Quotes about reprocessing (14 Quotes)


    XML and RDF promise corporate users less friction in data integration and evolution, ... Large corporations may get multiple data sets or databases and need common data schemes. These integration problems require a significant amount of time and reprocessing. They can make for a pretty painful data fusion process. XML and RDF reduce the time it takes...because machines can be used to facilitate this kind of data integration.

    By taking all the equipment from the spent fuel and the reprocessing plant it would enable them, if they restart the program, to make plutonium in a few months, and that's a pretty disturbing trend, ... American Morning.

    GNEP cannot accomplish the administration's proliferation or waste management goals. The reprocessing technologies that DOE is currently researching are far from 'proliferation-resistant' and are decades from commercialization.

    Not only that they have taken the cameras and surveillance verification monitoring equipment from the power reactor where they supposedly want to produce electricity, but they continue to take all the equipment from the spent fuel and the reprocessing plant which would enable them, if they restart the program, to make plutonium in pretty few months and that's pretty disturbing trend.



    Every day that goes on, the amount of plutonium theoretically can increase, so that's our concern. That means that we have a bigger problem than when we ended on Sept. 19. And I think the time to stop reprocessing, the time to stop that reactor, is now.

    I am making it clear that my support for Yucca Mountain . . . does no longer hold in the situation we find ourselves, ... It makes sense for (nuclear) waste to be stored on site and to be shipped to a reprocessing center.

    We are working with major suppliers and the IAEA on a back-up supply mechanism for states that forgo investment in indigenous enrichment or (plutonium) reprocessing capability,

    We also made it clear that if they begin reprocessing (nuclear material), it changes the entire political landscape. And we're making sure that is communicated to them in a number of channels.

    Any resumption of enrichment and reprocessing activities would be a further violation of Iran's agreement with the Europeans. So such steps would be a serious escalation of the nuclear issue by Tehran.

    The amendment to the energy bill I filed would have put a stop to the Skull Valley site, it would begin a study of alternatives such as reprocessing, storing the waste on site, and storing the waste at existing Department of Energy sites,

    We've made clear that if Iran is going to violate its agreement and restart uranium reprocessing and enrichment activities, then we would have to look to the next step -- and we would be talking with our European friends about the next step.

    It is increasingly clear that a more prudent policy is to provide opportunities for reprocessing and secure on-site storage, ... Our time and resources should be spent developing better ways to use or dispose of nuclear waste than outdated, risky plans such as storage in our western states.

    We continue to think that the burden is on Iran to satisfy the world that it's not going to develop nuclear weapons. There is no reason for them to have an enrichment and reprocessing program. We know how it's been used in the past.



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