Sen. Clinton questions DOE's GNEP program

Washington (Platts)--16Feb2006

DOE's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) proposal has "serious
problems," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said today. In questioning
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing,
Clinton said the recently unveiled GNEP, which would involve new types of
reprocessing facilities and fast reactors, is "well-intentioned" but that
DOE's claims for the likely results of the initiative "don't hold up." Clinton
questioned DOE's use of the term "proliferation-resistant" to describe GNEP
reprocessing. In contrast, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) described the
administration's plan as "visionary."

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