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WARNING: FUKUSHIMA 3 facing meltdown, official now
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1217946:MV8xMzkzNTU5XzIyOTY2NzA2X0I3ODJGQTMy] Yes, because MOX FUEL is recycled nuclear grade weapons material, see article MOX Fuel From Weapons-Grade Plutonium Nuclear Power Industry News On February 25, 2010, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that it entered into an inter-agency agreement with the government owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in order to evaluate the use of a nuclear fuel made from surplus weapons plutonium. This announcement comes on the heels of President Obama’s recently submitted FY 2011 Budget Request, which included a 25.8% increase in funding to the NNSA. One reason for the increase in funding relates to an agreement between Russia and the United States, initially signed in 2000, known as the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement. According to this Agreement, each country agreed to dispose of, or immobilize, 34 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium. Initially, both sides began dismantling nuclear weapons and simply stored the nuclear material. However, concerns on both sides began to grow regarding the ability to quickly reassemble the nuclear material into weapons should the need arise. This resulted in both sides initiating efforts to use the surplus nuclear material in nuclear reactors, which would physically tranform the nuclear material into a material that is unsuitable for use in nuclear weapons. To this end, a facility called the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF), located at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, is currently being constructed which will convert weapons-grade plutonium into nuclear fuel that can be used in existing U.S. commercial reactor plants. [/quote]
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BREAKING NEWS: Fukushima's 3 reactors highly likely facing melting: Edano (21:41)
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