☢ Cold cases. Wikileaks cables on Italy: the mystery behind the spent nuclear bars from Elk River (US) stored in Basilicata since 1970. THORIUM-URANIUM TRAFFICKING between Italy and USA. In fact, sixty-four thorium-uranium bars of spent fuel are tored in the ITREC (Trisaia Research Center) site at Rotondella (in the province of Matera), and these bars cannot be reprocessed in Europe. These came to Italy from the U.S. Elk River Plant in 1970, during a joint project, which was later abandoned, between CNEN (now ENEA - the Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment) and the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) (now DOE). Hundreds of such bars (which contain uranium-235 at 93% and even up to 95% when combined with thorium, are currently stored at the U.S. Savannah River site.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:04:15 +0000
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