Reply #13: Proliferation-proof reprocessing

[PamW]

Additionally, Kris you need to read the Dr. Till interview with
PBS Frontline:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/till.html

Q: So it would be very difficult to handle for weapons, would it?

A: It's impossible to handle for weapons, as it stands.

It's highly radioactive. It's highly heat producing. It has all of the characteristics that make it extremely,
well, make it impossible for someone to make a weapon.

Argonne National Lab has developed a reprocessing technology that makes it impossible
to use for the purpose of making nuclear weapons. That it is impossible to use the
Argonne process for weapons was certified by Lawrence Livermore National Lab, one of the USA's
nuclear weapons design labs in a report referred to by Senators Simon and Kempthorne in a letter
to the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/opinion/l-new-reactor-solves-plutonium-problem-586307.html

Leshner of the AAAS in not an authority on this. He has no Q-clearance, and is not
privy to the information as to what can be made into a bomb and what can not. So Leshner is
INVALID as an authority on nuclear weapons risk. However, the scientists at Lawrence
Livermore National Lab who do know what can and can not be used for weapons, after all they
designed the US nuclear weapons are the ones that certified that the Argonne process
makes it impossible to use the resulting product for bombs, as Dr. Till stated.

There's absolutely no reason for the USA not to reprocess. It reduces the amount of waste,
it reduces the longevity of the waste, and it can be done without proliferation risk.

PamW