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GYXU > Pro Wrestling > (OT) Nukes for Duke: 31 March 2005 05:06:16

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Lord Gow 31 March 2005 05:06:16
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NRC OKs Savannah River Weapons Plutonium-To-Fuel Facility
Wednesday March 30, 6:45 PM EST

CHICAGO (Dow Jones) -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday
that three companies, including Duke Energy Corp. (DUK), can build a
facility in South Carolina to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for
nuclear power plants.
The facility is planned at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River
Site. Duke, Shaw Group (SGR) unit Stone & Webster, and Cogema, a unit of
French nuclear-fuel specialist Areva SA, were awarded a $130 million
contract in 1999 to design and seek a license for the site.
The facility's design will have "minimal environmental impacts and will
protect the public health and safety," the NRC said in a release.
The agency issued construction authorization for the facility, but noted
that there are still opportunities to submit late-filed challenges to the
NRC staff's safety review.
The Savannah River facility will create so-called "mixed oxide" fuel, or a
combination of plutonium from weapons and uranium. U.S. nuclear reactors are
fueled by uranium, but they already use plutonium to a degree because some
uranium converts to plutonium during the reaction process.
Building the Savannah River facility is part of a joint U.S.-Russian plan to
turn 68 metric tons of weapons material into nuclear fuel.
The NRC decided in early March that Duke's Catawba 1 nuclear reactor in
South Carolina could be the first U.S. plant to start using the mixed oxide
fuel on a limited basis. Duke plans to start using four reactor fuel
assemblies, out of 193 in total, with mixed oxide fuel starting this spring.
The assemblies for Catawba have been constructed in France, where plutonium
use in reactors is more common.
Eventually, pending further NRC approval, Duke plans to use greater amounts
of the fuel at both Catawba reactors and its McGuire plant near Charlotte.
Use of mixed oxide fuel has garnered criticism from watchdog groups, which
argue that U.S. reactors were designed for uranium, and that there are
better ways to store and neutralize weapons-grade plutonium than running it
through power plants.
-By Jon Kamp; Dow Jones Newswires; 312-750-4129; jon.kamp@dowjones.c­om


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