[burzum]

I'm very glad to hear this. Hopefully this line of reasoning will apply to breeder reactors as well. Nuclear is neck and neck in price against coal right now. This move could bring nuclear power back to life in this country.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Can't wait to see the Seattle Dumb-as-a-Post-Intelligencer editorial on this.

[Killborn]

What would the environazis rather want? Radiation waste poisoning the environment for thousands of years or a constant source of relatively cheap and clean energy?

[kcvl]

I think the author of this piece left out a "little" something...



Edwin Lyman of the *Nuclear Control Institute


Physicist Edwin Lyman and the Union of Concerned Scientists say the nuclear industry should be regulated more like the airline industry, because even though the risk of catastrophe is low, the consequences are so dire that everyone takes it seriously.



* The Nuclear Control Institute, founded in 1981, is a research and advocacy center for preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. Non-profit and non-partisan, NCI is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization supported by philanthropic foundations and individuals.



http://www.nci.org/index.htm

[Calvin Locke]

...halted all reprocessing in the late 1970s because ...

Jimmy Carter was, and continues to be, an idiot who thinks he knows better that anybody else, including nature, and nature's creator, God.

[Southack]

Outstanding!

[MonroeDNA]

The "Union of Communist Scientists" opposes this, just like they opposed missile defence, and every other technology benneficial to the US.

[WOSG]

Bravo!!!

About time!

[Little Ray]

'Bout d@mn time. Just I begin losing hope for Pres. Bush he pulls another good one out of the hat!

[WOSG]

Countries around the world will demand use of nuclear energy in the coming decades, Bodman said, and "the challenge that confronts us" is providing nuclear fuel and addressing reactor waste globally without increasing proliferation risks. He said the U.S. might be one of the countries that could offer "cradle to grave fuel cycle services, leasing fuel for power reactors and then taking it back for reprocessing and disposition."

--- this is a very WISE point. The issue with Iran today is that publicly they declare they want nuclear energy. Privately we know they want weapons. We need to give the world access to energy without the technology of weapons, and the way to do that is for nuclear powers like the U.S. be the 'nuclear fuel cycle' handler. France is already doing this for e.g. Japan. This is the path to proliferation-proof nuclear energy worldwide. It also helps us address any global environmental and terrorist risk issues. Far better for the U.S. to be tracking this than for other countries to be 'owning' it on their own.

[Liberty Valance]

Go "Nucular" W!

;o)

[neverdem]

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