Nuke Rebuke

Research panel discourages presidential plan for U.S. nuclear-waste reprocessing

Posted at 2:17 PM on 30 Oct 2007

A 17-member panel of researchers from the National Academy of Sciences released a report yesterday discouraging President Bush from continuing on his quest to resume U.S. nuclear waste reprocessing. The researchers said the president's proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership plan has not been adequately peer reviewed and relies on unproven technology. Instead, the panel suggested that money currently going to GNEP should be redirected -- to speeding construction of new nuclear power plants. Sigh, and we were all set to be cheery there for a moment.

sources: Associated Press, SPX

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