Britain's reprocessing boondoggle

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	Britain's reprocessing boondoggle

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8-21-2009 11:47 PM

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* Throughout its more than 50-year history, British reprocessing has been an expensive and needless enterprise.
* The country's major reprocessing plant has been plagued with design faults and worker errors.
* Although the government has said that reprocessing will be stopped eventually, it should stop immediately.

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8-22-2009 5:26 PM

mcsmithblack

Just recently read some newly released stuff on Three-Mile- Island. The cover-up on that fiasco was huge.

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