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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!
Take Action »Now is the time for Congress to make the right choices on spending and to take meaningful reductions in our bloated nuclear arsenal and military budget.
Please join us for special webinar on our new nuclear famine report that will take place on Thursday, May 10th at 8:30 PM Eastern.
Nuclear Famine: A Billion People at Risk
The newly generated data on the decline in agricultural production that would follow a limited, regional nuclear war in South Asia support the concern that more than one billion people would be in danger of starvation. Epidemic disease and further conflict spawned by such a famine would put additional hundreds of millions at risk. Read more »
Nuclear Power and Public Health: Lessons from Fukushima, Still Dangerously Unprepared
One year after the Fukushima reactor crisis in Japan, no meaningful progress has been achieved in improving the ability of first responders and medical professionals to react to a disaster on a similar scale in the United States. Read more »
(December 2011). A factsheet detailing the various delays, cost overruns, credit downgrades and design problems since January 2008 facing the supposed ‘nuclear renaissance.’ Read more »
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