Enviros Claim "Secret Plan" To Use Weapons Plutonium in Reactors [1]
February 9, 2011
The environmental group Friends of the Earth is claiming that an electric utility has "secret plans" to use surplus weapons plutonium in a commercial power reactor. The group got the information through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Energy Department. Whether or not the plans were secret, they aren't anymore.
- Friends of the Earth: Release of February 3, 2011. [2]
- "Energy Northwest Asked Not To Use Plutonium Reactor Fuel," [3] Associated Press, February 3, 2011.
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