Wednesday, November 7, 2007

“Non-Treehuggers Criticize the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership”

Catchy title, right?

Plutonium Page at Daily Kos put together a great piece recently on GNEP in which she argues that the program is “a complex domestic issue as well as a thorny international one. Political and environmental situations are not static; and regardless of how ‘friendly’ the reprocessing technology proposed by the GNEP sounds, it is not foolproof when it comes to proliferation … Whether you're in favor of storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain or Novaya Zemlya, we can all agree that something has to be done. The GNEP will not solve it... not in this lifetime.”

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