Plutonium from Japan to be disposed of underground in New Mexico

Plutonium from Japan to be disposed of underground in New Mexico

File photo taken in August 2012 shows the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Ross Matzkin-Bridger of the National Nuclear Security Administration told Kyodo News in a phone interview on April 1, 2016, that U.S.-bound plutonium, shipped recently out of Japan, will be disposed of at the nuclear-waste repository in New Mexico after being processed for "inertion" at the Savannah River Site atomic facility in South Carolina. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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