“France and Japan recycle the uranium used to generate nuclear power. The United States does not. Why?
One of the byproducts of fuel recycling is plutonium. The Carter administration banned recycling in hopes that other countries would follow the US example – and thus reduce the risk of weapons proliferation. These hopes were disappointed. “We haven’t reprocessed anything in this country since the 1970s… Do you think it worked?” asks Steven Kraft, the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Senior Director of Used Fuel Management.”
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My most recent piece on Honduras was picked up by RealClearPolitics:
“Over the last two and half weeks, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have puzzled the globe with their confusing response to the crisis in Honduras. It’s been a fascinating spectacle watching the White House and the State Department scurry to and fro with conflicting statements…
Today, the events in Honduras have still not been classified by the State Department as a coup, despite repeated official references to it as such over the last few weeks. It seems that Obama and Clinton are great at checkers, not so great at chess – skilled at hopping over one another, but not so adept at strategy.”
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