breeder to be built on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will be restricted to research employing other fuels, like thorium, which is not used in weapons. Carter will block the federal funds needed to complete a privately owned plant in Barnwell, S.C., designed to reprocess used uranium fuel into plutonium. He will also call for a "joint effort" with other nations to tighten controls over plutonium...
...economical to reprocess scrap materials-something impossible...
...products that consume vast amounts of power and have unfortunate side effects-for example, the serious water pollution that is caused by runoff from nitrogen fertilizer and the manufacture of pulp and paper. Instead of throwing away paper, which accounts for 80% of the trash disposal problem, Americans should reprocess it to make more paper and save power as well. Meantime, alternate sources of energy should be harnessed as quickly as possible. They could include nuclear fusion, sunlight, even the earth's own heat...