"the plutonium recovered by Moltex’s reprocessing plant would present high proliferation risks". This is completely incorrect as the fuel they would be reprocessing has the wrong kind of plutonium. Reactors make a large amount of plutonium-240 which is good reactor fuel but cannot be used for weapons. Weapons need plutonium-239 which must be produced in special weapons production reactors. Nobody has ever made a weapon out of reprocessed reactor fuel. The author of the article chose to allude to this glaring factual error by including the comment from Moltex but they gave far too much credibility to the misinformation from the activists otherwise "And while Moltex acknowledges that most reprocessing techniques can present a serious nuclear proliferation risk, it added that its proposed reprocessing facility would produce highly impure plutonium that is completely unsuitable for use in weapons." Experts talk about reprocessing as a "potential" proliferation risk because technically there is some of the right kind of plutonium mixed in. Theoretically you could then make a weapon if you could devise a way to separate that small fraction of the weapons plutonium but no one has ever developed a way to do this because it would be extremely difficult. That is why all weapons plutonium has come from reactors specially designed to make it. Presenting this as a difference of opinion is very misleading. The fact is that nobody can make weapons out of spent reactor fuel.

I believe the concern is that the small amount of Pu-239 in spent CANDU fuel could be reprocessed into fuel that's suitable for use in weapons reactors. That's still a far cry away from being able to produce a working bomb but the potential is there.

You're right though, this article is fearmongering trash.