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    While reading through recent posts over on Nuclear Is Our Future, my thoughts were stimulated by Stewart Peterson’s June 5 Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day. In that post, Stewart quoted from the Ploughshares Fund web site and talked about how confused he got by their idea that using plutonium for fuel is so dangerous that…

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