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Harvard Professor, Matthew Bunn Says GNEP Is Wrong Direction |
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Written by Gerald Rudolph
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
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Matthew Bunn, a strong proponent of nuclear energy, says that the proposed technologies and strategies for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is more likely to increase nuclear proliferation than decrease it, and is considerably more expensive to U.S taxpayers. Referring to GNEP and its heavy focus on reprocessing and recycling, he says,
...the future of nuclear energy will be best promoted by making nuclear energy as safe, cheap, proliferation-resistant, and uncontroversial as possible, and recycling using the technologies available today or likely to be available in the near term points in the wrong direction on each of those counts.
Read his opposition to GNEP plans for reprocessing here .
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