seeking the shutdown of spent-fuel reprocessing and plutonium-fuel programs in Europe and Japan, and opposing U.S. assistance to their plutonium programs; seeking the shutdown of military plutonium-

The Energy Department plans to reprocess the plutonium into fuel to be used in commercial nuclear reactors. Hodges worries that the material might be stored in South Carolina permanently. ``The department

and that Tarapur fuel is not reprocessed to extract plutonium. This is by no means the whole answer, but there is no point in trying to "engage" India in new nuclear limitations if we do not enforce existing

and that Tarapur fuel is not reprocessed to extract plutonium. This is by no means the whole answer, but there is no point in trying to "engage" India in new nuclear limitations if we do not enforce existing

including plutonium. recovered from reprocessing Japanese spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield, This is in keeping with the terms of the letters exchanged between the two Governments in 1978 in support of

December 16, 1998 DOE Reprocessing Policy and the Irreversibility of Plutonium Disposition Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, Paper Presented to the American Nuclear Society, Charleston, SC, September

States is not obliged to approve Chinese requests to reprocess (separate plutonium from) spent nuclear fuel. We think the administration should seek to persuade China to refrain from reprocessing altogether.

Institute Calls on Nuclear Industry to Abandon Use of Plutonium, Highly Enriched Uranium NCI Press Release, April 9, 2001 DOE Decision to "Melt and Dilute," Not Reprocess, Bomb-Grade Fuel is a Major

produce about 1.5 metric tons annually of weapons-grade plutonium in spent fuel, which must be reprocessed because it corrodes in water. Stopping such plutonium production is essential to capping and

a byproduct of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to remove weapons-usable plutonium. In choosing the route through treacherous waters around South America, the shipping companies---British Nuclear Fuels,