The NRC will likely tell us we have nothing to fear. If anything, there is even more reason for concern today. New information shows that plutonium is more dangerous than previously thought. Once in the soil, plutonium migrates into drinking water sources at a rate thousands of times faster than predicted. What s more, plutonium from nuclear weapons has never been used as a reactor fuel.
Plutonium is harder to control than uranium.
And there will be no full-scale test of MOX before the fuel is loaded into local reactors. What s more, taxpayers will fund Duke s use of MOX fuel. Duke will then sell the electricity to the same taxpayers. The government and the nuclear industry have a dismal history regarding plutonium. To date, there is no viable solution to dealing with nuclear waste.