Not the Whole Truth on Nuclear Fuel

If I told you that cake is made from eggs, you would probably agree that's a true statement. But you wouldn't assume you could put a piece of cake in a hen's nest and hatch a chick from it.

Don't try explaining that to MSNBC News, who would be glad to have us think that nuclear fuel made from weapons-grade plutonium is still weapons-grade plutonium. The story is called Controversial nuclear fuel arrives in U.S. and delivers a litany of complaints aimed a program which, by treaty, is designed to remove weapons-grade plutonium from a Russian storage shelf and use it instead to power SC homes and businesses.

So what would actually be a better use for it? Leave it laying around in military-guarded munitions heaps? Turn it into glass bricks and then bury them under the desert? Can you imagine the environmentalists campaigning in favor of construction of a nearby vitrification plant?

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