Nuke recycling.

• Author: Corbett, James Trent
• Position: READERS FORUM: VIEWS ... COMMENTS ... SUGGESTIONS - Letter to the editor

I am disappointed on your source of information in "Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology" (January 2009). You quoted a scientist from the Union of Concerned Scientists as saying, "The most severe threat associated with nuclear power is the threat is the proliferation of nuclear weapons." This group has opposed nuclear recycling for no good reason. Canada, Britain, France, and Russia ate all recycling their nuclear fuel, so even if the United States doesn't recycle, it is happening all over the world.

France has produced 80 percent of its electricity for the last 25 years, yet because it is recycling its nuclear fuel, the nuclear waste is contained in one room. Countries today that are seeking to or recently have built a nuclear bomb, such as Iran and North Korea, do so from their own reactors, rather than attempting to steal plutonium from other countries' reactors.

Nuclear power is stymied in this...