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Ed Markey: What concerns me is that by allowing Norway to export our spent nuclear fuel to other countries for reprocessing, we are…

On the recordSeptember 14, 2016
What concerns me is that by allowing Norway to export our spent nuclear fuel to other countries for reprocessing, we are as a country promoting a technology that is bad for nonproliferation.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey warns that exporting spent nuclear fuel undermines nonproliferation efforts.

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