Writing your paper at the last minute?

If you can't decide what to write about, try reprocessing!  An open current debate in the U.S. is whether or not we should reprocess (recycle) spent nuclear fuel.  Do you think we should?  Or not?

One long-time critic is a guy named Frank von Hippel, who has written a lot of articles about the subject (just google his name).  A particularly thorough piece is in Scientific American (you may need to be on the SAIC campus to access this - through the library - but it's a good article if this topic interests you).  Here's also a PBS Frontline piece with some interesting material.

Two groups campaigning against reprocessing are the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists.   Here is one example of an editorial in a small-town newspapers that supports reprocessing, and here is a World Nuclear Society information piece.  An MIT study last year claims we don't need to reprocess for a long time because we have plenty of Uranium available.  Finally, here's a link to a blog from the Areva company, which does reprocessing in France and advocates for doing it in the U.S.  There are lots of interesting links there.

Oh... one more:  there's a debate about whether to use the word "recycling" for spent fuel reprocessing.  Interesting!

Happy Writing!