[CPEO-MEF] Oak Ridge (TN) plutonium

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Y-12 to shed plutonium-tainted stocks 

Security complex may have received impure uranium from Colo. plant 

By FRANK MUNGER
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
February 6, 2006 

OAK RIDGE - The Y-12 National Security Complex houses probably the
world's largest inventory of bomb-grade uranium, but officials here want
to eliminate even the tiniest amount of plutonium - uranium's highly
hazardous nuclear sister. 

There's concern that stocks of enriched uranium acquired in the late
1980s from the now-defunct Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado may be
contaminated with plutonium. 

If so, Y-12 officials want to identify and get rid of those items before
loading the plant's new high-security storage center for weapons-usable
uranium. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4444127,00.html


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Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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