Our government seems on a tear to hug Mother Earth and to decarbonize the planet with advanced U.S. nuclear reactors. None of these plants yet exist; all still are being designed. Some of them, like Bill Gates’ Natrium fast reactor, are prodigious producers of weapons-grade plutonium....
Earlier last month, Secretary of Energy Granholm touted the Department’s commercialization of advanced fast reactors at the COPO26 Glasgow Climate Conference as a demonstration of America’s commitment to decarbonizing the planet. The State Department announced it’s organizing itself to support the export of such reactors....
SECOND OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU July 28, 2021 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca Re: US experts concerned that Canadian support for extracting plutonium from spent nuclear fuel is undermining the global nuclear-weapons nonproliferation regime Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, In our open letter to you,...
Last week, the Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a new federal financing organization that Congress created to help the developing world, announced it was lifting a prohibition on supporting US civilian nuclear exports. This announcement triggered a 30-day public comment period. There’s only one problem: There’s next to nothing to comment on....
2021-03-01 National Security Perspective on Mining Ban Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva1324 Longworth House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 Congressman Tom O’Halleran318 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 Senator Kyrsten Sinema317 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Senator Mark KellyDirksen Senate Office BuildingSuite B40BWashington, DC 20510 Dear...
In August 2018, members of the U.S. Congress and the Japanese Diet wrote letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. These letters urged him to cooperate with Tokyo to reduce Japan’s surplus plutonium and encourage South Korea and China to defer recycling plutonium. Aug 31,...
On May 24, 2018, 14 nuclear security experts, including NPEC’s Executive Director, sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The letter called on Congress “to make sure that with any cooperative...
Below are nuclear cooperative agreements South Korea has reached with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan. The Saudi agreement was secured from the South Korean government; the others were graciously supplied from the personal files of Sharon Squassoni, Professor at George Washington...
NPEC recently asked some of the most senior Bush 41 and Bush 43 nuclear security officials to endorse the 2017 Joint Statement of the International Conference on Japan’s Plutonium Policy. That statement called for Japan to indefinitely postpone Rokkasho’s startup and for South Korea and...
NPEC recently asked some of the most senior Bush 41 and Bush 43 nuclear security officials to endorse the 2017 Joint Statement of the International Conference on Japan’s Plutonium Policy. That statement called for Japan to indefinitely postpone Rokkasho’s startup and for South Korea and China...
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