Rather than reducing the amount of plutonium, reprocessing merely puts plutonium into a separated (and thus weapon-usable) form. Perhaps you meant to say that the use of plutonium in mixed-oxide (MOX)

Instead, Russia intends to continue reprocessing plutonium indefinitely, as it now does in unsafeguarded plants. (The United States also continues to reprocess a backlog of military spent fuel, ostensibly

larger cask that would make commercial shipment of reprocessed plutonium economically efficient. The only acknowledged test of such a cask took place at Sandia National Laboratories in the summer of

approach flawed because other nations will engage in reprocessing and use plutonium fuels, regardless of whether the United States pursues a MOX approach to disposition? To the contrary, the civilian

A Review of the Proposed Marine Transport of Reprocessed Plutonium from Europe to Japan, March 1992; E. Lyman, "Safety Issues in the Sea Transport of Vitrified High-Level Radioactive Wastes to Japan,"

nations were embroiled in a controversial plan to send plutonium reprocessed in France to Japan by air. Because the planes would refuel in Alaska, the shipping containers had to be licensed by the U.S.

That amount will be even larger if a new plutonium reprocessing plant under construction in Rokkasho, northeastern Japan, is completed and operated, it said. Ozawa is right to state the potential

promoting a measure that would set a schedule for the plutonium reprocessing, with financial penalties for the DOE if deadlines were not met. Although the Savannah River Site is only a few miles from

and of highly radioactive wastes from plutonium reprocessing, that are now proceeding from Europe to Japan. We sponsor independent technical analyses of unresolved safety problems. These studies show

bomb- grade plutonium, with reprocessing facilities operating at Trombay and Tarapur. India's nuclear submarine project has led to research on enrichment technologies, and nuclear authorities have admitted