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

There is no legitimate reason for the Canadian government to support technologies that create the potential for new countries to separate plutonium and develop nuclear weapons, 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

Opinion

BY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

December 1, 2022

FREDERICTON, N.B.—We welcome Guy Hotte and Neil Alexander’s response to our

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