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Plutonium is plutonium, period, and separating it increases nuclear proliferation risks 

Canada's support for the nuclear industry's plan to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel and export the technology will create a new global security risk and raise legitimate questions about our government's desire to be a leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, write M.V. Ramana and Susan O'Donnell.

Canada's federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, pictured recently in a scrum on the Hill. We are against the government's support for the nuclear industry's plan to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel and export the technology, write M.V. Ramana and Susan O'Donnell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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