More MOX in City Paper

From the City Paper "Best Of Charleston 2006" , out this week:

Best/Worst Program for Nuclear Disarmament:
MOX Fuel

Usually, the CP smiles upon any form of nuclear disarmament. Unless, that is, disarmament means corporations milking our tax dollars to build nuclear processing plants with no set budget, and requires shipping of weapons-grade plutonium through Charleston Harbor on its way to be processed into commercial mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, making the plutonium susceptible to terrorist attacks. Plans to build the nation's first MOX processing plant at the Savannah River Site would no doubt lead to more nuke waste coming through the state and our harbor. This plan also increases the risk of bioterrorism, especially after a handful of environmentalists drove into the middle of a "secured" truck caravan carrying high-level radioactive materials. If it's that easy for peace-loving hippies to infiltrate a shipment, how hard could it be for nefarious terrorists? --Benjamin Schlau