Cut Corners on a Plutonium Plant? Ugh
A chemical engineer points to serious safety concerns at a South Carolina facility being built to convert recovered plutonium into fuel rods for nuclear power plants. Dan Tedder, emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a former independent technical reviewer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), says the NRC “want(ed) me to water things down (and didn’t) want [...]
