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The technology to dispose of spent PWR fuel is the fast-breeder reactor, which gets rid of the plutonium etc. instead of just burying it.
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Should the Department of Energy wish to engage private industry in its development of commercially built reactors, it should review the methods used in the development of the fast-breeder reactor.
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Here is one example, which obviously is a meme from somewhere in the right-wing fast-breeder reactor, because it seems to be repeated a lot.
Brake dancing Tom Toles 2010
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After all, although the deal puts a growing majority of India's reactors under International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring, New Delhi has declined to allow such "safeguards" to be enacted for its experimental fast-breeder program and eight indigenous power reactors, though they are far from ideal for bomb making.
India's Nuclear Example Rory Medcalf 2010
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The technology to dispose of spent PWR fuel is the fast-breeder reactor, which gets rid of the plutonium etc. instead of just burying it.
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Should the Department of Energy wish to engage private industry in its development of commercially built reactors, it should review the methods used in the development of the fast-breeder reactor.
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Kazakhstan Energy Partnership announced the completion of a secret year-long operation to transfer 14 tons of highly enriched uranium and plutonium -- enough to make more than 770 nuclear weapons - from a mothballed fast-breeder reactor near the Caspian Sea to a new high security facility in northeastern Kazakhstan.
Al Eisele: Kazakhstan Shows Senate How to Start New Start Treaty Al Eisele 2010
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Should the Department of Energy wish to engage private industry in its development of commercially built reactors, it should review the methods used in the development of the fast-breeder reactor.
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Kazakhstan Energy Partnership announced the completion of a secret year-long operation to transfer 14 tons of highly enriched uranium and plutonium -- enough to make more than 770 nuclear weapons - from a mothballed fast-breeder reactor near the Caspian Sea to a new high security facility in northeastern Kazakhstan.
Al Eisele: Kazakhstan Shows Senate How to Start New Start Treaty Al Eisele 2010
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India is building a fast-breeder reactor that is expected to begin operation in 2010 and is outside International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
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