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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-03 01:29 PM
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Tenn. Plant to Make Energy, Bomb Material
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=12&u=/ap/tva_tritium

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is days away from becoming the only commercial nuclear station in the United States to produce both electricity for homes and isotopes for bombs.


The single-reactor station, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, will become the government's new source of tritium, a hydrogen isotope that enhances the explosive force of thermonuclear weapons.


Support for the station's new role, though, is far from unanimous. Opposition has come from both the private and public sectors.


Two federal officials, Democratic Rep. Edward Markey (news, bio, voting record) of Massachusetts and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, tried to kill the proposal, arguing that a civilian reactor making a bomb ingredient destroys the nonproliferation principal of "separation between atoms for peace and atoms for war." The United States has made the same case — unsuccessfully — to North Korea (news - web sites)

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Amazing - this is such a stupid idea that even Lindsy Graham opposes it.
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priller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-03 02:19 PM
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1. The hypocrisy is now total, complete
We tell Iran, hey stop what you're doing right now, those power reactors could produce nuclear materials for bombs!

Then we turn around and do exactly the same, in addition openly planning a whole new series of "tactical nukes".

Do you have to wonder why Bush has zero credibility?
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