1. Another agreement would open a new effort to convert plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors, 2. Another multibillion-dollar facility would convert the plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants. 3. One converts the plutonium into ceramic form and embeds it in glass canisters. 4. Plants for converting bomb plutonium into less dangerous reactor fuel are expensive to build, costing hundreds of millions of dollars each. 5. The Energy Department will build a multibillion-dollar plant at Savannah River to convert the plutonium into a fuel for commercial power reactors. 6. The Energy Department says it will build a multibillion-dollar facility at SRS to convert the plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants. 7. The plutonium would be converted into mixed oxide fuel bundles in the United States and Russia before shipment to Canada. 8. The plutonium would be converted into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors. 9. The Hanau factory is the only one in Germany capable of converting the plutonium to peacetime use. |