Sunday, September 9, 2012

Plutonium coming to Browns Ferry site?



AME Info
Plutonium coming to Browns Ferry site? [The Decatur Daily, Ala.]
Equities.com
09--Officials at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, looking to save TVA ratepayers money, want to study the use of reprocessed weapons-grade plutonium as fuel in its Limestone County reactors. The Tennessee Valley Authority is the only power company ...http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-09-09&val=461993&cat=energy


OUR VIEW: Next door, nuclear research

al.com (blog) -
... File)This file photo supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority shows the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens. and weapons-grade plutonium as reactor fuel at its Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens. That's surprising, given the plant's safety record.

Meeting on Browns Ferry plutonium plan Thursday

News Courier -
ATHENS — The United States currently has about 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium it has committed to dispose of as part of a nuclear weapons proliferation agreement with Russia. One possible way of disposing of the nuclear agent is to irradiate it ...
Enhanced by Zemanta

No comments:

Post a Comment