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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Fueling America’s nuclear renaissance by reprocessing nuclear fuel By Dr. Bernard L. Weinstein

Lifting the stay on reprocessing will cut amount of nuclear waste
The U.S. could reduce the amount of nuclear waste by lifting the decades-old moratorium on fuel reprocessing, writes Bernard L. Weinstein, associate director with the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Reprocessing used fuel, along with centralized storage, would be more practical than keeping tons of nuclear waste at different facilities indefinitely, Weinstein adds. The Hill/Congress blog
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