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Reprocessing Is Not a Solution for Spent Fuel and Does Not Belong in a Climate Bill ! TAKE ACTION !


Environment  (tags: environment, reprocessing, spent fuel, climate bill, habitat, protection, nature )

Cher
- 222 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
Some members of Congress think they have the answer to what to do with high-level radioactive waste: "reprocessing". Nuclear reprocessing separates plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear reactor fuel. Supporters of this costly and dangerous
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BernadetteP P. (76)
Thursday July 30, 2009, 2:20 pm
took actoon cher
 

Jamie L. (221)
Thursday July 30, 2009, 2:55 pm
Done!
 

Rhonda Maness (505)
Thursday July 30, 2009, 3:28 pm
Dear Rhonda Maness,
Thank you for contacting me. A representative will be in touch with you shortly.

Sincerely,

Richard Shelby
United States Senator, Alabama
pledge also signed
Thanks Cher
 

Joycey B. (707)
Thursday July 30, 2009, 6:07 pm
Thanks Cher.

Thank you for making the pledge "Reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill. "

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Senator Kay R. Hagan

Senator Richard M. Burr
 

Mandi T. (292)
Thursday July 30, 2009, 10:35 pm
Thank you for making the pledge "Reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill. "

 

Eureka Morrison (339)
Friday July 31, 2009, 8:11 am
From the article at Change.org
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Dear ,

Some members of Congress think they have the answer to what to do with high-level radioactive waste: “reprocessing”. Nuclear reprocessing separates plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear reactor fuel. Supporters of this costly and dangerous technology want to add reprocessing provisions to the Senate climate bill that is planned to be debated this fall.

Reprocessing would cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, undermine U.S. nonproliferation policy, pollute the environment, and threaten public health. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the cost of reprocessing existing spent fuel in the United States would total more than $500 billion. The development of reprocessing technology in the US would make it harder to prevent other countries from pursuing this nuclear weapons technology.

Moreover, reprocessing complicates the nuclear waste problem, rather than solves it. Reprocessing is the most polluting part of the nuclear fuel cycle and actually increases the amount of waste that must be managed.

Please contact your Senators today and tell them that reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill.
 

Eureka Morrison (339)
Friday July 31, 2009, 8:13 am
change.,org
Thank you for making the pledge "Reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill. "

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Reprocessing does not belong in a climate bill

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