Thursday, December 22, 2011

GE-Hitachi Proposes to Burn U.K. Plutonium Stockpile


By Dan Yurman, December 22, 2011
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has proposed to the U.K. government to build an advanced nuclear reactor that would consume the country’s stockpile of surplus plutonium.The technology is called PRISM, which stands for Power Reactor Innovative Small Module. If accepted, it would be very different than the other proposals to process plutonium, including those that would turn it into mixed oxide...  » Continue...

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