| May 30: Invitation to Reprocessing/GNEP Forum |
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| Written by Gerald Rudolph | |
| Thursday, 08 May 2008 | |
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You are invited to a very special public presentation on...
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
"Recycling" Nuclear Waste and What It Means to South Carolina
Where:
Green Quad Learning Center, 1216 Wheat St., Bldg D, USC, Columbia
When:
Friday, May 30, 7:30 p.m.
Why:
In the wake of the proposed "nuclear renaissance" is the unresolved issue of the enormous quantities of high- and low-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants. South Carolina is being considered as the site for the (GNEP) reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, misnamed as "recycling". What will this mean to our state? Will our highways be used as transportation routes for this dangerous waste? Is reprocessing, which produces a host of new radioactive waste steams, really recycling? What is the status of Yucca Mountain? Will it open? Will SC be the dumping ground for a new generation of nuclear waste?
Presenting:
Professor Frank von Hippel, nuclear physicist, Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prof. von Hippel has worked on fissile material policy issues for the past 30 years including those relating to commercialization of plutonium recycle, ending the production of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium for weapons, and ending the use of highly enriched uranium as a reactor fuel. In 1993-4, he served as Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow during 1993-8. He is currently Co-Chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. Professor von Hippel is an expert on the reprocessing of spent fuel, and his paper Rethinking Nuclear Fuel Recycling, appears in the May 2008 edition of Scientific American magazine. See Prof. von Hippel's report "Managing Spent Fuel in the United States: The Illogic of Reprocessing," at: http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/site_down/ipfmresearchreport03.pdf Steven Frishman, nuclear waste programs consultant. From 1983 to 1987, he was Director of the Texas Nuclear Waste Programs Office, with primary responsibility for directing the State of Texas' oversight of the federal high-level nuclear waste program. He received a Master's Degree in geology from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1987, Mr. Frishman has served as Technical-Policy Coordinator for the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects. The Agency was established by the Nevada Legislature in 1985 to oversee the federal high-level nuclear waste program and the Yucca Mountain Project. He participates, representing the State of Nevada, in meetings and technical exchanges with all of the federal agencies involved in the Yucca Mountain Project and issues related to high-level nuclear waste policy. Mr. Frishman has assisted non-governmental organizations in developing publicly understandable materials regarding the scientific issues at Yucca Mountain and explaining the technical aspects of nuclear waste storage, management, and disposal. He has worked with journalists and international governmental and public interest organizations as well.
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Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service For more information, call Tom Clements, Friends of the Earth, 803-834-3084 To learn more about GNEP and nuclear waste, see fact sheet at: http://www.ananuclear.org/Portals/0/documents/ANA%20GNEP%20final.pdf |
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