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GE-Hitachi has applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build a uranium enrichment facility in North Carolina using new laser technology. If laser enrichment is commercialized, it poses unique proliferation risks because it is much smaller, more efficient and possibly less expensive than current enrichment technologies. Proliferators could produce nuclear materials in clandestine facilities that would be difficult to detect. Construction of this technology in the US could lead to wide-spread use of the technology, as occurred with centrifuge enrichment.
The NRC claims that a review of the proliferation risks of nuclear technologies is not within its jurisdiction. The Atomic Energy Act, however, specifically requires NRC to deny licenses that would be “inimical to the common defense and security” of the United States. The American Physical Society (APS) has submitted a petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requesting that the NRC include proliferation analyses in its licensing process.
Tell the NRC that you support the APS petition and that NRC is legally required to consider proliferation risks in its licensing process!
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50 years ago this week, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Today, you can help ensure that the lessons of this crisis are not forgotten by writing a letter to the editor.
Video: Dr. Jeff Patterson on Democracy Now
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Nuclear Famine: A Billion People at Risk
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