Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I also want to thank Dr. Ramana and Dr. Whitlock for joining our committee today.
I want to start with Dr. Ramana. I really appreciate your earlier comments, but one thing that was not mentioned was how pyroprocessing concepts can address proliferation risks. My understanding is that the way this risk is reduced is as a result of how pyroprocessing laces the plutonium with uranium and actinides to make both stealing plutonium and creating weapons more difficult.
This approach reduces the risk by eliminating the need to transport used fuel from and new fuel to the fast reactors at the site. Do you agree that this would mean that pyroprocessing has a lower nuclear proliferation risk compared to Purex, because of the non-availability of pure plutonium product?