Issues: Nuclear Weapons, Waste & Energy

Peddling Plutonium
An Analysis of the President's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

This March 2006 analysis from NRDC's nuclear program finds the Bush administration's "vision" of a taxpayer-funded global enterprise to extract and recycle plutonium to be unaffordable, uneconomic, unrealistic, unreliable and unsafe.

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