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Press Mention The Decatur Daily February 24, 2005

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Browns Ferry gets ready to use weapons uranium

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Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant receives its first shipment of commercial reactor fuel made from the government's stockpile of weapons-grade uranium under a TVA-DOE agreement. The plant plans to use the fuel in spring 2005, with 39 metric tons of highly enriched uranium to be downblended into low-enriched commercial fuel over four years. Environmentalists including the Tennessee Environmental Council are appealing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision to allow processing without a full environmental impact statement.

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