New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney said the federal government should review the prioritization of nuclear waste shipments to WIPP near Carlsbad.
New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney said the federal government should review the prioritization of nuclear waste shipments to WIPP near Carlsbad.
New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney said the federal government should review the prioritization of nuclear waste shipments to WIPP near Carlsbad.
New Mexico Secretary of the Environment James Kenney expressed concerns for operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in a letter to the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO), calling for the federal office to increase its oversight of the nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad.
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Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?
Robert Alvarez Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 8 Mar 21,
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The US-Russia plutonium disposal disagreement.
The end of the Cold War led to deep cuts in the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, and in 1993 President Clinton issued a directive declaring that the United States is “committed to eliminating, where possible, the accumulation of stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium.” In September 2000, the United States and Russia signed the Plutonium Management Disposition Agreement, under which 34 metric tons of plutonium from weapons would be blended with uranium and serve as mixed-oxide or MOX reactor fuel to produce electricity.