The US, Russia, China, France, and Japan have endorsed the concept.
Notice how that doesn’t include any potential customers. While the reprocessing part of GNEP is an excellent step, the overall assumption that Third World countries can’t be trusted with nuclear technology is absolutely wrong. The laws of physics still apply to the Third World, and an inherently-safe reactor built in the United States would be just as inherently safe if it were built in Ethiopia.
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Filed under Fuel Cycle, International, Missing the Point, Physics, Politics and Regulation, Proliferation
Posted on May 26, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |
