Security Concerns Over Plutonium Shipment
From Times Wire Reports
Some congressional Democrats raised security concerns about a proposed shipment of 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the United States to France for conversion into a mixed-oxide reactor fuel.
The fuel would then be returned to the United States, which has yet to build a mixed-oxide processing facility.
The Department of Energy says the shipment has been meticulously planned with high levels of security incorporated.
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